#039: Cross the Aqre

There’s been a few interesting Aqre hybrids with very low clue density posted on Discord lately, so I wanted in on the fun. I’m slightly bothered by the clue layout, but couldn’t find anything I liked using the bottom row.

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Clues outside the grid represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the corresponding row or column, in order. A question mark represents one block of an unknown number of cells. An asterisk represents any number of blocks of shaded cells, including none at all.

Variant: Aqre hybrid — There may not exist a run of more than three consecutive shaded or unshaded cells horizontally or vertically anywhere in the grid.