Shrink-Wrapped Puzzles

Thought I'd switch it up with a cryptic crossword this week, our state-wide mask restrictions got lifted this weekend so I figured it's time to go nuts. Is it a good puzzle? Maybe. How hard is it? I dunno. Is life meaningless? Almost certainly. Don't know how to solve cryptics?  Here's a guide. PDF Version   PUZ Version   Answer Explanations

 Just sound it out! PDF Version   PUZ Version

 Take a wild guess as to what the seed of this one was.  Also, the clue for 8-down is not, strictly speaking, a "real" word, but it is used all over the internet and I think we can all agree that it is quite clear what it means. My crossword, my rules. Just don't try to play it in scrabble. There are a couple of iffy entries in this grid, but such is life.  Final thought; where does "The Wedding Singer" 's Glen Gulia rank in the all-time list of movie villains? Probably just behind Darth Vader and Hannibal Lector, right? Right. This guy sucks.  Anyway, that has nothing to do with this grid, but here we go, please enjoy.  *UPDATE: clue for 54 Across has been corrected in the applet; not yet correct in PDF or PUZ (should say THREE, not TWO. Numbers are hard.) PDF Version   PUZ Version

Was the pinnacle of my life that time I collected 760 coins in a game of Mario Party 3 (N64 = the GOAT)? Maybe... Oh, I'm sorry, you came here looking for a puzzle? Fine, be that way, here you go: PDF Version   PUZ Version

If you haven't noticed, it's not uncommon for the comments on my posts to be people pointing out spelling errors, grammatical errors, and grid entries that are just plain wrong. Though I wish that those were all part of some Meta puzzle, they are sadly not. Thus, this puzzle pays tribute to the most distinctive feature of my puzzle-making  PDF Version   PUZ Version