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Blank Check

Hello cryptic friends!  I'm super excited to share with you another amazing collaboration, this time with Pixlate , an Australian setter who has made some really remarkable varieties .   In pix I've been really delighted to find a peer with a similar sensibility to mine.  We both prefer way overchecked barred grids, and both prefer every three-letter word in such to be fully checked.  I've been attempting to get one of these asymmetric barred grids to have every entry 2/3 checked, and with Pix's help I'm really happy to finally have one on the blog.  (Feel free to go back through my older grids and find the ONE aggravatingly just-less-than-2/3 checked word in each...) The puzzle is called "Blank Check."  I sometimes do puzzles without reading the instructions--if you're such a solver as well, this isn't a good puzzle for that.  (The instructions are no help at all, feel free to read away.) We really hope you enjoy! Thanks to Skald and Agnijo Ban...

Buttsbot

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         Hi again. So uh, this is a weird one to have to explain...   Okay so on Twitch, there's a chatbot called Buttsbot who you can invite to come into your stream chat, where it will randomly repeat things people have said, replacing one or more syllables with "butt."  I promise, it's funnier than it sounds. This puzzle, which is called Buttsbot, is about Buttsbot.  I made it with Lila , who is amazing!  This is our first collab and her first cryptic.  Check out all her really fun non-cryptic puzzles which are just oozing with style! Thanks to Liari for clue assistance, and to Skald , Pixlate , teamcrazymatt , n0hk , and MP for the test solves. Fullscreen link .