#723 - "Look for the Crook"

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#21

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Found the crook. Will just miss the top 100. Pretty quick solve, but late start due to muggle zoom meeting.
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#22

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Beamed up at #45.
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Beam me up (#131).
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Prepare to beam, pending board update. 100%. Nice easy week 2.

Update: yup. #146
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Beam me up. I enjoyed this one!
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Like Ky-Mike, I got a late start on this one thanks to a two-screen Zoom Group Solve .. but, WOW, it was so much fun to see the "a-ha" moment for each Muggle attendee! I echo Wendy's comment just above.
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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Well, I found the theme solution but only after submitting an incorrect answer, so no beam up for me. I’ve fallen victim to a transporter malfunction.
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I saw what was happening while looking at the grid on my phone and was pretty sure what the answer would be.

But I’m obsessive, so I had to finish the grid on paper (after adding two rows and columns to one of my pre-printed blank 15x15 grids since I’m away from my printer.) And then highlight appropriately. And find just what I expected. And then submit.

Awaiting beam up, but confident I will rematerialize on the Enterprise after the next update.
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Puts fingers and thumb to mouth and does a “MWAH” kind of thing - that was just about perfection. Submitted but 100% confident I’ll see my name following the next update. Brilliant once again.
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I think we will be beaming up... Back to WSJ
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Beaming up! That was pretty cool. Now I only hope I can get an AHA when I go back to the WSJ....
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SJMcK wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 7:43 pm Well, I found the theme solution but only after submitting an incorrect answer, so no beam up for me. I’ve fallen victim to a transporter malfunction.
Transporter accidents are the worst! Two limbs get switched... Your spleen goes to another part of the ship... So why did Star Trek (the original) only have a problem where evil twins from an alternate universe appeared instead? (Though you had to love the look of Spock with the evil goatee!)
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I’ve put in my call for the next upward bound beaming. Awaiting confirmation.
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HunterX wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 8:57 pm
SJMcK wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 7:43 pm Well, I found the theme solution but only after submitting an incorrect answer, so no beam up for me. I’ve fallen victim to a transporter malfunction.
Transporter accidents are the worst! Two limbs get switched... Your spleen goes to another part of the ship... So why did Star Trek (the original) only have a problem where evil twins from an alternate universe appeared instead? (Though you had to love the look of Spock with the evil goatee!)
There was also the time Kirk got turned into two Kirks - his good side and his bad side in separate bodies
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whoa.... really late start. Pretty sure I have it though.

Gad, android crossword apps stink! (Just Saying.....)
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Wendy Walker wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 7:33 pm a two-screen Zoom Group Solve .. but, WOW, it was so much fun to see the "a-ha" moment for each Muggle attendee!
Wendy and Peter help the lost boys (and girls).
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Hey! I'm at exactly 200.
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BEAM ME UP! A 100% surety. Nice confidence builder after getting shredded by the WSJ meta.
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BarbaraK wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 9:22 pm
HunterX wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 8:57 pm
SJMcK wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 7:43 pm Well, I found the theme solution but only after submitting an incorrect answer, so no beam up for me. I’ve fallen victim to a transporter malfunction.
Transporter accidents are the worst! Two limbs get switched... Your spleen goes to another part of the ship... So why did Star Trek (the original) only have a problem where evil twins from an alternate universe appeared instead? (Though you had to love the look of Spock with the evil goatee!)
There was also the time Kirk got turned into two Kirks - his good side and his bad side in separate bodies
Yes, and it was eerily similar to the alternate universe with the evil Spock. Still no errant limbs, alas...
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woozy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 9:57 pm Hey! I'm at exactly 200.
Wow! Nice!
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