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Title: “So Many Issues”
Prompt: This week’s contest answer is a well-known publication.
Answer: SEVENTEEN Magazine
Correct entries: 475 overall, of which 419 were solo solves

Solvers couldn’t help but notice all the MAGs hiding in last week’s grid. There were seventeen in total, found in the entries I’M A GOD, TAMAGO, MAGNETIC IMAGING (x2), MAGMA, MAGICK, MAGI, MAGGOT, MAGPIE, DAMAGING, MAGYAR, MAGENTA, MAGA, MAGOO, DEMAGOG, MAGOG, and FROMAGE. This suggests contest answer SEVENTEEN Magazine, since that many MAGs don’t just show up at random.

PatXC says:

Haven’t been eligible to read it since 1968.

DIS wonders:

Your middle initial isn’t A by any chance, is it?

Nope, it’s C, as revealed in MGWCC #006.

And EliSelzer says:

I kept coming up one short on my counting and realized I’d make a mistake in the fill. I guess you could say I was right on the Edge of Seventeen.

Pete Muller: I have a meta idea for you!

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

This week’s contest answer is a piece of sports equipment.

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