MGWCC #753 - “Global Search”

[Joe Ross]

MGWCC #753 — Friday, November 4th, 2022 — “Global Search”

THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:

This week’s contest answer is a nation in the news..

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


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[docison]

Easy breezy week 1. #5 on the board at 12:03 (my admiration to those who submit before completing the grid, I'm just not wired that way).

[MikeyG]

This dude, @Abide

Also, liking the playful cluing on this one! I think you can maybe do that a bit more on Week 1 (I do it on every week, so too bad.)

May you all have illumi-nation in finding the country!

Mikey G

[KayW]

beamed up

[ajk]

Beamed at #22.

[DCBilly]

Got it, but got a funny response from Matt’s site about entries being closed. Then a minute later I check the board and there I am. I’ll take it.

[jhseeman]

Beamed at #41...life when you finish the grid first.

Fun one.....but wait, done with all this weeks Metas and it's only 12:30 on Friday.....curses now I actually haveto do my work for work this afternoon....GRRR.

[ChrisKochmanski]

Beamed!

Also got the strange message about submissions being closed. I’ll check later to see if I’m on the board, and will resubmit if needed.

UPDATE: On the board!

[HunterX]

Beamed up!

Submitted before finishing the grid. (Something I never do.)

The answer is a nation that I am going to visit, albeit very briefly, twice this month! (Can't imagine that's a spoiler. But if anyone feels it is, let me know.)

[boharr]

Beamed.

[MikeM000]

I'm feeling like Ferris Bueller today, as I am Love Missile F-111 on the board. I also understand how someone got it in under a minute.

Oh, and since I was at his website already, I read the needfully long Mikey G write-up of last week's, and now I finally understand what was going on there.

Shoot it up!

[hcbirker]

Beam me up!

[Bob cruise director]

Speaking for us luddites, I do not do the crossword on 56A, I use something weird called paper. And pen. And highlighters.

Your neanderthal cruise director.

[ricky]

Beamed up at #17. I love Week 1.

[Abide]

Putting those streaks on the line:

I didn't get the email until :02, and I did solve about 1/4 of the grid.
So @docison (12:03) completed the grid in one minute?

[benchen71]

Awaiting beam-up and the start of a new streak!

[edestlin]

Awaiting beam-up myself.

And @Bob cruise director - while I most often use 56A, I used to find particular joy in picking up the in-flight magazine and solving with pen and paper (if someone hadn't butchered it before I got there). Now it seems they've done away with those. Fortunately, for my last flight, I had already downloaded the MGWCC and so was able to work offline.

[ky-mike]

I didn’t like this one, but am on the board.

[rjy]

Awaiting the tractor beam, boulevardier in hand…

Update: beamed up!

[Alvibu67]

Beamed up! Fun puzzle! WSJ done, MGWCC done - now what!? Off to the archive or one of Gaffney's books, I guess.

Have a great weekend, all!