"Cross Country" - March 4, 2022

[Preterosso]

Ashore! Keeping our 2022 run going and going….

[Colin]

Cross-eyed and worn out,
Rabbits, herrings, roundabouts.
Ashore with a stout!

[Barney]

< 12 hours to the big reveal for my unsolving partner and me. Meh.

[ErikThor]

made it to shore before the sunset!

[Dennis]

Taking the boat to shore. This one took longer than last week, but I will never be a "page 1" tenant. I'm too much a "put-down-pick-back-up-later solver." Whenever I think of timing crosswords and "aha" moments, I always think of the two great scenes in "The Imitation Game:" When Miss Clark solves the crossword in less than six minutes, and when in the bar Alan Turing realizes he knows the mechanism for breaking the Enigma Code. Great brief movie moments!

[Bob cruise director]

Good Sunday afternoon muggles.

A slightly belated report but we have 12 on the ship and 176 on the shore.

On the ship Isaac is playing a game of NFL quarterback musical chairs with the new patrons who include

hunkra
JaneGummy
JerryF
EmilyW
CallMeShane
Debbie

And on the shore everyone is drinking Utica Club to celebrate our Grand Marshall. The new shore party includes

mattythewsjpuzzler
Tom Wi
Bird Lives
Flying_Burrito
dk letter
Ben B and son
OliviaL
caf.caf Cathy
Cindy N
Fred
cbarbee
Annabelle
Natalie
Powers2020
Bill Swerski 13
Peter
Kay
Blair
barney
Colin
CdnMG
ErikThor
Phil and Kelli
gatogato
SusieG
Omnibus

Have a good day and stay safe

[MamaE]

Finally ashore….. whew!

[KscX]

That was like pulling teeth but I am ashore, once again with help from my husband, a reluctant WSJCC participant!!!

[ship4u]

I have come to realize that the moniker that I chose when I joined this group is not conducive to being a solver. I should have chosen ashore4u.

[Joe Ross]

I have come to realize that the moniker that I chose when I joined this group is not conducive to being a solver. I should have chosen ashore4u.

I was more worried that you were going to play sea-monitor & drag meta-scofflaws back to the boat!

[JaneGummy]

On shore, needed a nudge again, I liked my approach to the meta even tho it was incorrect. Will share tomorrow

[Lee-Ann]

Feeling the pressure. I could complete the grid on my phone, but I could not find the Meta until I had a chance to print it out and that was not until Sunday afternoon. Grateful to have figured it out. Longest streak ever!

[ship4u]

Everyone thought that my Porsche 911 was useless for delivering packages.

[PhantomPhan]

Phew! Didn't think I was going to make it this week after chasing the white rabbit down WAY too many rabbit holes, but thankfully I'm out of Wonderland and ashore.

[LittleGood]

I'm ashore. Nice one.

[mitchel674]

On the beach.

Had the answer early but took a bit of hunting to confirm.

[Trey]

Marion and I are late to the beach party - but we did get there! Relaxin' with the crowd.........clearly a team effort today! Glad to be there......

[Commodore]

While dancing at the Tiki-bar, we received this on the ship-to-shore. Have at it, shore party.

The following appeared on BostonGlobe.com:
Headline: Play this Boston Globe crossword puzzle from August 1917
Date: Mar 6, 2022

Can you complete this 104-year-old crossword?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/03/ ... paign=8315

[HunterX]

The following appeared on BostonGlobe.com:
Headline: Play this Boston Globe crossword puzzle from August 1917
Date: Mar 6, 2022

Can you complete this 104-year-old crossword?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/03/ ... paign=8315

Pretty cool. I like some of the archaic words, such as 9D.

But I have to point out that the website is kind of quirky. It doesn't skip over the letters already filled in, or jump to the next clue when you complete an answer. Those crossword web apps sure were different back in 1917! Glad our websites work better today in the 2020's.

[Prozach]

On shore with a nudge.