add down by the bay crossword

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 			<figure><img src="img/Ups and Downs.png" alt="A 15x15 crossword grid" /></figure>
 			<h2>Ups and Downs</h2>
 			<h4>Grid: 15x15</h4>
-			<h4>Rating: <span class="rating">CERULEAN THROWDOWN</span></h4>
 
 			<p>This was the first crossword I constructed! There was obvious room for improvement; there are a couple of unchecked squares that I accidentally introduced while adjusting the grid, for example. Rather than throw out more work than I was comfortable with, I just made a joke about it in one of the clues. I'm proud of it as a first effort.</p>
 
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 				<figure><img src="img/Two or More.png" alt="A 15x15 crossword grid" /></figure>
 				<h2>Two or More</h2>
 				<h4>Grid: 15x15</h4>
-				<h4>Rating: <span class="rating">LETTERBOMB BURIAL</span></h4>
 
 				<p>My second crossword, and my second collaboration with Amy (again, in a way). If you know, you know. If you don't: After solving the puzzle, you'll know!</p>
 
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 				<figure><img src="img/TEXT WITHOUT EMPTY IS WIN.png" alt="A 10x10 crossword grid" /></figure>
 				<figure class="baba-puzzle-title" alt="Text boxes from the game Baba Is You that read &quot;TEXT WITHOUT EMPTY IS WIN&quot;"><img src="baba-puzzle-title/text.png"><img src="baba-puzzle-title/without.png"><img src="baba-puzzle-title/empty.png"><img src="baba-puzzle-title/is.png"><img src="baba-puzzle-title/win.png"></figure>
 				<h4>Grid: 10x10</h4>
-				<h4>Rating: <span class="rating">METICULOUS BYPASS</span></h4>
 
 				<p>This was the first puzzle I created entirely on my own. I came up with the theme and then struggled <em>hard</em> to fit it into an actual grid. I wanted to try constructing something a bit smaller, since my first two had been 15x15 puzzles, which is "standard" for newspapers but can be a lot for new solvers just checking out what their friends made.</p>
 
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 				<figure><img src="img/Is there a Mr. Direction.png" alt="A 6x15 crossword grid" /></figure>
 				<h2>Is there a Mr. Direction?</h2>
 				<h4>Grid: 6x15</h4>
-				<h4>Rating: <span class="rating">HYPERSPEED SHUTDOWN</span></h4>
 
 				<p>This one was an experiment with an oddly-shaped grid. As you can see, the preview has made this page layout a little bit funky, and I'm not enough of a web designer to care enough to fix it at the moment :3</p>
 
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 				<figure><img src="img/B is for Boo-boo.png" alt="A 9x9 crossword grid" /></figure>
 				<h2>B is for Boo-boo</h2>
 				<h4>Grid: 9x9</h4>
-				<h4>Rating: <span class="rating">RADIAL RESPONSE</span></h4>
 
 				<p>This one I made because, honestly, I was really bored. If you're curious why I was so bored, you'll have to solve the puzzle, because the answer is there! :3</p>
 
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 				<figure><img src="img/monorail cryptic 1.png" alt="An 8x5 crossword grid" /></figure>
 				<h2>monorail cryptic 1</h2>
 				<h4>Grid: 8x5</h4>
-				<h4>Rating: <span class="rating">NEON ROUTE</span></h4>
 
 				<p>What do you know, a cryptic!</p>
 
@@ -126,7 +120,7 @@
 
 				<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>
 
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+		<div class="container" id="down-by-the-bay">
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+				<figure><img src="img/Down by the Bay.png" alt="A 9x9 crossword grid" /></figure>
+				<h2>Down by the Bay</h2>
+				<h4>Grid: 9x9</h4>
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+				<p>Yeah, I don't know. Sorry.</p>
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+				<p><span class="spoiler">This one goes out to Dob and Momes from <a href="https://twitch.tv/crossweirdtv">Crossweird</a>, a crossword stream I've been watching for the past few months. Something they've been doing recently is solving hard puzzles with the help of chat, after using <a href="https://crosswordnexus.com/apps/obfuscate/">this tool</a> to remove all the across clues, leaving them with only downs... and then using it again to replace about a third of the words with "turtle". So I got the idea in my head of constructing a puzzle where the word turtle really <em>does</em> appear in each down clue at least once. I think it's a fun idea because most people do the acrosses first, so hiding a gimmick in the downs feels like a punchline.</span></p>
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+				<p><span class="spoiler">Yes, obviously, I would have LOVED to call this puzzle "Turtles All the Way Down". God, what a good title. I'm actually a little angry with myself that I'm not using it. Unfortunately, it makes the joke a little obvious. I don't want to mention turtles in the title directly because I'm afraid of the jig being up when you read your first down clue. By only alluding to turtles (I checked, you can find them at the bay) I hope it'll take at least two :3</span></p>
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+				<h5><a href="https://crosshare.org/crosswords/WklypeaKvWNgBrAPz0FG/down-by-the-bay" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Play online</a> <a href="puz/Down by the Bay.puz">Download .puz</a></h5><h5 class="permalink"><a href="#down-by-the-bay">#</a></h5>
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