"Starting Positions" - August 20, 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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Bob cruise director wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 8:42 pm
hcbirker wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 7:58 pm A3BDE48D-AEC6-421D-A8D6-3E52F7492A00.jpeg
Hidden in 3D wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:24 pm On shore! (Whether it's the right shore remains to be seen, but I've only found one answer and I'm goin' with it!)

My last post was on August 7 because I've been having way too much fun with our granddaughter! She loved the fairy garden I created before her arrival, especially the notes she received from the two fairies who live there. (She named them Glitter and Sparkle, BTW.) She also loved the beach at Hilton Head Island where we've vacationed for the last week, as you can see below. Now I have to design another fairy garden for her next visit. I've been told this one must have a beach theme with conch shells as fairy houses!

Elise HHI 8.20.21.JPG
This is a fairy garden I made for my school.
For those of us who are less informed, what is a fairy garden?
Everything you ever wanted to know about fairy gardens and more: CLICK HERE
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sf592000 wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 7:05 pm We’ll my Thursday crossword plans were thwarted by a trip to the ER for an emergency appendectomy! I’ve returned home and feeling better — would like to say the same about the meta, but am going to chalk this week up as a big L. Here’s to next week!
You are a MUGGLE!!
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I'm with many of you in that I wouldn't have gotten to shore without a nudge.

I'm submitting, but I want you all to know that if I win the mug, I'll feel guilty about it. I'll keep it. But I'll feel guilty about it.
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Damn! I fell off the boat early on and I’ve been dog-paddling in circles for so long that most of me is totally pruned, but … I finally ran aground on a sand bar, started crawling in the direction of loud sounds of celebration … and suddenly realized I was about to be run down by a cabana boy!

So … I’m ashore! … and, man oh man, am I thirsty!
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Aha! On shore at last. Something gnawing at me finally bit hard. I also see a way to a second answer but I agree it is not within the theme.

Great puzzle, Mike!
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Thurman8er wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 9:51 pm I'm with many of you in that I wouldn't have gotten to shore without a nudge.

I'm submitting, but I want you all to know that if I win the mug, I'll feel guilty about it. I'll keep it. But I'll feel guilty about it.
On shore, also with a nudge! Not submitting...couldn't handle the mugguilt if I won ;-P
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Lost at sea and looking forward to finding out what the heck it is in a couple hours.
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Streroto wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 8:38 pm Accepting defeat for the second week in a row, it’s killing me.

Stay well all
Right? Two weeks in a row is a hard pill to swallow. Last weekend, I promised myself I would never spend another weekend obsessing on it. Yet, here I am.
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With aplogies to Arthur C. Clark, "My God, it's full of rabbit holes". Just amazing. For the longest time seeing nothing, and then suddenly seeing way too much.

Finally a 5 letter word. But I'm thinking it's the same one others don't like because, well, I don't like it, even though it seems "justifiable".
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Pageant in less than one hour?
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I'm ashore. I think. Found and submitted an answer I can justify, but I'm not happy with it.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis
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:cry: Don't know if anyone is online at this time, I'd appreciate another nudge (don't think my original nudger is online). I need some closure before I go to bed. At this point I am just making up ridiculous incorrect mechanisms, plugging letters into an anagram finder, and seeing if any results are 5 letters long
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Scott M wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 9:36 pm Pulling the plug on this one. My 34 week streak is at an end. Here's to starting a new one next week.
34 weeks?! Wow. This is what I aspire to. My longest streak so far has been 5.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis
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Tossing a Hail Mary toward shore as I doggy paddle in the heartless waves. Eager to see what I missed!
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That is just beautiful! My hat is off to all solvers. There is not enough space here to describe my path to failure, but let’s just say it had a lot of ZEEs in it!
One world. One planet. One future.
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I just heard a big Charlie Brown aaaaarrrgghhh! going across the land!
Last edited by SReh26 on Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:06 am, edited 1 time in total.
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To all of those who had SCARE as their answer - this was a lather/rinse/repeat solution. Using the order to pull the letters, and then again to order them for the solution - which then fits with the title.
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Joe Ross wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:00 am Image
That is really cool and we were nowhere close. :-)

Sorta almost came close to having "poles".
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