So at my High School, I decided to help the school newspaper by trying to make a NYT-style crossword. I am not using a formal theme for the weekly crosswords, instead, I am using two words of the week. This week the words are "ambivalence" and "visage." One of the problems I have found though as a rookie cruciverbalist is that no matter what words I choose, I keep running into obscure or weird letter combinations. I downloaded Patrick Berry's "Crossword Constructor's Handbook", so I know some basic tricks, but for some reason, I keep running into a dead-end, and I don't know why. Here's the crossword I have so far. I think that any bit of advice might help.
