"The Five W's" - November 12, 2021

[Barney]

This is looking like my only chance to get on the first (or second) page. With enough clues to declare I’ll be staying clueless.

[Barney]

This is looking like my only chance to get on the first (or second) page. With enough clues to declare I’ll be staying clueless.

Almost.

[HeadinHome]

I will pile into this bar and add my two cents: wha???

(The W in my name apparently no help a’tall.)

[MatthewL]

I've got a "W" in my name is well, but that doesn't seem to be conferring any special enlightenment. Isaac -- whiskey please (and make it a double).

[boharr]

I've got a "W" in my name is well, but that doesn't seem to be conferring any special enlightenment. Isaac -- whiskey please (and make it a double).

That's it! The W in Whiskey. We will all need five of those and we won't care about the meta. Hope that's not a spoiler.

[hunkra]

Joined my compatriots in the bar late yesterday. There's a lot of "W's" coming out of my mouth, but maybe that's just because I'm starting to slur my words...

[Dplass]

I'm just glad the prompt wasn't a "4-letter word".

Dear Mr. Shenk,

Pretty please can next week be an easier meta? Like, "1A: The answer to this clue and to this contest is the word "MUG""

Love,
David.

[ship4u]

I'm just glad the prompt wasn't a "4-letter word".

Dear Mr. Shenk,

Pretty please can next week be an easier meta? Like, "1A: The answer to this clue and to this contest is the word "MUG""

Love,
David.

In retrospect, it appears that the diabolical stage was set back on October 21: MWAHAHA! And the goal? You'll never solve this one!

[ajk]

Firmly ensconced at the bar, spending down my vast stash of loyalty points acquired over the past several weeks.

[Bob cruise director]

Our brief Friday report

It took us until Friday at 9:27 to get to Page 2 and there we sit.

We have 10 on the ship and only 5 on the shore.

This is getting painful.

[woozy]

Ooh... I hate this part. Don't know whether to concede I won't get it or figure it might come to me if I don't think about it. But don't really know how to think about not thinking about it. I have three rabbit holes that I *know* won't go anywhere but I can't conceive of how there can be anything else.

I prefer the metas where it is clear *what* you have to chew on but it's hard as hell to know how to chew them. These ones where you simply don't know where to chew are ... unsatisfying.

[Dplass]

Our brief Friday report

It took us until Friday at 9:27 to get to Page 2 and there we sit.

We have 10 on the ship and only 5 on the shore.

This is getting painful.

I'm at the bar, in case you didn't count me.

[hoover]

I'm on the ship; I usually don't announce it because people will start complaining how I'm hogging the best seat at the bar.

[Toby]

Maybe Mike Shenk will take pity on us and post a hint. Otherwise, I give up.

[Ergcat]

LAS Nothing! Not even a rabbit to follow! I was so hoping this was going to be an easier one….

[auee89]

At the bar with Isaac . . . with lots of "whos" all around me where we are all sitting at the bar with Isaac on this fabulous Friday afternoon staring at a puzzle all for the glorious opportunity to win a mug. I think I got 'em all in there .

[HeadinHome]

Mike Shenk, a diabolical meta, today, in the WSJ, because he can.

If that’s a nudge it is completely accidental because I still got nothing.

[meowmiao71]

Eesh, third week in a row that I'm completely stumped! My tab is the length of a CVS receipt.

[ChrisKochmanski]

At the bar as well.

In case anyone is counting us lost souls.

[Joe Ross]

I'm opening an overflow bar on the Lido Deck. Stop by & say hello.