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G | U | T | F | E | E | L | I | N | G | B | E | N | T | |
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N | E | S | S | K | E | Y | S | S | T | A | I | D |
I'm a public radio producer and artist from the Seattle area, and I'm pretty new to crosswords — I didn't start solving until last year. I got interested in constructing after reading a Wordplay column about one of Daniel Larsen's puzzles, which mentioned that he was a teenager, and thinking, "how hard can it be?" (Reader, it can be hard.)
This is the second puzzle I ever made, and it took several helpful suggestions from Wyna Liu and the editing team to get to this version — big thanks to all who helped!