#618 - "Get the Idea Across"

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I knew he had it in him: Jangler is on the board.
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#22

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I got this one, I have no clue on WSJ this week though!
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Banged this one out at lunch... still sitting on WSJ (it's been a crazy work week)... hoping it'll keep me busy for the weekend...
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#24

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I really liked this one. Beam me up!
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Beam me up!
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#26

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Beam me up (pending verification. but I'm pretty sure)! My working-from-home schedule has become wonky enough that I didn't get to this one until late tonight.

Edit: On the board!
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Solved
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#28

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Solved. So wanted it to be a different answer.
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After my week 4 whiff I was happy to have an easy return to week 1. Beam me up.
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YEA! Finally solved one all on my own. Yes I know it is a gimme but it has been a BAD couple of weeks for me and METAs so I am happy to have at least one I'm pretty confident of. Its WSJCC that has me crazy now.
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OK, finally saw my name in the "solved" portion - snuck in at #450 but I'll TAKE it! :D :)
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Didn't vet my answer and submitted in haste. LEARNING LESSON #642!
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#33

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Finally made it to shore (and the boards) after floundering way longer than I ought to have. Gory details post-deadline.
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#34

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solved. now back to the 11th hour for the WSJ meta.
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KayW wrote: โ†‘Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:40 pm Finally made it to shore (and the boards) after floundering way longer than I ought to have. Gory details post-deadline.
Oh, I do so love a good gory detail....just ate some herring so I am waiting with baited breath!
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DrTom wrote: โ†‘Mon Apr 06, 2020 1:11 am
KayW wrote: โ†‘Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:40 pm Finally made it to shore (and the boards) after floundering way longer than I ought to have. Gory details post-deadline.
Oh, I do so love a good gory detail....just ate some herring so I am waiting with baited breath!
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stay tuna'd and don't be crabby
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Submitted the same answer two weeks in a row. What are the odds??? At least this one was correct :)

Stay well all
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KayW wrote: โ†‘Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:40 pm Finally made it to shore (and the boards) after floundering way longer than I ought to have. Gory details post-deadline.
Yoo hoo, Kay. Was there a good story you were going to share with us?
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BarbaraK wrote: โ†‘Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:24 pm
KayW wrote: โ†‘Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:40 pm Finally made it to shore (and the boards) after floundering way longer than I ought to have. Gory details post-deadline.
Yoo hoo, Kay. Was there a good story you were going to share with us?
Barbara - thank you for asking/reminding! I was going to say - I am new to MGWCC and thought the deadline was on Tuesday. And then realized that today is Wednesday :lol: The days of the week are blurring during my enforced staycation.

I picked up the idea of finding answers to the across questions in the grid pretty quickly. Unfortunately, the answers I found were STOP(54D)/OWLS/SPOON/ELLEN. Rather than trying to find an alternate answer for any of the questions, I stubbornly persisted in trying to find an additional step. 1-across 1-2-3/A-B-C seemed to indicate some sort of numeric approach. I spent two days trying to find some way to translate my answers to numbers to other letters - using grid entry numbers, ordinal position of the answer letters in the alphabet, you name it. Finally an off-hand comment from a friend, plus the fact that ROSE might be an acceptable answer, sent me scurrying back to find a different WAZE ROUTE PART. Doh!
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