I did find TAKES FOR GRANTED a bit dull, though, especially since its clue was so straightforward no playfulness at all. Today's is beautifully clean, every cross and surrounding entry immaculate. Ten years ago, most of them had to be held together with paper-clips-and-bubble-gum short fill. TAKES FOR GRANTED is apt today, solvers likely to take for granted how far triple-stacks have come over the years. I've learned a lot from our collaborations, and I look forward to many more! And Brooke herself is a prime example - she's come up with all sorts of gridding and cluing innovations that I'd never considered in my many years of constructing. I'm gratified by Brooke's comments, but I also want to add that most of what I do these days is inspired and influenced by people who have just started to construct in the last few years and who are already revolutionizing the world of crosswords. I'm grateful to Brooke for kicking things off with a pristine center stack, and we're both grateful to the editing team, who are responsible for many of the best clues. WILL: I'm very excited for our official newspaper debut, though, as Brooke mentioned, we've posted plenty of indie collabs already. He is so supremely kindhearted and open-minded, and the combination of these things made collaborating when I was just starting out feel like a really safe and welcome space to try new things - I can't thank him enough for this. On a personal note, though, Will might be the constructor who has influenced my individual construction journey the most and I truly can't describe in words what I owe to him in that regard. I could go on and on about Will's contributions to the construction community as a whole through his mentorship of new constructors the " indie roundups" he posts and his innovation in the small puzzle space at Vox, with asymmetry, and absolutely mind-boggling thematic feats of construction … somehow while still managing to be a speed-solving icon. BROOKE Will and I started working together more than a year and a half ago and have posted a bunch of indie collabs on his blog - it's both surreal and sentimental that this is our first newspaper puzzle together! We tried really hard to make all the surrounding fill fun (I think it's super cool that the center stack has no 3-letter words intersecting it) and I don't think that can be epitomized more than through Will's inclusion of WERERABBIT.
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