LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:

Title: “I See Your Point”
Prompt: This puzzle’s 10-letter contest answer is what you need to do to get that answer.
Answer: FOLLOW A CUE, found by 407 solvers, 391 of which were solo solves

Fun meta, but some of the fill was gnarly. One fills in the grid, noting the many Q’s in the (rough!) grid, and then a hint at the omega-Across: [What a dog may chase…or, what the southeast-pointing part of a certain uppercase letter is called] = TAIL.

That uppercase letter is a Q, and indeed, traveling one square southeast from each of those Q’s yields contest answer FOLLOW A CUE.

Was the juice worth the squeeze of the rough fill? Just barely, I might say. I did 3 or 4 versions of the puzzle before arriving at this one; the longer FOLLOWING A CUE and FOLLOW MY CUE were discarded in favor of the actual answer.

Joe Ross says:

Love everything about this puzzle, Matt. Well done.

Why, 10-Q!

DonutRobot says:

One of the least-pleasant crossword filling experiences of my life that i can remember. truly awful.

The rest of the responses fell somewhere between those two. Was the juice worth the squeeze? Maybe…

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

Today’s puzzle is Week 3 of 5 in May. Instructions: