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Title: Theme feedback
Post by: StemmyNug on August 17, 2019, 10:49:18 AM

I’m curious if this is a well trod theme.  When coming up with ideas I often feel like something is obvious to me and must have been done before.

PLOTTWISTS (10)
COLTPISTOL (10)
STOPLIGHTS (10)
SLOPTROUGH (10)

Title: Re: Theme feedback
Post by: mmcbs on August 17, 2019, 11:00:56 AM

Crossword Giant is a good place to find this information:

https://www.crosswordgiant.com/search?answer=plottwist

This doesn't mean no one would ever use again. A publisher who's never such a theme (or hasn't in a long time) might welcome it, especially if you use different themers than have been used for this theme previously.

Title: Re: Theme feedback
Post by: StemmyNug on August 17, 2019, 11:44:53 AM

Thanks again Mark, you’re a veritable cornucopia of valuable information. Can’t tell you how much I appreciate all your replies to my posts and others!

Using this tool it looks to me like a couple of the puzzles I’ve submitted already are pretty original themewise,

Title: Re: Theme feedback
Post by: andrewmc on September 10, 2019, 10:38:47 PM

Using anagram solvers have really helped me in the exact same scenario just like yours.

I would add the following resource for PLOTTWIST

https://wordunscrambler.org/unscramble/plottwist

As you can see it also gave 2 options such as SPOTLIT and WITTOLS