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Tough as Nails Themeless #90

~ Stella ~ 1 Comment

This puzzle is one whose grid I made a couple of years ago, but only now have gotten around to cluing. I hope you like it!

I’m on vacation at the moment, so I hope everything uploaded and published properly! If not, go ahead and @me on Twitter about it and I’ll fix things when I get home.

Tough as Nails Themeless #90 – Across Lite

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Tough as Nails Themeless #89

~ Stella ~ 2 Comments

A confession: This puzzle has made the rounds and been rejected three different times. I haven’t changed the cluing up to make it harder for the site, so it’s going to feel not so tough. But…I still think it’s a good puzzle. It’s inspired by 15-Across, which I learned from watching a season of [COUNTRY NAME REDACTED] Drag Race although it is not a drag term.

Tough as Nails Themeless #89 – Across Lite

Tough as Nails Themeless #89 – PDFDownload
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Tough as Nails Themeless #86

~ Stella ~ 3 Comments

I used to keep a list of themeless seeds based on interesting words I wanted to build around. Lately, I’ve been keeping seeds for themelesses more like I do for cryptics: with a clue I want to use, whether or not that word is particularly “sparkly” in and of itself. In this case, that clue was 37A.

After some shipping delays, my book is now almost ready to ship! Please pre-order one if you haven’t already!

Tough as Nails Themeless #86 – Across Lite

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Oneth of the Month Mini Cryptic #13

~ Stella ~ 1 Comment

It’s the return of mini cryptics! I decided to stop doing them because there were other outlets for them, but now The Browser has taken a pause on its Sevens puzzles and AVCX is also running them less frequently. At ACPT I was persuaded that we need more gateway drugs, so your dealer is back. This one is inspired by Eurovision!

And although this site is still called Tough as Nails, these minis are easy! If you’re scared of cryptics, minis are a great way to work yourself up to a full-sized puzzle.

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