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LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:
Title: “Funny Guy”
Instructions: This week’s contest answer is a famous actor.
Answer: ROBIN WILLIAMS
My Week 1/5 fu is strong — 645 correct answers and zero incorrect ones (not counting the “Funny Guy” who lobs a guess onto the leaderboard at 12:01 each week based solely on the prompt. This week he had JOE PESCI, which wasn’t a bad guess at all). But essentially nobody missed it, which is as a Week 1/5 should be.
Our theme entries were:
17-A: [1973 David Bowie album with “The Jean Genie”] = ALADDIN SANE (1992)
26-A: [Being yanked offstage (1991)] = GETTING THE HOOK
43-A: [Reality checks (1990)] = RUDE AWAKENINGS
57-A: [Role that Gene Hackman won Best Actor for in “The French Connection” (1980)] = POPEYE DOYLE
Each of those phrases contains the one-word title of a movie that came out in the parenthetical year. ROBIN WILLIAMS starred in all four of them, making him our contest answer.
This week’s winner, whose name was chose at random from the 645 correct answers received, is Karen Spencer of Morgantown, W. Va. In addition to a MGWCC pen, pencil, and notepad set, Karen will also receive a signed copy of my book Pint-Size Crosswords.
META-CROSSWORD FORUM:
There’s a new meta-crossword forum here that’s a fun read and full of active users. It has sections to discuss the Wall Street Journal Metas, MGWCC, the Muller Monthly Music Meta, Peter Washington’s meta site, Fireball Metas, and AVCX Metas, plus a catchall section for metas on other sites.
THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:
This week’s contest answer is a chemical element.
Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.