"Deal Breaker" - March 18, 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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Ashore! Always fun to solve with mom ergcat in person :) Beer me.
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BarbaraK wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 3:13 pm
Ergcat wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 1:28 pm I am visiting my DD and fellow muggle, Regfish. She has requested that I wait until after she’s off work to do the grid and meta with her! It is killing me to wait!!! Hopefully it will be a quick solve for us!
Waiting to do a meta? Now that is love!
On shore🏝
Yes, it is ❤️… but hard to wait! Happy to say we got it done and it was a fairly quick swim to the beach!!! So happy to spend time with my daughter!
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I ~believe~ I am on the shore! Happy March Madness, everyone!
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michaelm wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:43 pm On shore.
Wonder if Mike Shenk thought about making this one a Marie Kelly special for Saint Patrick’s Day.
I’m still irritated at the forced name change tbh

I *liked* Marie Kelly.
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I'm still at the bar with Isaac. I've got the first part done, and I'm not sure if the inability to get further is from lack of diligence or lack of cleverness.

ETA: Aha! Just had a little of the sweet post-enlightenment. I am now firmly on shore. I can just chalk my earlier struggles up to spot blindness.
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whimsy wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 4:05 pm Back on the Ship
I have found out that my preferred answer is wrong, and I'm being put on a tender heading back to the ship --

"What's that you say? An interloper on the island? Here under false pretenses?"

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Yes. Caught planting “Bugs”.
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions”. Lillian Hellman
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DrTom wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 1:19 am
RicoTheSwede wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 10:11 pm Back on the horse [anagram of "shore"], after last week left me feeling like a horse's ______
rare?
Sorry DrTom -- we're looking for a "nine-letter, two-word phrase"...
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Comfortably at the bar with Isaac who has suggested I order some hare of the dog.
Thanks a bunch, Isaac!
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions”. Lillian Hellman
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ASHORE!! phew!

Some pretty serious rabbit-holes that I couldn’t convince myself to back out of…
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Ashore! That was a fun “a-ha” when I worked out the mechanism!
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Mister Squawk wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:07 pm Ashore.

Parenthetically, the best puzzles are the ones that you solve on Friday. Challenging enough that they take a day to figure out, but not so challenging that your weekend is ruined.
I get that opinion...but I'll argue that the best "A-HA Moment" is at 11:57 p.m. on Sunday, i.e., by the skin of one's teeth, and with mere moments to email the answer to Schenk & Co. (And my heart is oh so very heavy for you Page One-ers who will never know that frantic joy [insert crocodile tears here...lol].)
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Kas wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 10:47 pm
Mister Squawk wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:07 pm Ashore.

Parenthetically, the best puzzles are the ones that you solve on Friday. Challenging enough that they take a day to figure out, but not so challenging that your weekend is ruined.
I get that opinion...but I'll argue that the best "A-HA Moment" is at 11:57 p.m. on Sunday, i.e., by the skin of one's teeth, and with mere moments to email the answer to Schenk & Co. (And my heart is oh so very heavy for you Page One-ers who will never know that frantic joy [insert crocodile tears here...lol].)
Seems like we need another Kas Scale - for Aha Moment measurement?
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#173

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Ashore! Quick dip, so the ship must have been close to shore. Appreciate not having to “Ederle” this one!
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Woodford Reserve makes coming ashore so rewarding.

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On shore. Took me awhile.
My avatar proves that it is sometimes better to be lucky than good!
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On shore.
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Ashore and happy to be there.

As to the gradations of the head slap, suggested above, I offer as a starting point:

The Hair Pulling Out
The Head Banging on Wall
The Despairing Walk Around the Block
The Lying Awake
The Walking Away and Pretending to Ignore
The Vow to Take Up Macrame Instead of Metas
The Head Slap
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Barney wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:42 pm
michaelm wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:43 pm On shore.
Wonder if Mike Shenk thought about making this one a Marie Kelly special for Saint Patrick’s Day.
I’m still irritated at the forced name change tbh

I *liked* Marie Kelly.
I *loved* Marie Kelly
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M and M wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 5:37 am The Walking Away and Pretending to Ignore
Current therapy against MGWCC #720.
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On the top shelf, over at the starboard side. That's my drinking cup, Isaac. Fill 'er up.
Becalmed.
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