#59 - "Keep Your Head Above Water"

Creative and challenging meta crosswords (currently on hiatus) from: www.pgwcc.net
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#21

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I'm a little worried about my answer now, because I wasn't missing a piece...but I feel like it had to be right.
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#22

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I started the grid late last night and got the solution this morning. I still have that loose end that I’d like to cover before I submit. When is the solution due?
Got the rest—great puzzle! Happy Mother’s Day to all.
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Double header was too much for me and I think Sam and I couldn't even finish this grid without googling. Still working on the WSJ contest. I like having these puzzles to check out when I finish WSJ and MGWCWC but we're not there yet this week!!
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#24

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I think I have this figured out. Still missing letters, but understand the mechanism.

Answer is due at 11pm pacific time on Monday. I will submit what I have before then if I can’t find what I am missing.
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Taking another crack at this one because I realized how close I was to getting the WSJ this week and Im addicted to that itch. Anyone else need google to solve PGW grids? lol
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ok ive got the grid done. really liked learning all sorts of new stuff w/ the puzzle. i love googling stuff w/ metas it's all about fact checking and making sure i have the correct grid and especially w pgw theres so much obscure stuff
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ok ive got the grid done. really liked learning all sorts of new stuff w/ the puzzle. i love googling stuff w/ metas it's all about fact checking and making sure i have the correct grid and especially w pgw theres so much obscure stuff
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#28

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I think I have wrapped this one up. I seldom get through one of Peter's grids without Google help.
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#29

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Every day I spent a few minutes looking at this one and seeing nothing. This morning it jumped off the page.
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#30

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Geoduck wrote: Fri May 08, 2020 4:15 pm I won the prize on another meta the first time I submitted. I wonder if my luck will be the same here.
Since the prize consists only of whatever feeling you get from solving the puzzle, everyone's a winner ...
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My answer is missing a couple of elements but I'm very pretty sure I'm on the right track and in fact, I can infer the answer. I wonder if this happened to others as well.

Edit: Re-reading the comments, I now know it happened to everyone lol.
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camandsampowercouple wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 4:56 am ok ive got the grid done. really liked learning all sorts of new stuff w/ the puzzle. i love googling stuff w/ metas it's all about fact checking and making sure i have the correct grid and especially w pgw theres so much obscure stuff
This week was the first PGWCC I ever tried. I had seen the comments about his puzzles being hard, so I was expecting a difficult solve. I found the grid moderately challenging, but didn't need the Google machine at all, and I solved the meta immediately. I suspect this won't be the case every week.

I wish the WSJ meta came to me as easily.
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pgw wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 2:34 pm
Geoduck wrote: Fri May 08, 2020 4:15 pm I won the prize on another meta the first time I submitted. I wonder if my luck will be the same here.
Since the prize consists only of whatever feeling you get from solving the puzzle, everyone's a winner ...
I did not know that! (Said in my best Johnny Carson intonation.)

I still enjoyed the puzzle and meta and expect to do them from now on. Thank you for creating them.
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#34

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Did you read the "bonus feature" writeup in today's post? Wow...
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#35

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Al Sisti wrote: Tue May 12, 2020 10:28 am Did you read the "bonus feature" writeup in today's post? Wow...
Wow, indeed! Sorry I missed finding it. I always feel like I've let the teacher down when I miss the meta. And now I guess I have to worry that I'm missing a bonus meta! I'll never sleep again.
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#36

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Fun surprise in there!
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Wow indeed. Now we've got mega-metas, bonus features, red herrings . . .
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#38

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Cool Easter egg on this one. The islands weren't happening for me, though. Geography and I don't get along - I have trouble finding my way home some days.
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