Amazing work! I love how everything was so cleverly crafted to hide the many twists in this puzzle, and it was very coherent and elegant overall. You really subverted everything I knew about word searches!
I naively solved until 9, when I noticed the other planets and fully solved it. That is when it clicked for me and I turned back to try and fully solve the rest of the puzzles.
Really big fan of all the small details. Shoutout to puzzle 1 for the excellent category choice that presented seemingly unrelated words, the blue corners catching me off guard even on the second solve, and the cute gingerbread man hinting the category all along. Love the thematic puzzle titles, the thematic puzzle shapes, and even the words being bent thematically, like THREE, CLOCK, SPACEBAR, and QUESTIONMARK.
Can't wait to try more of your puzzles!