xwordswithbabka

Happy Holidays! This will be the last post of 2022, and I just want to say how incredibly grateful I am if you have visited this blog or solved a puzzle. I am still working on "trying to be a good crossword constructor" and your feedback and solving is so helpful, and furthermore I am very glad to have kept up with something for so long! It is impossible (for me) without community, so once again: THANK YOU Today's puzzle is themed around Christmas. But I do not celebrate Christmas! I used to work retail and the day after Thanksgiving was when the Christmas music would come on. Having heard the same songs over and over for a month straight, I started making up different lyrics to make the songs more secular. So the theme today is what I actually sing in my head in order to make these songs not about Christmas. I understand this means you cannot actually solve this unless you are actively in my brain. So sorry!! And yet here it is!! Thanks Norah for the test solve! Let...

Hello! I know that Hanukkah is not until next week!! Don't worrry!! But I had an idea for a theme around it and am very excited that it worked out. So I hope you consider this an early Hanukkah present from me to you. This puzzle is NSFW! Thank you to Rose Sloan and Norah Sharpe for the test solves! If you solve it, let me know what you think!! And now some question marks to balance out all the exclamation points I've used so far: ????????? [ .puz ] [ Direct Crosshare link ]