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LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:
Title: “The One Where You Get the Meta”
Prompt: This week’s contest answer is a living former presidential candidate.
Week 1, so let’s check out our themers:
17-A [Winner of the 1990 French Open at age 16] = MONICA SELES
24-A [“The Walking Dead” actor] = CHANDLER RIGGS
35-A [Jazz trumpeter with a major European country in his surname] = JOEY DEFRANCESCO. I’d never heard of this guy and just needed the long-surnamed JOEY…but meta maestro Pete Muller actually played in a concert with him in Germany last year! Whoa.
50-A [“Midnight in Paris” star] = RACHEL MCADAMS
60-A [“Fast Times at Ridgemont High” actress] = PHOEBE CATES
We’ve got Monica, Chandler, Joey, Rachel, and Phoebe, which is 5/6ths of the main castmembers on “Friends.” Missing is Ross, which leads us to contest answer ROSS PEROT, found by 566 solvers.
Jon Delfin quips:
What the H?
Myelbow says:
Can I finish? Can I finish? Can I finish this crossword? Yes!
And re 53-Down, danchall asks:
“ALBEE There for You” was unintended?
This week’s winner, whose name was chosen at random from the 566 correct entries received, is David Bernstein of Holualoa, Hawaii. In addition to a MGWCC pen, pencil, and notepad set, David will also receive a copy of Patti Varol’s compilation volume Women of Letters.
THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:
This week’s contest answer is a flower.
Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.