RonH

I didn’t have a single clue solved for the central box when I finished everything else. It was like doing a Mini as a bonus puzzle, and very satisfying!

I didn’t interpret the triangle as one chip and the circle a second chip as Deb says, but as a triangular chip and round bowl. After all if you have two chips you are not double dipping, George dipped the same chip twice!

“Safety school” almost certainly refers to a high school senior’s second or third choice of college that they apply to as a fallback in case they don’t get into their first choice.

Creative liberty (same number of letters, first two letters and fourth letter the same as the correct answer) ruined my south east corner for quite a while.

Oops! Bud Ice was not discontinued in 2010. Bud Dry was.

I finished and the circled letters did not disappear! I want to see the trick ending!