MGWCC #771 — “Plural Transferral”

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Beamed up at #137. I was pretty confident of the concept but it took a while to arrange all the pieces.
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Usually my problem is over-complicating things. This week it was the opposite. Thought I saw what I needed to see and found a pair of grid entries. Fortunately I was obsessive enough to look in case any other pairs worked, and I found another one, so I knew I must have missed something, and kept looking and found it.

I've beamed up now. Still one thing I don't fully understand.
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Awaiting beamage...

...and I'm on the board!
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MajordomoTom wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:32 pm wasn't sure which order to send those two grid entries to him in
I was feeling so good about my submission and then I read this! And now I wait.

EDIT: I am aboard!
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lbray53 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 5:14 pm
MajordomoTom wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:32 pm wasn't sure which order to send those two grid entries to him in
I was feeling so good about my submission and then I read this! And now I wait.
The way the prompt is worded, I expect either order will count as a win.
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Beamed. It was one of those 'Nothing...nothing...nothing...that's interesting...nothing...nothing...EVERYTHING' weeks. I have those a lot.
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Awaiting the beam!
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Beamed up @195
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Beamed up on week 2 of this 5 Friday month!
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I think I've got it... but I have an issue.

Can I run mine by someone and forgo my solo solve?

EDIT: Nemmine. There I am at 238.
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Beamed at 152! My first streak, too!

Really appreciated the clue at 34-Down.
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Confidently awaiting beam, but I do have an issue with a themer. Doesn’t sit well with me..
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Same here. Will look forward to comments Tuesday

Assuming order is not an issue, I’m beamed.
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Beamed up.

Ditto on the order. (Put the alternate in the comments.)

Good meta. And I groaned a number of times at the clues.
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Submitted my non-100% guess answer early this morning. Waiting for Matt to wake up and open the box to see if I made it.
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(and yeah I could ask a beam-ee now but what fun is that?)

EDIT: Whoops. New streak starts next week.

EDIT EDIT: Wow. Now I'm on the board. This cat is getting dizzy!
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Berto wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 12:17 am Confidently awaiting beam, but I do have an issue with a themer. Doesn’t sit well with me..
That concerned me initially, but after I ran the traps it all tied up in a cool way. PM me if you want to share notes.
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Forgot to post here yesterday but beamed up at 219. And similar to @Abide and others, I was not 100% certain until I was. Had to wrap my brain around it a bit, but a solid click on another very clever Gaffney construction.
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Had a similar issue with the theme but it clicked after I submitted (luckily)!
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Beamed up from my wheelhouse at 275 🤗.
That was 100% fun!
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Got it I believe. The first part seemed to come too easily; it was the rest that consumed my morning until I finally altered my logic. Now the wait for confirmation.

I had a good deal of trouble because I was assigning previous methods of failure onto this puzzle - talk about transferrance....
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EDIT: In just under the 300 mark at 293
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