MGWCC #880 — Friday, April 11th, 2025 — “Jacket Required”

LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:

Title: MGWCC #879 — “Good Times”
Prompt: This week’s contest answer is a famous game show that doesn’t have a number in its title.
Answer: HOLLYWOOD SQUARES, found by 437 solvers, of which 394 were solo solves

14×20 grid last week to accommodate our six theme entries. Which were:



16-A: [2012 Best Picture nominee]
= ZERO DARK THIRTY
24-A: [2018 Spielberg movie] = READY PLAYER ONE
38-A: [1981 Carol Burnett/Alan Alda romcom] = THE FOUR SEASONS
50-A: [With “The”: 2000 crime comedy starring Bruce Willis] = WHOLE NINE YARDS
63-A: [1984 John Hughes comedy] = SIXTEEN CANDLES
76-A: [With 68-Across: 2018 drama based on a controversial 2003 book] = A MILLION LITTLE PIECES

So we’ve got six movies, each with a square in their title (0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 1,000,000). That led successful solvers to discover the cheesy-but-amusing game show HOLLYWOOD SQUARES, found by 437 solvers.

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

Today’s puzzle is Week 2 of 4 in April. Instructions:

This puzzle’s contest answer is a Masters-champion golfer.

Good luck!

–Matt

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