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Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:38 pm
by Geezer Weezer
Just not coming this week. I can't even find the starting line.

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:42 pm
by Ergcat
On shore…. With a little help from a friend!

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:43 pm
by WSJosh
Thoroughly at sea.

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:46 pm
by CopperRiver
Lost at Sea. Tired from family wedding this weekend. Could use a slight nudge. Thanks!

Edit: I think I got step one. LOL

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:04 pm
by FKelly
On the beach with a little help from my friends, Al, boharr and Wendy.
Some parts of the mechanism had occurred to me, but I didn't pursue them.
Perhaps, my subconscious was trying to steer me in the right direction, but curious conscious mind kept wanting to explore new possibilities.
Curiosity is a difficult thing to control. Its alleged that it killed the cat.

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:20 pm
by Tom Shea
Caught a late tender to shore.

Too late for a cocktail. Just a soda water to quench the thirst from chasing so many rabbits.

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:49 pm
by hoover
Just got home from hockey camp and have completed the grid but have only 10 minutes to find the meta. :O

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:00 am
by Joe Ross
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Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:04 am
by RobM
I couldn't get anywhere past the first step on this one. I got BOR, SOURD, TH (or possibly ALTH), and C, but couldn't figure out what to do with them.

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:05 am
by periperi
I was very irritated by Nosh spot->Deli->Trough not being a thing. But otherwise I was a fan.

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:05 am
by CopperRiver
RobM wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:04 am I couldn't get anywhere past the first step on this one. I got BOR, SOURD, TH (or possibly ALTH), and C, but couldn't figure out what to do with them.
Me too!

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:09 am
by Powers2020
That's a great one, but I was never getting onshore! There's always next week!

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:10 am
by BethA
If you’d been thorOUGH enOUGH, you’d have gotten a breakthrOUGH! LOUGHed it!😀

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:10 am
by Franklin.Bluth
RobM wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:04 am I couldn't get anywhere past the first step on this one. I got BOR, SOURD, TH (or possibly ALTH), and C, but couldn't figure out what to do with them.
I got stuck there too, but the clue about "8 Scrabble 1 pointers" = O TILE made me think I was looking for 8 across answers, and once I remembered Richard Attenborough for Gandhi (1A) it was pretty close (ABS__AC_) already.

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:12 am
by Franklin.Bluth
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Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:17 am
by Joe Ross
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Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:21 am
by mydogsam
I think I'm leaving the bar area. I would need to drop acid before I could even hope to come up with such a convoluted solution. Good luck to all. And may the nudges be with you... Goodbye...

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:22 am
by escapeartist
The Attenborough alternate messed with me for a while - I knew it should start with "A", but was stuck on an alternate for "HALO".

arorough? aurough?

Google saved the day. RIP mad gene splicer Richard Attenborough.

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:31 am
by C=64
escapeartist wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:22 am The Attenborough alternate messed with me for a while - I knew it should start with "A", but was stuck on an alternate for "HALO".

arorough? aurough?

Google saved the day. RIP mad gene splicer Richard Attenborough.
I used the symmetry with the bottom right ACROSS to determine that FORMAN was the one. (Also, FUMAR and OTILE were kind of bizarre and made me think that FORMAN might be vital to the meta.)

Re: "Thorough Enough" - September 24, 2021

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:44 am
by DannyWalter
Nope. At least I didn't spend a lot of time with it. I was looking for "ough"s for a while, I thought of "tough" and "rough", but the others were a Triborough Bridge too far. A humble bow to those who got this one.