Now Playing: Twin Elms by Justin Bell
Word Count: 72
Mean Word Length: 5.39
Happy Fri… *looks at the calendar* Thursday. With there only being one post this week here on Trash Panda Puzzles, everyone gets to play the 15x crossword a day early! Okay, okay, okay, I totally spaced posting the Teeny Tuesday earlier this week and I missed the deadline for the Daily Crossword Links. That just means I get to take it easy for a couple of days as I’ve already written up and scheduled the post for early next week.
I didn’t put anything tooooo crazy in today’s crossword. There are a couple of inside jokes that of the 100 or so people/bots that visit this site, only two will get. Don’t worry, if you don’t know the joke, the crossword clue will seem totally normal. Happy solving!
Title Inspiration: 10A, 14A
Music Inspiration: 50D
Seed Word: 33A
Personal Word List/Score: 9D, 22A, 26D, 33A, 50D, 52D
Reused 4+ Letter Words: 8D, 9D, 10A, 14A, 15A, 16A, 17A, 32A, 39D, 41D, 46D, 52D, 63A, 66A, 68A (Geez there's a lot here despite having 51 new words used)
Unique Words to Date: 3,764 (+51)
Non-NYT Words: 9D, 22A, 52D
Non-Shortz-Era Word: 30D
If you enjoy, solve, stream, or find a typo in my crossword, please oh please let me know!
Don't forget to love each other,
Jac
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Great puzzle! Smooth solving, with a good mix of common words and flair (20A, 33A, etc). The clue for 60A might be something that needs a ", maybe" at the end (ability vs willingness). Tough 51A crossings with 45D (thankfully had heard of this before) and 52D (I was listening to my cute cat clean himself while trying to figure this out to no avail!). I think it's cool how you keep track of all your words used and the inspirations, etc at the top! 😀