After spending many years of my life struggling through the New York Times' Monday and Tuesday puzzles, I started getting the knack of how these word games were built. In 2019 I tried my hand at creating puzzles and found that it's a wonderful, weird look into my own lexicon. I realized that a lot of my vocabulary brainspace was taken up with video game references and Spanish nouns, which you'll see throughout many of these puzzles. It's also an excuse to get a little punny.
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