creatober puzzles!! wahoo!!

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my workplace is full of super talented artists all participating in creatober (an inktober alternative for all creative endeavors) and I am doing my best to participate with a mini puzzle each day. I'll plop them all here unless any of them are worth a full post, but just trying to bone up on my constructing skills. enjoy!

(prompts hidden so not to spoil each puzzle's theme - highlight if you need a hint!)

day 7 prompt: fanagrammy! 

today's puzzle is actually a format created by sara cantor, who is creating some wonderfully unique puzzles. they've even put together helpful resources to get you started on constructing anagrammies! I am such a FAN (the prompt is here). thank you sara for the excellent challenge!! I'll let them explain how this puzzle works:

The answer to every clue is a word that is an anagram of another word, and that’s the word you use to fill in the grid! Clue words and entry words can be ANYTHING (proper nouns, multi-word phrases, etc.) other than initialisms. So a clue might be "Game show host Sejak", the answer to which is PAT. An acceptable anagram for this might be TAP or APT, and you need to verify with the rest of the puzzle to know which is right, but it will not be PTA.

Follow Sara on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cantorlope_puz

 

day 6 prompt: spirit!! took this prompt the wrong way. 


day 5 prompt: raven ravin'!

themeless time!!! this puzzle is in deep support of ross + parker's monday cursewords call to replace 'one' with 'you'. sorry for all the novel-length shitty opinions incoming!


day 4 prompt: knot

day 3 prompt: vessel


day 2 prompt:: suit

day 1 prompt: crystal


Comments

  1. Dob OlinoOctober 4, 2021 at 2:13 PM

    Really liking your cluing style: fun and clean.

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  2. Norah aka ShannonOctober 5, 2021 at 7:49 PM

    Franci! These are so fun, thank you <3

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  3. Josh AudibertOctober 8, 2021 at 2:50 PM

    These are a ton of fun! Very creative! I hope you keep it up (but I understand it's a lot of time to make daily) :)

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  4. Dob OlinoOctober 11, 2021 at 1:21 PM

    Puzzle 5: 28d super nice clue, and 39a mm hmm. Another very nice puzzle!

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