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.
Staring? I've had this puzzle within arm's reach since I finished it Friday morning. And I've stared and stared at it.
I've got nothing and plenty of it. (Apologies to Gershwin) I sent in a wild guess, but that doesn't mean I'm off the ship. No, I'm staying right here. The piano player knows some Monk tunes, and I'll find out "Round Midnight anyway.
Bird Lives wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 7:09 pm
Well that took a lot of staring. It turns out I was staring at the right thing, but there was a figure-ground problem.
I'll have whaever everyone else on shore is having. On second thought, in honor of the Savant, make that a Lime rickey.
I hit the wrong quote. Sorry, I wanted to quote Bird.
Annabelle wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 8:07 pm
I think I have one foot at least firmly on the beach, but a rip tide might could wash me back out to sea. That Mike, he's a tricky one.
"Might could" -- I accuse you of being a Southerner.
Had a wrongheaded idea all day but just didn’t seem clever enough to be right. Then looked again at it tonight. OHHHHH. Duh. Yeah that’s pretty darn clever. Must have been a challenge to create!
Good evening muggles. Our final count is 22 on the ship and 130 on the shore.
And we have a new muggle since lunch - Plymouth rock
Keeping Isaac in business for the week are Deb and eagle 1279
And making their way to the shore are:
Big Mac
Richard
Patty
STL-D
maprasad
jacksull
hissongle
DaveWa
bradisbrad
Gwert
dudeski
Laura M
Frank H
Geezer Weezer
Annabelle
LittleGood
Bird Lives
Carla
and the ever solid Plymouth Rock
Gwert wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 6:02 pm
ON SHORE MAYBE, but i’m through 8 pages of posts that there may be a dispute with the final answer. I could see it going a couple different ways, unless i’m some confirmation somewhere else in the grid. Nuff said for now.
A muggle misconstrued a post of mine, thinking I was advocating for an alternate answer. I wasn't. This answer is 100% clear.
pookie wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 8:32 pm
I've got nothing and plenty of it. (Apologies to Gershwin) I sent in a wild guess, but that doesn't mean I'm off the ship. No, I'm staying right here. The piano player knows some Monk tunes, and I'll find out "Round Midnight anyway.
Not Monk or Gershwin. There's a Rodgers and Hart song that kept playing in my mind's ear on when I was trying to backsolve. Details after the deadline.
on shore, nudges told me I was on right track...fair enough. looked at it one last time, and wow. I was slightly off...making my version jibberish.
thanks, getting some wine.
UTHfan wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 11:51 pm
on shore, nudges told me I was on right track...fair enough. looked at it one last time, and wow. I was slightly off...making my version jibberish.
thanks, getting some wine.
I would bet a lot that you have the same jibberish letters that I had and probably many more!
