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◆ · By woozy · Published 2022-08-18T02:54:58.636Z

This was a diversion. I've never seen this done although I'd be intrigued to see others attempt puzzles like it. What do you all think.
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  • SporcleMirror 2:33 · 2022-08-18T10:01:00.416Z
    Some absolute madman actually did this in a full-size New York Times puzzle: https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=12/23/2008. This grid has so many constraints that it's the NYT 15x15 puzzle with the most words of all time (86, the standard for a themed puzzle is 78 or fewer)
    • Mike D 2s · 2022-08-18T11:17:09.501Z
      Cool!
      • dplass 4:18 · 2022-08-28T15:24:15.369Z
        Took me forever to see it!
        • Mike Fitzgerald 🤓5:59 · 2022-09-04T01:05:43.316Z
          I may be imagining this, but I thought many years ago I came across a published puzzle in a standard 15x15 grid that had successfully accomplished this same idea. I've searched many times to see if I could find it, but with no luck. Regardless, this is a tough construct, congratulations!
          • Mike Fitzgerald 🤓5:59 · 2022-09-06T00:00:41.975Z
            SporcleMirror, thanks for posting the link! In 2008, our local paper published the NYT puzzle and after opening the link I'm pretty sure this was the one I saw. Nice to know I wasn't just imagining it!
            • KayW 🤓6:47 · 2023-07-10T00:40:48.574Z
              wow! just found this puzzle today. VERY clever idea. It must have been a very tricky construction. I must say - once I figured out what was going on, it made solving any unknown squares much easier. Thanks!
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              1. 1A
                Observes
              2. 6A
                Soft Metal; atomic number 50
              3. 9A
                Integrated circuits company-- spun off from Lucent in 2002, acquired by Avago in 2007
              4. 10A
                Former Ugandan dictator
              5. 11A
                Formal address for a woman
              6. 12A
                Comf'trbly fami'ler
              7. 13A
                Wive of Osiris; mother of Horus
              8. 16A
                One who allots and separates the second time
              9. 20A
                Emphatic Spanish affirmative
              10. 21A
                Behold!
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                Proprietress of a house of negotiable virtue
              12. 26A
                Dada Oumee of Africa
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                Poetically prior to Jimmy Carter's state.
              14. 29A
                Louse egg
              15. 30A
                Determined to do
              Down
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                Marvel Comics' prince of Atlantis
              2. 2D
                "Hey, Tempests!"
              3. 3D
                Youngest (and longest lived) of the three Kennedy brothers
              4. 4D
                Notable Times
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                In Discworld, half of the leader of the Watch?
              6. 6D
                Shy and cautious
              7. 7D
                Instinctual component of personality; or "Monsters from the —" (classic line from "Forbidden Planet")
              8. 8D
                Pencil tip
              9. 14D
                Atomic symbol for Silicon
              10. 15D
                Genus of low African shrubs resembling the heath and having spicate flowers with a nearly regular corolla, four didynamous stamens, a two-celled ovary, and drupaceous or capsular fruit
              11. 17D
                "Lower the lights on that"
              12. 18D
                1st person singular of "to be"
              13. 19D
                Sword and sandal extra
              14. 22D
                Trash reciptical
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                1st person plural of "to be"
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                In linear algebra, the sum of all possible products particularly as applies to matrices (abbr.)
              17. 27D
                Charles first wife; Princess —
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