By Matt Gaffney.
The answer to the contest is a four-word phrase you might hear tonight.
Good luck with the puzzle and the contest. I hope you all have a safe celebration and a happy and healthy 2021!
"The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020
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Each year at around this time, The New Yorker magazine publishes a bit of verse, “Greetings, Friends,” which is basically a long exercise in dropping names – some that you know, many that you don’t but think that you would if you were at all up to speed with the news, science, the arts, etc. You can find this year’s version here. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020 ... stmas-poem
So I have put together a bit of doggerel with names that should be more familiar, at least to visitors to xword-muggles.com.
So I have put together a bit of doggerel with names that should be more familiar, at least to visitors to xword-muggles.com.
Last edited by Bird Lives on Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Jay
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Joe Ross
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Whole blood, platelets, or plasma: Keep'em alive! Donate 5 in 2025.
PLATELET 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀 ENORMOUS 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲:
𝟰𝟬% 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰,
𝟯𝟬% 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰,
𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 & 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮. 𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘!
PLATELET 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀 ENORMOUS 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲:
𝟰𝟬% 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰,
𝟯𝟬% 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰,
𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 & 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮. 𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘!
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Toes in the sand… I’ll have a Guinness please! (Love the poem!!)
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Am I first to say I made it ashore?
Edit: Nope! Shouldn't have looked at the New Yorker thing a couple posts up.
But that jogged a memory - I don't know if he still does this, but Will Shortz would be on NPR's weekend edition news and have a weekly puzzle. On the first weekend of the year, he'd give the contestant a list of about 10 names of people who were briefly prominent in the just-ended year and see how many they could remember who they were.
Who would be on this year's?
Joseph Maldonado-Passage
Melissa Carone
Randy Arozarena
Marie Yovanovitch
Edit: Nope! Shouldn't have looked at the New Yorker thing a couple posts up.
But that jogged a memory - I don't know if he still does this, but Will Shortz would be on NPR's weekend edition news and have a weekly puzzle. On the first weekend of the year, he'd give the contestant a list of about 10 names of people who were briefly prominent in the just-ended year and see how many they could remember who they were.
Who would be on this year's?
Joseph Maldonado-Passage
Melissa Carone
Randy Arozarena
Marie Yovanovitch
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On the beach!
I can be found in Sheridan, NY, veejaying. (8)
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Onshore. I can't possibly compete with Jay's fabulous verse and wishes - Bravo!!!
So I'll just add a non-spoilery four-word phrase of my own:
Happy New Year, Muggles!
So I'll just add a non-spoilery four-word phrase of my own:
Happy New Year, Muggles!
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Ashore!
Happy New Year everybody!
Happy New Year everybody!
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Toes in the sand, ashore, on shore, on the beach!
HAPPY NEW YEAR, muggles!
HAPPY NEW YEAR, muggles!
Whole blood, platelets, or plasma: Keep'em alive! Donate 5 in 2025.
PLATELET 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀 ENORMOUS 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲:
𝟰𝟬% 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰,
𝟯𝟬% 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰,
𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 & 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮. 𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘!
PLATELET 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀 ENORMOUS 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲:
𝟰𝟬% 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰,
𝟯𝟬% 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰,
𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 & 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮. 𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘!
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On shore, plus I just set a personal record of 10 consecutive meta solves! Had streaks of 9 and 8 broken earlier this year, so I was happy and relieved when I got this one!
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I'm on the beach, though I'm not sure I totally understand (yet) how I got here
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On shore. It's a bit chilly, so Irish coffee will be the drink of choice.
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Gift my kids sent me -- as well as a word of warning ---
(Anyone read his Thursday Next series -- lots of fun if you like books, and words, and noir detective fiction, and British tea cozy fiction, and alternative history, and lots of other bizarre stuff!)
On to the puzzle --
Happy New Year All!
On to the puzzle --
Happy New Year All!
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On the beach! 🏖 
<— nog with Myers’s rum
Enjoyed it!
Dan’s Gators are in the Cotton Bowl tonight. I think he’ll be on the beach by then! And my Bearcats are in the Peach Bowl on Friday! Was hoping they’d play against each other again!!
<— nog with Myers’s rumEnjoyed it!
Dan’s Gators are in the Cotton Bowl tonight. I think he’ll be on the beach by then! And my Bearcats are in the Peach Bowl on Friday! Was hoping they’d play against each other again!!
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