"Hear, Hear!" October 25, 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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femullen
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#241

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Just back from deer camp. Saw a lot more there than I see here.

Ahoy, Isaac! Something, please, to dull the shame of cluelessness.
For nudges, feel free to PM me. I won't have a clue how to help you, but you might shove me ashore.
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JRS51
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#242

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Ashore!
I thought I had the answer on Friday but I couldn’t figure out how to finish the last step. Now I see it (at least I think I do!) and have submitted just in time. So clever!!
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MatthewB
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#243

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Phew! On shore. Got the basic mechanism relatively early but just got to shore...quite a swim but worth it.
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Aaron
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#244

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Ashore, belatedly. Or I've found quite the rabbit hole. Either way, I'm content for the week. Time for an Amber Ale.
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Kas
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#245

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On shore!! Sunday night squeaker…but enjoying the win after a couple of weeks of floundering listlessly in the Bermuda Triangle of clueless Muggles…
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MaineMarge
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#246

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I’m hear, hear on the beech! Came in on the same tied as hour crews director, Bob.
Grate won from Mike this weak, so let’s awl here it fore him! ❤️
Hear! Hear!
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altosax
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#247

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I have 9 letters. After struggling, that’s the limit of my ability. I will guess at the answer.
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steph
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#248

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Ditto! I think I see the shore and jumping off. Hope I landed correctly 😂
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wescovington
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#249

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I got busy and had to give up and I resigned myself to drowning.
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Brian K
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#250

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On shore.

Thank you Zoomies! (My first time ever using Zoom)

Thank you Heidi!

Thank you Mike Shenk!
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wescovington
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#251

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Well I guessed an answer
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hcbirker
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#252

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Heidi
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#253

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Heidi
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Brian K
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#254

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Wow!, who gnu?
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CopperRiver
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#255

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Mistakenly linked gnu to emu at first but back solved to finally get the correct answer.
Last edited by CopperRiver on Mon Oct 28, 2024 4:34 am, edited 1 time in total.
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tommy
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#256

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No time to work on it this weekend. Halloween festivities in full swing. Happy Bat Week to all! Hope you enjoy your Halloween as well.
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LittleGood
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#257

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Here's what happened to me: I completely missed NEW/GNU and WORLD/WHIRLED for a good long while, but I did clearly see ROW/ROE/EEL and (perhaps reaching a bit) ERR/AIR/SPARK, and eventually ruminated on SCI/SIGH, HOU/HEW/HUE, HEY/HAY, and generally trying to make the mechanism directly yield 10 letters.

NEW/GNU eventually clicked.
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Bob cruise director
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#258

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A belated final report - too much NFL

We have 2 on the ship and 211 on the shore.

Good luck winning the mug
Bob Stevens
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Deb F
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#259

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Amazing. I actually had all the homophones but couldn't figure out what to do with them. Congratulations to all you smart solving Muggles.

Have a great week.
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Yoda66
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#260

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Did anyone take the 10/4 clue bait for a detour before getting to shore? I tried to make sense of 10 4-letter answers, nothing; then looked into how AT (#10 on the grid is A, #4 is T) would play, nyet.

TALE and YARN were just too obvious after a while to go unnoticed.
“You must unlearn what you have learned.”
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