special collab! "Pet Dragon" - 7x9

"Pet Dragon"

Ahoy! Long time no see. I hope the interminable chaos of daily life has been treating you well. If not, hopefully this special treat will ease every single one of your woes!

So in September, I participated in a 12-hour Crossweird charity stream for Gaza Soup Kitchen. I did some live cryptic construction, and with the help of many chatters (names below), we crafted this here puzzle. It was a blast and hey, we should do it again sometime.

Also, I'm trying out a new solving platform, made by the great Alex Boisvert at Crossword Nexus. The previous platform, AmuseLabs, has rapidly enshittified — not just getting jacked up on AI, but also charging $99-$500/month for many features. I can't even play the completion song anymore, or show the completion Fred Savage.

Sadly the Crossword Nexus solver doesn't support those features either, but hopefully you can click the above links to give you that lil dopamine hit yourself.

Thank you again to all the chatters who helped craft this puzz! They are:

• acommonrose
• akatookey
• archdavidson
• bageleh
• bgzimmer
• bolgat
• faddy91
• JMBrow29
• joeadultman
• kayebrown
• koha27
• LebronSwanson
• mrdobolino
• norahsharpe
• probablyapocryphal
• randomsaucepan
• realbartgold
• redkeg
• richpiratedread
• RufusSRK
• slugbiker
• Taceocli
• TheBakingOfThePalhem123
• tui_bird
• Verdski
• vulgartooth
• wobbleblob

If you enjoy this puzz, please consider donating to Gaza Soup Kitchen! Fullscreen Solver link