"Backdrops" February 2,2023

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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Merry Potter
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#61

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Solved on a 737 aircraft back from a Boeing visit- that's kind of a meta in itself...
If I don't win a mug, I can always make one... ;) but it won't have the same cachet.
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Happy
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#62

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Ashore.
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#63

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Solved it
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LesY
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#64

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Solved and ashore! Well done, Mike.
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Relic
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#65

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Hanging at the bar with a couple of pals. Maybe 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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rjy
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#66

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Seems I’ll be here awhile, so next round at Isaac’s on me… drink up, my fellow laggards!
Ray
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hottieruth
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#67

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Very happy to be ashore. Bottoms up!
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JeanneC
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#68

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Dinner started at 3:55 today. Fortunately hubby didn’t see my sweaty palms as I downed the steak and spinach salad and got dessert to the table in record time. Still, I didn’t start the puzzle until 6:30. Happily, I am on the beach and keeping warm by the bonfire. What a fun puzzle! Good luck everyone. (Uh, anybody bring coconut coated marshmallows for the fire?)
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions”. Lillian Hellman
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#69

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Darth wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 4:46 pm On Naboo. Made decent time while traveling at warp speed (Galactic Standard Time). :o I'll have whatever @vandono is having....

[btw, I'm hoping to attend the ACPT this year (end of March) and looking for someone to share accommodation or a local willing to let me crash their couch! Please PM me if you're interested. Thanks.]
I hear your breathing is really loud. And most hotels don't allow light sabers.
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aschuchert
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#70

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Ashore! Long day. I’ll have a double.
Anna.
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M and M
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#71

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Unbelievable construction, as others have noted. The thing that seemed fishy... was in actual fact fishy! That helped a lot in the effort to not chase rabbits.

We are on the Muggle beach, and how we wish it was the real beach!
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#72

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Isaaac, pour me another. Not even a red herring or a rabbit to keep me company…
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Al Sisti
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#73

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Yeah, another page 1 solve! I'll have a Gui... wait, what? Page 4? Oof...okay, what *do* you have left? Ovaltine and hot dog water?
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Alvibu67
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#74

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On the beach! Having a Topo Chico to celebrate!

Good puzzle!
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Magistra
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#75

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This was fun! My kind of meta!
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#76

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On shore. What a construction!
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Closing out my tab w Isaac…finally! Pretty great AHA after digging deep in myriad rabbit holes. It’s late so just a wee dram of rye as a nightcap
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#78

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Just when I was about to abandon hope…the mechanism revealed itself! On the beach! I’ll take a gin and juice.
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#79

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Well that took a little longer than I’d hoped, but safely Ashore!
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On the beach (finally!) That metanism took me a long time to see.
I really need that G & T now, barperson!
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