![]() If you liked seeing MAHARISHI in this Times crossword and want to see more brown representation, the Juggernaut puzzles are for you! And if you're interested in constructing a puzzle for The Juggernaut, please get in touch - we're committed to publishing newer constructors, especially folks with South Asian cultural backgrounds. Our goal is to publish puzzles with themes, entries, and clues that highlight South Asian culture, emphasizing cultural elements rarely seen in other crossword venues. ![]() Lastly: I recently started editing the new crossword feature for The Juggernaut, a digital publication focused on stories relevant to the worldwide South Asian diaspora. ![]() (Sorry it took so long, guys! I'd been trying to get you in at 3-Across all this time.) It's also exciting to debut 3-Down, a not-so-subtle homage to the brilliant crossword podcast Fill Me In, hosted by puzzle luminaries Brian Cimmet and Ryan Hecht. I enjoy including entries that represent the youngest segment of our solving audience, like Matthew's students. It was fun to get GENERATION ALPHA into this grid. We hope the result makes for a pleasant and smooth solving experience. Here, Matthew and I extended the technique by creating domino-shaped "fingers" all around the perimeter and placing triple stacks in each quadrant. Short entries at the border of a grid are usually easier to wrangle than long ones, so this strategy offers more flexibility to the constructor, and consequently, more interesting fill to the solver. Robyn often places her double and triple stacks just inward from the edge of the grid, using small "fingers" of black squares to partition the outermost rows and columns into three segments each instead of two. SID: This puzzle owes its existence to a grid design technique I associate most strongly with Robyn Weintraub.
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