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MGWCC #267 — July 12th, 2013 — GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH, PUZZLE #2 —“Spell...
GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH: It’s July, and that means it’s the 2nd Annual Guest Constructor Month here at MGWCC! For various reasons, Guest Constructor Month this year will consist of five puzzles even...
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MGWCC #268 — Friday, July 19th, 2013 — GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH, PUZZLE #3...
GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH: It’s July, and that means it’s the 2nd Annual Guest Constructor Month here at MGWCC! For various reasons, Guest Constructor Month this year will consist of five puzzles even...
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MGWCC #269 — Friday, July 26th, 2013 — GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH, PUZZLE #4 —“A...
GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH REMINDER: This is the last Friday of July, but a reminder: for various reasons, Guest Constructor Month this year will consist of five puzzles even though July only has four...
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MGWCC #270 — Friday, August 2nd, 2013 — GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH PUZZLE #5...
GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH FINALE: A reminder that today’s puzzle counts as Week 5 of Guest Constructor Month, not the first week of August. We’re treating August as a four-Friday month that will begin...
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MGWCC #266 — July 5th, 2013 — GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH, PUZZLE #1 —“Who Am I?”...
GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH: It’s July, and that means it’s the 2nd Annual Guest Constructor Month here at MGWCC! For various reasons, Guest Constructor Month this year will consist of five puzzles even...
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MGWCC #267 — July 12th, 2013 — GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH, PUZZLE #2 —“Spell...
GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH: It’s July, and that means it’s the 2nd Annual Guest Constructor Month here at MGWCC! For various reasons, Guest Constructor Month this year will consist of five puzzles even...
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MGWCC #271 — Friday, August 9th, 2013 —“The Need for Speed”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Tricky Week 5 meta from Dave Sullivan last week, including an intentional red herring to weed out Those Who Hadn’t Fully Grokked. The four obvious theme entries were: 18-a [Sleep,...
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MGWCC #272 — Friday, August 16th, 2013 —“Interior Design”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Did you make it to Lollapuzzoola 6 last weekend in New York City? I did, and it was a blast. Hard to imagine the circumstances that will keep me away from LPZ7 next summer! In...
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MGWCC #273 — Friday, August 23rd, 2013 —“That’s Not a Word”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: What did those eight countries in the grid last week have in common? They were SWITZERLAND, MONGOLIA, BOTSWANA, AFGHANISTAN, BHUTAN, LAOS, MALI and MALAWI, all clued only by the...
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MGWCC #274 — Friday, August 30th, 2013 —“Livin’ Large”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Week 3, but it played like a Week 4: just 117 solvers found THREES as the Yahtzee category that served as our meta answer. “That’s Not a Word” read the puzzle’s title, and each of...
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MGWCC #275 — Friday, September 6th, 2013 —“Power Politics”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: A case of case-sensitivity: 10 letters in last week’s puzzle grid are exclusively written in uppercase letters: ERA at 7-a (and its crossings of Emile, Rosa and Alt) The TV of...
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MGWCC #276 — Friday, September 13th, 2013 —“Clean That Up!”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Tough guy, eh? Tough puzzle, at least. Just 467 solvers found ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER as the famous U.S. governor, past or present in last week’s puzzle. That’s low for Week 1, due...
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MGWCC #277 — Friday, September 20th, 2013 —“Playces, Everyone”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: “SCRABBLE!@#$ING” at 40-across was defined last week as [Indelicate crossword biz term for when a constructor tries way too hard to fit an X, Q, Z or J into their grid]. There were...
View ArticleMGWCC #282 — Friday, October 25th, 2013 — POSTPONED UNTIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER...
Dear Meta-solvers, Due to various uninteresting reasons, MGWCC #282 won’t be posted until tomorrow (Saturday) at 3 PM Eastern time. If you don’t want to wait until then for the solution to last week’s...
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MGWCC #282 — Saturday, October 26th, 2013 —“What Am I Thinking?”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Missing body parts was the link among last week’s six theme entries: 16-a [No fan of Pan] = CAPTAIN HOOK (missing a hand) 22-a [Man with a parrot] = LONG JOHN SILVER (missing a...
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MGWCC #283 — Friday, November 1st, 2013 —“Range Finder”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Last week’s instructions asked for “the only one of the five in the grid” (note mysterious emphasis on the last word). And then the five theme entries all shared the initials Z.C.:...
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MGWCC #284 — Friday, November 8th, 2013 —“Piece Out”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: OU, OV, OW, OX and OY, began last week’s five theme entries. They were: OUIJA BOARD OVAL OFFICE OWN GOAL OX-EYE DAISY OYSTER STEW What two-word region of the United States...
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MGWCC #285 — Friday, November 15th, 2013 —“I See You Got the Promotion”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Week 1 of 3 chess metas, in honor of the World Chess Championship currently taking place in Chennai between champion Vishy Anand of India and challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway....
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MGWCC #286 — Friday, November 22nd, 2013 —“Title Search”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: What happens to a pawn when it reaches the eighth rank in chess? It gets to promote to any of four other pieces: in order of how commonly it happens, a queen (vast majority of the...
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MGWCC #287 — Friday, November 29th, 2013 —“Today’s Menu”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Week 4 played much tougher than I’d figured, yielding just 63 correct answers. Contest instructions asked for one of newly-crowned world chess champion Magnus Carlsen’s...
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