PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver
As you may know, I make a lot of tools for helping create puzzles. Much of the time, I’ll make something, try it out, and then set it aside. What this means is that if I go back to it a year or two later I’ll be like “oh no this is crap, I need to improve it.” Such is the case with the Crossword Nexus Seven Sages creator — I started using it when working on this puzzle and immediately knew I had to fix it. So I did! It works pretty well now; try it out!
These puzzles are called “Seven Sages”, but much like Joon re-branded “Section Eight” puzzles to “Eight Tracks”, I’m trying to rebrand these to “Stained Glass” puzzles. How do they work?
Each answer in this puzzle is seven letters long and encircles the correspondingly numbered space, reading either clockwise (+) or counterclockwise (-) as indicated. The starting point of each answer is for you to determine. When the grid is correctly filled in, the letters in the outermost ring (reading clockwise from answer 1) will spell out a quote by Abraham Lincoln.
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Looking forward to solving this in print! The tool is terrific; made a Stained Glass of my own and posted it over on my site.
I enjoyed your Stained Glass puzzle! My knowledge of Star Trek lore and current pop music is a little shaky, so I needed some help with those answers. Could you add the tool to Variety Puzzle Tools under Resources?