LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:
OU, OV, OW, OX and OY, began last week’s five theme entries. They were:
OUIJA BOARD
OVAL OFFICE
OWN GOAL
OX-EYE DAISY
OYSTER STEW
What two-word region of the United States logically follows? After that OU-OV-OW-OX-OY its first word must begin with OZ, which led 468 solvers to the OZARK MOUNTAINS.
The Collector writes:
My first thought was “Ozone hole.”
This week’s winner, whose name was chosen randomly from the 468 correct entries received, is Audrey Muratore of Houston, Tex. In addition to a MGWCC pen, pencil and notepad set, Audrey will also receive a copy of Merl Reagle’s 100th Anniversary Crosswords. Next week’s winner will receive the same.
MULLER MUSIC META IS UP:
Pete Muller‘s Monthly Music Meta is up for November. Deadline is Sunday, so get to it if you’re gonna. I’ll be blogging it at Crossword Fiend but haven’t had time to solve it yet, though I see now that this month’s meta answer is a Fleetwood Mac song. This makes me nervous, since the one MMMM I’ve missed this year, and it was painful, was another Fleetwood Mac song.
THREE WEEKS OF CHESS METAS:
The World Chess Championship begins tomorrow, so the next three weeks of metas will all be chess-related. I know you’re just as excited as I am about it, right? Right!
On that same subject: here’s an article I wrote for Slate this week arguing that there should be no World Chess Champion, and that chess should instead switch over to a “slams” system like they use in tennis and golf.
THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:
One of the six pieces in chess is missing from this puzzle’s theme. Which one is it? Submit your answer in the form on the left sidebar by Tuesday at noon ET. Note: the submissions form disappears from the site promptly at noon on Tuesday.
To print the puzzle out, click on the image below and hit “print” on your browser. To solve using Across Lite either solve on the applet below or download the free software here, then join the Google Group (2,112 members now!) here.
Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.