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David,

This puzzle was absolutely magnificent!!! You are really amazing...thanks.

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Thank you, Paul! Glad you enjoyed it!

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I loved this puzzle! Or I should say I LOVED/HATED it!

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That makes me so HAPPY/UPSET!

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FWIW, “Kamala Harris” and “motherfucker” both have 12 letters. In case you wanted to do another one.

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Oh man amazing

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Very cool. So YOU! Thanks!

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Glad you enjoyed it!

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Loved LOVED this puzzle - smiled my whole way through it. Also smirked when one of the Schrodinger answers was marked as "incorrect" in the online solve, and another was marked correct. :)

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Not sure if the crossword program has a Schrodinger setting. I need to email the engineers! Thank you for solving!

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Great grid - this is your *second* take on an election Schrodinger grid, I'm pretty sure! (How could I forget the clue [Negatively charged thing] for ELECT(I/R)ON !?!?!?) The funniest riff on the Jerry Farrell 1996 puzzle, though, *must* be the Francis Heaney parody for AVCX, which used an identical black square pattern but for the 2016 election. (F.H. actually one-upped J.F., adding three Schrodinger squares to 68-Across: MADAME PRESIDENT/MADMAN PRESIDENT.)

I personally am acquainted with the difficulty of making a Schrodinger grid from when Sid Sivakumar did one of these over at Slate a couple months ago: https://slate.com/life/2024/07/crossword-slate-daily-puzzle-july-19-2024.html We spent much, much longer than we should have trying to get one of the Schrodinger entries to be (R/S)OCKING!!

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Just did Sid's puzzle. Nice one! Thank you for sharing! Also MADAME/MADMAN is brilliant.

And I will add my previous election Schrodinger grid above. Thank you for pointing that out!

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