"Group Outings" - September 18, 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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spotter
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On shore!
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Wendy Walker
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Solved! That was a lot of fun.
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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Al Sisti
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On shore, after learning way too much about... something else. Guinness me please?
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LadyBird
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BarbaraK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:33 pm Nice to see a shoutout to a muggle at 32A
I looked at this and thought-- what muggle goes by [the answer]? Oh....the clue. This doesn't bode well for solving the puzzle if I'm this clueless already!
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Ashore! Earliest ever for me!! Just in time to meet daughter and her M-I-L for a glass of wine. Maybe I’ll have a nice cold Pinot Grigio 😎. That sounds like just the thing to cut through all this smoke. AQI 159 here.
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VincentM
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Took me a minute, but I see it now. Ashore. Three weeks in a row -- back on track?
no .sig, no avatar, just puzzlin' fun
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Ashore!
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Schmeel
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Ashore.
Nice to get an easier one this week - Rosh Hashana is almost here and there is plenty more to get done before then.
Sal - blow your shofar!
Shana tova all, have a happy, healthy, sweet new year.
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Count me ashore. Not my favorite.

Stay well all.
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I have an answer, but something else is bothering me about this one. Will continue pondering the alternative.
Heidi
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MarkL
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Got it. Ashore.
'tis... A lovely day for a Guinness!
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This will be a good introduction to meta strategies for new solvers.
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norrin2
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I am ashore in time for a Thursday happy hour, unusual for me. Think I'll celebrate with a Cuba Libre. Top shelf rum, of course.
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tim1217
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boharr wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 5:32 pm
tim1217 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 5:27 pm
Hmm, not seeing it. Do you have yo be a subscriber?
With that link above, I think you do. Notice the word "accounts."
But I copied a link when I got there, pasted in another, browser, did not sign in, and it worked.
Try:
https://www.wsj.com/live-qa/wsj-live-ac ... 9DB8E451D6

Thanks, that was awesome! I am grateful that I was not a meta-solver when TWOFERS came along, because...not in a million years!
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howardl
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As with others, I'm on shore, early, and without a mis-step. (Without a mis-step or rabbit hole, is rare for me.) I am always reluctant to make a judgment of "easy". Sometimes I get nowhere, and when the answer is announced, I think "Oh obvious." (Not last week's DOZE for which I never even got close to the first step.) But this one was which came to me using the puzzle name without a hitch. And it's Thursday.
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tim1217 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:38 pm
Thanks, that was awesome! I am grateful that I was not a meta-solver when TWOFERS came along, because...not in a million years!
I would not have solved ANY of the 4 puzzles they worked today - My best shot would have been the animals one and that was like 4-1 odds.
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#57

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To paraphrase Tina Turner in Proud Mary, you can do things easy or do them hard. I found both an easy and a hard way to get to shore.
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elementary
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Ashore!
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oldjudge wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:57 pm To paraphrase Tina Turner in Proud Mary, you can do things easy or do them hard. I found both an easy and a hard way to get to shore.
So did I.
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Jace54
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Ashore after a couple of brief detours. Always enjoy a Thursday solve!
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