Now Playing: Deep Space Travels by Artist
Word Count: 76
Mean Word Length: 4.92
WOOHOO! Welcome to the 50th Trash Panda Puzzles crossword! It's hard to believe that I've already put out that many crosswords, but looking at my stat tracking, I've used 2,209 unique words prior to this puzzle. (Yes, I'm counting plural words separate from singular words.) I'd like to think that I'm continuously improving my constructing skills and hopefully before too long, I will finally get a grid accepted by a major publication. In the meantime, I try to have awesome crosswords here on this blog for everyone to play.
I thought about doing something special for the 50th puzzle. I looked at weird shapes, 21x21 grid sizes, or purposefully only use words I've used since starting this blog. In the end, I decided to simply make a themed puzzle and instead I wish to thank all the wonderful people who have supported me so far on this fun adventure. I look forward to the next 50+ crosswords, hopefully a collaboration here or there (DM me if interested 😉), a major publication or two under my belt, and more wonderfulness here at Trash Panda Puzzles.
Non NYT Words: 14A, 16A, 41A
Non Shortz-Era Words: 1D, 32D
Title Words: 16A, 26A, 41A, 52A
Seed Words: 16A, 26A, 41A, 52A
Music Inspiration Word: 13A
Reused 4+ Letter Words: 1A, 5A, 9A, 10D, 13A, 25D, 34A, 35A, 35D, 39A, 43D, 45D, 60A (Geez, this is what I get for making a themed crossword)
If you solve, stream, like, love, or find a typo in my crossword, please feel free to let me know!
Cheers,
Jac
Congrats on the 50th puzzle--really enjoyed this one! I took the theme to mean "what's in store".. is that right? Hopefully many good things! Lots of fun entries. I was lucky with 17D because I literally have a picture of one's traces hanging in my bedroom. Particularly loved the clues for 7D/8D, 30A, and 31D. 1D was a new word for me, and my last entry to fill. Looking forward to the next 50 trash panda puzzles!