"Under the Table" - July 9, 2021

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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I’ve said it before, I'll say it again... I hate the puzzles everyone calls "easy" because those never are for me. I must look at these oddly because the more obtuse I often see relatively quickly.

So, on the ship and waiting for a drink.

T
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On shore. I’ll take one of those Guinnesses.
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DrTom wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:47 pm I’ve said it before, I'll say it again... I hate the puzzles everyone calls "easy" because those never are for me. I must look at these oddly because the more obtuse I often see relatively quickly.

So, on the ship and waiting for a drink.

T
I’m with you! I see nothing and feel a little foolish while everyone else is onshore.
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Ashore and hoping Elsa doesn't make it hard to distinguish shore from not-shore.
I finally remembered to do what I usually forget to do.
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DrTom wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:47 pm I’ve said it before, I'll say it again... I hate the puzzles everyone calls "easy" because those never are for me.
SusieG wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:54 pm I’m with you! I see nothing and feel a little foolish while everyone else is onshore.
FWIW I wouldn't call this one super easy. The path is short, but the trailhead may well be initially obscured.
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On shore.
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Ashore! Nice to be done on Thursday for a change. 8-)
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SusieG wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:54 pm
DrTom wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:47 pm I’ve said it before, I'll say it again... I hate the puzzles everyone calls "easy" because those never are for me. I must look at these oddly because the more obtuse I often see relatively quickly.

So, on the ship and waiting for a drink.

T
I’m with you! I see nothing and feel a little foolish while everyone else is onshore.
I'm right there with the both of you! Any critical thinking skills that I might occasionally possess are being drowned out by a song I sang in a high school musical (title: 'Cos I'm a [64A] Nana).

EDIT: and just like that! Post-enlightenment! PHEW. I will take pity on my Muggle colleagues and NOT perform the aforementioned song on our Tuesday Zoom call.
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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SusieG wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:54 pm
DrTom wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:47 pm I’ve said it before, I'll say it again... I hate the puzzles everyone calls "easy" because those never are for me. I must look at these oddly because the more obtuse I often see relatively quickly.

So, on the ship and waiting for a drink.

T
I’m with you! I see nothing and feel a little foolish while everyone else is onshore.
Me too. From the prior puzzles that look similar, I have a good idea of what the mechanism should be. I think I may have the first step, but I can't get to a solution.
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I'm sitting here with @DrTom, @SusieG , and @Eric Porter wondering where the drinks are.
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Wendy Walker wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:35 pm Any critical thinking skills that I might occasionally possess are being drowned out by a song I sang in a high school musical (title: 'Cos I'm a [64A] Nana).
Generational differences. The song I thought of was the one that goes, "If you wanna be a top banana. . . ." (People often said that my father looked like Phil Silvers.)
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DrTom wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:47 pm I’ve said it before, I'll say it again... I hate the puzzles everyone calls "easy" because those never are for me.

This one was not easy! At least not for me. But no amount of *work* will get it either....
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On shore! Late because I went into my actual workplace for a meeting.
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Weirdly I’m in my forties and I’ve never heard of the musical, but I used to watch Sgt Bilko with my grandpa.
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Laura M wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:11 pm On shore! Late because I went into my actual workplace for a meeting.
ugh! what was that like?? Scary?
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On shore ! 🏖.

I agree with Woozy, you don’t see anything until you see it!
Good one! Right up my alley!
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Onshore! Took a while to see, but no bunnies running across my path this week.
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ChrisKochmanski wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 5:37 pm Ashore!

Literally. On Sleeping Bear Bay, in northern Michigan.
I assume that's wear the Sleeping Bear Dunes are? When my son was at U Mich we spent a weekend up there. He fooled me into going ALL THE WAY to the bottom of the dunes at the overlook. (The really, really steep one with the warning sign, below.) So I showed him by challenging him to race all the way back up. I won. Easily. In my mid 50's. Against a 21 year old.

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Took me about 20 minutes but I must have lost about 5 pounds of water weight. And that was after he took me to the main dunes where you hike for a couple of miles (?) to the lake. He kept saying, "It's just over that hill..." For each and every hill.... :evil:
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Ashore
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Ashore! I think an amaretto would be a nice reward! 🥃 Cheers!
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