Ahoy, Fellow Cruciverbalists! Welcome to Week 29 of my crossword contest. If you’re new to the contest and would like to enter, please see the site FAQ on the left sidebar for instructions.
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:
A little word puzzle awaited solvers of last week’s crossword — a hockey stick-toting, grizzly-infested, never-kicked-the-Queen-out little word puzzle involving our friends north of the border and their postal system.
The five longest entries in the grid spelled out the task:
JOIN THREE / CANADIAN POSTAL / ABBREVIATIONS TO / FORM AN NFL STAR’S / FIRST NAME
Everyone (including me) Googled the list of Canada’s thirteen postal abbreviations, and even non-sports fans pieced together PEYTON MANNING, who was last week’s contest answer phrase. His first name is spelled from the postal abbreviations for Prince Edward Island, Yukon Territory, and Ontario (PE, YT, ON). “Peyton” was the only recognizable six-letter sequence I could get from those thirteen abbrs. Solution grid at left.
This week’s winner, whose name was chosen randomly from among the 103 correct answers received, is Jordan Chodorow of Los Angeles, Calif. Jordan has selected as his prize an autographed copy of Sip & Solve Hard Crosswords.
ONE THING:
Due to limitations in Blogger’s system, I’m going to have to do comments in kind of an odd way. Comments will be open immediately when a puzzle is posted, but moderated so that they only appear at noon ET on Tuesday, when the entry deadline passes. Any comments posted after Tuesday at noon will appear immediately.
Again, no rules on comments — anything about the puzzle can be discussed there, including that week’s contest answer word. [UPDATE, 12/23, 12:05 PM ET — Comments section now open! I think I’ll go post there myself.]
I lied, there’s another thing: due to illness and then sloth, I’m about four weeks behind on sending prize books out. They’re going out this weekend, though, so if I owe you book loot, hold on — it’s comin’.
THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:
Somebody is missing from this week’s crossword. His (her? not sure) name, which is six letters long, is this week’s contest answer word. E-mail it to me at crosswordcontest@gmail.com by Tuesday at noon ET. Please put the contest answer word in the subject line of your e-mail.
To print the puzzle out, click on the image below and hit “print” on your browser. To solve using Across Lite, join the Google Group here:
http://groups.google.com/group/mgwcc
Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.