Crossword #4: Something Different

 Greetings.

Today's puzzle is a collaboration with my evil and somewhat "goofy" twin Omzig. It is a Something Different puzzle - entries may not be crossword-legal, and the clues hide devious trickery as well. This is a genre I, as a traditional cruciverbalist, am not accustomed to. I presented Omzig with the grid, having practiced creating a symmetrical one, and he proceeded to fill it with nonsense and wackify every corner of it and then write the clues in his trademarked "silly" tone. He has presented me with an Author's Note for the log.

Author's Note:
hihihi it's me omzig!!!!1!!

im gizmo's goofy brother and i decided to help him make a normal, decent crossword. he seems to think nothing i wrote was real, which is weird but that's my brother for ya. i feel like he's trying to be too much like me when he writes crosswords sometimes, idk
the seed entry was 41-across. this grid was weird but not too difficult to fill, with tons of cheater squares and 3-letter words, but giz wouldn't let me change it/ i tried to pack some interesting entries in and give them goofy new clues to boot! 

anyway gizmo didn't like it that much, not sure when i'll be back. hope you enjoy my fresh entries and cluing angles! 

- omzig


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