MGWCC #745 — “Hanging by a Thread”

[boharr]

Beamed up.

[oldjudge]

Beamed up! #52, also my age.

Ah, to be young again

But youngjudge doesn't sound right.

Very true. At this point I think the only “judge” that sounds good is Aaron Judge.

[Bird Lives]

I did this quickly and do not fully understand it. I must have done something right because at #157 on the board is a name very similar to mine. I'll have to parse and reparse the title and themers and hunt for an Easter egg or two. Or if you just want to PM me with the explanation, fire away.

[Cindy]

Solved

[Joe Ross]

160. Joe Ross 09/09 - 14:42

[HeadinHome]

I see the answer, and some extra answer

Will submit but will wait to be enlightened about why i seem to have leftovers. well, one leftover.

(update: on the board; still wondering about that extra piece)

[Bob cruise director]

Submitted from Vancouver

[benchen71]

Waiting for someone to beam me up. Nice puzzle. Feels good to actually solve something just at the moment. (WSJ and MEOW, I'm looking at you!)

[Meg]

I’ve transported successfully.

[Joe]

Submitted, but not confirmed. I included a note that suggested a possible other answer. We'll see which way the wind is blowing. Now I'm gonna give the WSJ another look. Spent about 10 minutes on it yesterday and couldn't make heads or tails of it.

Update: I picked the right one. Still no clue on WSJ

[MajordomoTom]

BMW'd up
Very funny meta this week

[rjy]

Submitted, presuming to be beamed up… back to Matt’s other challenge in the WSJ, still ain’t seeing nuttin’!

[woozy]

Got to it eight hours late. The grid was tough I thought. I'm embarrassed that I didn't see it right away. But when I saw it I realized I was embarrassed I didn't see it right away.

(Noting doing too great on two others this week that should be easy.)

[MajordomoTom]

Submitted, presuming to be beamed up… back to Matt’s other challenge in the WSJ, still ain’t seeing nuttin’!

Ditto

[TeamDoubleTow]

Submitted an answer and back to WSJ.

[Jeremy Smith]

I was out all day but solved this on my phone. I didn't submit right away due to the comments about an alternative answer. Came home and printed it up but was only able to see the answer I wound up submitting. Beam me up! Seemed like an easy Week 1. I'm still mystified about why, at this point, there have been 16 incorrect submissions.

[lbray53]

Submitted, but not confirmed. I included a note that suggested a possible other answer. We'll see which way the wind is blowing. Now I'm gonna give the WSJ another look. Spent about 10 minutes on it yesterday and couldn't make heads or tails of it.

Update: I picked the right one. Still no clue on WSJ

I did the same. I hope I picked wisely, as well.

I have a theory regarding the 18 (currently) incorrect answers. In fact, I used that theory to decide which answer to submit. Fingers crossed!

EDIT: I picked the right one! OR Matt accepted my explanation. We will see.

[MMe]

Lower left corner (!) tells you that an obviously appropriate answer isn't correct. No offense to the maestro, but that's bollocks.

[Barney]

Hmmmmm

We’ll see; I may have guessed wrong.

Went with the obvious with one question mark dangling

Could be fatal error

[Barney]

Answer right; looked at the puzzle wrong and had missed part of the cleverness.

Would rate as a week one, though, which is NOT a complaint!