Today's puzzle is from artist and activist Parker "ardbo ardbo" Higgins! Parker loves to indulge my ridiculous crossword ideas, so anything particularly bizarre from me can probably be traced back to a text from him saying "yeah sure go for it!"

Parker says: "Fun wide-open grid that may play a little hard today-- we'll see! Thanks as always to Malaika for the 7xwords project, which I recently described in an interview as conceptually in conversation" with my own weird software. If you liked or hated this, come heckle me and Ross on our crossword Twitch stream, Cursewords Live."