Formerly known as the “Sunday Summer Substitute”, editor Cap'n Rick now takes the helm for 'Smooth Sailing Sundays'. As The Commodores sang about Sunday morning, the SSS will focus on easier metas. SSS will also support smaller grids and will mentor new constructors on request. Puzzles released each Sunday around 8am Eastern. Nudges released same day at Noon Eastern. New constructors are welcome.
It's great to be back on the Sunday Summer Substitute (SSS) - a site where constructors can be bold and take chances - kinda like the Wright Brothers whose historic flight took place 120 years ago this fall. While nearly everybody has heard of the Wright Brothers and their aviation achievement, very few people are aware that they were arrested for trespassing at Kitty Hawk. Yep, and to make matters worse, the judge refused to grant them bail. He considered them a "flight risk". I'd like to thank @Abide, @Al Sisti, @boharr, @whimsy, @MarkWoychick, @Wendy Walker, and @Joe Ross for pretesting and technical help.
PS - I want to thank my good friend @MarkWoychick for agreeing to host last week's SSS on short notice. Thanks again, Mark! You certainly do have "the right stuff"!
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Check out "The MOAT MEOW Mashup Pack" here. US$10 for 14 metas that don't always abide by the "rules" of the game: asymmetry, 2-letter words, uncrossed letters, who knows. And this time there's a mega-meta!
Shannon PS: If you want help with a meta, PM what you have so I can help without spoiling too much. I've received lots of help in the beginning and I love to pay it forward!
Nudge 2. I just assume you collaborated with Mikey G. As Mikey G didn't have 7 letters I just gave up and rolled over and went back to sleep.
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
My great-grandfather knew Titanic was doomed. He kept insisting, “She’ll sink! She’ll sink!” He wouldn’t shut up about it, and people got sick of hearing it. So they had him kicked out of the movie theater.
Solved with nudges because I was too lazy to try all the things I should have.
Fun one, thanks.
Check out this very cool project by many of your favorite muggles to raise money to fight cancer. You get a fun puzzle bundle and good causes get $. Win-win: Crosswords for Cancer
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 contest-style (meta) crosswords that we've created to help raise money for cancer-related organizations - get the bundle at http://crosswordsforcancer.com
I'd like to thank @Abide, @Al Sisti, @boharr, @whimsy, @MarkWoychick, @Wendy Walker, and @Joe Ross for pretesting and technical help. 
SSSolved SSSans SSSuggestions. Another fun one - thanks Cap'n!
