Curly Quote: WSJ, 01/22/21, by PB

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Curly Quote: WSJ, 01/22/21, by PB

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Big fun!

In a Curly Quote, does PB always tell you that the top and bottom rows use exactly the same sequence of letters? Because that helped me A LOT. I got this one in less than an hour -- about 45 or 50 minutes. I'd normally take longer.
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For a Patrick Berry, this one was on the easy side IMHO.
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I agree, Meg.
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ChrisKochmanski wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:14 pm In a Curly Quote, does PB always tell you that the top and bottom rows use exactly the same sequence of letters?
Looks like the answer is yes. I found a few Curly Quote puzzles in the WSJ from prior years and the instructions, including the upper and lower row solving aid, are the same as this one.

I always get turned around every which way with the 4 ways to enter each answer into the grid. Even when you already have a couple of letters you may not have nailed it down.
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One thing that I often DON'T like all that much about a Curly Quote -- and other sorts of puzzles that involve a lot of this way and that around a center space, with interlocking words -- is that they can involve so much trial and error. Which so often goes wrong! But this one, for me, zipped right along.
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