

I had A ROCK and no idea what was going on-I thought maybe the puzzle was going to be inventing weird words, and that the A- was a prefix meaning "not" (as in "amoral"), and then, well, god knows what the imaginary word was going to be. break, maybe? Anyway, I waited for crosses to help me). I don't remember exactly what tipped me to the gimmick, but once I did, I was able to fill in all the other themers except the PRESSURE one (seemed like you could do a lot of verbs under pressure. I spent half my time (probably) on that first themer, particularly the latter part of it, over there in the west. Clever theme, though once you crack it, man those themers are easy to get.
