This puzzle is a test to gauge the Crosshare community's appetite for pop culture themes. I added a pop culture puzzle a few weeks ago and it quickly became my most-solved puzzle, so I am checking if that was an anomaly or not. I fleshed out the idea…
I was mulling over some turns of phrase with possible double meanings and landed on the concept from 59A. I wrangled with some tense agreement to word the clue and tried FLIPPINGTHEBIRD and FLIPPEDTHEBIRD before settling on the publisher…
This is an old puzzle I made several years ago that I had forgotten about and just found again in a folder on my computer. It's not top-notch stuff and it has too many 3 letter answers, but I liked the theme.
I got this idea while tinkering with some fill on another puzzle. Jeff and I hammered out the grid and ended up ditching London, Ontario. After that, we worked together on the fill. I wrote the clues while bouncing ideas off Jeff.