This one might not actually be as hard as some of the others? I clued it for NYT, but they said no and I decided to bring this one to the light of day now rather than trying to shop it around to other markets. I think it’s a good puz, even if it didn’t catch the NYT team’s eye!

Tough as Nails Themeless #51 – Across Lite

Wow, fifty puzzles already? Seems like I just got started yesterday.

I have A LOT going on right now, so I dipped into the well of puzzles I made a while back for this one. It is unapologetically for the classical music nerds among you. Toi, toi, toi!

Tough as Nails Themeless #50 – Across Lite

My seed was 19A, which consumed quite a lot of my time back in the day. No, 48A was not a seed, although I’ve been wanting to use that entry for a while.

Tough as Nails Themeless #49 – Across Lite

I have, so to speak, A LOT ON ONE’S PLATE (15), so I don’t have much to say about this puzzle except: Enjoy!

Tough as Nails Themeless #48 – Across Lite

It’s not THAT common for me to put my seed at 1-Across; I do that only if the letter pattern makes me think it’d make sense to do that. It did here, so I did. A second seed sits at 61A.

Hope you enjoy!

Tough as Nails Themeless #47 – Across Lite

Shouldn’t be too hard for you to guess what my seed entry was. This one’s a bit heavy on the proper nouns; I’d apologize in advance, but I’m not sure I’m sorry?

Tough as Nails Themeless #46 – Across Lite

IDK when I made this grid…a while ago. But I waited until last night to clue it, so it’ll hopefully be nice and fresh for you. Enjoy!

Tough as Nails Themeless #45 – Across Lite

This might be a little less hard than usual? I’m not sure. I did construct this to submit around, not to put on the website, so I might have clued it a little easier. It’s been a few months and the reason I’m using it instead of making a grid just for y’all is because I have, so to speak, A LOT ON ONE’S PLATE (15).

I do think it’s got some cool entries and I hope you have fun solving it!

Tough as Nails Themeless #44 – Across Lite