English History Lesson
This one was a fun experience. It's probably four years old and I only remembered vague parts of it when I opened it last night. At this point I have no idea how I made this. There are eight regular theme entries, set up in four pairs which have to be in a specific order relative to each other. There's a fifteen letter revealer that crosses two of those theme entries. There are three bonus revealers (which are three letters) All told, there are 79 squares with part of a theme entry in them. There are a lot of clue "pairs" (71- and 49-Across; 37- and 53-Across; 1-Across and 2-Down; 68-Across and 46-Down) All of this, and the only sacrifice I had to make was expanding the grid to 15x16. I considered ways to update the grid but I honestly struggled with getting three pairs and an alternative 10 letter revealer. So I don't know how me four years ago managed it. Nothing short of a miracle. SPOILERS! Here are some of the entries that didn't make it but were stil...