Puzzles #246, #247 & #248 - Pisces (Anglers)

Pisces is literally a fish. Anglers is literally a type that has fish in it. What other choice could I reasonably make for the Puzzle Zodiac? All three of these were quite interesting to make, though I'm not convinced the type has all that much potential. Or maybe I just don't know how to tap it?

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Oddly, the example puzzle turned out to be the hardest one to make. I'm not sure how much of that is because of my chosen layout, though.

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Puzzle 23 on the test, worth 20 points, themed on the Pisces sign. Having 5 and 8 on two sides, and 6 and 9 on the other two sides just kind of happened as I was constructing this one. 12 fish on a 9x9 grid is surprisingly dense!

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Puzzle 24 on the test, worth 30 points, and themed with pairs of each clue. The benefit of cluing this way is that I didn't have to worry about parity, but the downside was that it was tough to specify uniquely while maintaining the theme. Somehow 19 ended up working well!