Exactly - since the first insight for most solvers would be the lack of L's and I's in the grid, I thought it would be inelegant to have any other letters that incidentally didn't appear in the grid.Bird Lives wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:54 pm I think the rules Nediger set required that L and I be the only letters not in the grid. Every opther letter is there at least once. TAWA/THAWS is the only W.
Re: the 16-wide grid, it was just the only way I could comfortably get the theme to work under the various constraints. In a 15x15 grid, I was running out of spaces to place UNFAZED, so I stuck it next to HARANGUE in a 16x15 grid instead.