ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ SUPERHERO REJECTS]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ SUPERHERO REJECTS]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Thirteen years ago. Where'd the time go? I remember writing to Will that I I'd run out of theme ideas around the time these ran (hah). It's also worth noting that in a remarkable bit of symmetry, I will be dead exactly 13 years from today.
Now that we've tackled the past and the future, let's do today, shall we? A couple weeks back "Miracle" Matt Gaffney asked me to participate in a little experiment. His proposal was to see if he could make a puzzle after he was given a specific entry from a stranger. To complicate matters, that entry had to be used as a theme entry. Well, anyway, Matt asked if I would participate in that have-to-make-a-puzzle-with-a-specific-theme-entry-stipulation as well (probably to demonstrate how wide and varied puzzlemaking can be if constructors put their drugs minds to it).
I was stoked at the idea. So, we got our main-man Rex Parker to provide the answer. And if you solve both mine and Matt's you can figure out what that seed entry was.
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
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