LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:
A case of case-sensitivity: 10 letters in last week’s puzzle grid are exclusively written in uppercase letters:
ERA at 7-a (and its crossings of Emile, Rosa and Alt)
The TV of onTV at 10-a (and its crossings of Troon and Vesta)
The L of Lorena at 25-a (and its crossing Lowe)
The O of Ohioans at 26-a (and its crossing Otto)
The U in Utahans at 45-a (and its crossing Urdu)
The P and P in iPhone and iPads in the SW (and their crossings Peale and Perot)
Instructions asked for a bygone, 10-letter place name; anagram those 10 letters and you get the uppercase UPPER VOLTA.
What about those three long “theme entries”? They were actually anti-theme: mega-website craigslist, 1980s TV hit thirtysomething and poet e.e. cummings are each stylized in lowercase letters. Their presence was a backwards nudge for solvers towards the meta idea.
Tyler Hinman asks:
Do I get bonus points for submitting essentially the same answer twice in one month and having it be correct both times?
(He submitted BURKINA FASO for MGWCC #272, whose meta required solvers to submit any landlocked country.)
This week’s winner, whose name was chosen randomly from the 120 correct entries received, is Adam Thompson of Westville, Nova Scotia. In addition to a MGWCC pen, pencil and notepad set, Adam will also receive a copy of my new book Bite-Size Crosswords.
MONTHLY WINNERS:
76 solvers submitted the correct contest answer to all four of August’s challenges (LOLLAPUZZOOLA, ANY LANDLOCKED COUNTRY, THREES, UPPER VOLTA). The following ten lucky and skillful winners, chosen randomly from that group, will receive a MGWCC pen, pencil and notepad set:
Alex Bourzutschky — Potomac, Md.
Anne Erdmann — Champaign, Ill.
Gideon Fostick — Givat Shmuel, Israel
Ben Jones — Stamford, Conn.
H.K.
Julian Lim — Singapore, Singapore
Rich Novo — Andover, Mass.
Adam Rosenfield — Cambridge, Mass.
Jason Taniguchi — Toronto, Ont.
James Williams — Elgin, Ill.
Congratulations to our ten winners, and to everyone who went 4-for-4 in August.
THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:
This week’s contest answer is a noted U.S. governor, past or present. Submit your answer in the form on the left sidebar by Tuesday at noon ET. Note: the submissions form disappears from the site promptly at noon on Tuesday.
To print the puzzle out, click on the image below and hit “print” on your browser. To solve using Across Lite either solve on the applet below or download the free software here, then join the Google Group (2,086 members now!) here.
Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.