ANDREA:
Now that there were blogs, and I had attended the ACPT two years in a row, I now had lots of friends in the crossworld. One of them is Ashish Vengsarkar. We decided to collaborate on an idea I had of lots of fishing terms that were used as metaphors in other situations. Ashish constructed the grid and added MARINEGREEN and UNDERTHESEA as long downs. We disagreed about that. I like all the themes to be horizontal (I don't think I've ever had theme answers running down and I didn't want ones that were sort of like the theme but not really). Ashish hung tight and as it was a collaboration, I eventually deferred to him. He proved right in that folks loved the extra "atmospheric" entries.
Even tho solvers love long answers, I think if they are as long as the theme answers, that is really confusing. But I do like having bonus and atmospheric words in the grid to add to the overall feel.
1 G | 2 O | 3 F | 4 I | 5 S | 6 H | 7 R | 8 B | 9 I | 10 S | 11 M | 12 I | 13 Z |
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14 P | U | E | B | L | O | 15 A | L | D | A | 16 A | C | E |
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17 S | I | M | E | O | N | 18 P | A | L | M | 19 T | R | E | E |
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20 T | A | K | 21 E | T | H | E | B | A | I | T | ||||
22 A | 23 P | 24 U | 25 N | E | D | 26 A | N | N | ||||||
27 L | E | N | 28 D | 29 D | U | 30 M | 31 P | 32 S | 33 S | E | 34 T | 35 H |
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36 M | O | D | E | 37 L | 38 C | A | R | P | 39 S | 40 G | I | A |
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41 O | P | E | N | A | 42 C | A | N | O | F | W | 43 O | R | M | S |
44 S | L | R | 45 M | O | T | E | T | 46 F | R | E | E | S |
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47 T | E | T | 48 E | 49 R | E | S | E | 50 T | 51 B | E | L | L |
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52 H | A | 53 W | 54 G | U | 55 S | 56 N | Y | E |
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57 G | E | T | R | 58 E | 59 E | 60 L | E | D | I | 61 N | ||||
62 C | A | S | S | E | T | T | E | 63 O | N | E | 64 T | 65 W | 66 O |
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67 A | G | E | 68 N | O | U | N | 69 R | A | I | S | E | R |
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70 B | A | A | 71 S | N | I | T | 72 S | I | N | K | E | R |
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.
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