![]() Heck, I'm still not a fan of people saying "totes" for totally and "besties" and such. ![]() I love COINKYDINK, such a fun word to say, but I've heard others groan at how cloyingly cutesy entries like this are. Slow, that is, given that even my 8-year-old nephew can lap me. It's basically an all-purpose search for different word patterns in a wordlist, and I can't recommend it enough. ![]() Since Adam plugged the Discord, I'll shout out his site Wordlisted, which is a huge asset for constructors of themed puzzles. We were both stumped on how to clue FORCE IN without including "in" in the clue (go ahead and try it), and the simplicity of the edited clue blew our minds. We had fun cluing this grid the editors came up with some great clues as well. RICKY: Working with Adam was such a fun experience (you guys should definitely also check out his puzzle blog he messaged me around early pandemic time to collab on a themeless, showing me the beautiful northwest stack. Speaking of Discord, I can't stress enough how fantastic the Crossword Discord Server has been at uniting the global crossword community, and Ricky built it from the ground up! If you haven't joined, what the heck are you waiting for? We toyed at the grid for over three months last year, starting with the top-left stack and then iterating through tons of possibilities via Twitter and Discord DMs. ADAM: Gotta love working with Ricky! He's got such a unique voice as a constructor (see every puzzle on his epic blog Cruzzles, and it definitely shines through here-when he casually dropped COINKYDINK as a fill option, I knew this puzzle was going somewhere.
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