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Truth Be Told (Themeless)

 Hi gang, Quick post. I don't really make many puzzles anymore but I do when I'm bored so have another puzzle. Thanks to frisco for playtesting! [Note: The unlabelled clueset is 'Adversarial', i.e. lots of tricky cluing, deliberately difficult, and definitely more stretchy. The non-adversarial is significantly more straightforward, and is intended to help elucidate some of the cluing angles in the Adversarial puzzle.] Check out the downloads here! I don't know if people still use AmuseLabs since it's all AI Slop it seems now. Go check out the Crossweird Puzzle Solver instead.

Variety Cryptic 7: Shooting Star

 Hi Folks! Here's another variety puzzle for you, made for the bewilderingly  stream but now available for you lovely people. Tried to keep the cluing terse and simple, but still interesting, with a nice and gentle theme.  Hope you have fun! (squares.io) (pdf and ipuz files)

Variety Cryptic 6: Disappearance and Production

 Sometimes you think of an idea and you just wanna make it into a cryptic. Hi! It's been about half a year-ish since the last variety I've made. A lot has happened since then, I've made some regular puzzle in between and got myself published a couple of times. With all that said, let's get back to the shenanigans. Test-solved by the ever-helpful  skaldskaparmal . I hope you have fun: (sheets) (pdf)

Exquisite Anatexis

 Back at it again with another puzzle that uses a bunch of hard fill, akin to a Times Monthly Club, or a Painstaker, but hopefully not completely undoable. The primary source for all fill is Collins Dictionary, which is strongly recommended to aid the solve. Thanks to  juff  and  skaldskaparmal . The puzzle exists on MyCrossword . glhf!

Pinpoint

 Sorry for not posting in a month lol, I got kinda caught up with stuff and things and items and objects. Anyways, enjoy! :)  This one was playtested very long ago so I genuinely forgot who test-solved, so I'll use this space to say thank you to the Cryptic and Non-Cryptic Crossword Community. Y'all are great! Puzzle is on myCrossword . :)

Xeriscaping (Standard, Adversarial)

 Hi! I made another themeless - it's harder than the last one! (Why is it called Xeriscaping? idk i just like the word, it starts with an X and its pretty) As with always, I do encourage for you to try the adversarial clueset. For reference, I gave the puzzle to frisco  (thanks frisco) and he solved it far too quickly for my liking so I removed more footholds, gave it to Paolo Pasco (thanks paolo) and he still solved it far too quickly for my liking so I removed more footholds and now we're here.  Quite happy with how the grid and clues turned out. Good luck :) Standard Clueset: ( Puzzle ) Adversarial Clueset: ( Puzzle )

Variety Cryptic 5: Ghost in the Machine

 Can you believe that the last barred grid I put on this blog was in JANUARY? Like, hello - time, what is it and why does it fly? In all seriousness, these last few puzzles have really helped me hone my skills and were just fun to make. I want to thank all my friends who've helped form and shape my style of puzzling and who have just been all-around good people. Y'all are great. Life is a thing that will exist whether it is there to be lived or endured. The last puzzle I put on the blog was about a month ago (that whole one-puzzle-a-week thing was fun while it lasted). But the reason I set puzzles stays the same, I find it fun. I hope you find my puzzles fun too. [Thank you to skaldskaparmal for test-solving] ( pdf ) ( Sheets )