Formerly known as the “Sunday Summer Substitute”, editor Cap'n Rick now takes the helm for 'Smooth Sailing Sundays'. As The Commodores sang about Sunday morning, the SSS will focus on easier metas. SSS will also support smaller grids and will mentor new constructors on request. Puzzles released each Sunday around 8am Eastern. Nudges released same day at Noon Eastern. New constructors are welcome.
I just love the month of March and all of its associations with my favorite color - GREEN! In addition to St. Patrick's Day, we also have the beginning of spring, the aquamarine birthstone, and the money we'll hopefully get back from the IRS this year! There's so much green going on this month that I just had to construct this puzzle. I'd like to thank @boharr, @whimsy, @Wendy Walker, @MarkWoychick, @DrTom, @DavyGravy, and @Joe Ross for testing and technical help.
This month marks the 1-year anniversary of "Smooth Sailing Sundays"! I'd like to thank all of the constructors below who generously contributed puzzles and helped keep the SSShip afloat during her maiden voyage. Hopefully we'll be able to keep her sailing smoothly for another year!
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
Guinness is brown. How do you make it green????
My wife is requesting piña coladas, as it is warm and this is Smooth Sailing Sunday.
THOSE I can make green!
Happy St. Paddy's to all.
If you want help with a meta, feel free to PM me. The more specific you are about what you have and what you want, the more likely I can help without spoiling.
(And if I help you win a mug, I’ll be especially delighted.)
Very nice. Although I missed half of it this time around, even though I test solved (in my defense it was like 2 months ago )
Check out this very cool project by many of your favorite muggles to raise money to fight cancer. You get a fun puzzle bundle and good causes get $. Win-win: Crosswords for Cancer
Sorry, I almost forgot to post these! You probably won't need them all, but I couldn't stop typing. I'll be traveling this week, so this is kinda like a combination Nudges/Reveal.
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So, the Cap'n said there's a lot of "green" stuff this month. I wonder if there are any "green" entries in this grid?
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Holy cow! I found 6 "green" entries, and their first letters spell something recognizable!
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The clue for 58A says it contains a "hint to solving the meta," so maybe I should try looking UNDER what I have so far.
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Hmm, as @KayW would say, the entries UNDER the "green" entries all seem to be "sportsing" terms.
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Holy cow! The first letters of the 6 "sportsing" entries also spell something recognizable!
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Oh, now I get it! The "sportsing" entries are "wearing" or "have on" the "green" entries - kinda like a "uniform" per 27A.
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Remember, the prompt says the answer is "someone" (i.e. an individual) - not the entire team! And there are 12 letters total.
Got it without the nudges. But my thought process was nearly entirely different.
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Notice the hint first. Saw a few greens (turtle first, then beret) and a focused search found all six. Applied hint but didn't expect it to be so immediate. Valid word so entered it and *rejected*??? huh. Geez. Please don't tell me that's an elaborate easter egg and the mechanism is entirely different. Tried applying the hint in other way with no luck. And *then* at the very last noticed the green things themselves spelled something as well.
Fun and breezy one for the day.
GUAVA is not an anagram of VAGUE and PEPPER is not a palindrome.
There's so much green going on this month that I just had to construct this puzzle. I'd like to thank @boharr, @whimsy, @Wendy Walker, @MarkWoychick, @DrTom, @DavyGravy, and @Joe Ross for testing and technical help. 
SSSolved. Nice one, thanks!
