Dang, forgot about that softlock part. Will for sure fix that! As for the mid clearing puzzle, it said that there was a restart button on the sign at the start which you could press. Sorry if that wasn't made clear.
Oooooooooh, that explains a lot. Sorry about that but there's currently no way to fix a back-tracking mistake. Luckily it was indeed at the start so I hope it wasn't too much of a hassle.