Many of the answers in this crossword are one letter too long and won’t fit in the spaces provided. Each of these answers will either begin or end in the gray square immediately before or after it. When the puzzle is done, all the gray squares will have been used exactly once, and the letters in them (reading left to right, line by line) will spell out a quote by Chris Rock.
ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ GOING TOO FAR]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ GOING TOO FAR]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Eric Berlin is a lot of things: puzzlemaker, Kickstarter-visionary, and leader of my M.I.T. Mystery Hunt team to name three. He also currently has cornered the market with these “Going Too Far” puzzles, so I wanted to ask him if it was okay if I took a crack at what I deemed “his territory.” Eric gave me the thumbs up on this attempt, but also informed me that none other than Mike Shenk, one of the three “Crossword Jesuses,” came up with this form. (How’m I not surprised by this? Are there any word games Mike hasn’t made? Boggling.) Anyway, when you’re done with this give Eric’s handiwork a shot.
Heads up: if you’re planning on solving this in Across Lite, you might want to set the printing feature to change the black squares to be something much lighter. Also, thanks to Joon Pahk for the PDF.
Share the puzzle. New one on Wednesday.
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