Last Friday’s Split Decisions Two Ways solution
This is the rare puzzle that gets both the “crosswords” and “variety puzzles” category! Now, I’m not one to tell you how to do your puzzle, but the colleague to whom I gave this puzzle said, “Wow, this is definitely gonna be a pencil puzzle.” The object of this puzzle is to solve it like a regular crossword, except the corresponding entry in the grid will be the anagram of the answer to the clue. (No, I didn’t keep this one under 72 words.)
Don’t be surprised or frustrated if you find some clues more difficult than others… there is a definite reason to the degree of difficulty of particular clues as opposed to others. I’m not going to give away quite what it is, but see if you can discern what I was thinking during the cluing process.
I’ll be back with another crossword puzzle, of course, on Tuesday. The answer to Freestyle Puzzle 15 will appear there too. But I hope this will tide you over until then.
As always, I’d like to know, folks… comment is welcome! Come say hello! Let me know how you did! What did you like? What could I do better? Are you waiting for something… tell me, would you wait all night? Don’t you find the word “gumption” fun to say? Would a one-way intersection indicate a wormhole in space-time?
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Club 72 
Thank you! I can’t remember the last time it took me more than two hours to solve a crossword, or the last time I enjoyed one as much. This was fiendishly delicious!
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Awesome. Really curious whether the 9D/35A thing was intentional (I assume it’s coincidence, but if not, +1)
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I noticed it during construction, initially hesitated, but noticed there were 5+ anagrams using that letter set (thus no dupes) and intentionally kept it because I thought it would be a bit sneaky.
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This was really fun to work out.
Did it online and still went thru several sheets of paper.
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Anagram puzzle a true work of art. Really enjoyed it.
Ken Johnson
Springfield, MO
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