Puzzle 5: #banCars

This puzzle is sort of a response to Brendan Emmett Quigley’s It’s A Lot, but really, as anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, it’s the puzzle I was born to construct. I was somewhat surprised at how few potential answers there were for this theme, but I think in the end I came up with a pretty good set — though once again I found myself forced to use some questionable fill in order to fit everything in.

Thanks to my test solvers, Evan, Guan and Kim, for flagging a few clues that needed improvement. They also noticed that questionable fill I mentioned above, but I had no good way of getting rid of those entries. Sorry, guys!

Scheduling note: For a variety or reasons, I’m going to switch this blog to bi-weekly puzzles for a while (that’s a new puzzle every two weeks, not two new puzzles every week) — though if I start to assemble enough of a backlog I’ll go back to weekly. The best way to make sure you don’t miss any of these puzzles is to sign up for my newsletter, which I promise I will never convert into a multi-level marketing scheme.

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