"Signs of the Times" January 20, 2023

[HunterX]

Oh, forgot to check in. On the beach as of last night. Straight-forward and... (the 'E' word).

[rexthree]

joining the crowd on the beach. ashore!

[Bonnibel]

Enjoyed this one, once I had a moment to focus on it.

Grandson's athletics today: basketball, baseball, soccer. Whew. And he's only 9.

Lots of company ashore this week!

Genius construction!

It's cold so I'll take a nice hot toddy and a blanket please.

[Barney]

Grid was tough, and then the whole bloody thing got zapped into the ether. I was so disgruntled could not see the glaringly obvious answer without a kick. Aw well, happens.

(Also, I didn’t say the E-word)

With the angst of losing your entire grid, I thought you would be referring to the (letter after E) word.

Good guess.

[Commodore]

Aye, we like events. Planted our anchor in the sand.

[vandono]

Joining you all on the beach today in an effort to top our record. Been a while, what's on tap?

I'm hoping @SingleMalt will share the Oban.

[Collegetowngirl]

On shore!! Was so fun. I hope this brings in more muggles!

[bradisbrad]

Back at it after a while, and on shore!

[ARose]

Ashore! Refreshing meta after last week's.

[Cindy N]

On shore. I really need to start these earlier. I shall delay my imbibing until after dinner and enjoy a well-aged bottle of a winter warmer style beer. I expect a lovely malty, fruity, high abv glass of deliciousness.

[Googly]

[Kris Zacharias]

Woke up this morning to the sound of the ocean in Florida and solved the puzzle.

[Sara Dacus]

Delightful! I enjoyed this one.

[Bob cruise director]

Good morning muggles

We have two more muggles joining the party. Googly and Arose. Welcome to the clan and if there is anything we can do to help please feel free to ask.

Don't forget the Last Call zoom meeting tonight at 8 pm ET and the muggle get together on every Tuesday at 7:30 pm.

We have had steady progress to shore and now have 222 muggles on the beautiful beach.

Getting to the beach since yesterday are

Barney
Bonnibel
ReB
HunterX
ColinM
Commodore
Penny_Keatley
regfish
RichA2
rexthree
JerryF
NuYear68
Cindy N
Collegetowngirl
bradisbrad
Googly
Arose
Kris Zacharias
Sara Dacus


Good luck winning the mug and have a safe week.

[Mister Squawk]

Finally had a chance to look at this this morning -- managed to avoid overcomplicating it for once. On shore.

[zacmoretz]

Aboard! Cheers y’all!

[dpl11]

Ashore.

[Dplass]

Aboard! Cheers y’all!

Do you mean "ashore"?

[Secret Adversary]

On shore! I liked this one.

[HunterX]

Ashore, as always enjoyable, more when you solve.

On a separate note. Anyone use an iPad to solve wsj crosswords having difficulty since format change recently? I can no longer see all of completed grid to take screenshot. Without screenshot all highlighting/ markup tools are no longer useful.

Appreciate any help you can offer.

I use Notability on my iPad to solve PDFs of puzzles. Happy to chat. Shoot me a message if interested.

I also use my iPad to solve. For the WSJ I use both a PDF from the WSJ site that I drop into my GoodNotes notepad app, then also solve on the WSJ app, taking a screenshot of the result and putting it into GoodNotes. I did a write-up of the method, linked here.

I do the MGWCC on my iPad as well, though there I just use the PDF, then I split-screen my iPad in landscape and have the Patreon PDF on one screen and my GoodNotes on the other. It makes the zooming and scrolling easier. You can have many of the clues showing on the left while you fill in the answers on the zoomed-in grid in your notepad app on the right. (If you are right-handed, that is.)

PM me if you want to chat it out.