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MGWCC #297 — Friday, February 7th, 2014 —“The Talented Mr….”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: When I was a kid I read about NASA wasting $2 million on a misplaced semicolon somewhere deep inside some rocket-launching code. Coding is a game of inches, and so are late-month...
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MGWCC #298 — Friday, February 14th, 2014 —“Mountain Rangers”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: 672 solvers found the late PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN as last week’s meta answer. Three squares in the grid contained the rebus letters PSH, all clued with movie references: 17-A...
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MGWCC #299 — Friday, February 21st, 2014 —“Side Effects”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: 577 solvers found Sochi’s STRAY DOGS as last week’s meta answer. Seven famous dogs had strayed outside of the grid, as you can see in the graphic at right (which I’ve stolen from...
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MGWCC #300 — Friday, February 28th, 2014 —“You Won’t Miss It”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: All about the polygons last week: solvers were tasked with finding a hidden sixth theme entry, so what was the pattern of the first five? They were: 17-A [Pool rack item (regular)]...
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MGWCC #301 — Friday, March 7th, 2014 —“Is That a Titleist?”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Where would we be without the DELETE KEY? It’s the eraser of the 21st century. It was also last week’s meta answer, since you could delete nine letters in the grid and continue...
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MGWCC #302 — Friday, March 14th, 2014 —“The Play’s the Thing”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: [Note: post is up a little early this week since I have to be somewhere right at noon and don't fully trust WordPress's autopost. The submissions form won't open until noon, and I...
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MGWCC #303 — Friday, March 21st, 2014 —“Easel Does It “
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: We were looking for a Shakespeare play, and the four theme entries told the tale. Each concealed a dagger and some poison — OK, getting a little too Shakespearean there. Each...
View ArticleMGWCC #304 — POSTPONED UNTIL Saturday, March 29th at 3:00 PM ET
Dear Solver, Busy times here and I need to postpone Week 4. As with the last time I had to do this, we’ll bump the number of monthly winners up in March from 12 to 18 to atone for the delay. And it...
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MGWCC #304 — Saturday, March 29th, 2014 —“Backsolve”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: What did the seven paintings described in last week’s theme clues have in common? They all featured a certain type of flower in them. They were: 17-A — [Someone paid $82.5 million...
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MGWCC #305 — Friday, April 4th, 2014 —“Go with the Flow “
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: We were looking for a famous 14-letter novel last week, so it was no coincidence that 14 specific historical events were referenced in clues (to symmetrically-placed entries, too)....
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MGWCC #306 — Friday, April 11th, 2014 —“Step by Step”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: We needed a body of water, and 604 solvers found it: flowing in order downstream, we had BISMARCK (North Dakota), PIERRE (South Dakota), OMAHA (Nebraska) and ST LOUIS (Missouri)....
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MGWCC #307 — Friday, April 18th, 2014 —“Hey, It Could Happen”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: We were looking for a TV show last week, and here were our five theme entries: 17-A [Radio network's in-house condiment brand?] = SIRIUS SALSA 38-A [Carpet in the offices of a...
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MGWCC #308 — Friday, April 25th, 2014 —“Scavenger Hunt”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Which fifth clue in last week’s puzzle needed an asterisk? The five long theme entries were: 17-A ["Red Dust" actor, 1932] = CLARK GABLE 26-A [Park structure] = PICNIC TABLE 40-A...
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MGWCC #309 — Friday, May 2nd, 2014 —“Sea Creature”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: A different kind of “Scavenger Hunt” last week; instead of hunting like scavengers, you had to hunt for scavengers. They were hiding in each theme entry, where a noted scav could...
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MGWCC #310 — Friday, May 9th, 2014 —“Classical Boxing”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: What sea creature was hiding in the center of last week’s puzzle grid? An OCTOPUS, of course, found by 607 solvers who noticed his eight ARMs radiating from the center square....
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MGWCC #311 — Friday, May 16th, 2014 —“We Built This City”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Tough Week 2 of 5: we were looking for a breakfast cereal, and just 296 solvers found meta answer LIFE. The four theme entries were: 17-A [Brooke Shields movie, with "The"] = BLUE...
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MGWCC #312 — Friday, May 23rd, 2014 —“Reality Bites”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: What world capital concealed itself in last week’s grid? ROME, found by 87 solvers, who noticed its seven HILLs in geographically correct placement: DIS wonders: If it HAD been...
View ArticleMGWCC #313 — Friday, May 30th, 2014 — POSTPONED UNTIL SATURDAY, MAY 31st,...
Dear MGWCC Solver, For the fifth time in the past year, I need to postpone MGWCC for a day. The Week 5 puzzle for May will go up tomorrow, Saturday the 31st, at 3 PM ET. Naturally I’ll extend the...
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MGWCC #313 — Saturday, May 31st, 2014 —“That’s So Meta”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: A kinder, gentler Week 4 after the tough Weeks 2 & 3: 320 solvers found HARVARD as the American university in question. Familiar meta mechanism, but with a slight twist that...
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MGWCC #314 — Friday, June 6th, 2014 —“Together Forever”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Several steps required for May’s Week 5 puzzle. First one was to notice the commonality among the six theme entries: 17-A [Easy A, sometimes (64-Across)] = INTRO COURSE 21-A [Radii...
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