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MGWCC #288 — Friday, December 6th, 2013 —“State Lines”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Were you eating LEFTOVERS (58-across) last Friday? Probably. The key to last week’s meta was just that: take the two Turkey Day portmanteaux in the grid, TURDUCKEN and...
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MGWCC #289 — Friday, December 13th, 2013 —“Father Time”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: A new record: 694 solvers found COLORADO as the U.S. state in question last week, smashing the old record from February of this year (which was 645). Our numbers are growing and we...
View ArticleMGWCC #290 — POSTPONED
Dear Solver: MGWCC will go up tomorrow, Saturday the 21st, at noon Eastern time. Big apologies for the delay — rush of holiday activity got me. But we’ll be back on track tomorrow. –Matt
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MGWCC #290 — Saturday, December 21st, 2013 —“December 21st, xx13″
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Which Founding Father did last week’s meta point to? The sentimental favorite (he was a chessplayer, after all!), BEN FRANKLIN, whose “key” contributions to our understanding of...
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MGWCC #291 — Friday, December 27th, 2013 —“It Never Ends!”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Saturday was the 100th anniversary of the first crossword puzzle, as you may have heard a few dozen hundred times in recent weeks. You had to use that first puzzle to solve last...
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MGWCC #292 — Friday, January 3rd, 2014 —“Hiding Place”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Not quite your standard Week 4, as 533 solvers found the PITTSBURGH PIRATES as our meta answer. I promised an interesting story about this meta (and its difficulty level), and...
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MGWCC #293 — Friday, January 10th, 2014 —“Sport Search”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: The four theme entries last week spelled out a current events word puzzle: the meta answer was A NINE-LETTER WORD / THAT FULLY EMBEDS / THIS YEAR’S WINTER / OLYMPIC HOST CITY....
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MGWCC #294 — Friday, January 17th, 2014 —“Slight Chance”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: We were looking for a sport last week — or places where you can engage in that sport, as it turned out. Each of the five theme entries concealed a famous ski resort: LINDA VOSS =...
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MGWCC #295 — Friday, January 24th, 2014 —“What’s It Like?”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: What American actress did last week’s meta indicate? There were three theme entries: 17-a [When fighters deserve permanent battle reminders, but are denied them?] = SCAR SNUBS...
View ArticleMGWCC #296 — POSTPONED until Saturday, February 1st at noon ET
Dear MGWCC solver, I supremely hate to postpone a puzzle, especially since this is the third time in four months, but this week’s puzzle will go up tomorrow at noon instead of today. I’m at the...
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MGWCC #296 — Saturday, February 1st, 2014 —“>1, x2, x2″
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Straightforward, but not easy: solvers were tasked with finding a famous writer whose surname is five letters long. The five theme entries turned out to be: 17-A ["Cat on a Hot...
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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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