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My second puzzle I call "Royal Titles". I always give my puzzles titles and wish the daily puzzles would have them. That way the punchline could be in the title instead of the grid. I name things for a living and always feels like a name elevates anything to a whole 'nother level. Plus it's easier to keep track of!
I had three titles that had KING, QUEEN, PRINCE in them. Plus they were all 15s, all had THE something (Royal). Very synchronicitous. My first submission, however, THE AFRICANQUEEN was on top, as it was easier to have the Q higher up, beginning a word, rather than in the middle.
Will wrote back and said he'd like it KING, QUEEN, PRINCE or PRINCE, QUEEN, KING or not at all. My first experience of having to rewrite from scratch. He was right. Much better.
That Q may have implanted the idea of using all the letters of the alphabet. I never "force" a pangram, but I do like to have one whenever possible. Will doesn't care one way or the other. Others inexplicably rage against them, but to me they are fun, creative, echo my love for Scrabble and add an extra dollop to the construction whether the solvers notice or not.
Usually I'm just one or two letters short of one. I'd have to go back and check to see if this was one. But the amazing thing about Xwordinfo, just ONE of the quietly amazing things, is that it notes pangrams as well as what letters are not in the grid. (The above paragraph is a pangram, by the way!)
1 S | 2 M | 3 A | 4 C | 5 K | 6 S | 7 H | 8 E | 9 D | 10 S | 11 H | 12 O | 13 P |
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14 P | U | R | E | E | 15 P | E | T | E | 16 M | O | M | A |
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17 A | S | T | O | R | 18 A | L | U | M | 19 O | P | E | N |
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20 T | H | E | S | C | 21 O | R | P | I | O | 22 N | K | I | N | G |
23 H | E | E | 24 T | O | Y | |||||||||
25 O | 26 R | 27 C | 28 H | I | D | 29 C | 30 A | I | N | 31 J | 32 F | 33 K |
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34 R | E | L | E | E | 35 H | A | L | O | 36 T | E | L | E |
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37 T | H | E | A | F | 38 R | I | C | A | N | 39 Q | U | E | E | N |
40 H | A | F | T | 41 E | L | H | I | 42 U | N | P | E | N |
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43 O | B | S | 44 D | A | L | E | 45 Y | E | A | S | T | Y |
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46 S | E | C | 47 H | I | E | |||||||||
48 T | 49 H | 50 E | L | I | T | 51 T | 52 L | E | P | R | 53 I | 54 N | 55 C | 56 E |
57 H | U | L | A | 58 I | R | A | S | 59 E | V | I | A | N |
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60 I | S | I | S | 61 N | E | W | S | 62 S | O | C | K | O |
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63 S | H | A | H | 64 G | E | N | E | 65 T | R | E | Y | S |
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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