Back in the trilon days, I noticed a stretch from about late 1992 to mid-1995 where, for no particular reason, any two-line bonus puzzle was put on the top two lines of the puzzle board instead of the middle two. There were also at least two puzzles I saw in that same timespan where they'd do like they did in the 80s and put each word on its own line, even if it could fit on just two (e.g. CHANGE | OF | HEART instead of CHANGE | OF HEART).
I thought this looked very awkward, myself, and I don't even have any ex-recto guess as to why they'd do it. Just an attempt at doing something different, like so many of the other oddities they threw at us in the same timespan (Megaword, Foreign Word/Foreign Phrase, red letter puzzles, etc.)?