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Title: “Find Someone Else”
Prompt: This puzzle’s contest answer is a five-letter word you don’t want describing your meta.
Answer: CUBIT, found by 187 solvers, 79 of whom were solo solves

OK, accidentally erased today’s entire post so just putting up this bare-bones one now so people can enter. Grrr…


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Title: “Find Someone Else”
Prompt: This puzzle’s contest answer is a five-letter word you don’t want describing your meta.
Answer: SHADY, found by 187 solvers, 79 of whom were solo solves

This one landed pretty solidly for a Week 3/4 (187 solvers, a bit low but still perfectly cromulent). Five theme...


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Dear Solver,

MGWCC #952 will run at noon ET tomorrow, Saturday the 29th.

Until then, please consider trying Mike Shenk’s live WSJ Meta here:

https://www.wsj.com/games/crosswords/in-a-pet-11495d66?mod=WSJ_crosswords_play


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Dear Solver,

375 of you found the answer to last week’s challenge. Read joon‘s relentless, blistering, way-over-the-top review here.

Today’s puzzle is Week 3 of 4 in August. Instructions:

This puzzle’s contes...


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Apologies for the double-delay. This one is tricky! But it’ll be up by 5:00.

–Matt


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