Wordplay (2006): Merl Reagle Shows How He Fills a Crossword

The clip Merl Reagle shows how he fills a crossword from Wordplay (2006)

Right from the start, Merl loved the idea of making puzzles...
with as few black squares and as many wide-open white squares as possible.
I have now put my theme answers in...
where they will go for maximum use of the space...
so that the diagram still breathes a little.
And now I'm just looking at it...
to see if the down possibilities have any problems.
You want to sniff out these tough areas immediately when you're constructing.
And the only spot I have here that's even remotely like that...
is this blank-Y-blank-blank-Y.
Right there. I mean, there are words that go in there.
"My way. " "Pygmy. " A couple of other things.
But the thing is that this word next to it A
blank-blank-A-blank.
If All the ones I've said for here, this is a consonant.
"My day. " That's a "D." "Pygmy. " That's a "G."
Uh, so if that's a consonant...
this has to be a vowel.
And how many vowels can you think of that go A-vowel-blank-A-blank...
and still are gonna bleed into this really important area...
so that words can come down?
And the only one I can think of for this is a fragment like "by any. "
I need that to be a vowel. Like "by any means possible. "
Then from here consonant-vowel then almost anything I want.
This is gonna be almost anything I'm just gonna make sure that I can come down from here.
So what I'm thinking of is that this is gonna be a word that ends like this.
And that this is gonna be a word that either ends with "S" down here.
Or it could be something rather colorful. I'm not sure.
But this is gonna be like something like a "G"...
and maybe this is gonna be an "E" also.
Um, I just thought of something that's gonna work nice.

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