IMPORTANT NOTE: As of January 2015 MGWCC is a subscribers-only crossword. The cost is $26 per year, and you can subscribe (or get a free trial month first) here:

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LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:

What Supreme Court justice did Peter Gordon want us to find last week? Six symmetrically placed celebrities populated the grid, each of whose names began with the same bigram:

1-A [He got married on “The Tonight Show” in 1969] = TINY TIM

21-A [Actress in “Orange Is the New Black” and “Are You There, Chelsea?”] = LAUREN LAPKUS

31-A [Partner of Stefano Gabbana in fashion] = DOMENICO DOLCE

46-A [Trader who served time in the early 1990s for securities violations] = MICHAEL MILKEN

58-A [Author of “The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”] = FANNIE FARMER

72-A [Film critic who was on “At the Movies”] = REX REED

Those six bigrams are TI, LA, DO, MI, FA and RE, which are six notes of the solfege scale. The missing one is SO, which leads us to meta answer SONIA SOTOMAYOR, found by 432 entrants.

Jed writes:

Technically SOL is spelled with an L, said the pedantic music teacher. But I’ll let it slide.

AK37 says:

My first Week 1 without instructions! YES!

(Some solvers toughen their Week 1 challenge by not looking at the puzzle’s instructions).

And yatezuma is 1 for 1 in Guest Constructor Month:

SO far, SO good!

This week’s winner, whose name was chosen randomly from the 432 correct entries received, is Morris Feibusch of Potomac, Md. In addition to a MGWCC pen, pencil and notepad set, Morris will also receive a signed copy of Peter Gordon’s book 100 Years 100 Crosswords. And just two days left on Peter’s themeless crosswords Kickstarter Campaign, so kick in now if you plan to.

GUEST CONSTRUCTORS #2:

This week’s puzzle is by Anne Erdmann and Brendan Emmett Quigley.

Anne is a four-time finalist at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, an environmental geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and an experienced world traveler (Ethiopia in the photo above).

Brendan is a crossword genius whose website is here. He runs a themeless every Monday and a themed puzzle on Thursdays. He’s also the author of many books, an autographed copy of which will serves as a prize for next week’s winner.

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

The theme entries in this puzzle allude to five members of a set of six. The answer to this week’s meta is the missing sixth member of this set.

IMPORTANT NOTE: As of January 2015 MGWCC is a subscribers-only crossword. The cost is $26 per year, and you can subscribe (or get a free trial month first) here:

www.mgwcc.com

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