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Just One Clue 2! (ft. 138 Cluers!)

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IT IS FINALLY HERE! The fabled Just One Clue 2 collaboration (led by myself and Gizmo Thwomp), a sequel to last year's epic 72-person collab , has arrived in full force! I'm honored that all 300 copies of the puzzle were depleted by the first night of ACPT, where it made its debut. Thank you to everybody from every walk of crosswords (whether it be experienced constructors, crossword Twitch streamers, or just recreational solvers who I just think are cool as heck) for your willingness to participate in this huge project, it's been as amazing of an experience for us as we hope it has for you. Here's the complete list of all of the contributors, whose Salomon Numbers are all now at most 2: Aaron Riccio , acommonrose , Ada Nicolle , Adam Aaronson , akatookey, Alex Boisvert, AncientCosmographer , Andrew Esten, Andrew Kingsley , Andrew Lim, Andy Kravis, Andy Yingst , arctan , Ariel Haymarket , Ben Bass , Ben Tolkin , Ben Zimmer , Bob Weisz , Brendan Emmett Quigley , Brian Ca...
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Vox Thursday On An Otherwise Uneventful Tuesday (Will Nediger Guest Puzzle!)

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Some of you may know Will Nediger for his amazing puzzles that he's made for the New York Times (boo!), the New York War Crimes (woo!), or for the New York Vox (voo!x). Well, he's made a puzzle along the lines of the lattermost example for my humble, lowly blog! It only makes sense considering the fact that I ghost-wrote the themes for two of his Vox puzzles (this is actually true and not april fools (i mean uhhhhh even though the rest of this ALSO isn't april fools and is PURELY A COINCIDENCE hehe i bet i got them with that one wait why are you still here oh shit i forgot to turn off the text to speech)) Check out Will's other puzzles here: this is my conspiracy theory .puz
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MIDI PUZZLE PACK!!!

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BEHOLD! 11 GODFORSAKEN PUZZLES THAT I'VE MADE FOR YOUR SOLVING PLEASURE AND STREAMING ANGER! 5 of these were first published in my college newspaper (those are the easier ones, but they may include some university-specific knowledge (i believe in you to get them through cross-checking!)) and the other 6 are exclusive to the blog and much trickier (as you would expect from my dumbass) I recommend uploading the .puz files to squares.io  for solving Thank you to these playtesters: Adam - #1, #7, #11 Adam Aaronson - #2 Ada Nicolle - #4 Ben Tolkin - #3 Ben Zimmer - #5 bolgat - #7 Max Blechman - #10 Ryan Judge - #9 [can't remember who playtested puzzles #6 and #8, if you remember that you did please let me know!] Let me know if you stream your solve of them, I'd love to watch along and provide help if needed! HERE THEY ARE!
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Themeless 45!

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no .puz because i wanted to create a world within this puzzle a little bit thanks to the incomparable will nediger for bearing with my bullshit
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A 4x4 Puzzle I Created In My Head And Then For Which I Subsequently Drew Out The Grid In My Notebook

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Download it yourself I'm not gonna spoonfeed you this time .jpg
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Entitled

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I don't come up with themes but when I do they're kinda ass thanks to the illustrious quiara for the test-solve .puz
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Themeless 44!

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I've been binge watching a lot of Snow Miser shitposts cause tis the season Happy birthday Billie Eilish! Thanks to Gizmo for being the subject of blatant, bold-faced betrayal (test-solving this puzzle) no .puz because i'm back in my cheeky bar era i'm sorry
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