If you haven’t done one of these before, don’t just jump right in! Read the instructions before you do. You’ll be very confused if you don’t realize that it’s anagrams you have to enter, not the original answers!
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Be careful here… don’t solve this grid like you normally would! The instructions are in the document or the notepad. Solve the clues, but, before you enter each entry into the grid, you have to anagram it!
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Alert, alert! If you’ve recently started solving here, don’t solve this like a normal crossword. You’ll be seriously messed up if you do! Instructions are in both the PDF and PUZ files…
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It’s my first post since April Fools’ Day. I didn’t do anything too wacky, wild, or crazy, but I felt like I had to do something to mix things up at least. And mix things up I literally did. I admit that it doesn’t take me as long to write the clues for these grids, because the point of the puzzle is more the anagramming than the clue-to-answer thing that’s the case with standard crosswords. I thought briefly about creating a variant of these crosswords in which you have to anagram one word in each clue to make sense of it, then anagram the answer to put in the grid. That would be really nasty of me, and I’m not so sure it wouldn’t be a little unfair in some spots. Maybe I’ll have that as an option the next time I do one of these — you can solve the regular one, or you can solve the one with an anagram in the clues as well. Don’t mind me, I’m just thinking out loud.
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With the amount of time I’ve spent curating a word list for this kind of grid, I don’t think you can blame me if I come back to this format from time to time. Not that you would anyway. Not that I make the clues too hard, but I have a rule that I try to follow. The more anagrams an answer entry has, the easier I make the clue. Take that as you will.
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Back with another anagram crossword. Of course, since the challenge here for the solver isn’t in parsing the clues for the entries, but figuring out which anagrams to put into the grid, the clues aren’t my usual tough fare. Nor is the fill sparkling, because (a) that’s not the point of the challenge today, and (b) I’m limited only to entries that have anagrams. Could you imagine if I wrote my usual style of opaque clue and then asked you to figure out how their anagrams fit? Nah, I’m not that sadistic.
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I got some positive feedback about the anagram crossword a couple of weeks ago, so I was feeling another one today. I’m thinking of making this a semiregular feature (every month, or however… not sure about the frequency), which is good, because I really enjoy making these.
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I haven’t done one of these in a long while. So I figured it was time to mix it up (heh heh) a bit and throw in one of these. I hope it doesn’t upset (heh heh, again) you that I’m throwing in a variety puzzle today. The twist (OK TIM, STOP WITH THE ANAGRAM PUNS) here is that the clues point to not their corresponding entries, but the anagrams of the entries. Unlike my first four, I decided to see if I could make one of these like my other freestyle grids — 72 words or less. Now, of course, the point of this grid isn’t the sparkly fill but the puzzle of anagramming. Hopefully it’ll take you all a little while to wrestle with this thing.
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In case you missed my first three Anagram Crosswords, they can all be found right here. The hardest part of constructing these was building up the database. That’s still going on. After that, constructing it is the same as constructing any other crossword for me, but with a much narrower word list… except, when cluing, sometimes I catch myself thinking of a clue for the actual entry instead of the anagram for that entry. (Don’t worry, I checked them all… there aren’t any “regular” clues here.)
I’ll be back with another freestyle crossword puzzle, of course, on Tuesday. The answer to Freestyle 46 will appear there too. But I hope this will tide you over until then.
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The Anagram Crossword has been the most popular of the variety puzzles I’ve posted on this site. Here are the first one and the second one in case you’ve missed them. Hey, give the people what they want, right? It’s been fun and a lot of time cultivating the word list I use to make these grids, and I’m going to keep adding to the list for future puzzles like this.
I’ll be back with another freestyle crossword puzzle, of course, on Tuesday. The answer to Freestyle 32 will appear there too. But I hope this will tide you over until then.
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By Tim Croce ||| Original freestyle crossword puzzles on Tuesdays at 6pm Eastern ||| Original puzzles (sometimes more freestyles, sometimes variety puzzles or even themed puzzles) on Fridays at 6pm Eastern
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