Ian J

Not going to lie, I hated this puzzle. How are you supposed to ever know what those circles mean without a proper indicator in the puzzle??? For example: 1A you would think “flag” and move along. I’m supposed to magically know that it connects with 23D??? There’s literally nothing indicating this in the clue and if you can’t figure out the other clues you get screwed three different ways because of it (wrong starting letter, wrong letter in the middle, random blank clue)???? Not sure what I’m supposed to get from this puzzle other than the puzzle maker making it difficult and obtuse for the sake of novelty and not much more Maybe this looks different on the website or paper but on the app (where I do all the puzzles), this was just stupid