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by paulhebert 34 days ago
Hey, that’s awesome, thanks for playing and sharing it!

Great feedback on the “type of” clues. I’ll need to noodle on that and see if there’s a clearer way to express it. Maybe I should just be doing blanks… e.g. for “sun” it could be “___ dress, ___day, or ___ flower”

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IME crosswords traditionally say "Word before...". Also thanks for the game, I love it and was excited you used one of my submitted clues a few months ago.
Oh interesting. I’ll look for examples of that. If that’s an existing convention that may be the way to go.

Thanks for submitting clues! I always like reading through them to make the community puzzle

Yeah that would work! Or @progbits' suggestion of "goes with" works for me too.

In any case thanks for your consideration and thanks again for a great game!

Awesome, thanks for the feedback! Very helpful
How about "Goes with dress, day or flower"?
Ahh yeah, that's interesting thanks. I think the one difference is it's not clear if sun is meant to come before or after the word but maybe that's okay.

I'll think on this and experiment. Thanks

If the order is always the same maybe "goes before" or "goes after" would work too, but I like the ambiguity, and it's more .. I dunno, poetic?
Yea right now I do some clues before and some after.

Goes before/after is a good idea!