What makes a good word list? If any of you work the NYT acrostics you may have noticed that the words they use are often related to the quote or the source of the quote in some way. If the quote is from ‘Dracula’ the words might include ‘BELALUGOSI’ and ‘STAKE’ and ‘MONSTERMASH’. Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon who have constructed every NYT Acrostic* are very good at this, me not so much. I try to select words that are Glib or pop-culture/current news related, also some of you may have noticed that I try and use one particular word in every puzzle of mine sorta like a signature. Lastly you don’t want too many obscure names, places, or things. The anagram program I mentioned last time has a lot of phrases (IMONIT, INITTTOWINIT, and the like)  in its word libraries and I don’t like using too many of those either.  The point is for the solvers to be able to solve the thing after all, you don’t want to make your puzzle too hard, or too easy for that matter. More on that next time when we discuss clueing.  Now on to the Puzzle.

Music to work a Glibcrostic to

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Correction: Both clues O and W should not be plural, should be ‘dog’ not ‘dogs’

*I would submit my puzzles but I doubt they’ll let me use “Shut the fuck up, ______!” as one of my clues.

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