"Show Them The Way" - October 9, 2020

[NaluGirl]

Happy to be onshore before Sunday!

[Annabelle]

Count me with the shore party, Bob.
Fun meta and grid.
Actually I’m going to sit in the stern garden for awhile longer to do some cloudspotting.

This year I discovered, and joined the Cloud Appreciation Society (who knew??) Every day I receive an interesting cloud photo, as below, accompanied by a meteorological explanation or a literary reference. It has enriched my already nature loving life in a delightful way.
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I want to recommend the book The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Astronomer Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn. Fun history of science read about the Quaker pharmacist Luke Howard, who presented his taxonomy of clouds in a lecture to a gathering of amateur British scientists called the Askesian Society in 1802. It's essentially the same classification still used today. The book also discusses how clouds have figured in popular culture including art and theology. I read it years ago and remember it fondly. Naturalists were the social influencers of that day!

[Janet]

Still stuck on the ship. I'm not seeing the way, just lots of rabbit holes. Hard to apply the hint from 75 across.
Something parents hope their kids will avoid -- missing the meta!

[boharr]

Good Saturday morning muggles

and we welcome a bunch of new muggles this week - wildjed, Dobbydown, escapeartist, Rweiss6, Cosmo, Alexleah1, Jholway, and Crest. And our half new muggle DanA whose wife BethA pulled into the clan last week but he got his own account this week.

For all our newest muggles - there is a wealth of information under Come Aboard including and opportunity to introduce yourself, and under Community/Solving Resources, there are techniques for solving, past crosswords to practice on, Joe Ross's guide for solving with Excel and several topics to give the background on some of our terms. Also there are topics both here and under the Acapulco Lounge are discussions on how to ask for nudges (hints).

We have 9 on the ship and 114 on the shore

On the ship with Isaac are
majorDomoTom
Eric P
Beth A
brulo
Richard
higgysue
ImOnToo
wildjed
and Dobbydown

On the shore are
Mike H
Janet
Commodore
Al
Meg
TPS
Abide
Heidi
Kay
tim1217
DBMiller
Chris
Jeanrosz
RDaleHall
Darryl
flying Moose
Moi
Alan H
hunkra
Cindy
Oldjudge
Jace54
MikeM000
Tmart
joequavis
M and M
Andrew B
LaceyK
Georgeall
cbarbee002
ladybird
sanmilton
whimsy
edot
Brian
Blair
Emily W
Glenn G
Tom Shea
802 Puzzler
Susie G
copperriver
BirdLives
Rob M
Tina
FrankH
Laura
Tori.I
DrTom
NDStegs
Miki
EVJ
MarkL
ALS
Ronaldo
Conrad
escapeartist
SewYoung
les
mattythewsjpuzzler
DanA
Joe R
maineMarge
BetheLight
JimJim
Grover
Annabelle
Wendy
Larrry
michaelm
RWeiss6
JeanneC
ky-mike
Powers2020
BillT
Hector
scraps
Jarrod
Cosmo
Homer
Plymouth rock
Beth T
NuYear68
Tony S
Kris
Alexhelah1
Jholway
JoePickett
Jackie88
dplass
Cynthia J
Colin
BarbaraK
dk letter
Eguinan
Anita
Lacangah
headinHome
Jereemy
meowmiao71
damefox
Thurman8er
bskptkl
stmv
tigerfly222
Gerry
Natalie
Crest
PaulD
Domenic
Orsys
Deb F
otlaolap
and JRS51

Good luck to everyone and stay safe - especially those in the way of the Delta Force

I think you missed me. On shore at post #29.

[Bob cruise director]

Neither do we - not town water, not town sewerage, no sidewalks, no street lights, no garbage pickup - makes you wonder what our tax dollars are going for.

Good lord - where do you live? The Australian Outback?

25 miles north west of Boston.

[Bob cruise director]

I think you missed me. On shore at post #29.
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mea culpa - my fault

[Bob cruise director]

Long-time Muggles lurker, finally set up my account.
Count me on shore

We love former lurkers that jump into the clan

[Schmeel]

Ashore.
I got a late start this week, but when I was able to put my mind to it I saw it pretty quickly.

[madhatter5]

You can add me to the ship. I've been staring at this thing so long my eyes are going dry and you're telling me it's easy???

[BethA]

DUH moment achieved! I’m on the beach, finally! 🏖

Glad to catch up with DanA! I got a minor hint from him, but not so much as to spoil the DUH/AHA moment.

Not easy for me, probably due to my continuing difficulty to read and properly interpret hint clues! Happy to join the beach party, and will have a merlot a bit later!

[Jeremy Smith]

You can add me to the ship. I've been staring at this thing so long my eyes are going dry and you're telling me it's easy???

Sometimes staring is not enough. Have you tried crossing your eyes? Or perhaps stealing quick glaces at the puzzle out of the corner of your eye?

[Tina]

In case someone needs a new earworm, Stevie Nicks has a brand new song entitled "Show Them the Way":

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ste ... 51055.html

[FKelly]

Straight forward shot to the beach.

[halseymac]

Happy to report that this NC Tar Heel was able to 18-A this one and get on shore! Fun grid and Meta!

[higgysue]

Oh, I see it now. Haha. Off to the beach.

[madhatter5]

HAHAHAHA I just solved it. Squinting helped! Ashore!

[Bob cruise director]

DUH moment achieved! I’m on the beach, finally! 🏖

Glad to catch up with DanA! I got a minor hint from him, but not so much as to spoil the DUH/AHA moment.

Not easy for me, probably due to my continuing difficulty to read and properly interpret hint clues! Happy to join the beach party, and will have a merlot a bit later!

Beth
You are not going to get a lot of sympathy from most of us. You have a 90% success rate by my count.

[spotter]

On shore. My first idea was the right one but I didn't know how to execute for a bit

[C=64]

Beer me! The grid was easy enough, although I wasn't familiar with 40D. I figured out the mechanism but couldn't see how to apply it on Thursday. Wrestled with it for 15 minutes on Saturday, changed my approach slightly, well whaddaya know!

[C=64]

Onshore. Now back to at MMMM...

Gah, I've been so busy this week that I forgot it was the first Tuesday! Thanks for the reminder.