"The Drive To Succeed" April 18, 2025

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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whimsy
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#141

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Ashore.
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#142

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Wow that was cool. Glad to be ashore with an Ayinger Jahrhundert Bier. Got a tee time at 8:30 tomorrow and hoping for one of these things during my round.
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#143

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Safely on shore!
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#144

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Took us a long time but we are on the beach! Worth the wait!
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#145

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On shore, as always, so clever. Happy Easter
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#146

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Ashore!
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#147

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On shore! Fun one. Great meta to explain your love of these things to someone.
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#148

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Ashore, with certainty, as with death and taxes. JW Blue before bed
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#149

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Count me ashore! Was this a more fitting puzzle for last week during the best tournament ever created? Sure. Am I complaining? Never! Will I enjoy this brown liquid? Absolutely.
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#150

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Marion, Jill, Mitch and I are safely on shore and it's Thursday! Glad to be done and relaxing...........
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#151

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Ashore with a no-doubter this week. Cheers and Happy Easter!
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#152

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Ashore with an assist from my meta averse husband who gave up golf in 1976. ⛳️🌴
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#153

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We are ashoRE! Late to the puzzle since I had to sanDWIch it in between 2 volunteer gigs, church, and baking "fancy-shape" cookies. Fortunately, solving did not hiNGE upon a lot of experience on a golf course--my tiDBit of knowledge was enough to get me through. Glad that Matt cut us some sLACK this holiday weekend, though I'm sure he won't make a haBIt of it. Getting late so I better get my oRDer in at the tiki bar--kahlua and cream.

A blessed Easter to those who celebrate.
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#154

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Ashore! Cute one.
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#155

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Ashore!!
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#156

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Ashore!
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#157

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I don't get to do the metas often enough lately. Enjoying a bit of down-time now but I am not seeing the for-sure, locked-in solution. Perhaps I don't know enough golfing lingo that I need to know.
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I always start to worry when I see several posts talking about other answers that seem logical but aren’t correct and I’m left wondering if I submitted the alternate (i.e. wrong) solution as well.

At least the refund from my joint return is enough to buy a mug no matter what the right answer is so maybe I’ll award myself one.
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#159

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Uh-oh. I suddenly have the ominous feeling that there is yet one more step.
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Ashore. :)

Solved the grid more quickly than usual and somehow went from "no idea, may have to come back to it tomorrow" to "oh..." to "done" much more quickly than usual. The brain is a funny thing.
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