This is awesome! Great use of unchecked squares as a sort of meta-puzzle 🧭

Thanks! I didn't even intend it at first; I had them blacked out (thought the T's on the sides made a cool shape), but when I put COMPASS in I realized what it looked like and what I could do. A happy accident!

Nice puzzle. I don’t understand fire sack though. What am I missing!

Never mind, I got it. Fire in the other sense, ok. Also that should have been a ? And not !. :-)

Quite pleased with my time given how many of these clues made me go "oh no, that's an AMERICAN THING!"

Oof, you're right, sorry! I did give you TEAS though :)

Nice! Lots of puzzley clues. Just got stuck on the center. And uh... I may have had a similar thought a few days ago lol

(entirely by coincidence, I should say! perhaps it just shows it's a good puzzle concept 😉)

Haha, I just solved yours! It was a very good puzzle too :D

Find Your Way

Glad I went back to read the rest of the clues - BOWLS and UHAUL were both great!

Thanks - this was a "downs only" solve, I see!

The clues are always such a wide variety, I stand half a chance!

Cross-Country

I didn't know that the Yugo was a lemon, and I loved finding the conversation between Ross and Phoebe, (yeah, had to cheat). An awesome puzzle!

Nice! Fun! I remember the yugo (I’m old!)

A farmer bought a Yugo and parked it in his barn. The donkey, curious, asked, "What sort of creature are you?" The Yugo replied proudly, "I am an automobile! And what, pray tell, are you?" "I," replied the donkey in kind, "am a horse."

Thankful for Car Talk bringing up the YUGO as often as it did.

You Just Abandoned Your Whole Belief System!

Thanks - I've been wanting to use that one for a while!

I still don’t get how people solve it in like 30 seconds. Are they pausing it to think of the answers. Anyhow, I am proud of my under 2 min. :-)

I'm doing as many of your puzzles as I can

Blockbusters

This was great! Putting my memory of HS spanish to the test 😂

Lucky to get this one, as my Spanish is minimal.

Oddly, I was better at the Spanish clues than the English ones. 😬

Cruci-Cross

I hope you were INTHEZONE as you solved it! :)

First time I've ever googled "PIE BRITNEY 2007"

How did you pull this off? Wow! Conservator ship IS NOT a puzzle word!!!

Thanks! Since I started constructing puzzles, I've been counting letters in everything. Was reading about #FREEBRITNEY and when I realized that CONSERVATORSHIP and BABYONEMORETIME both had 15 letters, I knew I had to give it a try!

Good puzzle - well put together theme, with pleasing fill and good clues. Thanks!

Oops!.... I Gridded Again

Waiting and Wondering

Also, I didn't even read clue 7A until just now! That second song! That's my song! :D

I'm slightly embarrassed about how long I just sat here saying to myself "a orb?" "a orb?" Lol.

I found my way there! That 2nd row, really, is where I had to do some strategic letter-guessing.

Try Me

This puzzle led me down a rabbit hole ended in an entry about the town I like to go to buy lamingtons when I'm feeling homesick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_statues

Ding-Dong!

I haven't plated Dar Williams for years. Will go give it a listen now. :)

Sommersmith

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