HALLLPP! Can’t find an old Rows Garden solution

[HeadinHome]

This is driving me mad! I typically get these worked out (challenging, but have always been able to finish). I snipped this puzzle from the paper in May and tucked it away… just pulled it out to do it, and CANNOT FINISH ONE LINE!! The WSJ page that should show the solution is NOT functioning, and I can’t find answers anywhere online.

Here is the link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/rows-garde ... 1652393954

My problem is the end of row H!!

OR, if you can think of..
an “unpaid position in the US Government” starting with BAT… (2 words, 9 letters)
or
“easily removed footwear” of 6 letters containing QUI or IUQ
or
“appetizer served with toast points” 6 letters containing ETS or STE

(these of course assume I have all the other squares right)

Who does Rows Gardens? Heidi? Wendy??

[Joe Ross]

Working on it...

[Meg]

This is driving me mad! I typically get these worked out (challenging, but have always been able to finish). I snipped this puzzle from the paper in May and tucked it away… just pulled it out to do it, and CANNOT FINISH ONE LINE!! The WSJ page that should show the solution is NOT functioning, and I can’t find answers anywhere online.

Here is the link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/rows-garde ... 1652393954

My problem is the end of row H!!

OR, if you can think of..
an “unpaid position in the US Government” starting with BAT… (2 words, 9 letters)
or
“easily removed footwear” of 6 letters containing QUI or IUQ
or
“appetizer served with toast points” 6 letters containing ETS or STE

(these of course assume I have all the other squares right)

Who does Rows Gardens? Heidi? Wendy??

Wendy,
I’m sure I did this, though completed puzzles just fly out of my brain. The footwear could be LOAFER, though I imagine it’s probably a plural and my suggestion doesn’t use the letters you have.
Toast points go with CAVIAR, and again it doesn’t use your letters.
Good luck! Hopefully someone will be of better help.

[HeadinHome]

Thanks Meg — As I started responding to your post, I was typing out other footwear ideas and I remembered something I had thought of earlier and hadn’t tried… that did the trick! (I had to shuffle around the words and positions I was using for about 6 answers, but GOT IT!!

Shuffling around made footwear THONGS (which I had used elsewhere to answer a different clue!), the appetizer was indeed CAVIAR which I had in the puzzle but had not marked off when that rose was completed (the bookkeeping on these puzzles is a challenge!). The unpaid government position turned out toe be FIRST LADY. (the BAT I thought was correct was intended for STABLE as a rose answering “dependable, as a source of income,” but the answer was actually STEADY and went at the end, with LADY).

ANYhoo….. * whew *. such relief.

[HeadinHome]

Working on it...

Got it! see above. Some bookkeeping errors cleared up.

[Joe Ross]

Courtesy of @MikeMillerwsj:

[Wendy Walker]

So glad you got it, Wendy! Heidi, isn't this the puzzle where you got NON SEQUITUR wrong?