PUZZLE 47: WE'LL BE SEEIN' YA (themeless)

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Solving Music: Retrofile - Two Words

Really happy with how this one came out; I wanted to construct and didn't have my laptop with me, so this puzzle was gridded entirely on paper. Always nice to flex the manual filling muscle; a lot of autofill softens that skillset, and it's good to build it back up.

I seeded this with 4-Down; such a fun entry, and the letters are too good to pass up. The rest of this fill worked itself out fairly smoothly and allowed for some really fun fill, though there are a couple of gluey bits that I think are worth it. Cluing is pretty brutal this time, especially in the northwest, unless you know a lot of niche stuff (the usual here, really). Hope y'all enjoy.

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SUDOKU: CHARYBDIS

 

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Solving Music: Powfu - mario kart (feat. Travis Barker)

Welcome to Cruzzles sudoku! I've been posting most of my sudoku puzzles in the Cracking the Cryptic Discord server, and it's about time I start posting them here as well.

This puzzle was made the other day for a speed-setting contest in the CTC server; we were given the Liar Killer and Missing Arrow rulesets to work with, and had 70 minutes to put together a sudoku. This puzzle got 2nd place, and I'm quite proud of it. Hope y'all enjoy it too!

If you like this one, the winning puzzle by TotallyNormalCat is absolutely fantastic as well; you can solve it here (rules are the same as this puzzle).

If you're into the whole variant sudoku thing, you may have already seen Simon solve my puzzle Bubble Bath on Cracking the Cryptic earlier this week; give the video a watch if you haven't! (There's a solving link in the video description as well if you'd like to take a crack at it before you watch.)

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