He was disinclined to start again, and he commented that it would create a bit of extra interest. By the time that I realised this, my father had already written most of the clues. The computer was meant to try and only have the correct homophone in each 3×3 square, however it seems that computers are not perfect, and a stray VEE was mixing it up in one of the squares. My small grid did contain 2 letter “O”s which was a little disappointing as it meant having “OWE” twice in the big grid, however we decided that it wouldn’t affect the overall experience of the crossword so very much. A few years later, he came up with his own loosely related idea where letters dropped out of clue answers into the sub-grid, and this was published in 2006 as Dropouts.Īfter I had created the grid for Co-Star in 2020, I realised that I now had the knowledge and software to create the grid for the homophones crossword, and with a little programming I managed to create some sample grids. However, we did not have such good software for creating crosswords then, and he may have been trying to create the grid by hand - which he found was extremely difficult to do, so the idea was abandoned. Back then, my father then tried to create the 12×12 crossword grid with the 16 3-letter homophones buried in it. The lack of A, E, and various consonants made the 4 barlines necessary. At that time, I created a list of possible 3-letter homophones for letters of the alphabet, and a small 4×4 mini-crossword with 4 symmetrical barlines. I first came up with this idea in the year 2000, when my father (Aedites) first started creating Listener crosswords.
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