Connecting through New York City

Cool puzzle Will!

Great puzzle! I definitely made use of the links to three similar puzzles - not sure I would've gotten it without those hints!

Challenging but certainly doable. Great puzzle!

Great puzzle

Got it! But I needed all the hints plus confirmation from Will.

Lots of tricks; happy I chose a quick route early enough in the game. Thanks for a great season, Will!

Very clever. Thank you. Happy Holidays and good luck with your exams.

That was a fun one, thanks!

Big fan of these.

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“This one is doable, I promise!” You delivered on this promise thank you.

A wild trip!

Good finale - thanks for the season, looking forward to next!

Loved it! I got to step 2 on my own, and might have also figured out step 3 by my lonesome, if I had been more patient. Alas, I got antsy and read the hints. Still had a fun aha!

I hope all your exams go well! Thanks for a great season of puzzles and I’ll miss the Sunday metas until your next season begins.

That had a nice Aha moment!

I guessed from the title that LGA/JFK/EWR would be important, so I was a bit crestfallen to see that they weren't necessary to figure out. I figured out the first two steps without too much trouble but had to take a break before the "oh, duh" moment.

Another fabulous puzzle to cap off this season!

Diabolically multi-stepped, hints were definitely needed (for this solver, anyway) but still preserved a terrific AHA at the end. Loved it!

It took me a minute, but I finally saw BIG APPLE (the relevant two-word phrase)! Very clever! Nice one, Will!

Great puzzle! Needed the 3 hints and a nudge, but very fun once I got rolling! Good luck next semester!

Directions for this one were a little confusing. I had LOOSE END for a while, looking for another airport connection of an X THE Y phrase that would lead to LOOSE END (TEB for Teterboro in particular) before realizing I was already done. Super creative concept as usual!

Nice one! Reading the comments below, I'm curious how C64 figured it out, because it seemed to me that the key to the whole puzzle was LGA/EWR/JFK. Once I circled those and noticed SPILLS BEANS, the rest took care of itself.

I was able to get the first 2 steps without the hints, but as the deadline drew nearer I finally caved and used the hint puzzles to help me bring it on home. Good puzzle, Will!

Once I to the correct platform, the hints guided me to the correct destination. Very well constructed and a great finale

You wrapped up Season 3 with a beautiful bow, Will... and should take one for all the fun you've brought through PB these past many weeks! Love the transportation theme.

I got lost looking for a way to connect the three airports with a string of words snaking its way through them, like A PILE SUCH AS WOK FINE FIRE PAST KEELE. Will had to tell me that the airports were the connectors. Only then did I manage the rest, but since the grid does include EHOW at 56a, I did try to enter that as a synonym for BIG APP... and it's only when it got turned down that I reread the prompt and figured out that adding LE to get BIG APPLE was much more appropriate, thereby leading me to LOOSE END as the answer. Whew.