"Significant Digits" Oct. 13, 2023

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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The XWord Rabbit wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:31 am rsz_bunnyspot_amazed.png
No crying, please. Just stories.
As in baseball, is there no crying in metas?
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After an evening of questioning everything I learned in elementary school, I am finally ashore. This was a very tough one!
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femullen wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 10:15 am Team Canuck are ashore, The Smarter Half having made the key observation.
I would contend that I did notice something important on this one that led to being rather useful.
Less cross words, more crosswords.

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Squarely ashore
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The online puzzle is up!

https://www.wsj.com/puzzles/crossword/20231013/30109/

I dreamed I solved it last night. No idea though if I really did. Unlike my usual meta dreams, that turn out to be totally unrelated to the actual puzzle, I have no memory of the dream solution or idea of the real waking one.
If you want help with a meta, feel free to PM me. The more specific you are about what you have and what you want, the more likely I can help without spoiling.

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The XWord Rabbit wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:31 am rsz_bunnyspot_amazed.png
No crying, please. Just stories.
Well, I don't think you are going to get many stories this week as the most common rabbit hole is probably that every body is going to do exact what it seems like they are supposed to, what seems like the only thing one *can* do, and it will, of course, not work.
GUAVA is not an anagram of VAGUE and PEPPER is not a palindrome.
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Well, the on-line puzzle has been fixed.

So I redid it all online this morning. You know how sometimes redoing the puzzle on a fresh screen or surface allows you to note things you missed? Yeah, me neither.
GUAVA is not an anagram of VAGUE and PEPPER is not a palindrome.
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Ashore4us, finally, after quite a mental struggle. Ahh, it is now after noon, so a pub lunch with Smithwick's Red Ale will be in order. A grilled ham and cheese sandwich, please! And, it's a bit chilly here on the north coast so a fire in the fireplace will do the trick.

Cheers to all!
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Ashore!!
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Finally got it with some nudging. Turned out my rabbit hole was actually led somewhere!
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Finally got there with a little encouragement. Now on to some Gaffney!
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Ashore, but only with an assist (for the 3rd week in a row -- must be losing my touch). At least there's plenty of beer left at the tiki bar.
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ship4u wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:05 pm Ashore4us, finally, after quite a mental struggle. Ahh, it is now after noon, so a pub lunch with Smithwick's Red Ale will be in order. A grilled ham and cheese sandwich, please! And, it's a bit chilly here on the north coast so a fire in the fireplace will do the trick.

Cheers to all!
I’ll have what THEY’RE having!! (and in the same place they’re having it).

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Still on the ship, but Isaac makes pretty good mocktails.
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Seems like it should be an “easy” one but just not seeing it. Guess there’ll be an AHA for a lot of people on the zoom
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woozy wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:28 am
The XWord Rabbit wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:31 am rsz_bunnyspot_amazed.png
No crying, please. Just stories.
Well, I don't think you are going to get many stories this week as the most common rabbit hole is probably that every body is going to do exact what it seems like they are supposed to, what seems like the only thing one *can* do, and it will, of course, not work.
Exactly haha
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Friday afternoon report from your cruise director pro tem.

Patrick Berry has thrown Muggledom for quite a loop this week with his Friday the Thirteenth offering. The shore party is considerably smaller than usual at this point in the week, but Meg's Cabana Boy is still making himself useful, what with fetching cocktails, distributing leis, and setting up tonight's lavish luau. Making it to shore are Meg (#1 on the leaderboard; well done!), Streroto, Cindy, TJ Brenner, Boharr, OldJudge, ReB, LittleGood, Flying Burrito, Chris Kochmanski, Mirage, HeadinHome, Docison, Aschubert, Mheberling x100, AJK, Tina, MMe, Jace54, JoePickett, Trish, Ky-Mike, Toby, Femullen, Zach, Adajeo, Ship4U, DelanQ, Schmidzy, Matthew L.

Huge congratulations to newcomer Mirage for a page-one finish! It's great to have you on the Forum!

Declaring themselves on the ship with Isaac are Lbray53, Woozy, MajordomoTom, Clonefitz, Ergcat, Dr. Tom, Whimsy, Barbara K, Nycerjohnnie, and SamKat9, though I have it on good authority that there are many, many others staring at their clipboards or devices. I can't tell from his posts if Mikey G is on ship or shore.

The 4:30 Eastern Zoom session this afternoon will doubtless be well attended. Please join us! Just click on "Muggle Zoom Room" at the top of this page.
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On the ship with Isaac. Looks like I'll be here a while.
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Nothing for me yet. I hope to make the Zoom meeting today from my car.
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Isaac is really working hard serving this group at the bar. Hope to make the zoom if I can tear myself away from Isaac
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I was lost at sea but my wife has dragged me to shore.
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