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Crossword blog: try our American-style puzzle No 8: Shoot!

The grid and style are US; the clues and content are UK.
The grid and style are US; the clues and content are UK. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

If you’re already familiar with this puzzle series, here’s the latest in digital or printable form – and do candidly let us know what you think. If not, read on.

Please do get in touch below or @alanconnor on Twitter with any similar puzzles you’ve constructed; if you’re interested, the New York Times’ how-to series continues.

And if American-style puzzles are new to you, here’s what’s going on:

  • Every square is part of an across as well as a down answer.

  • There are no “cryptic”-like conventions: the clues are straight, if at first ambiguous, and crossing letters are helpful (although there may be some funny business in the longer “theme entries”).

  • The entries contain fragments of phrases as well as “dictionary words”.

  • An abbreviation in a clue indicates that the solution is an abbreviation.

  • .puz files can be opened in Crossword Solver or Across Lite – solvers who don’t fancy that should use the print version.

Your feedback is welcome. Your own puzzles are very welcome. And the answers to this puzzle can be seen in the digital version or in this pdf.

Finally, the previous puzzles are:

  1. And We’re Off!

  2. Cheers!

  3. PO …

  4. Store’s in What?

  5. Cryptic Currencies

  6. (miscellaneous)

  7. Money Talks