So I recently created a crossword for you guys, but I misplaced everything except my list of words! Being too busy working on movie-related puzzles to recreate it, I asked some help from my friends (you guys know how I love layers in my puzzles).
First, I had my friend Al Literation (you may remember him) write the clues based on my words.
Then I gave the vertical answers to my friend Anna Graham to write down in the crossword image.
Finally I gave the horizontal words to my amigo Juan Hamming-Distans (what's that, a stretch you say? Get over it, a theme is a theme) so he could write them in the crossword.
Anna and Juan each altered the words they were given to new words (their transformations did not alter the length of my words) and redrew the crossword so that they could make them fit together. That's what you see below. You can find Al's clues below; for each one, determine my original word and, based on whether they're down or across, figure out what Anna or Juan did to them before placing them in the crossword (there will almost always be only one possibility). All words (my original ones and the modified ones) can be found on dictionary.com
Crossword
Horizontal | Vertical |
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4. Battlewise bravery | 1. Shadowy Sherlock |
5. Sans sensation | 2. Charismatic quality |
8. Medical mesh material | 3. Hired helping hand |
10. Anaerobically assembled acid | 6. Sprinkles salvation |
12. Opposite of old origin offensive | 7. Pixelated puerile protagonist |
13. Pertaining preposition | 9. Cosmological cloud |
15. Sound system segment | 11. Dull discomforts |
20. Decided determination | 14. Rising rocket requirement |
21. Observe outlook on oracular orbs | 16. Ambush assault |
22. Rifle rest | 17. Spear's similar |
23. Devilish, deemed Dante | 18. Deviate direction |
25. Constant current classification | 19. Accomplish again |
28. Vowelless vituperation | 24. Metal mixture |
29. African antelope | 26. These three things |
30. Painlessly punish progeny | 27. Scared swallow |