I’ve been waiting for an excuse to post a Jessie Ware song! I don’t normally talk much about the videos I post, but she’s my favorite artist of the past ten years.
Last week’s freestyle solution
Word count: 72
Mean word length: 5.28
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I was able to stack two pairs of seed entries to start this puzzle (1/14 and 62/66 Across). I’m very excited whenever I get a chance to stack seeds, because I don’t want crossings to suffer no matter how good the stack. 1-Across came from a game show (I don’t remember which one); I’d never heard of it before then, but I immediately added it to my seed list. If it’s good enough for a game show (on GSN, I think), then it’s good enough for my word list.
Sometimes, when you stuff seed answers into the two main stacks, the rest of the puzzle may suffer; I didn’t want the upper right and lower left to meet that fate, so I paid particular attention to keeping those corners lively as well.
My favorite thing that I learned from this puzzle is the idiom at 26-Down. Once you solve it, translate it if you don’t know what it means. It’s pretty cool.
I’m working on a 68-word freestyle right now whose grid is a bit of a deviation from my usual construction style, but you’ll see it soon… maybe Friday, maybe a week from today, I don’t know.
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Club 72 