"Use Your Head" January 12, 2024

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.
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BarbaraK
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#261

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The thing about this one though is that you didn't need to know exactly what all the body parts were; just that that was the pattern.

The last two I got were hare-brained and even-handed. But it had to be an S coming from SHARE because sare, shre, shae, and shar aren't words. So that gave me ABSEN(E/T). So knew the answer was absent-minded even while I pondered those last two.
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Coming in quickly before today's to say I only submitted ABSENT, so I was ABSENT-MINDED! I'm never ABSENT from these puzzles...but let's hope I'm less ABSENT-MINDED in submitting this week's!! The fact that I missed that all the new words were hyphenated didn't help, but what does help in consolation is that 123 of you made the same mistake I did, haha.

First miss in the new year, so let's shake it off!
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