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• Aaron Riccio 🤓28:24 · hace 5 días

  I'm assuming you've been writing these for a while and just decided to collect them all here at once, because this is a very confident, clever 15x15 to drop (on the same day as 20 other puzzles). I think there's a few spots where language could be a bit tighter, like the extraneous "a" in 1A or whatever's going on with the W in 10A (I might just be dense on that one) and the indicator for 5D ("set with?"), and I'd personally tweak a few nonsense surfaces like 6D.

  But overall? Killer wordplay for stuff like 14A, 18A, 25A, 26A, 9D, 19D, 21D, etc. Very fun puzzle.

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  • PiGuyN constructor · hace 3 días

    Thanks for the kind words! Yeah, I semi-recently discovered cryptics (August of last year or so) and I've fallen head first into making and solving them.

    Good call on 1A, I agree now that you point it out. The W in 10A is from "with" (EAR + W + AX), and for 5D, I used "set with" to mean that you can set the word using the following letters, which I'll admit is a bit nonstandard but I liked it well enough. I also agree that 6D's surface isn't the greatest, but if I stretch my brain I can imagine an old tomb with candles in vials being lit in a weirdly ceremonial way or something lol. Glad you enjoyed!

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    • Aaron Riccio 🤓28:24 · hace 2 días

      D'oh! That sneaky with ALWAYS gets me when it could also be read as an (unnecessary) linking word. Looking forward to solving more (or catching up on the backlog); I stream puzzles on Twitch over at /thatcrypticguy every Tuesday night at 9:00 EST, so if you have any new puzzles, I'll likely give one a crack live.

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      • PiGuyN constructor · hace 2 días

        Oh awesome! Will drop a follow and I'll be sure to tune in! And I've just started work on my next puzzle, so hopefully that's released soon-ish.

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