"Let's Move Beyond It" - August 7, 2020

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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Meg wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:27 pm I’m on the beach. Thanks, Bob, for a picture where I’m smiling! For all of you Zoom chickens, you don’t even have to talk!!
I take a bunch of screenshots and combined the best of each person.
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Solved
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Onshore. Took 45 minutes to do the grid, but the meta only took 10. Fun one!
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TPS wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 4:59 pm
Al Sisti wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 4:46 pm
TPS wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 4:45 pm Found something that can't be a coincidence but no idea what to do with it.
You will...
I think I have it - I have a 6 letter word. But usually it ties to the puzzle but not 100% how this one does. But its probably what I'll submit. If I am right I really liked this one - it made me realize I really need to organize my closet!
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On shore. Guinness, please?
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I think I’ve got it but there’s one bit of inelegance that bugs me.

Edit: ooohhhh. That’s exceedingly clever.
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Ashore for the first time in a month or so without a nudge. I guess this one was more in my wheelhouse!
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Ashore!
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femullen wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 4:46 pm Too many fracking movie directors, performing artists, and other things I know nothing about. I let you know Sunday if I even finish this stinkin' grid.

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"Fracking"... is that a Battlestar Galactica reference? :D
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Meta didn't exactly jump off the page, but it eventually crystallized. Answer has enough of a connection for me.

After I got all dressed up, you missed my Zoom screenshot? I was there for at least two minutes!
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Three things:

1. Ashore. Dazed and amazed.
2. Pour me somethin' tall and strong, because there was no way I was solving that grid without Mr. G. What a head-banger.
3. 39A. When did that happen? Did it hurt?
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Done and amused.
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On shore - and agree that this time the grid took longer than the meta.
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Abide wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:00 pm Meta didn't exactly jump off the page, but it eventually crystallized. Answer has enough of a connection for me.

After I got all dressed up, you missed my Zoom screenshot? I was there for at least two minutes!
Sorry - I was so dazzled by your appearance, I forgot to get one. Could you wear the suit and tie on Tuesday and I will get one.
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Meg wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:27 pm I’m on the beach. Thanks, Bob, for a picture where I’m smiling! For all of you Zoom chickens, you don’t even have to talk!!
my avatar this week is for you.
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Bob cruise director wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:15 pm
Meg wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:27 pm I’m on the beach. Thanks, Bob, for a picture where I’m smiling! For all of you Zoom chickens, you don’t even have to talk!!
my avatar this week is for you.
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I enjoyed this grid. Lots of cleverness. My favorites were 1A, plus 67A and 49D.

Not really sure why I knew what to do to get the meta, but I did. I'm onshore.

And in the real world, I wanted to try something different with sweet potatoes for dinner and wondered if Hasselback would work as well with them as with regular potatoes. The answer is yes. Yummy and pretty.
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Finally got it. My Yankees have started off hot, which probably means that the season will be cancelled.
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Onshore I guess. First 2 steps of meta are clear, but answer doesn't relate much.
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Kay--I love your cactus flower picture. We have a big cactus garden in a canyon adjacent to our house.
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