MARCHING BANDS: [ PDF] [ JPZ]
PROGRAMS: [Adobe Reader] [Crossword Solver]
Year Seven (year seven!) of the Biz Quig's Marching Bands starts up next Monday. I can't believe I've been doing this for that long. Wait, no I can. I'm qualified to do nothing else in life. I have to make this thing work. Besides, the Bands are a nice change of pace from a construction and from a solving experience. Anyway, here's one from last year. If you like Themeless Mondays, you might like these puzzles as well. No Across Lite, just a JPZ or a PDF.
For the uninitiated, here are the instructions:
In this themeless variant, answers appear in two different directions, Rows and Bands. Each Row has two answers side by side with no black square separating them (except for row 7). And Each band starts at the lettered square and goes around the grid clockwise, one answer after another all the way around the circle. Every square appears in two answers.
Simple enough. Anyway, enjoy this puzzle. And if you're interested in signing up for this feature, YEAR SEVEN starts up on April 26th! $15 gets you a year of these puzzles (PayPal or Venmo (@TheBEQ) preferred). Hell, if you've got time on your hands, and you want all of the previous years, bump it up to $50 for the entire batch. That would be a total of 160 puzzles. Ye gods. All right. Jump in everybody.
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
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