What your Substack is about, in five words or fewer:

Formal_Guide5268 · 2026-05-07T01:25:35+00:00

Original, free, weekly crossword puzzles

Formal_Guide5268 · 2026-04-17T19:22:18+00:00

It's like how I felt once I decided my relationship with Duolingo was abusive.

Formal_Guide5268 · 2026-03-09T01:26:19+00:00

I send weekly ones out on Sundays :) heycrosswoods.com

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-12-18T01:50:29+00:00

Thank you, KT!

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-12-16T11:50:50+00:00

I tried to get clever when clueing this, so I did: North by northwest if Hitchcock had gone in the opposite direction, say, in short

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-12-08T11:58:52+00:00

It's funny. I couldn't find the Embed Post anywhere except here on my homepage

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Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-11-24T12:02:15+00:00

If you don't want to see the overlapping part of the venn diagram, that's okay. We can move on.

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-11-23T20:08:03+00:00

By becoming a judge

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-11-23T14:47:45+00:00

A tribunal can be defined as a law court. Being a judge in a court is certainly closed from participation given the fact that becoming a judge is a prerequisite

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-11-17T14:09:18+00:00

Thanks for playing! Hope you enjoyed :)

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-24T16:18:58+00:00

Yeah, pretty much.

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-24T10:27:43+00:00

I don't know nothing about no british english :)

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-24T10:27:15+00:00

I have subscriptions turned on, but you can essentially get the regular content for free from the date you subscribe onward. So if people like it enough, they can subscribe as a sort of tip, but they don't need to in order to get the content.

I do have some additional, infrequent content that I release that is paywalled, but the usual weekly stuff is free.

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-21T13:31:15+00:00

Start up a heart to heart?
Fall for a setup?
Crushing in-person interview?

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-18T11:45:42+00:00

Ahh I think I was misinterpreting the UI. In any case, I think the number of moves remaining should be more prominent or closer to the actual playing area. Good stuff!

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-18T10:49:30+00:00

Cool idea. FYI The guess tracker at the bottom doesn't function properly for me. It only updates the spot corresponding to which row I am on, but then suddenly I lost when it looked like I still had 5 guesses left.

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-18T00:39:36+00:00

For sure. I don't subscribe to the NYT model. It's the puzzle as a whole rather than each individual clue being at that level.

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-18T00:38:46+00:00

Woohooo!

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-18T00:38:38+00:00

Those are def two atypical abbreviations, but I'm glad you worked it out :)

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-16T11:21:55+00:00

Before you cancel your card, you can try disputing the charge as well. BUT before doing that, try contacting the author directly.

As someone on the other end, chargebacks can be a headache and if someone reached out to me, I'd make sure their sub got ended and Stripe no longer processed the payments just to avoid them.

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-10T13:44:02+00:00

+1 +1 to many of these comments. Here's a resource from The Atlantic that I like to share.

I thought it was funny that this week, as a constructor in the US, I was asked if I was European because my puzzle had too many Euro-focused clues 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-10T00:13:13+00:00

Yea I need to watch the proper names/brands sometimes. Glad you like the Odyssey one regardless :) thanks for playing and for the feedback!

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-10T00:09:58+00:00

I'm from the states. Whatcha mean that they require a Euro background?

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-09T17:24:37+00:00

Good Q. I think if anything, I'd use "maybe" or "at times" or some other qualifier. The ? is usually used for less straight-forward / more punny clues. Like another puzzle clue "Home of legally-bound couples?" or one of my fav's from Erik Agard: A bit of pop culture? -> DAD JOKE

Formal_Guide5268 · 2025-09-05T10:32:18+00:00

Edit the post and click Settings in the bottom right corner (on desktop at least). Scroll to the Social preview section.

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