It was confirmed in mid-March that Parker had stepped back as an editor for USA Today and Universal. Parker said he had not deliberately copied any puzzles, but Gaffney's Slate article "How to Spot a Plagiarized Crossword" presents evidence to the contrary. On March 4, 2016, the website FiveThirtyEight said it had found similarities between puzzles Timothy Parker had edited and published through USA Today and Universal Uclick (now Andrews McMeel Syndication) and ones previously published. Gaffney has stated the MGWCC will run for exactly 1,000 weeks, meaning the last one will be published on Friday, Aug. MGWCC celebrated 5 years of puzzles on Jwith MGWCC #263 "Bring Forth the Fourth". Once the weekly deadline passes, Joon Pahk provides a writeup and summary on the Diary of a Crossword Fiend blog where MGWCC #169 entitled "Moving Day" won the 2011 Puzzle of the Year Award and Gaffney won the 2012 Constructor of the Year Award. There are prizes awarded weekly and monthly normally a customized MGWCC pen, pencil and notepad set. The first Friday of the month is about the level of a Monday New York Times Puzzle, where the last Friday of the month is about the Saturday New York Times (or harder) difficulty level. Instructions are provided each week, and the difficulty level increases as the month progresses. It is posted every Friday afternoon and solvers generally have until the next Tuesday at noon to submit the correct answer. MGWCC is a combination crossword puzzle and "metapuzzle" (puzzle within a puzzle). In July 2014 Gaffney's "Murder by Meta" Kickstarter project was released. On October 11, 2013, Gaffney started a Gaffney on Crosswords blog covering all things crossword related. Since June 6, 2008, he has created a weekly crossword puzzle contest (MGWCC), and since September 21, 2011, he has created a daily crossword puzzle (MGDC). He was previously a contributor to the Onion A.V. He has created puzzles for Lollapuzzoola and guest-constructed for Brendan Emmett Quigley. He has served as judge for Will Shortz's American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and won the Junior division as a contestant in 1997. His puzzles have been published in the New York Times 58 times. Gaffney was thirteen when his first crossword puzzle was published in Dell Champion Crossword Puzzles, and has gone on to create more than 4,000 crossword puzzles over the past 25 years. His puzzles have appeared in Billboard magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Beast, Dell Champion Crossword Puzzles, GAMES magazine, the Los Angeles Times, New York magazine, the New York Times, Newsday, The Onion, Slate magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, The Week, and Wine Spectator. Matt Gaffney is a professional crossword puzzle constructor and author who lives in Staunton, Virginia.
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