#724 - "So Many Issues"

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#724 - "So Many Issues"

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MGWCC #724 — Friday, April 15th, 2022 — “So Many Issues”

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This week’s contest answer is a well-known publication.


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Only second time in top ten! A few weeks back I posted that I doubt I'll ever be first, but I will take 7th any day.
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Beam me up!
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Shoot. I think I missed my chance to unlock my only remaining achievement: "Egg-cellent (solve a puzzle on Easter)." Now I've got to wait a year!
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On the board at lucky #13. I felt some impending dread as we get deeper into the month, but this time I saw the light and moved toward it relatively quickly.
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I can't understand why there isn't a bigger crowd on the leaderboard --

Wait! I think I know now -- there's a bunch of solvers, waiting to submit for the Easter achievement. Silly me.
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Um... anyone else have an issue with 45D? (totally off topic and derailing)

Edit: Either 1) I did the grid entirely wrong, or 2) Matt has no idea what a 45D is or 3) Matt is momentarily confusing it with something else (perhaps a OHFUGVG?)
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Yes. The ones up here (SF Bay Area) are anything but tiny songbirds.
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Guffman wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:07 pm I can't understand why there isn't a bigger crowd on the leaderboard. Sometimes you just see it.
Pretty sure I have it now but definitely didn't right away. Waiting for Easter for that achievement! (Sorry, @Al Sisti, haha.)
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Al Sisti wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 2:21 pm Shoot. I think I missed my chance to unlock my only remaining achievement: "Egg-cellent (solve a puzzle on Easter)." Now I've got to wait a year!
Hmm, I guess I should try for that. I'm just worried I'm so impatient.
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Welp.. I have an answer that suits the prompt and the findings very well, but it makes this more like a week one than a week 3. Anybody knowuddimean? (DM me)

UPDATE - yes, many of us are of the same mind. Will submit on Easter Sunday if nothing more amazing occurs to me!
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Submitted and unofficially confirmed. Friday afternoon and WSJ and MGWCC Week 3 done. All we need now is a Red Sox home opener win


But I blew the chance for a Easter solve :-(

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Beamed up at #30. Thank goodness
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Al Sisti wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 2:21 pm Shoot. I think I missed my chance to unlock my only remaining achievement: "Egg-cellent (solve a puzzle on Easter)." Now I've got to wait a year!
I'm waiting till sundown tonight for the achievement: "Eggs-odus (solve a puzzle on Passover)."
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Bird Lives wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:21 pm
Al Sisti wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 2:21 pm Shoot. I think I missed my chance to unlock my only remaining achievement: "Egg-cellent (solve a puzzle on Easter)." Now I've got to wait a year!
I'm waiting till sundown tonight for the achievement: "Eggs-odus (solve a puzzle on Passover)."
Ooh. Maybe Matt will add that badge. In the meantime, I'll wait for the Egg-cellent one :hatching_chick:

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Setting my "submit" alarm for Easter!
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