But Mr. Shortz said: "It's your puzzle.
If you're solving at home, sharpen your puzzle and get ready to solve along with us.
I will resist calling your puzzle crunchy, but it is definitely AL DENTE.
Then click on your puzzle name, hit edit, paste the template and design away!
I'm paraphrasing here, but essentially, Mr. Shortz's philosophy is, it's your puzzle; do whatever you want with it.
If you have any write-overs in your puzzle today (don't be shy, I do too), we can just say we took a mulligan.
If you're going to start your puzzle with a great misdirection like "Mobile home?" for SNAIL SHELL, you obviously want your solvers to have a good time.
As always, your mileage may vary, and that's fine: it's your puzzle after all, and you decide whether or not you liked it.
Add the name of your puzzle in double brackets to the Entries section, indicate your name, copy the contents of the template and save the page.
Does that mean that you think it's OK to leave a puzzle unfinished, or do you prefer the idea of every solver of your puzzle cracking every clue?
I enjoyed your puzzle, and have always enjoyed the 1888 Ernst Thayer poem fully titled "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888″ that it celebrates.
