I think he means that originally prior to releasing this puzzle he took out "the" or "a", at least that's what I'm getting from his previous answers.
Yeah, Rocket got it right. I never changed the puzzle image since I posted it on the blog.
Mmmk, that makes more sense.
Do the posted hints correlate with each portion of the puzzle? For example, hint #1 correlates with 1 across, hint #2 with 2 across and hint #3 with 1 down.