ANDREA:
As mentioned in the constructor comments for Mon 11/2/2009, my neighbor Kent Clayton and I decided to collaborate again after his reveal of BELIEVEITORNOT saved my bacon. Kent was watching football, so we decided to do a sports theme, which might surprise many of those who follow my anti-sports comments on certain blogs. However, I am NOT anti-sports. I am anti the overuse of baseball and the presumption that solvers will know the most obscure MVP of 1953, yet will not know who HELLOKITTY is, or whatever girl-centric topic comes up. And I like to be a thorn in the side of those who overdose on sports clues. I have nothing against sports itself.
This puzzle focused on team names. We decided to combine them and have a nice reveal of FOOTBALLMATCHUP 15 going across the grid. It was a lot of fun to mix and match the team players and coming up with clues. There were many that were so natural, like RAMCHARGER or JETPACKER (though I don't think our Boba Fett clue made it to the final version).
1 I | 2 R | 3 A | 4 Q | 5 M | 6 A | 7 P | 8 L | 9 E | 10 R | 11 I | 12 N | 13 K |
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14 N | A | N | U | 15 I | W | I | L | L | 16 O | M | A | N |
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17 C | H | I | E | 18 F | T | E | X | A | N | 19 A | P | S | E |
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20 M | E | E | T | 21 M | I | 22 S | D | E | A | L |
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23 S | 24 T | A | G | E | 25 G | 26 I | A | N | T | B | I | L | L |
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27 E | A | T | 28 L | 29 A | U | D | 30 O | I | L | |||||
31 R | B | I | 32 S | 33 B | I | O | 34 S | 35 L | O | 36 C | 37 O | 38 S |
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39 F | O | O | T | 40 B | A | L | L | M | 41 A | T | C | H | U | P |
42 S | O | N | A | R | 43 T | I | E | R | 44 K | A | T | E |
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45 G | Y | 46 M | 47 Z | A | C | 48 H | 49 M | I | A |
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50 J | 51 E | 52 T | P | A | C | 53 K | E | R | 54 U | 55 P | P | E | R |
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56 A | R | R | A | N | G | E | 57 P | L | E | A | ||||
58 R | O | A | R | 59 R | A | 60 M | 61 C | H | A | R | G | 62 E | 63 R |
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64 E | D | I | T | 65 A | C | R | I | D | 66 I | N | F | O |
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67 D | E | N | Y | 68 W | H | I | G | S | 69 L | E | G | O |
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle.
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