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.
Meg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 4:24 pm
It’s not often that I get the meta after completing one quarter of the grid..... A Rows Garden by Patrick Berry can take me hours. Some of his variety puzzles are hard! This meta, not so much.
I'm busy with work and haven't started writing on the grid, but I'm pretty sure I'm on shore with the help of your post and solving some of the grid in my head.
Eric, I hope my post wasn’t a spoiler!!
I've now finished the grid and submitted. Your post wasn't a spoiler, but it gave me the confidence to post that I was on shore before I was sure.
I need to be more careful about spoilers though. Last week I had a post removed for saying that if you had the answer and didn't submit you were a word coward.
I hope the admins let this post through now that last week's contest is over.
I think I like YOURS, too -- but... what the heck is it?
Periodically I do some high speed photography. This is a drop of food coloring hitting the surface of a glass of milk. The red ball at the top is most of the drop of food coloring bouncing off the surface of the milk. It loses some of its volume in the process which is the column below it. The flash time was about 50 microseconds.
I have some of a pellet from a pellet gun hitting a balloon or an egg. I would like to stop a bullet but I would have to get a submicrosecond flash which goes for about $1000.
Hey Bob, I’m going to speak only for myself here but if you’d like to post more in the off topic section about your photography I’d be happy to see it.
Scooby wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 9:23 pm
I see nothing, whyyyyyy...still chilling on the ship. Feeling so defeated that everyone said it's easy...will report back once there's light.
I don't know that I'd call it easy. It's a 110-percenter, though, if that's possible.
This is not a game I know, which I guess could be said about every game except perhaps ring-a-levio and strip poker. But I have heard of it and thus find myself on shore.
I mostly did the grid, and then the wife got the meta in less than 15 minutes and English isn't even her first language. Yay Natasha! Cute meta. And now we can concentrate on selling Girl Scout Cookies all weekend.
MarkL wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:24 pm
Done and Done. Page 2 and no Al??
To all a good weekend, and a good weekend to all.
Once again, I think I'm overthinking it. Note to self: Stop doing this. You don't always need Evel Knievel's motorcycle to get over the initial hurdle. Putting it down for now for my usual Thursday agenda: Pre-trivia Guinnesses --> Trivia --> Post-trivia Guinnesses. Save me a spot on the beach,
pals!!
Take your time Al. I had to stop myself from submitting a bad guess.
Wow! What a construction! We are confident in our answer. Ashore (and the right shore for a change!). (also had an alternate for 52A that Rita made me alter!)
On shore! Now I have all weekend to watch golf and avoid my wife’s honey-do list (famous last words). I’ll take a Breckenridge Brewery Irish Nitro Stout, please, Isaac.
