"Shamrocks" March 17, 2023

[SReh26]

I am lost at sea, with Issac. In a moment, I will be reaching out to someone for a nudge.

And the shame of it is that I'm Irish!

Then I bid you take life easy….

Anyone?

[CopperRiver]

Finally shore with two nudges that confirmed my initial take on the meta was correct but I wasn't able to finish the job on my own.
Alas!

[WSJosh]

Still at sea

[Bob cruise director]

Good evening muggles

Our final count for the week is 11 on the ship and 162 on the shore.

Good luck winning the mug

[mrmd]

Ashore thanks to a nudge from WWW (the Wondrous Wendy W)!

[dot]

Got it! Just under the wire. Thanks to everyone saying how easy it was, we realized we were over-thinking it. Whoo hoo! H will have a Raspberry Lime Rickey, and J will have a glass of Iced Matcha.

[Franklin.Bluth]

Busy weekend, so when I didn't get it immediately I set it aside until late tonight. Took another look, made it to the mechanism after a few rabbit trails.

[Cindy N]

Sometimes there's a reason you keep going back to one thing over and over again, no matter what else you might look at. Duh. On shore - where I should have been when I finished the grid Friday night.

[DannyWalter]

Submitted a Hail Mary because I didn't last week, and it was correct. Good luck muggles!

[Libbypibby]

Ashore with 15 minutes to spare! Phew

[Jeremy Smith]

On the beach with a last minute solo solve. MANY rabbit holes in this one. Never heard of the one piece I was missing, but I knew, at that point, what the meta answer had to be.

[hcbirker]

[SReh26]

She bid me take life easy
As the grass grows on the weirs
But I was young and foolish
And now am full of tears

- Yeats (an end to one of his poems)

[MikeM000]

[Rad26]

JFK’s favorite poem was The Second Coming by Yeats which is wonderful throughout but has such a prescient couplet in it:

The best lack all conviction,
While the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Congrats to all who got the answer.

[ship4u]

I suspected that the down clues with "Irish" as the first word descriptor was a hint to a mechanism. Going back to the grid gave me KLM (E), KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and former CEO, Pieter Elbers. That led me 5D AER LINGUS and CEO, Lynne Embleton. But, alas, I couldn't get that to fly.

[JJD]

GREAT SCHISM was the Aha clue for me.
I knew of the Schism from the game Crusader Kings 2.
And I knew of Schist from Dwarf Fortress, a video game that was in the first bath of games honored by MOMA as art. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... Modern_Art)

[LadyBird]

A few years ago, I read this book featuring 60 poems by Yeats. The poems were paired with paintings by Irish artists. It was a beautiful book, both poetically and visually.

[NuYear68]

Remained on board (and unaccounted for). I was looking for sham rocks as the title suggested, and the closest I got was a sham pumice-labmice connection.

[pjc]

My short-lived rabbit hole was considering the Irish-related Down clues. I finally said to myself: "Oh, wait - what was the title of this puzzle again?" And that immediately led me to RUBS -> RUBY. And the next two quickly fell - so the answer HAD to be YEATS. I had to back-solve the last two letters (with a short "what the heck is a WHALS?" detour).

Streak is now at 9 - a personal best!