Total | Debut | Latest | Collabs |
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157 | 7/5/2010 | 10/27/2024 | 109 |
Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Acr |
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43 | 10 | 17 | 26 | 37 | 11 | 12 | 1 |
Rebus | Circle | Scrab | Debut | Fresh |
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11 | 41 | 1.62 | 922 | 55% |
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This puzzle was two years in the making, with umpteen thousand versions and three back-and-forths with Will. My first version didn't have the perimeter words interlocked, which Will thought inelegant. I'm really glad he pointed this out. Even though it took me ages to figure out a set of words which did interlock in all four corners, I like the elegance of it.
Now that I've had some time to review the puzzle with fresh eyes, I would have loved to incorporate AROUND in a symmetrical way. See how it sticks out, no symmetrical theme answer balancing it? If I were to do it all over again, I might place the letters A R O U N D in a tight circle around the center of the puzzle, with each letter circled. A notepad note could explain things, or better yet, it would be devilish to make the solver connect the dots, figuring out that the circled letters were a subtle hint to those perimeter answers.
Fun to see how one can learn and take away lessons for the future.
AROUND must be added to the answers around the outside edge for the clues to make sense.
1 S | 2 H | 3 O | 4 O | 5 T | 6 R | 7 O | 8 O | 9 T | 10 J | 11 E | 12 R | 13 K |
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14 H | I | N | D | U | 15 A | U | T | H | 16 O | X | E | N |
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17 O | G | L | E | R | 18 P | I | T | A | 19 K | I | L | O |
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20 P | H | Y | S | I | 21 C | S | 22 A | N | 23 G | E | L | I | C |
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24 N | O | H | 25 O | W | 26 O | R | E | C | K |
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27 C | 28 O | 29 K | 30 E | 31 R | E | H | A | 32 B | S | |||||
33 O | W | E | S | 34 N | E | O | 35 R | E | 36 L | 37 I | 38 E | 39 F |
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40 M | E | G | A | 41 B | I | T | 42 K | E | E | P | S | T | O |
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43 E | N | S | U | R | E | 44 D | I | E | 45 N | A | T | O |
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46 A | R | 47 O | U | N | D | 48 S | O | U | L |
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49 S | 50 L | 51 O | 52 P | S | 53 R | O | G | E | 54 T | |||||
55 T | E | L | L | S | 56 O | N | 57 P | R | O | 58 P | 59 S | 60 U | 61 P |
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62 I | R | M | A | 63 R | A | 64 N | I | 65 R | E | T | R | O |
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66 C | O | E | N | 67 E | T | O | N | 68 C | R | A | N | K |
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69 K | I | C | K | 70 M | E | S | S | 71 H | O | R | S | E |
Answer summary:
1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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