Skeddadle squabble

My brain was white noise yesterday (hmm, wonder why). I made this puzzle in order to give it something to focus on. If you need a chewy, unfair, hopelessly unbalanced puzzle today—perhaps while standing in a long line, or while trying to avoid the news—well, here you go. I promise there’s nothing topical in it. And if you’re phone banking today, hey, this puzzle will be here when you’re done.

Things are as they seem (guest puzzle by Brooke Husic)

What? A guest puzzle!? Absolutely, especially when it’s made by the great Brooke Husic, whose puzzles are always delightfully tricky but fair. Is there anything particularly tricky about this one? It’s called “Things are as they seem”, and I did a quick check on the solution and everything is spelled correctly and looks normal enough to me! Now let’s see if I can figure out how to attach a guest puzzle here…

[Hrm. Well, here’s a pdf if you need one.]

Baddie (Mikeystyle #12)

I’ve been super busy this week, so I didn’t put out a puzzle earlier, and I’m barely getting this out today. I had so little time, I could only offer one-word clues! How inappropriate. Also I didn’t have time to colour in any black boxes. Sorry! There’ll be some fun stuff next week, promise.