#723 - "Look for the Crook"

An excellent puzzle written by one of the innovators of the meta crossword format. It comes out every Friday at noon and increases in difficulty throughout the month. Available for modest subscription (worth every cent) here: www.xwordcontest.com
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Beamed up
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Beamed up at #469. I finally had time today to work on it! I enjoyed this one! It felt like a true Week 2 meta. :)
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This was a busy weekend and today I took my first serious look at Week 2 #723.

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Found! A lot of elbows in there...
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So there’s the nice, pretty, professional looking reveal with the computer generated grid and all the highlighting perfectly in the squares. Then there’s the vacation blank grid, all by hand, barely legible reveal:
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BarbaraK wrote: Tue Apr 12, 2022 1:53 pm So there’s the nice, pretty, professional looking reveal with the computer generated grid and all the highlighting perfectly in the squares. Then there’s the vacation blank grid, all by hand, barely legible reveal:
I love this! Great idea - I'm going on a trip this summer and won't be able to print, so am going to try this!
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Yeah, so I found all the crooked ARMs and immediately though “ARMED ROBBER. Very clever!” I even wondered briefly why there were so many ARMS in the grid, but I was still mighty pleased with myself as I clicked “submit” on ARMED ROBBER. It was only after my name failed to appear in the leaderboard that I took another look at the grid and found the PURSE SNATCHER.

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