impressive amount of theme entries (especially for a grid with no black squares!). a lot of the fill was pretty hard--DROSS crossing ASSTD especially, for me. initially parsed A PEST as APE ST and was wondering how someone could be an ape saint for a while haha
i think three was good, although i'd recommend placing black squares in the corners to make the fill smoother
An Ephemeral Collation 🤓2:04 · 2024-05-10T16:30:06.561Z
Great grid - given both the small size and the specificity of the theme knowledge, some cluing revisions outside of the theme fill might prove very useful.
I found this to be hard but really fun -- I didn't know a lot of the trivia but so much of it was inferrable like ELORO and eventually even SOLARPOWER. Nice work!
8A and 3D would have been the hardest clues on their own- I got 3D with a few crossers, but I don't think I would get a single letter of 8A without the downs! I don't know much about Lorde- other than Royals- so I was coming in fairly blind in that regard!
Thanks so much for the (unassisted!) solve and the feedback. I tweaked the clue for 3D (which hopefully makes it easier, as intended) and added a helper link for 8A.