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1 puzzle by David Maymudes
with Constructor comments

Total	Debut	Collabs
1	2/23/2020	1

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Collaborator: Sophia Maymudes

Sun 2/23/2020 RESOLVED
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DAVID: I have been test-solving Sophia's puzzles since she asked for crossword construction software six years ago and started making puzzles for her high school newspaper, but I had only watched over her shoulder as she built grids until last year.

Sophia came up with the first themer and the idea for a "restart" revealer while she was working on a different theme last summer, and we quickly came up with a long list of possible theme answers that clearly wouldn't fit into a 15x15 grid. Sophia came up with the original arrangement of theme answers and black-square placement, which is the one area of construction that seems like the biggest mystery to me still. When Will liked the idea but didn't like one of our theme answers, we ended up reworking more than half of the puzzle to replace it, and eventually lost the RESTART revealer to allow more flexibility with the fill in the SE corner.

I am very excited that our puzzle is coming out before we will be attending the ACPT for the second time, even if I still won't be as cool as Sophia and her young constructor friends!

SOPHIA: Given the huge array of possible theme answers, we wanted to choose themers where the "re" drastically changed the meaning of the first word. Once we had a final theme set, I built the grid around it. I'm glad we were able to incorporate a fair amount of long bonuses, even if there are a few more three-letter words than I'd like.

The process of constructing this puzzle involved a lot of emails with screenshots of partially filled grids and, um, lively discussion about what counted as good fill. I'm happy with the final version, although I'm still somewhat disappointed about losing RESTART as a revealer as I felt like it gave the otherwise arbitrary add-a-letter theme a deeper layer.

I always love collaborating on construction, but it was particularly fun to get to work with my dad on this puzzle!

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David Maymudes author page

1 puzzle by David Maymudes with Constructor comments

1 puzzle by David Maymudes
with Constructor comments

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