"Make Him From Them" - January 29, 2021

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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Limerick Savant wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 12:13 pm The Savant, it can now be reported,
Seeing how they had clearly consorted,
Found his seat at the table.
What’s more, he was able
To do it and not be escorted.
Am I to translate that as being on the shore?
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After a "can't sleep, get up out of bed at 3am and ponder..." count me ashore; unsatisfied and looking forward to the "more elegant" solution on Monday.
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First time Ashore before finishing my first cup of coffee! :lol:
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A streak of one has begun.
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Ashore. This solution makes more sense to me now than it did at first!
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DrTom wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 1:14 pm Well, we all seem to be singing from the same page. Since I was busy Thursday and Friday I solved the GRID today, looked at it, did some ciphering.....
I can't help seeing that and thinking of the Beverly Hillbillies...

(Paraphrasing from memory)
Jed Clampett: Jethro done graduate the sixth grade. Do some ciphering for us, Jethro.
Jethro: Okay. You want times or guzinta? Five guzinta five once, five guzinta ten twice...
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On shore. Agree with others, not terribly satisfying.
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On the shore, waiting for snow.
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jenirvin wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:28 pm On the shore, waiting for snow.
OOH - DC in a snow storm. My favorite time and place. I remember sitting in a plane at Reagan for hours waiting to take off.
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On shore. Rain. WA is called the Evergreen State for a reason. :)
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Made it to shore.
Had nothing when I attempted to solve yesterday, a cool and rainy day here in Arizona.
Fortunately today is bright and sunny, but more importantly I took the “just a quick look before I move on” and there is the answer!
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On shore! I think.
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Ashore I think. Does not feel like a 100%-er... Maybe this is all a mirage...
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I'm very perplexed as to why almost everyone thinks this is an easy puzzle. I mean I guess there's a very guessable answer out there but I have no idea as to what's going on here.
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cpelster wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:24 pm On shore. Rain. WA is called the Evergreen State for a reason. :)
It's raining here too (in places), but we have more than green.
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just curious... i always print out the puzzle... enjoy doing the solve on paper... when (if) i figure it all out, i will then enter on the computer and submit... i submitted earlier today with what i believe is the correct answer, but noticed much later a mistake on the grid... i did fix the mistake on my computer, but am not able to re-submit... does this mean i'm still lost at sea, never to reach shore? (no biggie either way, as i said, just curious)
an it harm none, do as thou wilt... :D :D :D
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haari wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:21 pm just curious... i always print out the puzzle... enjoy doing the solve on paper... when (if) i figure it all out, i will then enter on the computer and submit... i submitted earlier today with what i believe is the correct answer, but noticed much later a mistake on the grid... i did fix the mistake on my computer, but am not able to re-submit... does this mean i'm still lost at sea, never to reach shore? (no biggie either way, as i said, just curious)
You're fine. The only part of the submission that matters is the meta answer. With the online puzzle, you have to have some letter in every square in order to make the Submit button active, but it doesn't matter what those letters are. And if you submit by email instead, you only send in the meta answer (in the subject line) not the entire grid.
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cpelster wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:24 pm On shore. Rain. WA is called the Evergreen State for a reason. :)
whenever anyone asks me what the weather is out here I explain when you move here you're required to sign an NDA saying that regardless of weather you must say it's raining.
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Well...............Marion and I limped to the shore. Not feeling that confident, like many others. Might be a pageant in here somewhere - if so, we're toast. We'll all know Sunday night!
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I'm just interested in how the answer's mechanism is described on Monday's puzzle.
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