In the dropdown, click on July 11th, 2018 - "The Maze Ruiner"

It costs $1, but it's genuinely one of the best, most cleverly constructed puzzles I've ever done. Not for beginners, but it's fantastic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36457904)

it's not that i don't want to pay 1 dollar, i'm just at work and don't want to fuck around with it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36458225)

https://imgur.com/2hpOb16

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36458241)

this is gonna take a while

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36458255)

It's a little easy to get stuck since the opening clues wrap around each other and theres no way to confirm later horizontal rows.

No clue on the meta theme yet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36487433)

https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/extras/crossword-puzzle-1.6375288

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36487966)

hard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36489413)

so i cheated a little with some of the proper nouns. grid is complete and i'm stuck with the maze runner's path

it's something HEDGE FUND related i think

for the maze runner's path i have

1. hush money - HE

2. adage - DG

3. reel off - EF

4. tunes in?

5. sterile? idle?

anyone?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36490086)

Tunes in (might have been Tunes Into, can't remember): UN

Idle: D

So you need a "hedge fund" to repair everything, since the maze ruiner cut his way through the "hedge maze." Notice all the missing letters are at spots where he busted though the walls.

And yes Ben Tausig is a gigakike, but that's the world of shitlib crosswords for you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36492756)

yeah, i figured out the theme -- hedge fund to do the repairs. crazy shit.

much of the filler was way too obscure entertainment names for me. i hate xword puzzles with tons of filler based on stupid pop cultural references like minor reality tv figures. 180 theme, but it's 120 that he needed all these garbage clues to make it work. a lot of the clues were stupid low iq shit and i dont feel bad about looking up half that shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36493171)

Very little terrible crossswordese fill. A little esoterica but not much.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36493179)

it's the stupid entertainment shit: singer in fast and furious movies, social media star kicked off big brother, reinhart who plays betty on riverdale, "against interpretation" (100 yr old shitlib feminist bullshit apparently), william who wrote shrek, etc.

you cant logic any of that shit out. the grid is just dead if u dont know any of this shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36493214)

Agree that overuse of unguessable proper nouns in crosswords is generally SPS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36493648)

Just too many of those.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36493823)

No idea who isak dinesen is. Entertainment names in general are horrible. Who the fuck wrote CDB!?

I'm still stuck at the bottom because I have western as a posse flick which is wrong but there's no where to go. Bored stiff has to be wrong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36619745)

Really cool puzzle though. I'm nearly done

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36619819)