MGWCC #796 — "You Sound Hesistant"

An excellent puzzle written by one of the innovators of the meta crossword format. It comes out every Friday at noon and increases in difficulty throughout the month. Available for modest subscription (worth every cent) here: www.xwordcontest.com
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Did anyone else have trouble with their Patreon subscription, or was it just me? My automatic PayPal payment failed, and there seems to be nothing I can do to get it to go through.
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benchen71 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:45 pm Did anyone else have trouble with their Patreon subscription, or was it just me? My automatic PayPal payment failed, and there seems to be nothing I can do to get it to go through.
No problem here. I know you'll work out the payment; in the mean time, if you're unable to get this week's puzzle and would like me to email it let me know.
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no problems here ... with Patreon.

with WSJ, I'm probably overthinking it, I'm stymied.
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Awaiting the beam... [I sorted out the payment issue!]

... and I'm beamed! Nice week 1 puzzle. :D
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Beamed. Should have been easier as I am an avid tennis player. It seems like week one puzzles tend to rely on circumstantial evidence without a solid click. Or is that just me?
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Beamed up at #92 yesterday with no hesitation.
No grousing on this sports related meta.
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Beamed up. Super quick for a change. And with the WSJ done as well, I can finally get stuff done.
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Beamed up...enjoyed this Week 1 puzzle
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Loved this puzzle. Beamed up
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Confirmed at #270. Fun one.
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Forgot to post then, but I beamed up yesterday after a late start. I'm sufficiently bad at this genre that the answer wasn't immediately obvious to me, but Google (and the fact that I wasn't trying to solve the no-instructions version) helped.

Patreon didn't charge me until today, but it seemed to go through okay when it did. It's had problems for no reason at least once in the past though.
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Am I the only one who had trouble with this? Not a lot of trouble and nothing that I couldn't work out in under three minutes but there was a moment of about a minute of "oh my God. I just don't know this"

No-one else?
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lbray53 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:24 pm It seems like week one puzzles tend to rely on circumstantial evidence without a solid click. Or is that just me?
It's true that week 1s sometimes rely on external knowledge (and it's much much more rare with the later weeks). Usually it's something that's very common and/or very googleable, but of course that's a tricky judgement.
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Forgot to post earlier today, but got it, awaiting beamage.

Did anyone successfully go downs-only, no-instructions without a peek or a nudge?

I needed to peek at three across clues to complete the grid fill, and finally gave in this morning and looked at the prompt.
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