A place to discuss the weekly Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Contest, starting every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please do not post any answers or hints before the contest deadline which is midnight Sunday Eastern time.
MikeMillerwsj wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:55 am
The contest answer is WORLD. Each of the five theme clues contains a year. As suggested by the first and last Across answers, YEAR and ROOT, find the square root of those years. The letters in the correspondingly numbered boxes, in clue order, spell the contest answer.
Apologies for the delay this week! I love this group--you duck out for a few days and the conversation has turned to Baudelaire and Disney World.
This was one of those puzzles that you can't imagine constructing... getting the grid just right so 5 numbered squares (including some that are within the theme answers!) spell out the answer. We had a very successful turnout: 1521 entries with 95% correct, way above average.
Incorrect guesses arrived in dribs and drabs including EARTH, CLOUT, JAPAN, SUPER, NAMES, TIMES and sundry others.
Congrats to this week's winner: Dave Wilson of Chesterfield, Mo.!
Well, at least it was "a" Wilson who won. Baby steps.
