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When I started off making puzzles, back in the stone ages, I relied pretty heavily on Stan Newman’s “The Crossword Answer Book” to help me make puzzles. My grids were made 100% by hand. Just pencil paper, iron will, sweat, toil, loadsa tears, many f-bombs, more than a few heartbreaking misspellings, and erasures. Loads of erasures. Anyway, with software today it’s less messy, more efficient, and allows for quite a bit more ambitious puzzlin’. So, “The Crossword Answer Book,” man I loved that book. I cannot imagine anybody why would want to buy it unless you were making puzzles yourself. Basically, it was an alphabetical list of answers, and many multiword phrases, sorted by two locked letters in a grid. So if you had ?B??Q?? it would list OBLIQUE and OBSEQUY. I destroyed three of those books poring over them while making puzzles in the early days. Good times. Yeah, so the word list only included words three letters long to seven. Therefore, I used to make a lot of themeless puzzles with the pattern sorta similar to the one I used today because, well, you guessed it, there’s a load of seven letter entries. Enjoy the throwback.
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