Intended Day of Week: Tuesday
Uploaded: 5/6/2025
Passed over by Universal on 3/14/2022
Response Time: 17 days

Thanks so much for this submission! This is definitely an interesting idea, but unfortunately there's some inconsistency in the transformations that's giving us some pause (in two of them you're changing the D to an S and removing the "un" and those feel good, but then the others are a bit different). Sadly, we're just not quite grabbed enough by the theme to request a revision, but we hope to see more from you soon!

I ended up publishing this theme with Patti at the LA Times, but as this was just a theme submission to Universal, the puz file I uploaded here just has the theme entries with no fill.

Puzzle Stats:
Size15 x 15
Total Words74
Black Squares32 (14.22%)
3-Letter Words5
Avg. Word Len.5.22