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.
After several dead-end bunny trails and staring blankly at the grid, enlightenment struck! I am happily on shore and ready to officially begin my Christmas break with some spiked hot cocoa!
Merry Christmas to my people in the only online community that I regularly interact with.
I don't have an inner child... I have an inner old lady.
Meta solver by night, proud independent bookstore owner by day!
steveb wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:40 pm
I started doing these metas in mid-2016 and since then, I have aspired to score 100% for an entire calendar year. I haven't come very close to that lofty goal, but I have tied my personal best with 43 for this year. If I get next week's, it will be a new high for me, but with a Roger Maris asterisk (you youngsters can Google that) since it will be the 53rd WSJ meta of the year.
But at least I'm consistent: my full-year totals have been 40, 43, 41, and now 43 again. Along the way, I've gotten some hard ones and missed too many easy ones, so you never know.
Anyway, Happy Holidays everyone!
Steve - does your record have to go in with an * because of PED's?
JoeS wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:45 pm
Ashore. Fun meta. Now ready to party! Plan to enjoy my favorite Armenian cognac "Nairi". Happy Holiday All!
You mean that the armagnac I've been ordering all these years isn't from Yerevan, or even Watertown?
These are menial questions, everyone knows the best armagnac comes form Junction Texas. There it is known as Brand Y or Brand X!
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
Only 6,294 twelve letter words in the English language
But I can think of only one of those that's something that anybody has said (or sung) that they want for Christmas. In fact, I'm submitting it as a facetious answer (since the chances of winning with the right answer are discouragingly low) in hopes that Michael M will mention it in his Monday post (or post-mortem, or post-mega, or whatever it's called).
Well, I CAme baCK to the puzzle after watching the Call the Midwives Christmas special. Would I be paddLING to shore or mired in gobbledyGOOk? Alas, I am aSEa. I see the first step but nothing more--yet. Lots of weekend left.
On shore and celebrating with a coconut imperial stout called Short Skirt Long Jacket from my local brewery Limitless. Glad to be back on the beach after staying on the boat last weekend.
steveb wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:40 pm
I started doing these metas in mid-2016 and since then, I have aspired to score 100% for an entire calendar year. I haven't come very close to that lofty goal, but I have tied my personal best with 43 for this year. If I get next week's, it will be a new high for me, but with a Roger Maris asterisk (you youngsters can Google that) since it will be the 53rd WSJ meta of the year.
But at least I'm consistent: my full-year totals have been 40, 43, 41, and now 43 again. Along the way, I've gotten some hard ones and missed too many easy ones, so you never know.
Anyway, Happy Holidays everyone!
Steve - does your record have to go in with an * because of PED's?