" WE’LL BE BACK SHORTLY" January 26, 2024

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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PQ63
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Ashore. Grid was tougher than the meta!

Grey Goose Martini please!
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agentcooper
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Thanks to the folks on Zoom for their head shakes at my 🐰 🕳️ musings, and the nods encouraging me to go back to ideas I'd glossed over earlier.

I sorted it out immediately after leaving the call. 🤙

So fun!
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Made it shore! Cerveza, por favor.
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I decided to play ski-hooky today and missed the Zoom call, but as I was composing a DM to plead for a nudge, the mechanism cracked itself wide open! Sometimes it really helps to just talk through the thought process. :)

Count me ashore.. and very much ready for a frothy stout.
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On the beach!
(1 for 4 in 2024 :( )
* 2022 WSJ Mug Winner - I bask in its Glory *
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D'oh! Mountains from molehills etc. On shore.
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Ashore. The WSJ online app has been acting up a lot!
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Neither ashore nor hanging with Isaac.I'm in the ship infirmary dealing with a nasty bout of the stomach flu. Rather than alcoholic beverage my nurse, Issa, insists that I drink lots of water and some hibiscus tea.I don't anticipate finishing this puzzle unless I have an amazing recovery. I did finish the grid which fatigued me so I took a 2 plus hour nap.

See you muggles tomorrow.
Good luck to all for a successful solve. If you see that I'm ashore - rare occasion of late - message me if you'd like a nudge. Be sure to include your progress so I can know better how to assist.

Alan A. and Maggie Muggle
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Ashore. That was clever. Seemed hopeless for a few minutes, but there was sort of an AHA moment.
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On shore after floundering and despairing on and off all day as I took care of household chores. And then the light came on! I can repeat the common mantras: I was making it way too hard, and this construction was amazing!
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Jarrod
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Ashore! Had to think about my answer, but positive I have it now. Turning an unflattering single malt into an Old Fashioned now.
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Relic wrote: Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:20 pm Neither ashore nor hanging with Isaac.I'm in the ship infirmary dealing with a nasty bout of the stomach flu. Rather than alcoholic beverage my nurse,Issa, insists that I drink lots of water and some hibiscus tea.I don't anticipate finishing this puzzle unless I have an amazing recovery. I did finish the grid which fatigued me so I took a 2 plus hour nap.

See you muggles tomorrow.
Feel better!
Heidi
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DannyWalter
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woozy wrote: Fri Jan 26, 2024 2:07 pm
SewYoung wrote: Fri Jan 26, 2024 11:47 am
woozy wrote: Fri Jan 26, 2024 11:18 am

Well, just concatenating the given clues for the entries (with a little allowance for grammar/syntax tweaking) is an acceptable clue.

But we're a creative bunch. We can do better.
I love this bunch of folks. I have learned, yet another new word. When I saw "concatenating" I thought surely it was a typo, but looked it up and Lo and Behold, it was a real word that I had never heard of.
Whoa.... just as Charles Schulz once assumed everyone knew what a ZAMBONI was (Snoopy as the WWI flying ace accidentally shot one and all the readers in the SF Bay area went "?????"), I assumed everyone knew what concatenate meant.

CON=with or together
CATENA= chain

concatenate= to chain together.
This is interesting. It's a very common word for me, but only because in programming we concatenate things all the time. Only the most primitive of languages do not have a concatenation operator or function. In fact, much of programming can be described as taking things apart and putting them back together again. Which is exactly what the AI of a Large Language Model does. It takes apart a tremendous amount of data and puts it aside such that it can put it back together in new ways in response to a query.
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Ashore!
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Life has been so out of control for the last couple of months that I haven’t got to the crossword and seen it thru since November. So very encouraging to get onshore in 2 minutes (extremely unusual for me and sure to be back to normal programming, e.g. pinging Wendy on Sunday with very little done, next week). Happy Saturday all + gratuitous shot of Fuji from the kitchen window to brighten your weekend.
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jmorgie7
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Ashore. vety tough solve but meta [almost!] easy.
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Oxford Comma Mama
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I somehow fell off the crossword bandwagon for a number of months - may have had something to do with my baby turning into a VERY busy toddler. :lol: Earlier this week I decided to do a few puzzles and was able to solve last week's meta pretty quickly! Woot!

However this one is another story. Nothing I think of yields anything at all and I am very much stuck on the boat. If anyone wants to send me a nudge, I would appreciate it!
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Cindy N
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Zoom...zoom...zoom...ashore!
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Char
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#179

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Solved
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#180

Post by batfella »

Ashore. Sleeping on it helped. Also a shout out to the Zoom crew.
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