Themeless #7

Heh I had EBOOK for ETEXT and it threw me off for a bit. Nice puzzle!

Got me there, too. Nice puzzle.
Particularly liked AMAN and, like Philip said, the diagonal XXX 👏

the XXX running down the diagonal was cool... favorite clue was the one for "sound engineer"

Themeless #6

Took me forever to think of PETRA! Nice puzzle William 🙌

I had to go downs-only to get PETRA. Good clues!

Themeless #5

I like the TEXAN/ERCOT connection, but I think AMEBA is actually spelled AMOEBA

Thanks for the feedback! Both spellings are possible as per Merriam-Webster

Themeless #3

Nice one William - I liked that clue for SHURE 😂

Thanks! I didn't want it to be shuper easy 😅

Themeless #4

Had a great time sorting this one out - nice puzzle William!

I think this is the first time I’ve been faster than you

Good thing I remembered stuff from high school Spanish - that helped me out a lot... “anion vs an ion” - very clever clue

I had BELLA instead of LINDA and it threw me off for a while, fun puzzle!

That's true! I'd forgotten about that possibility.

Themeless #2

Challenging puzzle! Solid clues that required a bit of thinking.👏

Thanks for the feedback! It wasn't my intention at first, but that's how it came out and I ended up running along with it!

Yeah. I was leaning on Cyprus for a while.

Glad I wasn't the only one trying to make that work!

Ah, sorry about that! I just realized that one of the proposed etymologies for Cyprus is related to the cypress tree. Next time I'll phrase it differently.

never thought I'd see MARSS in a puzzle, really enjoyed riddling this one out

Guess there's a first time for everything! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks! The "nice/nice" pun isn't my original idea, I should point out

State of the nation

Fun puzzle William! I think I got a bit lucky coming up with MEGA - that's definitely what unlocked it for me.

Thanks! Congrats on the website, btw, I've just started learning how to construct and it's been super helpful!

that was challenging i really had to think and get more crosses until i saw the "mars/ares" connection, which was pretty cool. One tiny issue is the plural for "sty" is "sties" - so "stys" would probably need to be reworked

Oh no! Just checked Merriam-Webster, you're right. It can be sties or styes, but not stys. Sorry about that!

No worries... you learn a lot of things solving and making crosswords. I recommend crossword tracker.com - I use it to search for words with letter patterns when I get stuck

William Deere

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