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Glenn9999:

--- Quote from: Toast on January 03, 2018, 04:46:03 PM ---This is surely sound advice, but I'm having a difficult time picturing what this means in a practical sense. How do I identify constrained sectors in order to start there? Are there clues that you look for in the grid design or is it letter combinations that might originate from some of the longer or themed entries?

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Once you get your theme entries laid out in your grid, you want to look for parts of the grid where there's odd combinations of letters that might be difficult to find words to match with.  For example, in my (only) grid attempt (so far), I had ??W??F as a possible word with the W and F being parts of my theme entries.  When you do it, you should have some idea from solving puzzles as to how words are constructed and what letters naturally fit together.

More or less, you want to identify something suitable for those areas first and then work the rest of the grid fill from there. 

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