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Solving Music: Eve - As You Like It
The title has absolutely nothing to do with any entries in the puzzle. It's
more representative of what the puzzle is: a 21x Cruzzles themeless, a big
chonker of a grid crammed with gaming references and memes. It is the Big
Chungus of puzzles. I'm so sorry.
This was a very fun one to construct; I took a similar strategy to what Byron
Walden did for his
themeless
for the Couchword tournament. The puzzle was seeded with the four 14-letter
words pinwheeling in the center: 52A/73A/10D/48D (the second half of 48D
actually changed to improve fill, but it's all the same). All four were taken
from the 14s section of my wordlist, which is the sad place where entries that
are *almost* 15s go to die. I figured a chonky themeless would be the perfect
place to finally use some of those 14s, and it definitely worked out. This is
gonna play way harder if you aren't up on your pop culture; the center-right
chunk in particular is filled to the brim with games/cartoons/comics stuff.
Hopefully it's not all too niche.
Gonna use this space here to plug
Grids For Good (let's
be honest though, if you're following this blog, you've probably seen it
shared around already). It's a collection of 42 puzzles from 44 constructors,
available by forwarding them a receipt for a donation of $10+ to a
COVID-related or racial justice organization (they have recommendations for
orgs on the site). It's a great cause, so I'd highly recommend getting in on
that soon (especially since some of those puzzles are metas with a contest
deadline of the 18th).
Happy solving!
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