MGWCC #321 will be published at 4 PM ET today
Dear Solver, Well, I did get “Murder my Meta” out on Monday finally, but got caught this week in the vortex of playing post-MbM catchup. Which means I need a few more hours to finish #321, which will...
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MGWCC #321 — Friday, July 25th, 2014 —“Chain Reaction”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: What world capital concealed itself in last week’s puzzle? It was pretty hidden: there were five asterisked theme entries, each with a parenthetical at the end: 1-A [Band who did...
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MGWCC #322 — Friday, August 1st, 2014 —“State of Relaxation”
YEAR 6 TIP JAR IS UP! It’s that magical time of year: MGWCC Tip Jar Week! If you’ve enjoyed the past 14 months of puzzles, hit the “Buy Now” PayPal button and let me know. You can enter any dollar...
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MGWCC #323 — Friday, August 8th, 2014 —“Instrumental”
YEAR 6 TIP JAR CLOSES IN 36 HOURS! It’s that magical time of year: MGWCC Tip Jar Week! And it’s almost over, so if you’ve enjoyed the past 14 months of puzzles, hit the “Buy Now” PayPal button and let...
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MGWCC #324 — Friday, August 15th, 2014 —“You Can Take That to the Bank”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: I was channeling Pete Muller last week: we were looking for a musical instrument in a mini (13×13) grid, and the theme entries were: 15-A [1980 Grammy winner for Record of the...
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MGWCC #325 — Friday, August 22nd, 2014 —“A Different Word”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: We were looking for a well-known magazine last week, and our theme answers were: 17-A [Drive a Titleist into a window at Cadillac Place, hit a chip shot into Comerica Park, etc.?]...
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MGWCC #326 — Friday, August 29th, 2014 —“I Beg Your Part Ten!”
UPDATE, 8/29, 12:40 PM: I stupidly uploaded an incorrect version of today’s puzzle at noon. Only one clue has changed, but please use the version that’s on the site now instead of the one that went up...
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MGWCC #327 — GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH, PUZZLE #1 —“Fly, Robin, Fly” by Jeffrey...
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Fifth Friday it was, and the instructions were unusual: To solve this week’s meta, write a clue for 1-Across that completes this puzzle’s theme. There were three 15-letter entries,...
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MGWCC #328 — Friday, September 12th, 2014 — GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH, PUZZLE...
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: We had an excellent puzzle to start off Guest Constructor Month last week. 655 solvers found Jeffrey Harris’s favorite Robin Williams movie: ALADDIN, parsed as AL ADD-IN. Indeed,...
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MGWCC #329 — Friday, September 19th, 2014 — GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH, PUZZLE...
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: 523 solvers conquered Ian Livengood’s Oscar-themed meta last week. Ian asked us to find two grid entries totaling 10 letters that would make an appropriate fifth theme entry. Our...
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MGWCC #330 — Friday, September 26th, 2014 — GUEST CONSTRUCTOR MONTH PUZZLE #4...
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Sneaky curveball from Neville Fogarty last week: just 198 solvers noticed that the first word of each theme entry anagrams to a four-letter country: 17-A [Alias-identifying phrase]...
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MGWCC #331 — Friday, October 3rd, 2014 —“Be My Guest”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Francis Heaney delivers the goods! Last week’s meta was universally praised on the crossword blogs, and we’ll add to that today. We were looking for a ten-letter word, and the most...
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MGWCC #332 — Friday, October 10th, 2014 —“We’re An American Band”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Tricky for Week 1 of 5, which is usually a gimme. Solvers were tasked with finding the correct chronological order of this puzzle’s four theme entries, which were labeled A, B, C...
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MGWCC #333 — Friday, October 17th, 2014 —“Forbidden Fruit”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: We were looking for an article of clothing last week, and 571 solvers found the five BELTs lurking in the grid. Not the kind you wear, but the kind used to describe different...
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MGWCC #334 — Friday, October 24th, 2014 —“A Symbol Plan”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: We were looking for an 11-letter proper noun that would’ve made a good fifth theme entry. So we should probably look at the first four theme entries, each of which carried the clue...
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MGWCC #335 — Friday, October 31st, 2014 —“Costume Changes”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Six symbols emerged from last week’s grid: the at symbol (@), the Greek letter tau (τ), a star (*), the Japanese yen (¥), the number one (1) and the ampersand (&). Graphic at...
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MGWCC #336 — Friday, November 7th, 2014 —“Wedge Issues”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: Complex Week 5 meta, but there were several ways to find the right answer. One of the five guests at our Halloween party was really an evil beast of some sort; who was it and what...
View ArticleMGWCC #337 — POSTPONED UNTIL 4:00 PM ET TODAY
Dear Solver, For uninteresting reasons, MGWCC #337 will go up at 4:00 PM ET today instead of at noon. My apologies for the delay, and I hope to see you back here then. –Matt
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MGWCC #337 — Friday, November 14th, 2014 —“Teamwork”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: We were looking for a kind of food last week, and the four theme entries were: 17-A [Comedian who traveled to Finland because he resembles its former president Tarja Halonen...
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MGWCC #338 — Friday, November 21st, 2014 —“Part Time”
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: What American city concealed itself in last week’s grid? The four theme entries, all of which were clues simply as [TEAM], were: 17-A = WILD HORSES 27-A = CHUNKS OF GOLD 48-A =...
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