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<p><strong>I don't usually come back to edit the author's notes, but:</strong> Now that a few more people have solved this, I think I should mention that this is absolutely our <em>first</em> cryptic, and it's definitely flawed. I made some easy changes where I could to fix some correctness issues, but not all of them are easily fixable. Little tense and verb plurality isuses that I don't know that I can fix without destroying the surface.</p> <p><strong>I don't usually come back to edit the author's notes, but:</strong> Now that a few more people have solved this, I think I should mention that this is absolutely our <em>first</em> cryptic, and it's definitely flawed. I made some easy changes where I could to fix some correctness issues, but not all of them are easily fixable. Little tense and verb plurality isuses that I don't know that I can fix without destroying the surface.</p>
<p>It's also worth noting that I like to approach puzzle construction in a kind of fast-and-loose way; I want to write clues that make sense to me and I'm willing to bend and stretch rules for the sake of a clue I like more. My understanding is that this is roughly the distinction between US- and UK-style cryptics, with UK cryptics following more rigid rules and US ones going a little bit more by vibes. This is the first puzzle I had playtested before publishing it, but riotblob primarily solves UK-style cryptics so I did keep the fact that they're used to stricter cluing rules than I wanted to use in mind when I considered their feedback. I'll only know for sure if I went too far in that direction with experience.</p> <p>It's also worth noting that I like to approach puzzle construction in a kind of fast-and-loose way; I want to write clues that make sense to me and I'm willing to bend and stretch rules for the sake of a clue I like more. My understanding is that this is roughly the distinction between US- and UK-style cryptics, with UK cryptics following more rigid rules and US ones going a little bit more by vibes (<strong>Editing again to say</strong> that this is not as cut and dry as I thought it was at the time!). This is the first puzzle I had playtested before publishing it, but riotblob primarily solves UK-style cryptics so I did keep the fact that they're used to stricter cluing rules than I wanted to use in mind when I considered their feedback. I'll only know for sure if I went too far in that direction with experience.</p>
<p>I'm absolutely still proud of the puzzle, I just think you deserve this warning! :P</p> <p>I'm absolutely still proud of the puzzle, I just think you deserve this warning! :P</p>