"Why Not" September 27, 2024

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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Doug C
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Ashore. I liked this one.
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Yoda66 wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 10:29 pm Ashore on powerless Jekyll Island. Good thing I printed the grid on Thursday b/e we got smooched by Helene.
Well at least nobody will be able to heckle you on Jeckyll...
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges IF ASKED; metas should be about fun, not frustration. PM me what you have done so far, because often you are closer than you think, and I will try to help you move along.
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FKelly wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 5:04 pm On the beach at Waikiki
Thanks to Zoom room crew and Wendy for smooth sailing.
Now, back to Kullback-Leibler divergence aka relative entropy which has had me preoccupied. Oh well, it was nice to be on the beach for a while.
Aloha!
Well I don't know about the Kullbacks and the Liebers, but whenever my family gets together there is relative entropy where everything declines into disorder...
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges IF ASKED; metas should be about fun, not frustration. PM me what you have done so far, because often you are closer than you think, and I will try to help you move along.
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Oxford Comma Mama
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#184

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Still hanging out on the boat. I'd appreciate the slightest nudge in the right direction. So far nothing is coming to me!
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Trey
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#185

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Marion, Jill, Mitch and I are in the sand again.......feels good to have it done!
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#186

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Oxford Comma Mama wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 12:25 am Still hanging out on the boat. I'd appreciate the slightest nudge in the right direction. So far nothing is coming to me!
Ditto here. Trying not to go 0 for 3 😅
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Saturday Morning Report

Reporting in from the ship: chocoholic, lxpeterson, LadyBird, PQ63, sharkicicles, Oxford Comma Mama, tommy, Bob Cruise Director (literally at sea), and our new friend CV-at-Sea (welcome!).

Welcome also to Bojean, a long-time solver but first-time poster. It's great to have you as part of the crew!

Arriving on Muggle Beach are:

batfella
Jim and Anita
LittleGood
Zagman49
Merry Potter
Scott M
Barnhart6
kurtalert
Georgeall
Turbotron
gdshort
Plymouthrock
Katiedid
DrTom
Penny_Keatley
Mirage
Dickie_Dunn
SJMcK
Homer Buckle
Sleepy
Bojean
SingleMalt
Char
RDaleHall
Inca
Nlobb
Bobj
Eric Porter
Acarl
Crest
FKelly
Grover
Birdbrain
dho
Lyman
Notbitter
Hoover
JaneGummy
Laura M
ReB
Gman
LesY
mikeB
BrennerTJ
clonefitz
Steve M
mlvilv
lacangah
bread-girl
newbymar
Franky_T
ZooAnimalsOnWheels
Yoda66
Avian
Doug C
Trey
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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Libbypibby
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#188

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Got it! Ashore! Wasn’t queasy for sure…
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#189

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Count me ashore!

Just got a look this morning. Slogged a little bit but got there after making it harder than it was.
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#190

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Shortly after posting yesterday, I did see steps one and two.But darned if I can turn what I have into a coherent answer. Hoping for a little more post-enlightenment!
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Oxford Comma Mama
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I'm ashore! At least I think so unless there was another step I missed, ha. Thank you to muggles who offered confirming nudges that I was going in the right direction, I just hadn't yet found the place to apply the idea. Then all of a sudden there it was.
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#192

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Ashore! Really enjoyed this meta.
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#193

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Still stuck on the Ship
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@LadyBird, I feel as though I must be following the same path as you.

And @Joe, I have to beg to differ --
Joe wrote: Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:46 pm I don't how some of you thought this was queasy! It was a struggle, but I made it ashore.
After three straight weeks at sea, I'm finding this puzzle quite queasy! :P
Turning green, in fact --
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I had the methodology but could not close the deal until I got nudged out of the rut I was in. Or perhaps it was the trip to the vineyard here in France.
Robert Stevens 24Sep28 7D Mark II 3732-2.jpg
On the shore but sitting on a boat in the Rhone River
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#195

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Made it ashore after some waves tried pushing me to the wrong island.
Kevin
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On my usual bar stool with 35A.
For nudges, feel free to PM me. I won't have a clue how to help you, but you might shove me ashore.
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SamKat9 wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 10:52 pm
Yoda66 wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 10:29 pm Ashore on powerless Jekyll Island. Good thing I printed the grid on Thursday b/e we got smooched by Helene.
I used to live on St. Simons, I always thought Jekyll was so pretty. Thanks for sharing, and I hope the damage from Helene wasn't too bad.
Not too bad in terms of damage. But it will take several days before we get some power considering how bad the entire state got hit.
St Simons is one of my finalists in terms of retirement destination.
“You must unlearn what you have learned.”
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DelanQ wrote: Thu Sep 26, 2024 5:00 pm Quick swim ashore with the a teeensy peek at the discord!
How does one join the discord?
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Ashore.

Saturday afternoon solving session with the kids that was short, so actually a non-solving session. Shortly after hanging up, I saw it. Fun to work through it!

No drink now. About to drive 2 hours.
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On the shore!
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