#692 - "Bottom Drawers"

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How the H can I be stuck at a Week 1?
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Barney wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:09 pm How the H can I be stuck at a Week 1?
Probably doesn’t help that I can make nothing of 76D.
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Barney wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:11 pm
Barney wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:09 pm How the H can I be stuck at a Week 1?
Probably doesn’t help that I can make nothing of 76D.
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Take a deep breath. Relax. Get your highlighter and mark everything that seems important. Read carefully. You can do it.
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BarbaraK wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:19 pm
Barney wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:11 pm
Barney wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:09 pm How the H can I be stuck at a Week 1?
Probably doesn’t help that I can make nothing of 76D.
You can do this!

Take a deep breath. Relax. Get your highlighter and mark everything that seems important. Read carefully. You can do it.
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Seemed like it could be one of several, until you see it. This is a “no doubter”, once seen.
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So get up, make the coffee sit down to fill in the grid.
Get coffee start drinking it and POOF.....Beamed up (waiting for confirmation).
So I don't get to finish the coffee, but instead sitting at Isaac's bar....oh well can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
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jhseeman wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 7:59 am So get up, make the coffee sit down to fill in the grid.
Get coffee start drinking it and POOF.....Beamed up (waiting for confirmation).
So I don't get to finish the coffee, but instead sitting at Isaac's bar....oh well can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
My best & worst all-day drinking began with an elder sister explaining, "Start with a simple syrup..." as she grated fresh ginger. I've avoided sugared cocktails ever since, with no judgement on those who do. Select a 'meh' spirit & Irish-up that coffee?
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Joe Ross wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:14 am
jhseeman wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 7:59 am So get up, make the coffee sit down to fill in the grid.
Get coffee start drinking it and POOF.....Beamed up (waiting for confirmation).
So I don't get to finish the coffee, but instead sitting at Isaac's bar....oh well can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
My best & worst all-day drinking began with an elder sister explaining, "Start with a simple syrup..." as she grated fresh ginger. I've avoided sugared cocktails ever since, with no judgement on those who do. Select a 'meh' spirit & Irish-up that coffee?
Always good to start with irish coffee, but alas, my irish whiskey is in storage, so bourbon it is.
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Finally got a chance to look at this. Glad it’s a week one. Beam me up!
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Beamed up! Just coffee for now. Great day for a bike ride to some of our favorite watering holes later this afternoon.
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BarbaraK wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:19 pm
Barney wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:11 pm
Barney wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:09 pm How the H can I be stuck at a Week 1?
Probably doesn’t help that I can make nothing of 76D.
You can do this!

Take a deep breath. Relax. Get your highlighter and mark everything that seems important. Read carefully. You can do it.
Finally. Thanks for the push.

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Submitted Friday. That was cute!
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Submitted. Loved this one especially after last week :)
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Quite late to the party, but had to tell *somebody* that I have now completed my first MGWCC. First one I've tried as we've just "joined". Also care not that the wifey beat me done, nor that it was *just* a "week one". :-)
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mntlblok wrote: Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:04 pm Quite late to the party, but had to tell *somebody* that I have now completed my first MGWCC. First one I've tried as we've just "joined". Also care not that the wifey beat me done, nor that it was *just* a "week one". :-)
"Weak" one? Only when I returned here did I finally re-notice the puzzle title. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Had gone out of my way to pronounciate it as something done with a pencil when I first told the wifey the title as I was hooking it up to the printer. She, of course, corrected it to something more associated with, say, a chiffarobe. :-) Have found my home. . .
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