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LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:
Title: “Orange Is the New Black”
Instructions: This week’s contest answer is a drink.
Answer: PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE
Could it be Coke or Pepsi? Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi? Gin or juice? Let’s find out by taking a look at the theme entries, a trio of grid-spanners:
17-A [Play a prank] = PULL SOMEONE’S LEG
37-A [Serie A or the WNBA, e.g.] = PRO SPORTS LEAGUE
57-A [Demand to a gaslighter] = PLEASE STOP LYING. Legit entry or totally made-up, or somewhere in between? The third one.
Those all go by the initials PSL, which has become shorthand for the Starbucks PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE, found by 548 solvers. I’ve never had one so can’t give an opinion, but solvers were not shy:
HomeSkooled says:
yummmmmmm
Andy Kravis says:
hell yeah
Rhonda says:
My favorite!
And Pomona47 says:
I had one this morning!
But then there’s also…
Kranke:
Putrid Syrupy Liquid
arctan li:
no
Mikey:
I prefer PBR to PSL
And then several solvers, including Evad, who wrote simply:
Ugh!
This week’s winner, whose name was chosen at random from the 548 correct entries received, is Daniel Laudel of St. Louis, Mo.. In addition to a MGWCC pen, pencil, and notepad set, Daniel will also receive a copy of Henry Hook‘s Munchkin Crosswords (written under the nom de grid Pete Naish). Next week’s winner will receive the same.
SEPTEMBER WINNERS:
Congratulations to the following twelve MGWCC winners for September, whose names were chosen at random from among the 149 people who sent in the correct contest answer to each of last month’s four puzzles (EYE, YOU FOUND IT!, HO-HUM, SAS). Each will receive a MGWCC pen, pencil, and notepad set:
Andy Browne — Arlington, Va.
Austin Burns — Orlando, Fla.
Sean Forbes — Crest Hill, Ill.
Richard Kalustian — Tacoma, Wash.
Andrew Karas — Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Jeremy Koenig — Washington, D.C.
Louis Lana — New York City, N.Y.
Adam Levine — Durham, N.C.
Jonathan McCue — Seattle, Wash.
Jim Quinlan — Westtown, N.Y.
David Rosenberg — Sherman Oaks, Calif.
M. Thompson — Toronto, Ont.
Congratulations again to our twelve winners, and to everyone who went 4-for-4 in September.
THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:
Which two entries in this grid combine to make a good title for the puzzle?
Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.