Ettuardo "Ettu" Etui

@ettuetui.bsky.social

Crossword maker. XwordInfo stockholder. Parent of 2. "Making puzzles is my passion" - Jigsaw from "Saw" RIP Craig Etui and stuff 😴

Due to market pressures my puzzle blog is now moving to Freemium model. First eight clues remain free but rest of clues will only unlock after uploading one Kraft Single into computer , which, yuo can do it if u push da cheese fully in to Cd-Rom slot

(Et Tu origin story) the wind blows a "LEARN TO MAKE CROSSWORDS WORKSHOP" flyer loose from a pole. it flits thru the air, loopdy-looping until it lands on a café table where im seated. i dont see it bc im watching a dog gag on kibble & thinking "I should make puzzles that make people feel like that"

Solvers say my clues are circular. This is FALSE because a circle eventually returns to where it began , whereas mine have been instructèd to continue past that point and enter a different area where people Smoke weed n stuff,

thoug its really not a big deal, Apologies to the 38 people who solved my Cool Shit Midi™ before i corrected the clue for 112-Across. [River in Europe] should have said [River located elsewhere,that i am Currently thinking of]

"Well chastise me if you must but there's nothing in your precious Rules that says i cannnot give 'pencils' to my opponents that are rigged to explode in a puff of smoke!" "i see. Well i admit i've been too busy this month to see that addendum"

so ur saying we call a black square a “Square” and a cheater square a “SQUART”? now that’s handy…. a nonjudgmental name tha'ts Easy to remember….. squart huh… guess we All Gotta Start Sayin It Huh

OUTRAGED my puzzle where black squares form a perfect silhouette of Maine was rejected. editor said it “doesn’t look anything like Maine" but thats only becuase i referenced the Maine from memory , which includes da little handles i use to pick it up

GUY AT PARTY: so Crosswords, eh .. do you make the mini?? ME: NO; i make FULL SIZE puzz— GUY: my aunt does the mini ME: I dont give a sh— GUY: [already showing me his aunts time in family group chat . appears to be one of those cool aunts who uses the 🖕 emoji a lot ]

losing patience at Crossfire tech support: "no nono you dont understand. the entry i'm trying to add to my wordlist is 'JAZZ;100', the eight character string representing scoring JAZZ at 100. and i'd like to give this entry a score of 1 as it's a quite arbitrary string"

NEWSPAPER EIC: and what makes You 🫵 a good puzzle editor? ME: Well , i would die for my craft. No one else will do it. They will turn like dogs. They disgust me. Only I can save you EIC: O I see [trying to jam on the lever that releases trapdoor under my chair]