![]() We ended up submitting more presidential clues (back to the history books) and a whole new fill before it was accepted. ![]() Our puzzle didn't get accepted the first submission. The fill answers have to be a good complement to the rest of the puzzle and not be boring or trite. ROOSEVELT (Too grim.) Each, we felt, should be an interesting little fact, that the solver might say, "Gee, I didn't know that."Īlso, just because you have a viable theme for your puzzle, don't take the fill for granted. (Too easy.) Or "the only president to lose his wife and his mother on the same day." T. Not like "the only president with a 9' x 4' bathtub in the White House." TAFT. The theme clues had to be biographical nuggets, unique and interesting, so that the solver didn't know them right away. We were able to squeeze eight presidential names - or four pairs - into that one puzzle with the fill holding it all together. ![]() And then how many could be jammed symmetrically into a 15X puzzle grid. Next task: gathering pairs of presidents according to numbers of letters in their last name. Our concept was "presidential trivia" where we'd start each theme clue with "the only president that…" Paula checked years of Presidents Day puzzles. ![]() If you want to construct a puzzle with a "holiday" theme, better make sure it's never been done before. ED: This is the fifth puzzle I and Paula Gamache have collaborated on successfully - and the second puzzle created for a special day of the year: this one, Presidents Day - and April Fools' Day. ![]()
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