"Name Dropping" September 1, 2023

A place to discuss the weekly Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Contest, starting every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please do not post any answers or hints before the contest deadline which is midnight Sunday Eastern time.
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Franky_T
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Got it thanks to the Zoom call.
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Busy travel weekend but I am sadly still at sea.
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Our final count is 10 on the ship and 186 on the shore

Again, welcome to our newest muggles - LarsCaine and Joe K

Have a good week everyone. And don''t forget to check viewforum.php?f=6 for metas every day through the next WSJ and the Sunday Crossword by Evan Birnholz, Pun of a Kind by Mikey G and others.
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You can drop my name onto the ship party list. Very little time to delve into this one due to our 41st fantasy football draft/golf tournament/party and getting ready to leave town for a week. But I don't think it mattered. I'm just not seeing anything that leads to anything.
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Ashore ... as of 4pm but too busy to log on here. went from total despair [what is the #$%^%%$#@ gimmick] to AHA in an instant...
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Tenuously ashore, but I can defend my answer. As luck would have it, spent a lovely couple of hours on the Mississippi in our community's water taxi, got some close-up looks at the remains of a bridge that was blowed up real good last Sunday. We felt the blast, and we live at least 5 miles from the bridge.

On another note, saw a little dachshund puppy in Walmart tonight, sweet little black and tan, unlike our own dachshund, who I believe was a trained killer. Five years, and we still miss her.
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Busy weekend and hanging out with Isaac on the ship. 7 minutes left until…
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Lost at sea!
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Ashore
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Nope. Here are my random scribblings -- and no, typing it all out didn't help at all.

because of BULL TWINS:
JOSH GIBSON SAGITTARIUS DEC 21 1911
BEA ARTHUR TAURUS MAY 13 1922
ALF LANDON VIRGO SEP 9 1887
WALT KELLY VIRGO AUG 25 1913
GREG NORMAN AQUARIUS FEB 10 1955

synonyms
JOSH 20A KID 5D RIB
BEA
ALF
WALT
GREG

names "dropping" in Down entries
SLY stallone
john LOCKE
claudio ARRAU
marshall MCLUHAN
william SEWARD

numbers
atONErs
TWObit
oNINE

other wordplay
laPAT
BULL+LOCKE = bullock sandra
CAJOLE -J +R = CAROLE king
aWARD
seWARD
cAME-name
AMEs-name
MOM-SON-KID
eCHO (margaret)
alTIMas
twOBIT
cANIt (de franco)
gregNORMAn
ELIs
kelly CLARKSON
norman LEAR
arthur DENT
landon DONOVAN
gibson ?
landon - LONDON
max - DRANO

what is the significance of ESPANOL in the center?
why is the fill so ugly?
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ARRGH! I forgot to submit AGAIN
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
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What I like about this is you know the title is "name drop" so you know somewhere names have to be removed. But you get the exact opposite as the names are complete. But no matter what rabbit holes you go down (such as KELLY, NORMAN, ARTHUR, are first names and ... well, I heard of people named Landon... wasn't Lisa Simpson's crush name Landon?... and Gibson, well, I've never met anyone named Gibson but with the tradition of naming people after mothers' maiden names I'm sure someone somewhere has that name) you know you have to drop a name and if you sit and ask yourself "what is being dropped and/or what can I drop" you can come up with it.

.... Of course, having a niggling doubt that "thrice" seems such an odd entry and has an oddly phrased clue doesn't hurt...
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
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I had a momentary hesitation to say I was on "shore" since that was only one letter away from the solution... anyone else?
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I had the nickname and was looking at the "dropped" letters (UA, TRICE, RED, ER, ORY), but I was nowhere close to noticing them in the other answers like that. Blech, it stinks when you see the answer and think, "I could have seen that, but I just didn't."
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woozy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 1:36 am wasn't Lisa Simpson's crush name Landon?
I believe you’re thinking of Langdon Alger. He’s very quiet and enjoys puzzles.

Sounds like someone who’d be into crossword contests.
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VanVeen wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:50 am
woozy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 1:36 am wasn't Lisa Simpson's crush name Landon?
I believe you’re thinking of Langdon Alger. He’s very quiet and enjoys puzzles.

Sounds like someone who’d be into crossword contests.
Landon Donovan was a soccer player, a member of the USMNT. But I could not come up with a Gibson either,
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Was not even close!
My hat is humbly doffed,
To solo solvers.

(… and Mr Shenk)
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Didn't love this one.
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My AHA came when looking one last time and thought AMES in the top right was one letter away from James. That got me thinking about doing something with one letter. Then I saw Josh and nearby USA and was off to the races. But I had stared at it for almost an hour before and saw nothing.
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