A run for your money

by mgreens & brooke

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• Difficulty: easy

An apt pair with FASTCASH and QUICKCHANGE, money that moves rapidly. One could say it runs.

Decent fill with some very easy clues today. I can't say that I struggled with any corner in this grid. The two words that took me the longest to fill were AROFLUX and SASHA, which shouldn't really come as a surprise since I'm wholly unfamiliar with both aro sexuality and Beyoncé.

As for wordplay, well, there isn't any. Kind of expected for a first-time crossword, as this is the Puzzmo intern's crossword debut. It's a heck of a lot better than my first-ever crossword construction attempt, but I still would've appreciated a little wordplay in the mix.

I'm searching for clue highlights to write about here but I'm coming up short. Not that I think these clues are bad, they're simply plain. During the solve I was on full autopilot mode, swapping between crosses and downs, filling in the answers robotically. There weren't any bits in this crossword where I had to stop to think. There's your obligatory spinal tap reference with AMPS, a personal anecdote in BEG, a Beyoncé reference with SASHA. All the makings of a standard Puzzmo grid.

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