Weekly Words Week 78

This one had me thinking faster than usual on a Saturday. Well done!

Weekly Words Week 77

Nice puzzle! Great little easter egg in the bottom left :)

Thanks! This was a fun little way to do a 9/11 tribute puzzle without being really blatant about it.

Awesome grid! The single rebus was a fun element

It's always fun to throw in a little spice like that :D

Nice puzzle. A little confused about 10A though

"Mayo" is the Spanish name for May, so ANO (a year in Spanish) "contains" mayo!

Some people love the rebus, some people hate it!

Weekly Words Week 76

An excellent way to start the weekend - a CCPL puzzle!

Glad we can provide that little boost for ya 😍

It's good to see you made it through in the end, though!

It's also a good song 🎵🎵: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OORBa32WFcM

Weekly Words Week 75

Nice one as always!  I got thrown off for a bit trying CUBA instead of LAOS

Weekly Words Week 74

This was a big'un!  Loved the clue for ITALICISE, though I put ITALICIZE first which threw me off for a bit.  ROCHESTER's clue was great as well.  Really impressive fitting 8 9-letter entries so smoothly.

Glad you liked the whole concept! We used the same grid (well, a flipped version) for Weekly Words Week 30 if you haven't tried that one yet and want another dose of the fun.

Nice cluing. Got caught up on the DONNA/ARS crossing (I put a Y instead), but I loved the clue for EPICENTER!

The clues really make or break a puzzle like this, I think! Good to hear we nailed it :P

Tricky and tough for me. Thanks for posting!!!

"Tricky and tough" was the goal so that's the highest praise you could give :D

Enjoyed the puzzle, though I made the same initial error as Jeff and had “italiciZe”. Happy that the Crosshare newsletter brought your puzzle to my attention. It’s awesome to see a library’s staff creating crosswords. 👍

COVID had many unfortunate effects on our library, but one of the positive effects was giving us the chance to branch out into more experimental virtual offerings like crosswords!

Thanks! I wouldn't really call them "themers" but they do make the puzzle what it is :D

Took me a while but I got there. Can you explain the italicise clue? Google didn't help me!

Italicizing a word in writing stresses that word. In Britain they spell it ITALICISE, not ITALICIZE, so to hint that we wanted the British spelling, the clue uses the British spelling of neighbor as well. So if you wanted to stress the word "neighbour" you would ITALICISE it!

Weekly Words Week 73

Crosswords-as-comedy is a powerful weapon!

Weekly Words Week 72

awesome puzzle! also..... first comment. lol

Mike D normally has the first comment on lock - must feel nice to beat him :P

Yeah mine are kind of cheating though - I usually comment after moderating puzzles so I get to see them in advance! Not sure how I missed this one - great puzzle!

There's many more where that came from if you haven't tried our archive yet!

I struggled to get a toe hold with this puzzle...but once I was 1A with the right answer things fell into place. Thanks.

Weekly Words Week 71

Very nice - I learned a new word in 13A 🙌

I should have figured that ENERO was January in Spanish. Too many years ago...

I'll definitely remember it for next time

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Weekly Words Week 70

Very nice! Completely unexpected, but amazing after you get it!

Guess you could say we threw you a bit of a curveball 🤣🤣🤣

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