Kinkering Kongs their Titles Take

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• Mihir constructor · 2024-05-19T03:49:07.727Z

  Hope you enjoyed the crossword. It seems, I have identified all of rev. Spooner's goofs in the puzzle. They were as follows:

  1A Where you take a shower - BATH

  3A Mythical Male, linked with apple - ADAM

  7A Headgears adorned by a dear old queen - TIARAS

  16A Vehemently deny Insistence of Perjury - I SWEAR

  21A Garment for proofing rain - PONCHO

  23A Face crushing Blows - JABS

  2D Least and exceptional prime - TWO

  4D Feast de lacto supplier - DAIRY

  5D Mode of lighting fires - ARSON

  7D That was a double! Drink that tastes better with buttered toast - TEA

  8D Right turn from ENE - SSE

  12D flutter, by effect of wind - SWING

  14D Wall Street investments co. Goldman - SACHS

  17D Greek sigma-pi's link - RHO (letter in between)

  19D Dad's German mummy - OMA (granny in German)

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• heron 5:06 · 2024-05-20T18:47:16.908Z

  liked the amount of spoonerisms there are--while it made solving the puzzle pretty difficult, it was fun to see in hindsight what the clues were. this is very impressive for your first puzzle!

  for your future puzzles, i recommend a few things: ideally, both parts of the grid should connect (right now, the top half feels like a separate puzzle from the bottom half). you want to have each square be part of two answers, so that every square is crossed twice (hence a "cross"word :P). as an example, the B square in BATH/BUS is crossed, since it's part of both BATH and BUS, but the A in BATH isn't, as there's only one answer that uses that letter. i recommend seeing how other people do grid shapes, and getting inspiration from them :)

  really, really impressive crossword for your first one--especially considering this had a gimmick to make writing clues harder! i can't wait to see more from you :)

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  • Mihir constructor · 2024-05-20T23:25:23.107Z

    Hey, thanks a lot for your feedback and the suggestions. I'll keep them in mind for the next time. I can imagine how the shape and crossings in the crossword could have overall improved it. I guess, I got carried away with the gimmick than the crossword while constructing. Thanks!

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