MikeyG non-meta

[whimsy]

@MikeyG has a cute little non-meta over on Crosshare.

https://crosshare.org/crosswords/vKA4gG ... bread-snap

Try it! You'll like it!

[MikeyG]

I'm trying to get better at "fill," which is the non-meta material. Obviously, if it's not a meta, that's the entire puzzle!

I have two metas in the till (I try to work a bit ahead), and I'm working on one last night, and the fill is just not coming. So I'll occasionally work on making minis to help with that.

Keep on puzzling!

Mikey G

[ricky]

I think I'm pretty good at filling non-metas at this point. The keys are practice and not trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. If the fill's bad, and you can't seem to improve it, you have to be prepared to start over with a new grid.

One of my biggest frustrations with constructing metas is that they are much harder to fill, and I really want my fill to be solid in metas too. But it also seems like meta solvers are acclimated to below-average fill, so you don't get much positive feedback for making that effort.