This puzzle is sort of like a crossword and sort of like a word search. Here are the rules:
- You start with a grid of letters and a list of clues
- Your goal is to shade in some of the squares so that it becomes a valid crossword, such that:
- Every clue matches to exactly one word in the board, and every word in the board matches to a clue
- Words in the board go horizontally or vertically
- All words in the board are at least 2 letters long
- The shaded-in squares will reveal a secret message
To solve you must show:
- The final shaded-in board
- Each clue matched to the word in the board
- The secret message
Good luck, puzzler!
Text version:
I T C A S T S I
S C O S T V E E
F A D R A Y V B
D M O S L E E P
A P P L E R R O
I I N O G S A P
A N T T O O L H
O G A S P S M E
Clues (in no particular order):
- Almost __ if
- Private Message, abbr
- Reddit: he who posts, abbr
- Process using semipermeable membrane, abbr
- Fish
- ___corn
- Tree blood?
- Titanic call?
- Food Inspector, abbr
- Temporary fashion trend
- e.g. hammer
- How much to pay for goods
- Old bread?
- Vital human habit
- Fortune 500 company
- Lots of these at vegas
- Suprised sound, plural
- Needed for a broken leg, plural
- Many
- Fun outdoor activity