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MGWCC #753 — Friday, November 4th, 2022 — “Global Search”

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

This week’s contest answer is a nation in the news..

Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.


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Easy breezy week 1. #5 on the board at 12:03 (my admiration to those who submit before completing the grid, I'm just not wired that way).

This dude, @Abide

Also, liking the playful cluing on this one! I think you can maybe do that a bit more on Week 1 (I do it on every week, so too bad.)

May you all have illumi-nation in finding the country!

Mikey G

beamed up

Beamed at #22.

Got it, but got a funny response from Matt’s site about entries being closed. Then a minute later I check the board and there I am. I’ll take it.

Beamed at #41...life when you finish the grid first.

Fun one.....but wait, done with all this weeks Metas and it's only 12:30 on Friday.....curses now I actually haveto do my work for work this afternoon....GRRR.

Beamed!

Also got the strange message about submissions being closed. I’ll check later to see if I’m on the board, and will resubmit if needed.

UPDATE: On the board!

Beamed up!

Submitted before finishing the grid. (Something I never do.)

The answer is a nation that I am going to visit, albeit very briefly, twice this month! (Can't imagine that's a spoiler. But if anyone feels it is, let me know.)

Beamed.

I'm feeling like Ferris Bueller today, as I am Love Missile F-111 on the board. I also understand how someone got it in under a minute.

Oh, and since I was at his website already, I read the needfully long Mikey G write-up of last week's, and now I finally understand what was going on there.

Shoot it up!

Beam me up!

Speaking for us luddites, I do not do the crossword on 56A, I use something weird called paper. And pen. And highlighters.

Your neanderthal cruise director.

Beamed up at #17. I love Week 1.

Putting those streaks on the line:

MikeyG wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 12:10 pm

I didn't get the email until :02, and I did solve about 1/4 of the grid.
So @docison (12:03) completed the grid in one minute?

Awaiting beam-up and the start of a new streak!

Awaiting beam-up myself.

And @Bob cruise director - while I most often use 56A, I used to find particular joy in picking up the in-flight magazine and solving with pen and paper (if someone hadn't butchered it before I got there). Now it seems they've done away with those. Fortunately, for my last flight, I had already downloaded the MGWCC and so was able to work offline.

I didn’t like this one, but am on the board.

Awaiting the tractor beam, boulevardier in hand…

Update: beamed up!

Beamed up! Fun puzzle! WSJ done, MGWCC done - now what!? Off to the archive or one of Gaffney's books, I guess.

Have a great weekend, all!