MGWCC #750 - "Monster Match"

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MGWCC #750 - "Monster Match"

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MGWCC #750 - Friday, October 14th, 2022 - "Monster Match"

THIS WEEK'S INSTRUCTIONS:

This week's contest answer is a sound heard in horror movies.

Solve well, and be not led astray by words intended to deceive.

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Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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#4 on the board (which I think is identical to my WSJ placement this week - Bobby Orr would be proud).
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Good news bad news for me this week. I finally got my 1-Across achievement!! But I realized I didn't solve the non-Week 5 puzzle on October 2nd and now I can't complete all the achievements for another year :cry:
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Squeaked into the top 20.
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
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#32. A really fun puzzle! Now back to the Fireball meta.
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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Beam me up! Fun one.
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In the top 50.
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Fun one, though just as scary is that we're 3/4 through this journey! I came late to the game so I'm intent on savoring this final quarter!
Less cross words, more crosswords.

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Note to my loved ones:

Not the tombstone I'm hoping for....
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Beam me up!
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:alien: :flying_saucer: beamed.
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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Was that 28A is only available in Sept, and Oct. news to anyone else?

Pretty sure I'm beamed. Easy but not trivial.
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
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Beamed up. Fun one.
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Solved
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#81. Nice square number
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Beamed up. Fun one!
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As for the 3/4 through the journey, is MGWCC only going to 1000? I've never known anything about this finite number before...
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Fun! #92, at least I made the top 100.
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spotter wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:26 pm As for the 3/4 through the journey, is MGWCC only going to 1000? I've never known anything about this finite number before...
Yes, he's explicitly said that the MGWCC is a 1000 puzzle series. Not sure when he announced that initially (probably before most of us started doing it!), but he's made occasional reference to it - see, e.g., puzzle 500, the solution to which was "Halfway There." So we've got 5 more years, give or take...
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waiting for the official beam up.

But as usually I'm staring at the answer....not seeing it, bang my head again...not seeing it....walk away, and realize I utzed one part of it. cleared it up and now waiting for the beaming process.
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