Going to just barely get a new puzzle posted for August! Surprisingly, I don't really have a complicated or sappy story about coming up with this theme, so it might be a shorter blog post that lets you just get to the puzzle?
First things first, at the start of the month, Amanda Rafkin published our collab puzzle Cutting Edge on her blog, Brain Candy, that I hope everyone checks out. It was really great working with Amanda, and the puzzle definitely has both of our personalities in it. Plus a tricky theme, but once you solve the mystery we think the payoff is pretty fun. Tell her I sent you!
The idea for this blog was puzzles that are either too nerdy or too tricky to quite make sense elsewhere, and I think today's puzzle lives up to the promise. This one's for the crossnerds. The idea for the gimmick makes me chuckle, so it was a fun one to put together—actually, I might have had slightly too much nerd fun in some of the cluing?
That's pretty much all I've got for today's post, hope it's a smooth solve—and I promise I'll be more long-winded and confusing again next month!
P.S. I think I should start including photos of my brother and sister-in-law's new puppy, Shadow, in these posts.
PDF: Let's Roll
