LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:

Title: “You’ve Seen This One”
Prompt: This week’s contest answer is a well-known romantic comedy.
Answer: GROUNDHOG DAY, found by 409 solvers, 386 of which were solo solves

The trick wasn’t too tough, though it took most solvers a Week 2 amount of time to suss it out since it was a bit unusual. It was: six pairs of answers in the grid share a clue, like so:

1-A [One of two colors in Bangladesh’s flag] GREEN
8-D [One of two colors in Bangladesh’s flag] RED
9-D [Four-letter state] OHIO
10-D [Four-letter state] UTAH
18-A [“Cheers” character] NORM
21-A [“Cheers” character] DIANE
26-A [Haunting instrument] HARP
28-D [Haunting instrument] OBOE
38-A [One of the EU’s 24 official languages] GREEK
47-A [One of the EU’s 24 official languages] DUTCH
52-A [It’s taught in studios] ART
56-A [It’s taught in studios] YOGA

In top-to-bottom grid order, those spell contest answer GROUNDHOG DAY, the 1993 Bill Murray/Andie MacDowell rom-com. On a scale from 1 to 10, how annoying do you find it when someone refers to this movie as “Groundhog’s Day”? It’s about a 7 for me.

Mikey G writes:

What a great puzzle! What a great puzzle!

Doph127 says:

First solve! Solo. Love the puzzles

Welcome, Doph! Welcome, Doph!

And Andy Consonant writes:

I could do this puzzle every day!

It’d get easier the second time! It’d get easier the second time!

OK, this joke is played out so let’s move on…

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

Today’s puzzle is Week 3 of 4 in February, a guest puzzle by Andrew Linzer. Andrew’s most recent MGWCC appearance was puzzle #720, “Get It Together!”. Andrew lives in San Francisco with his partner, Sarah, with whom he looks forward to a lifetime of solving puzzles. Let’s see what he has for us this week:

Prompt: This week’s contest answer is a song that was popular around the same time as “Single Ladies.”