In last week’s free crossword (“In His Shoes“), we gave you a Thursday-style theme, packed into a Tuesday level of difficulty (as measured on the venerable New York Times scale). In the interests of mixing things up, this week’s puzzle gives you the sort of theme you might expect on a Tuesday, but keeps the interest level up by packing a lot of extra ELAN and BRIO into the non-theme entries. The net result is a puzzle that tests out around a Thursday level of difficulty. I had a lot of fun with this one, and I think that you will too.
As always you have the option of grabbing the puzzle in Across Lite format — get the software here — or as a printable PNG image.