Last Week’s Results:

Title: “Just Add Water”
Prompt: This puzzle’s contest answer is a 5-letter proper name.
Answer: SEINE, found by 230 solvers, 153 of which were solo solves

Accidentally erased today’s post a few minutes ago! Egad! Will replace ASAP.

UPDATE: Actually I’m worried I’m going to erase already-submitted entries if I try to redo my writeup, so please just see here instead: https://crosswordfiend.com/2026/01/06/mgwcc-918/
THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

This puzzle’s contest answer is well-known crossword puzzle constructor.