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Beam me up!
Reprinted the grid and saw the mechanism right away.

Al Sisti wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:35 am I am absolutely kicking myself over this one. I had the trick within an hour, and spent the next two days trying to take it another step further.

I sometimes find myself there too. “Is there more to this … ?” Especially with a Gaffney.

Beam me up!

I got lucky with PERISCOPES in that my random chain of "Could this work?" happened to pan out. I'm with Matt on that - one of my faves of the year.

But then I'm staring at this for an hour, and I'm like, "What?" and then finally grokked it. Even when you know it's a Week 3, in the moments when you're struggling, it might as well be a Week 10!

Now that's more like a week 3 puzzle. Once I quit looking for what I was expecting to find and instead noticed what was actually there, I felt myself start to dematerialize. Still in the transporter buffer, but quite confident I'll be on the ship with the next update.

Curiously enough, the reason I knew something was an article I read about someone who's not in the puzzle but I was reminded of by something that is. (How's that for cryptic? I'll clarify Tuesday if I remember.)

Got it with a lot of teamwork from our most northerly muggle and a nudge from another. At least one of the key elements was very far out of my area of expertise.

BarbaraK wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:05 pm
Curiously enough, the reason I knew something was an article I read about someone who's not in the puzzle but I was reminded of by something that is. (How's that for cryptic? I'll clarify Tuesday if I remember.)

I can't wait to hear this explanation, Barbara!

Think I'm on to it. Will find out in the a.m. . . . . . . zzzzzzzzzzz

It finally clicked! Excellent puzzle and I loved this meta mechanism!

I appreciated this cloud as I beamed up last night.
Northerly Muggle here who’s grateful to have a solving buddy smarter than I am.
Waaay fun and interesting meta after we got settled into it.

Okay, got it. Fun indeed.

Done. Enjoyed this.

Well the light finally went on and power to the transporter room was restored. I do not have confirmation but I feel VERY confident of my answer. This was again an inspired construction and meta. I don't know why it awes me every time but it does.

Preparing to beam up, hope it is to the right ship. Confirmed #178, about right where I usually land

Been busy all weekend and won’t have time until tomorrow to look at this one. Wish me luck. I quick perusal is not yielding anything. Oh well, no streak to break anyway.

Picked a good one to have it jump out quickly, as I have very little time this week. Started on the right path almost instantly, and probably took about 10 minutes total after finishing the grid. Almost never happens to me, but glad it did this week.

Beam me up. Thanks to some navigational assistance. Two things eluded me even after I figured out the mechanism. I have four pages of rabbit hole notes and three printed grids. The most ever I think.

Beamed up. Figured out the mechanism, but then took a small detour. Needed a nudge to get back on track.

Beam me up!

One part of the answer made me 10D, and this time it's really true!

There was no "AHA" moment with this one.
There was, however, lots of "OH, LORD, I'M GOING OUT OF MY MIND" moments.