Logic Puzzle #3 - 12 Clues Yajilin

12 Clues Yajilin

Another old puzzle of mine. This yajilin was initially a somewhat easy puzzle, then I decided to take out the clue that was the starting point. A new harder path revealed itself. (Also there are 12 1-2 clues: six 1s and six 2s. Kinda neat!)

Rules and link

Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all the remaining empty cells. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells in a straight line in the indicated direction.

You can solve this puzzle here using puzz.link's interface