The two OZONEs were the starting point for me as well. Once I saw that, I followed the same path as @aaugusti (#302). With the pdf on screen, starting with 1A, I hit Ctrl F EARS, that took me to the clue at 35A. whose answer was NEW. Then Ctrl F NEW and so on. The letters were in order, and I could see what the answer was going to be after the first four or so. But thanks to Ctrl F, the whole process went very quicklyWendy Walker wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 1:44 pm Only a Muggle could understand why I snapped this photo at an Outdoors Expo on Saturday.
"One Thing Leads To Another" - February 4, 2022
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Bird Lives
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joequavis
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I was going to comment earlier on that this felt very much like a Patrick Berry puzzle (thinking of a recent word-train puzzle that he had), but decided it would be kind of spoiler-ish.
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Call me a quitter if you must - where can one find the answer to these after the deadline?
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Hardly a quitter if you’ve been thinking about it for a week! And we all have some that we just can’t figure out.
Some of the night owls post the WSJ explanation and their own work on here right after the midnight deadline. This week that started at post #296
viewtopic.php?t=1431&start=280#p81866
There’s also an explanation at the crossword fiend website
https://crosswordfiend.com/2022/02/06/w ... ore-134226
If you want help with a meta, feel free to PM me. The more specific you are about what you have and what you want, the more likely I can help without spoiling.
(And if I help you win a mug, I’ll be especially delighted.)
(And if I help you win a mug, I’ll be especially delighted.)