Good Clues For People Who Love Bad Clues

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...

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