Puzzle Notes

Hi friends: 

Byron Walden, aside from being a technically awesome constructor, has one of the most distinctive voices in the biz, and this week's offering, "T-Mobile," is a great example. Enjoy this 13x17 gem with your family and friends, if you like to solve that way. It's 4/5 in difficulty.

On Friday, we'll have a very fine free bonus puzzle for you, from AVCX guest constructor and Washington Post puzzle editor Evan Birnholz. Then we'll have another guest puzzle the following week. Both puzzles are pretty darn special. After a few years of doing this, we've seen that November/December is when people do the most solving, so we try to save some of the most extraordinary work of the year for that time. Hope you like!

Happy holidays,

Ben and the AVCX crew [avxwords.com, @AVCXWord]