"Outer Regions" - April 15, 2022

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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Berto
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Ashore - a much easier solve than last weekend! Thankfully!
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ALS
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#122

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Ashore in a jif. It took me longer to look up the challenge clue (which didnt show up with the puzzle this week) than to solve the meta.

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rjy
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#123

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Ashore, and Bravo!
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#124

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On shore! Relieved after last week's requiring nudges. Didn't feel completely at sea for the first time ever. What an odd feeling!

Strawberry smoothies please!
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littlepigeon
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#125

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definitely one of the quickest trips to shore i’ve ever made this week. can’t say i hate it when we’re thrown these occasional bones tbh, gotta keep that precarious morale buoyed somehow
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Ashore. On a Friday. So used to being on the ship all weekend. What to do? 🤔
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littlepigeon
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HeadinHome wrote: Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:23 pm A tougher grid than usual, but then saw the meta almost as soon as I looked at the filled grid and started putting all the normal hints together. I agree that to be able to construct a puzzle like this is impressive!!

funny, i kind of breezed through the grid this week after (if i’m remembering correctly) several of the metas during the last two months or so proved extra grid-side challenging for me; more so than i feel like i’m used to, in any case. BUT the joke was back on me when i was only able to get to the meta answer through realizing that oh, wait, so in fact some tweaks were apparently going to be necessary to fix the apparent flurry of ever-so-slight misspellings i’d ahem *a-ppar-ent-ly* left in my wake as i “breezed through” the grid 😂
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#128

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I'm at a lonely bar with Isaac. I had an immediate idea but can't quite make it work. And Isaac makes good drinks. Off to Boston this morning. Maybe it will come to me on the train
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#129

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Started and solved it this morning before finishing my 2nd cup of coffee. Happy Good Friday to all muggles.
Senor Guaca Mole :mrgreen:
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bhamren
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#130

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Fun puzzle. On shore
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MikeM000
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Onaquest wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 5:24 am Ashore. On a Friday. So used to being on the ship all weekend. What to do? 🤔
This is usually a pretty good idea:

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Jim and Anita
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Ashore. Loved the construction. Thank you Mike for great fun!
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An early morning ah ha. On shore!
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Ergcat
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🏝on shore🏝

Did the grid yesterday but then had to put it down for church for Maundy Thursday service. Had an idea for the mechanism. Picked it up today and saw the mechanism right away! Clever construction! Fun solve!
Happy Easter to all my fellow muggles!🐇
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Got it. Amazing construction.
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girubato1
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On shore. 2 weeks in a row! Tonic water and lime please!
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On shore last night around 9. Took about an hour to get there, including grid solving time. Impressive mechanism.
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halseymac
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#138

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Missed the last 2 weeks. On shore today! Beer this Tar Heel! What a fun one!! Great Job Mike!
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#139

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On shore. 🏖
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Ashore this morning. Will settle for an ice cold soda, today. Two more days of Lent and I’ll be free to imbibe something more…. “spirited”.
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