finally, a hard puzzle

 my old penny dell puzzle book is beat up to hell, the fill in puzzles thing. id like to complete it 100% some day, but i cracked out one of the other new ones i had. and finally, a challenging puzzle!! shoulda seen when i was like "bro" when i saw the size of this puzzle. it's a 21 x 21 instead of most of the 15 x 15 i see

and man it took forever, maybe like... half an hour to solve? started on the bottom left. but damn getting that first word in was real satisfying. no hiccups or mistakes at all besides placing the wrong word in the top left near the end of the puzzle, but i corrected it easily. this puzzle was just more time consuming than hard but yeah... pretty hard actually

there we gooooo