Hello,

If I balance the placement of a theme pun at both the start and the end of the entries, will it hurt my chances of acceptance to the NYT for a Sunday Theme?  I am okay to create two separate puzzles, one with starts and one with ends only, but I had always wondered this and forgot to ask Mr. Shortz and staff when I had a puzzle to submit.

Example with contrived and unbalanced lengths:

CatsMeow
SowsEar
ElephantsNeverForget

GoneToTheDogs
ForTheBirds
SaveTheWhales

Thanks in advance,
Chris Davison (former constructor trying to make a comeback)

I don't know about his Marching Bands thing, but it seems like he's rehosted his main site.

Brendan Emmett Quigley

He didn't send out his Marching

Bands puzzle either.  I, too, hope he's ok!

Not matter how many word lists I put a check mark beside it only uses the last one I checked. Is there a way to use all of the checked word lists at once?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks Andrew!