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Themed Vowelless #2

The second entry in Tuff Crosswords' Themed Vowelless series. And it is a series now, because there's two of them. This one is inspired by a Joe Krozel puzzle from 2008. Fair warning: I think this one is *very hard* due to its vowelless nature and the restriction on the entries formed by its gimmick. While it's technically possible to go in blind, I'd recommend using the spoiler under the grid, as it'll really help if you get stuck. But for now all I'll say is: the two seven-letter entries in the center are the same forward and backward for a reason. This grid is identical when it's rotated 180 degrees. This means every letter has a copy in the opposite position of the grid. If the first across entry of the grid was STH GRN (Seth Green) the last across entry would be NRGHTS (unrighteous) and so on and so forth. So if you can't figure out a letter, check in the opposite position.

21x21 Themeless: Spanish Lesson

Another 21x21 themeless! This one has 128 words compared to 132 in the last one, so that word count is coming down. I built this one from the middle out, finding a set of words between 41-Across and 79-Across that I liked and then filling in the gaps until the grid was split into a top half and a bottom half. This one ended up with quite a lot of Spanish in it, with some vocab and phrases but also place names. Enjoy!

Battle of the Two-Letter Abbreviations

 Inspired by that one Venn diagram.