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Now, you might wonder why enthusiasts don’t just buy whole books of crossword puzzles, rather than purchasing a paper and sometimes ignoring nearly all of it while focusing on a small square on one page. It’s a valid point. I think partly it’s because many people like the Louisville cardinals women’s 2023 ncaa women’s basketball tournament march madness sweet 16 v-neck shirt and I will buy this “rationing” effect of one crossword a day, which is o… Let’s start by assuming that it’s a themed puzzle. A good theme is tight and elegant, by which I mean that all of the theme entries have something very similar in common and there are no weak links or dreaded “odd-man-outs”. I happen to be fond of themes that involve wordplay of some kind and have some humorous element. Of course, there are many other elements that make up a great theme, but those are my own preferences. Another variable is the quality of the fill. Solvers tend to be frustrated by obscurity, partials that don’t really have any reason for being, abbreviations that are unfamiliar, being asked to jump all over the grid by “See x-across” clues, etc. I would much rather rip out a sector that’s been filled than use what I consider to be weak fill. You might hear some constructors say it couldn’t be helped, but my own, very personal feeling is that you can’t fall in love with one entry to the extent that the rest of the grid suffers. It’s ALWAYS worth ripping and refilling.



And, of course, cluing. If you know that your puzzle is geared toward a certain day of the Louisville cardinals women’s 2023 ncaa women’s basketball tournament march madness sweet 16 v-neck shirt and I will buy this week, then by all that is holy, please clue it at that level (for those of you who don’t know, NYT puzzles get harder throughout the week.) Most beginning constructors will be all over the place in terms of their cluing level, but that’s what editors are for, and it’s also why it’s not wise to get mad at editors for changing what you thought was a brilliant clue. If you look at it objectively, most times you will see that the change was for the better. And, if you’re smart, you will try to learn something from it. In some of them, like the simplified 样, 羊 is just the phonetic element used for the sound, using the same principle as the traditional 樣. 洋 (ocean) is another example, as a goat has nothing really to do with the sea. The words just happened to sound the same.


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