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LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:
Title: “Title Search”
Instructions: This week’s contest answer is an Oscar-winning movie of 2018.
Answer: GREEN BOOK
A Merly week 1, with four famous novels getting colorized like old movies:
18-A: [Margaret Atwood novel about the color a servant wears?] = THE HANDMAID’S TEAL. From The Handmaid’s Tale.
28-A: [Thomas Hardy novel about how underused a certain color is?] = JADE THE OBSCURE. From Jude the Obscure.
48-A: [Madeleine L’Engle novel about a light-colored piece of clothing that needs to be ironed?] = A WRINKLE IN LIME. From A Wrinkle in Time.
61-A/68-A: [Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel about a certain color’s usefulness in fighting off disease?] = OLIVE IN THE TIME OF / CHOLERA. From Love in the Time of Cholera.
These are all books and one word in each has morphed into a shade of green, so it’s gotta be GREEN BOOK, which won Best Picture last month.
This week’s winner, whose name was chosen at random from the 616 correct entries received, is Ben Lockshin of Washington, D.C.. In addition to a MGWCC pen, pencil, and notepad set, Ben will also receive a signed copy of my book Fast & Fun Mini Crosswords.
LUCKY MARCH:
Remember — it’s Lucky March, so you don’t need to run the table this month to be eligible for monthly prizes; you just need to go 3-for-5 or better. And there’ll be 13 prizes instead of 10, so if you’ve never won before or it’s been a long time, this could be it!
THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:
This week’s contest answer is an 11-letter word starting with B.
Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.