#702 - “Hooray!”

[ky-mike]

Count me on shore.

Now to locate the answer to the Five W’s

[hcbirker]

Beam me up! Needed an easy one today.

[Katiedid]

Hooray! Nice to be able to solve one today.

[MamaE]

Beam me up and I got it with downs only! Feeling quite proud of myself now if only I could figure out the WSJ! Lol

[SewYoung]

Beam me up. I went with the Standard Format as I have been in a real slump lately and needed a confidence builder. Mission accomplished.

[SewYoung]

Nice work, Al! 🎖

Beamed & needing Guinness and a fireplace to complement this fall weather.

Don't have a Guinness for you, but I am at the lake so I do have a fireplace. This picture is from this morning.

[jhseeman]

Beamed up...... to find myself sitting at the bar with Isaac

[Bird Lives]

I just got to the contest after spending quality time with my beloved. Now I have to make a decision
Everything
Downs only
No instructions
Downs + no instructions

Which one should I go for?

There are certain elements of popular culture that are required and which may lie outside the broad sweep of your knowledge. So try a "downs only" first. Then when you are stumped, try one with the across clues (the instructions don't add much).

[Bird Lives]

Submitted, not yet confirmed. Waiting anxiously. Not.

[Amanda Hugginkiss]

[Bob cruise director]

I just got to the contest after spending quality time with my beloved. Now I have to make a decision
Everything
Downs only
No instructions
Downs + no instructions

Which one should I go for?

There are certain elements of popular culture that are required and which may lie outside the broad sweep of your knowledge. So try a "downs only" first. Then when you are stumped, try one with the across clues (the instructions don't add much).

I am doing the downs only with no instructions. I have the grid completed with the four theme answers but there are a couple of other answers that don't make sense. Am working on the meta

[MajordomoTom]

Wow - is there a “week zero” classification? This may have gotten mis-shuffled.

Beam me up… and, now back to the WSJ beffuddlement.

same and same

solved w/ only Downs and instructions.

WSJ - clues but no clue.

[MajordomoTom]

on another note, the puz app on my Chromebook now seems to work - it used to want me to correct things that didn't need correction, it said "solved" when I finished this grid.

[cbarbee002]

Well, that was a quick one. Too easy?

[Bob cruise director]

I just got to the contest after spending quality time with my beloved. Now I have to make a decision
Everything
Downs only
No instructions
Downs + no instructions

Which one should I go for?

There are certain elements of popular culture that are required and which may lie outside the broad sweep of your knowledge. So try a "downs only" first. Then when you are stumped, try one with the across clues (the instructions don't add much).

I got almost all the grid with the Downs only. No clue on the meta without instructions so I peeked. Peeking did not help at all. Googling did not help either unless I was to google ad nauseum.

[Bird Lives]

I got almost all the grid with the Downs only. No clue on the meta without instructions so I peeked. Peeking did not help at all. Googling did not help either unless I was to google ad nauseum.

The instructions are no help. But the across clues give it away.

[EmilyW]

Beam me up! I opted for the no instructions and kept all the clues which was pretty easy, but fine with me after all the super hard metas lately.

[Cindy]

Solved

[Bob cruise director]

I got almost all the grid with the Downs only. No clue on the meta without instructions so I peeked. Peeking did not help at all. Googling did not help either unless I was to google ad nauseum.

The instructions are no help. But the across clues give it away.

I got it with a push and a shove. It would have taken a lot of googling before I stumbled on the answer. I was hoping that the answer would be Bucky #$%^& Dent

[Barney]

I took the full Monty and easy breezy solve, though I did verify the birthday.

Happy Birthday to Matt!!!!!