Puzzle Fifty-Five: Drama-Free (freestyle)

A more gently-clued 72-entry freestyle this week, and hopefully a smooth solve for you. Thanks to kateschmate for test-solving (go solve her puzzles if for some reason you're not doing that already).

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Puzzle Forty-Eight: Front Nine

Lightly themed 72-worder this week - also available in the R. Allen Vol. 4 puzzle pack on the Redstone Games Crossword app (App Store / Google Play Store). I also have a Vol. 1 of 5x5 mini puzzles available on the app, samples of which appeared here and here on Crosshare this past week.

(Does this puzzle look like a cheerful bunny? Yes. Is that related to the theme at all? No. When you use left-right mirror symmetry on a 15x15 grid it's remarkable how frequently you produce something that looks like a bunny or a panda bear.)

I also released some new music on my Bandcamp site a few weeks ago. It's free to stream and pay-what-you-wish to download. If you're solving in the applet below, you should give it a spin - I think it makes good solving music. 

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Puzzle Thirty-One: Rare Design (Grid Charlemagne #1)

Back in May, Adam Aaronson released the first Grid Charlemagne – as you might expect, a Steely-Dan-themed crossword puzzle. Another followed in early June. Chris Adams got in on the action as well and now so have I. Apologies if you aren't down with the Dan. There is no .puz file posted because this design requires the AmuseMe applet. If you'd like a PDF, you can print that from within the applet as well. Enjoy. (And thanks to Chris and Quiara for test-solving.)

Puzzle Seventeen: 5000 Miles

Winners of last week's meta challenge, "Miles to Go," were I.K. Snamhcok and LesY. Check out the Solutions page for the answer.

Today's puzzle is a sentimental favorite from my early construction days of late 2019 with a grid I was (accurately) told "could have more connectivity." I still like the theme and hopefully so do you. Enjoy!

If you download the PDF, you'll notice that the formatting is much improved. Shout out to Github user njyoon for creating this terrific .puz to PDF converter that I'm going to be using for the foreseeable future.

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Puzzle Thirteen: We Have Snacks (freestyle)

Photo by Jeremy Noble.

Another freestyle. Note the "bad-puns" and "Canadian-clue" tags.

Also, if you're enjoying these puzzles, please consider making a small contribution via the newly added tip jar: 

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