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 still fun. For our purposes, "u" loops back to "a"
LISA LISA / LOSE-LOSE: Lisa Lisa is an R&B singer
BELTING / BILTONG: Biltong is a type of cured meat
SHELLING / SHILLONG: Shillong is an Indian city
PATRICK / PET ROCK
VARMINT / VERMONT
SMALL AD / SMELLED
JOJOBA / JUJUBE: Two edible plants!
GLANDULA / GLENDALE: A glandula is a small gland

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