just gridding!

This puzzle is a sampler in the sense of an embroidery sampler and also in the sense of the ideal appetizer order for the indecisive. It's a set of smaller puzzles all crammed into one 15x15 grid, composed of four minis to whet your appetite before a more challenging meal in the middle. Whatever you do, please don't report me to @not_a_crossword . Bon appetit! -r puz pdf

a 14x16 themeless for your solving pleasure. enjoy! -clr puz pdf  

thanks to everyone who participated and submitted clues! credits are below the PuzzleMe applet, and the twitch stream is available here . if you submitted clues and specified that you are a new constructor who wants feedback on their submission, I will be emailing you within the next few days. -clr puz pdf   contributors: thank you Matthew Stock for test-solving! grid: clr clues: 1A    Ajay 5A    Matthew Luter 9A    brooke 14A    Sally Hoelscher 16A    Anonymous 17A    Alexis Viera 18A    Rebecca Goldstein 19A    Ajay / Rachel 20A    Will Eisenberg 21A    Anonymous 22A    Ben Bass 23A    Rebecca Goldstein 26A    clr 28A    Rebecca Goldstein 31A    Rebecca Goldstein 33A    Matthew Luter 34A    Rebecca Goldstein 35A  ...