Oh, I like that!

Is the nearest tube station on the Circle Line?

Dammit. He's not in jail.

Is there a sign in sight of you that mentions the name of a (Standard UK) Monopoly space?

I dunno, it's a XOR point.

(#punsprobablytooobscureforanysensibleaudience)

When you're suddenly *very aware* of your knees.

That's not the Doctor, that's *pure* Iris Wildthyme!

Categorically *not* Henry's Cat, then.

One thing that I've thought back on in recent years is how much school *history* lessons from 30 years ago put me in a decent position to handle modern media; the emphasis on primary and secondary sources, and the tests you should use to consider and evaluate them, have proved useful long since.

"I'm sorry, I was told this was Avogadro's number?"

This was sort of the impetus behind the old Desktop Adventures series of games; randomly-generated half-hour or so mini stories roughly in a Zelda style, themed around Indy or Star Wars. They were never massive but filled the "I just want to play a small, contained Chunk Of Game" niche pretty nicely

The impression I got is that they were visible in person in principle, but they were scaled and positioned precisely to be seen properly from the location of the BBC cameras. But I'm not sure how accurate that is!

Ooh, thanks! I was hoping to get around to it myself, but time kept slipping away from me.

I love the fact that the line is incredibly pointed and on-the-nose, and is *absolutely* there in the original text.

Muppet Christmas Carol is fantastic throughout, but having Gonzo as narrator giving Dickens' own words is what makes it perfect.

I let slot 7 out of purgatory. It gave me a pound. I sent it right back into purgatory.

But surely dictators have someone else to do the writing? It's right there in the name!

Having had faith in slot 7 would have done it!

Hah, fair enough!

I think it's probably got more in common with Just Dance really, but fair enough!

...and it's big enough to get a Hatsune Miku crossover, if that's a metric!

It depends somewhat on where you class 'major' as starting, since it's certainly not an AAA high-profile title, but Fitness Boxing tends to quietly get to over a million sales regularly, is from Imagineer who have been a dev/pub for ages, and all four titles in the series are on Switch.

There's now a HOW TO USE tab, which also includes a quick-'n'-dirty mid-solve example crossword you can play with.

Uhoh.

...that's *far* more sensible than what I was doing!

* Make a copy of the sheet (under File/Make a Copy) for your own Google Drive
* List new clues off to the right, and move them to Across/Down when given a placement.
* Enter answers in the Answer column next to the clue, they'll get gridded.
* Don't write in the grid! Let the magic place things.

Puzzlevent 2024 v1

A good day to bring it up, since I've updated the spreadsheet to include the first three days' clues; should hopefully indicate better how to use it:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Maltese Eagle
Citizen Kerm
The Hamshank Redemption
The Seven-Year Flitch

DMs appear to be closed at the moment, unless I'm failing at something at my end!

Google Sheets Puzzle Tricks

(Credit goes to Google Sheets Puzzle Tricks - docs.google.com/spreadsheets... - which gave me MAKE_CROSSWORD that underpins the interactivity)

Puzzlevent 2024 v1

If anyone would like an interactive grid to work with, I've made and shared a Google Sheet:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

You'll want to make a copy of the grid to your own Drive for your own usage.

You can fill in answers on the right and they'll be gridded on the left automagically.