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The idea for this puzzle was stolen from a mini crossword I saw do this with "L," and I think I've heard of someone doing it with "T's" too, so nothing new under the sun. And remember to do some of my older mid-sized puzzles if you like (semi-plagarized) gimmicks like this!

I haven't seen it before so it's new to me! Very cool - thanks for sharing it!

What's the tea, sis?

Really fun! And I like the 25 1/2 clue 😂. I think the plural should get removed in the clue for BOT, though?

*Cross* word

sorry for the clue for BITS it was kinda clunky

Themeless!

Haha a very fun theme and a nice smooth solve!

Doctor's Orders

First real puzzle in a while! If you liked this one, be sure to play some of my old mid-sized crosswords. Most of them are similarly gimmicky if that's your thing, as are some of my old minis. [Sadly, the title didn't fit as a themer!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hCSQpEFx4)

Loved it! I don't think I would've noticed that the title fit with the theme too if it weren't for your comment 😂. Glad to see you posting again!

Fun puzzle! After I got the first two, I went around looking for “-“ to enter the others but messed up on the bottom right where I put DIME for the eyebrow clue instead of the mayochup clue - so I couldn’t figure out what was wrong and just thought I didn’t know eyebrow trends

"And I'm Eric!"

WTH?

nice clues as always... my favorite is AUTOTUNES and LOTS... and fun commentary - why not a narwhal?

9x9 Freestyle - You Can Do It!

Too bad BIG GIRLS couldn't work in this grid but great puzzle and theme work!

There, there...

Thank you so much for this season of Pandora's Blocks. You've given me lots of Sunday smiles. Have a great summer!

Another tricky and a terrific season of puzzles.

Great work Will! Sunday’s have become the highlight of my week.

Very nice! I almost gave up on the meta but gave it another look this morning and... success 🎊. Thanks so much for another awesome season - already looking forward to the next!

Great puzzle, Will. Thanks so much and enjoy summer!

The theme answers are solidly in my wheelhouse but I couldn't get any further with it. I submitted a five-letter guess just to get it over with. 🙄

Terrific puzzles this season Will! Thanks 🙂

Thanks everyone! You all have given me just as many smiles and made Sundays my highlight as well! Looking forward to putting together the next season of puzzles! :)

I still wanted to answer to be Dino! Great season!

Wait, that's MY name - you already have another one!

😂😂😂😂. I really should've been able to figure this one out but I couldn't get the trick until I revealed one of the downs. Great puzzle!

Lol I was shocked when I checked my grid and almost everything was wrong, and then I laughed once I realized the gimmick. Great puzzle!

haha thanks - i was debating adding a constructor note to warn people about the gimmick, but didn't want to give too much away, so ultimately went with a title that uses the same trick... the first working title was "carpe diem CCCC the day!" but i couldn't resist a zelda meme

Loved it! Started and stopped multiple times to attend to other things and could not se what I was missing. Then I went back to the title and BLAM! it hit me like a ton of bricks. What a fun angle!

Like the best puns - groan inducing and witty. Thanks for a Monday morning stretch!

"Well, ExQQQQ Me, Princess!"

Heh WORDS CROSS and CLUE kind of remind me of the Jeopardy "Stupid Answers" category that appears from time to time - love that one and this!

Thank you. I just made it a meta, because you got it backwards 😆

These, for example

a lot of clues made me laugh... CGI, KOLA, SWAN 😂

Thanks! Getting some cluing practice in, and the freedom to do that is fun here!

9x9 Criss-Cross Applesauce

Nice one! Tricky clues for BASIN and EASEL 😊

Tricky! I had RIVER in instead of BASIN for a while and I couldn't get any of the downs. Got there eventually though!

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This is just a novelty puzzle I made to see if it was possible. It nicely works out to where there are six combinations possible for a given set of three letters and also six words in a 3x3 crossword!

Very clever! I was excited to see a new puzzle from you 🎊

Fun puzzle, but somehow I didn't recognize the three-letter theme and couldn't think of the correct entry for bottom center. Then the light bulb popped on and "P" was placed.

Sudoku

I think 56-Down is off - unless you're talking about different cities with the same name, Toronto is WSW of Montreal.

Oh wow, that was a brainfart on my part! Changing.

nice puzzle - i had plasma ray gun before cannon, but the crosses are fair which helped me fix that corner - i liked LIQUIDCOURAGE

Thanks! Liquid courage was definitely the seed entry for this theme.

Nice! Liked the theme, along with HDMIPORT and IRONLUNG

Atoms and Molecules

Accidental Mini

nice puzzle! were you testing out rebus squares? not sure if they allow numerical entries? i had to change them to words for the happy music sound to play 😝

Yes, I was testing the rebus function - I can confirm that numerics were allowe, but it doesn't have the functionality for an alternate entry, so I had to choose one - thanks!

There's [an issue](https://github.com/mdirolf/crosshare/issues/261) you can track to add support for alternate entries 😊

I should have taken your advice about the title!

I promise I won't pull that trick again on you!

Testing... (read the title!)

fun theme (and title) and super smooth solve!

cool puzzle! at first I was going to complain that the states weren't in order of the clue, but then I think that would be too easy if you figured out the trick early, so I do like that you mixed them up - just to keep us on our toes

It's funny, that's actually what I had originally and then got exactly that feedback (that I should make it a little trickier). Thanks for playing it!

also i'm so happy that TOTORO made his way into your puzzle... he's so cute 😊

State of the Union

nice to see ATTA in a puzzle that isn't clued "___ boy (or girl)!".. I get hungry whenever I see food in the puzzle - roti, sushi, snoball...🤤

Salty towards the end

Nice one Leonard - I've never seen ALAPA before, always nice to learn a new word!

Thanks, Mike. I'm happy to post it here on Crosshare!

Holy smokes, did I enjoy this one. Thanks so much!

thanks for the constructor note... took me awhile to understand the theme (then i reread your note and got it) - SNOOD is new for me, tried all the vowels at the NEKO/SNOOD crossing, only to find out I had "raingear" instead of "rainwear"

nice puzzle... all the long downs are really hard to fit into a puzzle, but they worked well

Thanks for the comments, Philip. Much appreciated.

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