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This Might Be a Cryptic (ft. Anna Harkins!)

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after meeting the wonderful Anna (known as ghana7 by many (and whose birthday is today! wish her happy birthday!!!)) at a They Might Be Giants concert this past month and having a wonderful and physically debilitating time jamming out to my favorite band, inspiration struck to make a cryptic where every clue was TMBG-related, and every studio album was represented in the clues. Anna, very gracefully, decided to work on this project with me, and after some weeks (but mainly one 6-hour Discord voice call) of hard work and collaboration, we churned out this beauty that we're both insanely proud of. yes, in total, every single one of TMBG's 24 studio albums is alluded to in the surface reads of these clues (as well as some compilation albums, EPs, and a standalone song that's only ever performed live), whether represented by the album name itself, a song from the album, or an allusion to the main premise of a song's lyrical content as featured on the album, and not one clu...
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Good Guesses, But Wrong - Something Different #4

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Many have pondered on whether the sole black block abstractly symbolizes existentialism, or a deep pang of loneliness; others say that I'm a coward for not making the grid fully white space Gratuitous "Check Puzzle" usage highly encouraged, nearly enforced Shoutout to AncientCosmographer for 1-Across; sorry to Bob for 4-Down; thanks to Paolo and Jack for being brave enough to test-solve this fresh hell .puz
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Themeless 56!

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I try to make all of my puzzles hard, but solvable with enough logical thinking and without too much knowledge of trivia or obscure things. Instead, for variety's sake, this puzzle is so filled with Naticks that it even features my Instagram DMs with my friend who's from Natick ...but that 10x4 though Thanks to Chet and Ben for the test-solves! .puz
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Themeless 55!

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Hey how's that Just One Clue 3 been treating you Test-solved by Anna and Will ! .puz
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Themeless 54!

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60-worder let's good and goddamn go "as usual this puzzle had a jillion things I didn't know, but it was still eminently solvable" - Will Nediger .puz
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Themeless 53!

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Half-freehand jaunt that my buddy Max describes as having the same energy as Sloth from The Goonies, grid skeleton-wise Test-solved by Ada , who was the biggest inspiration for this puzzle in a lot of ways .puz
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Themeless 52! - OFFBRAND SATURDAY STUMPER

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They're calling it the lowest word count in years (is the fill good? dw about it) Tested by ghana7 ! .puz
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