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This is my submission for the February Midi Contest. The theme, chosen by January winner Cap'n Rick, was "The Sea". After playing around with several ways to use that for a puzzle, I decided to reimagine some famous lanes as sea lanes. Hope you…

Do you think Tom Swift would be a fan of Taylor Swift? I’ll bet he would!

And I’ll bet he’d comment rapidly whenever he heard one of her bespoke songs.

Good morning, Crossharers!

It's Sssunday, and it must be sssumery somewhere, so it's time for the Sunday Summer Substitute puzzle!

I originally conceived this as a non-meta puzzle, but I realized that I could make it a meta simply by not including…

Good morning, puzzlers!

It’s Sunday and it’s summer, so it must be time for the Muggles Sunday Summer Substitute meta puzzle! And this week, it’s by… me! My first. Hope you enjoy it! I think the meta will be easy, but I’ve heard that before from…

This is inspired by and based on Mike Shenk’s WSJ crossword contest from February 17, 2023.

While solving, I had an idea what the mechanism was going to be. It wasn’t, so I decided to try to make one where it is.

You will almost certainly need google…