Jonathan Gersch author page
6 puzzles by Jonathan Gersch
with Constructor comments
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I don't recall how this idea first came to me, possibly when passing a bar or when looking at some PHONE LINES or something similar? So I made an initial grid and set of clues, and was pleased to see that Will liked it, except for one theme entry at 62 A (MAPLE TREES). After some discussion back and forth with Will, we agreed on the current entry at 62 A, and I revised the grid and clues for that affected area.
In an effort to get some nice fresh entries in the grid, I was pleased to get in DAEDALUS, GLOW WORMS, EZIO PINZA, BREWSTER, SAY WHAT,
SIZE TWO, et al. Hopefully these compensate for a number of common crossword words, such as those strewn a bit throughout the grid: NNE, VIOL, LIDO, etc.
I also liked how I was able to get two abbreviated parts of NCAA into the puzzle; I felt that was a nice plus.
I hope you all enjoy it! Hopefully you won't need all your mental RESOURCES for this one!
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First, thanks to Jeff and XWord Info for presenting this forum. As I recall, the idea for this one just popped in my head, as they sometimes do, and I thought it would be fun to give solvers a hidden-word puzzle-in-a-puzzle. I was very fortunate to come up with the theme entries, especially those that contained TAN twice. After working out the placement of these theme entries within the grid, I got even more lucky to find some nice fill that could string two or more of these together; getting AUSTRIA to cross all three in the middle really worked very nicely.
Will offered a number of suggestions, which led to some reworking of a few areas, and this resulted in a nicer and cleaner final version. I then drafted up the clues which I aimed to be fresh and lively. Besed on the theme, Will thought it would be good to run during beach season. I hope you all enjoy! I guess we'll just have to WAIT AND SEE!
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