Solution to Evan Birnholz’s May 5 crossword, ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’

Key Facts

• There are some unusual large clusters of black squares at the top and bottom of the grid and not many long entries at all.
• This puzzle is also 20×21 in size and has 151 answers; I normally use 144 answers in a regularly sized 21×21 grid, so it’s a smaller grid but with significantly more answers than usual.
• (I would not expect you to count the number of answers or even care about that in a typical puzzle, but sometimes it can be useful information for metas — an especially high answer count is often a sign that the grid must be very constrained.
• There’s a handy little trick you can use to quickly count the number of answers, too, which I’ll get back to later.)

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