I loved this grid when I first started but switching from suffix, prefix and spellings for 2 groups made it unnecessarily hard and frustrating. Knowing what you're looking for and failing to get it detracts from the game play. I love the initial idea, just try not to explode peoples heads, please ;)-

Thanks Lorna, that helps!
New to making grids.
Enjoying it, but happy to take the pointers.
I was quite fond of the idea myself, but it seems like it's frustrated a few people!
Sometimes difficult to see how it'll strike the solver...
I'll aim for a pinch of "mwahaha" but something a little less explodey, ta!

i thought this was a great idea and not too hard :-)

Thanks Kate, twice over!

Squint McGee thanks for taking comments as intended! If you're new I commend you- you've got some great ideas. Plenty of mwahaha is fine! My favourite setters are TrueCockney and Criptician for cryptics and BinDipper for originality, but stay original. They're just good examples of how to be tricksy without being reverse engineered, shoe- horning in red herrings, or unnecessarily obscure. G'luck!