"Sound Off" - May 29, 2020

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"Sound Off" - May 29, 2020

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This week's contest is titled SOUND OFF by Mike Shenk

The answer to this week's contest is a five-letter word

Good luck to all keeping their streak alive and for winning the mug
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On the beach! 🏖 🍷 Merlot, please!
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On shore, after a brief false start. Merlot sounds good to me, too!
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Safely in the sand. Might have gotten it earlier, but I'm supposed to be watching my grandkids in the pool. I think I see most of them... so Guinness me please.
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Ashore! Another solid puzzle from Mike.

Think I got there through an unintended path, that isn't really a path but...in any event I'll explain later.

Week 5 MGWCC tomorrow = buckle up!!
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Al Sisti wrote: Thu May 28, 2020 4:36 pm Safely in the sand. Might have gotten it earlier, but I'm supposed to be watching my grandkids in the pool. I think I see most of them... so Guinness me please.
Is "most" - parts of all of them or all of parts of them.
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I will "sound off" as being present on the beach! I hope all my fellow Muggles are doing well.
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Safely on shore.
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Abeach in time for one of my favorite sounds ... the happy hour first call!
'tis... A lovely day for a Guinness!
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On shore. Liked this one. It's hot out, so I'm going with a Harpoon UFO. Enjoy the weekend, all.
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Onshore, keeping my post-ADOBE streak alive, anyway.
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Fun!
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Got it ... but I was seeing absolutely nothing for a while there! Clever one, Mike!
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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I was hoping for a reasonably quick WSJ this week so I could clear my meta deck for week 5 MGWCC tomorrow. Mike delivered.

On shore after one initial error. Could be a couple tricky bits here depending on what people know.
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Solved. But almost made a fatal error.
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On the beach. With a margarita. One of these days I’ll even get a tan!
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Ashore. I actually came up with 2 solutions but I submitted what I believe to be the more elegant one.
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Done and I guess I'm done. Going to ponder it a bit before submitted to see if I can increase my confidence level to 100%
If I'm around, I am willing to join the Muggle Zoom room at other times to lend a hand to those in need.
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Found several tempting rabbits but nothing so far. I'm going to put it aside for awhile. Oh, and thanks for the 29 down Mike!
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Got off to a late start and the grid took me longer than usual - no clue on the meta yet.
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