MGWCC #963 — Friday, November 13th, 2026 — Week 2 of 4 in November — “It Takes Two”

LAST WEEK’s PUZZLE:

Title: Candy Crush
Prompt: Instructions:This puzzle’s contest answer is a candy we’ve still got many of left over from Halloween.
Answer: THREE MUSKETEERS

Easy one for Halloween! We had three nonsense answers, all of which anagrammed to contest answer THREE MUSKETEERS:

12-A: [What happens when I visit Istanbul?] = TURKS SEE ME
18-A: [Hold former Secretary of State Dean in high regard?] = ESTEEM RUSK
29-A: [Total amount of insects flying around you?] = SKEETER SUM

Each of those three anagrams to THREE MUSKETEERS, found by 407 solvers.

On to Week 2…

THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE:

Today’s puzzle is Week 2 of 4 in November. Instructions:

This puzzle’s contest answer is a four-letter word describing what you’ll need to solve this one.

Good luck!

–Matt