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Title: Theme entry lengths
Post by: srw11 on August 10, 2020, 06:16:12 PM

Is 9 letters too short for a theme entry? I've got a puzzle I'm working on with 4 9-letter entries that I could make 10 by pluralizing, but that feels like a bit of a cheat.

Title: Re: Theme entry lengths
Post by: mmcbs on August 10, 2020, 06:30:34 PM

The only publisher who specifies a minimum number of theme squares to my knowledge is LA Times, at 35, so you're fine there. Arbitrarily pluraluzing them would probably not be a good, idea, as you surmised.

Title: Re: Theme entry lengths
Post by: axlrosen on August 11, 2020, 05:24:23 AM

Here are a couple of previous posts on this topic:

https://www.cruciverb.com/index.php?topic=11986.0

https://www.cruciverb.com/index.php?topic=106158.0