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Sarah Sinclair is a Product Manager at Microsoft living in Seattle, WA. She loves puzzles and crafts of all kinds and has published a variety of NYT-themed knitting patterns on Ravelry!
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This puzzle is the culmination of an unexpected journey from designing crossword-themed knitting patterns to constructing actual crosswords! Coincidentally, both pursuits involve putting colored squares in grids — and have led to lots of lovely new connections in the "crossworld" on Twitter! I'm especially grateful to Ross Trudeau, without whose mentorship you wouldn't be solving this puzzle today.
They say to write what you know, and I am certainly well acquainted with 59-Acrosses, having tried all the ones featured here except 25-Across. 17-Across is currently my platform of choice, where I imagine you may soon see a profile picture of me holding this crossword! I was lucky to find a relatively constrained theme set here with a lot of fun in-language phrases. The shorter 9- and 10-letter themers gave me the flexibility to include a lot of answers longer than 7 letters while maintaining clean fill. I'm really happy with how this puzzle turned out, and hope you enjoyed my debut!