If you saw the title of this post and the image attached to it and felt a guilty little twinge of recognition, perhaps this 68-word themeless is up your alley! If you didn't, well... I guess there might be something in it for you anyway, although you might need to look up 31-Across on Know Your Meme afterwards. Suffice it to say that this puzzle conforms to every single QVXwordz stereotype: Scrabbly, packed with pop culture garbage, and rather difficult. But it's a fun puzzle anyway. Give it a spin!
Although, of course, no one is saying you have to do my puzzle. (Well, I'm saying it, but no one else is saying it.) So many good puzzles come out these days! I was recently flabbergasted by a pair of themelesses from old pros: Brendan Emmett Quigley's first blog puzzle of the year is a stellar super-low-word-count grid, and over at the New Yorker Erik Agard casually dropped a gorgeous puzzle that looks like a butterfly and solves like a bee, so to speak. (Actually, it's a wildly clean fill of a wildly open grid shape - as if he saw one of those grids where two stagger stacks cross and said "hold my beer.") And did you hear that there's a new charity pack out there? Puzzles for Palestine dropped over the weekend! A small donation to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund will get you 22 puzzles by an all-star team of constructors - what a steal! I test-solved some of these grids and they are, in fact, quite worth your money.
Applet under the cut, as usual. No one test solved this, so there is one somewhat obvious typo in the PDF that will not affect your solving experience. Have fun!
