Puzzle #233: ATV (with Brooke Husic)

I know what you’re thinking: it’s Tuesday, and Will only posts puzzles on Mondays. But there’s a good reason for posting this one today! Brooke and I made this puzzle to announce a project that’s out today, a project that we devoted the better part of a year to, working with a dream lineup of constructors. What project is that? You’ll have to solve the puzzle to find out! Brooke writes:

By my count, this crossword is my 18th collaboration with Will — the most I have with anyone — not including the much larger-scale collaboration that we finally get to announce today, which itself contains our 19th through 22nd puzzle collaborations. It remains to be true, after unspeakable hours of work since May 2023, that there’s no one I’d rather edit a book with either. (Note from Will: I feel the same way! But if you're reading this and want to commission us to edit a book for you, maybe give us a couple of months' break first.)

(Side note: The section around the revealer was particularly hard to grid, for reasons that will become obvious, and Brooke came up with a solution that’s one of the wildest strokes of genius that I’ve ever seen.)

(pdf, puz, pdf solution)

Made by Brooke Husic and Will Nediger with the crossword creator from Amuse Labs