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Absolute Destiny Apocalypse (Summer Puzzle 6)

 A fun thing about posting a puzzle every week this summer is that this blog becomes a little bit of a record of my (not very eventful, tbh) summer. Anyways, at the end of May, I went on a little trip to Acadia National Park (which was lovely) and then sprained my ankle while hiking (which was not so lovely). This meant that I basically spent the first week of June sitting on my couch watching TV, and in particular, I spent a fair bit of time watching a certain anime, which inspired this puzzle!

Anyways, if you are familiar with the subject of this puzzle, please know that I have about 5 episodes left, I am having a GREAT time, and I have gone in spoiler-free and very much do not want to be spoiled. Also my description of it in this puzzle probably doesn't do it justice but I had to fit it into a parseable crossword clue.

Anyways, hope everyone who's been solving is having a good summer! Happy Pride! See you all again next week!

(Also, side note, unless I hear from someone that they really want the separate puz files, I'm going to start just linking the Crosshare for now! I started uploading separate puz files, because it played nicer with the Daily Crossword Links bot several years ago, but I think that's been resolved, and anyone else can download a puz directly from the Crosshare applet if you want to solve elsewhere.)

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Take a Deep Breath (Summer Puzzle 5, with Norah Sharpe)

It's week 5, and the summer puzzles are still going strong! Today, we have another collab with friend of the blog Norah Sharpe! This puzzle was inspired by last week's Scripps National Spelling Bee, and for those of you who don't know the deep A Crossword Rose lore, I am a former spelling bee finalist! These day, I'm just a big spelling bee fan (...unless Scripps wants to hire me), but for the past few years, I've watched the bee with my friends in the Crossweird Discord server. This means that this is not my first bee-themed puzzle, and it's not even my first bee-themed collab with Norah, but I'm always happy to make another one!

Norah says:
"Watching the spelling bee with Rose has become a bit of a tradition in recent years, as has making a post-bee crossword. When I immediately noticed the crossword-friendly fact of (redacted) I said, “do you wanna make a crossword?” Rose of course said yes."

Unrelated to this puzzle, if you want more Rose crossword content, I have a collab with ACPT superstar and friend of the blog Dan Schwartz on his blog.