| I wonder how it does on puzzles where the answers need to be written in unusual ways? Some examples from the New York Times puzzles. - There was one with a name that suggested an Alice in Wonderland connection, and it had an answer "THE LOOKING GLASS" (no spaces) running vertically down the full length of the center of the grid. Every across answer that was entirely to the left of that was written normally. Every across answer entirely to the right was written backwards. Every across answer that crossed the center was a palindrome centered on the center. - There was one where several answers were triple Spoonerisms of well known phrases. For example, the answer "THE STUCK HOPS BEER" for the clue "Tagline in an ad for Elmer's Glue-Ale". Rotate the ST from STUCK, the H from HOPS, and the B from BEER and you get "THE BUCK STOPS HERE". - I remember one that had a few isolated black squares, and a theme that suggested the puzzle had something to do with roundabouts. Those black squares were roundabouts. Answers would hit the roundabout and continue after a 90 degree turn. - I remember one where the theme was something like "What goes up must come down". That had several answers that, like the roundabout one above, would take a 90 degree turn from across but it was a left turn so after the turn they went up. Then there would be a down answer whose start was the reversed end of that across answer that would come down, also make a left tern, and continue across to the right. |