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Puzzle #100: Stepping Down

• Difficulty: Medium

• The answer to this week's meta is a 4-word phrase.

• No Googling here. I wouldn't do that to you on the last one!

• Crosshare link: https://crosshare.org/crosswords/FEP77d ... pping-down

The deadline for this puzzle is 9:00am eastern time on Thursday, March 28, 2024.

Sad to post the thread for the Pandora's Blocks finale. It's been a fantastic run of puzzles and I hope to see more of Will in the future!

Great puzzle, Will! Definitely gonna miss you and Pandora's Blocks. Best of luck, and don't be a stranger!

Going out in a blaze of glory! Very well done!

Will--Thanks for all the great puzzles and good luck in your career. and all the rest of us will miss you.

Out of the box one more time, but perhaps not for the last time I hope. Thanks, Will, and best of luck.

Out of the box. We will miss Will's puzzles.

Wonderful coda!

I appreciated the absence of DNA . I didn’t see a mention to the name connection so here’s a link for us science challenged folks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

Perfect puzzle, Will - thank you for everything!

Out of the box. I'll miss your puzzles Will! Please Zoom with us on occasion!

I’ll say, “Hey, I remember that guy’s terrific meta puzzles” when I read someday of Will’s Nobel Prize.

I hope you consider being a guest puzzler for SSS, MMM, MEOW, and others.

Abide wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:20 am I appreciated the absence of DNA . I didn’t see a mention to the name connection so here’s a link for us science challenged folks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

As soon as I noticed BASEPAIRS across the middle, I knew ROSALIND was going to be the answer. Will mentioned several people submitted GENE, which was a good guess. If only it had been a @MikeyG puzzle, that would've been the answer.

Out of the box. Thanks for all the puzzles, Will!

Out of the box. Super final puzzle Will! Thanks for the great start to Sundays over the past several years and for the great work you did in pulling together the puzzles/puzzlers in your Crosswords for Cancer project! All the best in your future endeavors. (raising a toast to you with my awesome PBWMC tin cup)

Very nice finale. Thanks for all your hard work. Thinking I might go back through the catalog on Sundays doing the ones that came out before I discovered them.

For his final puzzle I was the first solver (if I'm reading Crosshare right).

Great puzzle and thanks for all the ones you've created, Will!

For last week's, I knew it had to be something with base pairs and swapping them but didn't put in enough effort.

Let's hear it one more time --
DINO ME! Rarely seen photo of Will at two years old (and how I'll remember you?)
Thanks for the metaries --
All the best!

Dino me! Lovely way to bow out!! Thanks for all of the fun!!!

DINO ME one last lovely time. Thanks for all the fabulous metas!

DINO ME! Great finale. My mug just became more valuable and cherished.

Dino me!!! Beautiful construction. Best of luck in all your endeavors, and I hope you'll return to us with more of your great puzzles someday! So long, and thanks for all the fish!