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LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:

Title: “It Takes Two”
Prompt: This week’s contest answer is a well-known TV show.
Answer: ER
Correct entries: 611, of which 597 were solo solves

Nobody missed it! You all went 611/611. That’s what should happen on a Week 1/5, so long-distance high-five from me to all 611 of you.

Theme entries were:

17-A: [Flower seen in Manhattan] = EAST RIVER
23-A: [Buzzing cutter] = ELECTRIC RAZOR
36-A: [Leaving work before quitting time] = EARLY RETIREMENT. Macro time scale there.
46-A: [Best Actor winner for portraying Stephen Hawking] = EDDIE REDMAYNE
57-A: [1969 movie portraying a motorcycle trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans] = EASY RIDER

Those are all E.R. entries, leading to our contest answer.

Mikey G submitted at 12:03 with the comment:

I need another puzzle, stat!

Majordomo Tom writes:

I Chicago Hope this is correct

REM says:

Solved this puzzle while on a flight to a cardiology convention.

And finally, Megan Amram quips:

This had me grinning from ER to ER

On to Week 2 of 5…

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

This week’s contest answer is the two grid entries that, when combined, would make a valid fifth theme entry. Hint: one of them is six letters long.

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