Test Post: Fearless Leader

 I made this puzzle in June, and I think it's the first puzzle I made on my own. Since it's the only 15x puzzle I had on Crosshare (and, while I hope I've improved as a constructor, I still quite like it), I'm posting it here to test out my blogging/embedding interface.

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