This week's puzzle (pdf, puz) is a guest joint by Rose Sloan and Norah Sharpe. Rose and Norah say: "We're so happy that Will agreed to host our third collaboration. The theme for this one was birthed in a Twitch stream - thanks to momes for the inspiration! ;)" More spoiler-y thoughts from Rose below the puz.
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Rose says: "It was delightful to get to work with a grid and a theme that are more technically complicated. The first thing I did when making this grid was write simple Python scripts to create two word lists: one consisting only of long entries that had no vowels other than E, the other consisting of all entries not containing E. I played around with the theme set and grid until I was able to get a grid that had all the Es in the theme entries crossed and that was otherwise fillable using the "no Es" list, and we went from there. It definitely took a few tries to come to a filled grid that we really liked, but we're super happy with the end result, and hope you are too!"
Nifty theme, and fun to solve. I thought 53-D and 55-D were esp. clever. 63-D I think I understand (the song? or the book title? both?).
ReplyDeleteAnd after this puzzle I understand why my daughter and I hate Dasani. (Years ago as a kid she called it "melty.")
That Dasani fact was new to me too!
DeleteHi Michael, thank you so much for solving!
DeleteHa! Where to put your sail indeed.
ReplyDeleteBecca, thanks so much for solving, glad you enjoyed it!
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