Philip Chow

Welcome to Phil's Crossword Corner (PCC)... I recently got hooked into creating metas and will try and release a new one each week. For those of you who have been following me since the start and are new to metas, a meta puzzle is a crossword puzzle with a secondary puzzle within it - you'll need to figure out what's going on to answer a prompt. Mike D does a pretty good job explaining it here: https://crosshare.org/articles/meta-crossword-puzzles.

If you are not interested in metas, I'll still try to make my puzzles fun to solve and you can click the "reveal answer" button at the end. But give it a try! Hopefully you'll like the extra challenge and get suckered into joining the meta-verse. I'll include optional hints so you can get extra nudges to play along.

Note for the level designation, I am using the Gaffney scale in which a week 1 puzzle = easy, and a week 4 and 5 puzzle = hard. The level is the intended difficulty I had in mind when I designed the puzzle, but may play differently since every solver has their own area of expertise... what one person may find easy, another may find difficult.

I restarted the puzzle numbering system with Puzzle #67 as PCC#1. An archive of non-meta puzzles are in my Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1vsBrG5gENL9s2z2psq4KTCHO0OBVNt7Z.

I'm always happy to welcome any feedback, questions, typo-spotting, or if you just want to chat... You can reach me at pchow13@gmail.com