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Aric Egmont and Jennie Bass, a young couple in Boston, shared a love of crossword puzzles, and were accustomed to doing the Sunday crossword puzzle together. Intending to propose, and hoping for a great surprise, Aric approached Doug Most, the editor of the Globe Magazine, and through him, Cox and Rathvon, soliciting a special crossword. Cox ...
Use the crossword template to start the table and load the styles, then use the row template to construct rows. Supply parameters like this: .: Unfillable cell, no input box, background color. 0: Fillable cell with no number. 1–42: Fillable cell with number in background of cell. It should look like this:
Then I enjoyed building in two theme answers that span the entire grid with 15 letters. Such long answers make constructing the puzzle a bit more difficult but the visual and literal impact is high.
PANT (27A: What hot dogs do) This clue made me chuckle. It's a delightful misdirect that might make you think of hot dogs in a bun that you eat. However, the clue is actually referring to dogs ...
The clue's wording is a nod to the backwards speech pattern used by YODA. Here's a fun fact: Stuart Freeborn, who helped create the original YODA puppet, based the character's face on his own ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Letters 16 and 17 form a two-letter word ending in P. Since this has to be UP, letter 16 is a U, which can be filled into the appropriate clue answer in the list of clues. Likewise, a three-letter word starting with A could be and, any, all, or even a proper name like Ann. One might need more clue answers before daring to guess which it could be.
The abbreviation of high school in the clue alerts solvers that the answer will be an abbreviation. EEL (12D: Fish compared to the Grinch) "You're as cuddly as a cactus / You're as charming as an ...