Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

So I was watching the Jon Stewart shows from the last couple days (Kucinich bombed last night in my opinion, unfortunately) and on Wednesday they had the editor of the NY Times crossword puzzle on… I admit I'm not much of a crossword guy, but while watching it, I had two ideas that I thought maybe were new. The first was three dimensional crossword puzzles (which I later discovered was far from new), and the second was “chaos crosswords”, where there's not a gridlock. For example, here's a simple one:

RED 1. Make me an ____. 2. Saturn has over 60 of these. 16a. Serbian National Radio. 16b. Blood _____.

BLUE 1. Holy sound. 5. Model T. 11. Do you have the whole ___? 14. Pay the ____.

GREEN 2. I hope one of these isn't under my bed. 3. Used to row a boat. 9. The oldest kind of plant (4 letters).

It's not particularly hard, just interesting as an alternate kind of visualization exercise. Especially if you add “letter locks” as in green 9, it becomes interesting in a geographical sense. I'm not really much of a “gamemaker”. Below are the answers, rotated ninety degrees. I may well have made errors in it, so I apologize… just illustrating the idea.