"Backcourt Fundamentals" - April 30, 2021

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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Meg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:29 pm On the beach. With my margarita. The cabana boy is ready to bring you any libation you desire.
Is there a cabana girl?
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BarbaraK wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:49 pm
Wendy Walker wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:50 pm Relieved to be on the beach. Sports two weeks in a row plus superheroes in MMM?! Next week I want gardening, grammar, Lord Peter Wimsey, cookie baking, and knitting, please!
MamaE wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:44 pm Agreed! Mysteries, knitting, British authors, classic rock!
TeaJenny wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:04 pm Grammar, Lord Peter Wimsey, AND knitting?! Where have you been all my life???
A knitting meta! I love it. Now how could that work... OK, can't do a full puzzle but how about...

The answer to this contest is a 4 letter word.
Four theme entries, 10 letters each. Clues are:

# Feline flyer
# Use a bread machine
# Super cute Australian/Chinese hybrid
# Dried fruit on a stick

Theme answers are

KITTYPILOT
POWERKNEAD
KOALAPANDA
PRUNEKABOB


Would be super easy for the knitters and require some uninteresting googling for the rest.
Ha ha! Love it!!
Knit 1, Purl 2, Knit 2, Purl 2, Knit 1 Repeat
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I got the hard part. Now I’m in the bar with Isaac reading all the entertaining comments. I’ll get back to the meta in a bit.
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Solved it at work hours ago but just got home to submit and enjoy a tasty libation. Count me ashore; predicting many happy solvers. Thank goodness I don’t have to mask outdoors anymore.
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BarbaraK wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:49 pm
Wendy Walker wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:50 pm Relieved to be on the beach. Sports two weeks in a row plus superheroes in MMM?! Next week I want gardening, grammar, Lord Peter Wimsey, cookie baking, and knitting, please!
MamaE wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:44 pm Agreed! Mysteries, knitting, British authors, classic rock!
TeaJenny wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:04 pm Grammar, Lord Peter Wimsey, AND knitting?! Where have you been all my life???
A knitting meta! I love it. Now how could that work... OK, can't do a full puzzle but how about...

The answer to this contest is a 4 letter word.
Four theme entries, 10 letters each. Clues are:

# Feline flyer
# Use a bread machine
# Super cute Australian/Chinese hybrid
# Dried fruit on a stick

Theme answers are

KITTYPILOT
POWERKNEAD
KOALAPANDA
PRUNEKABOB


Would be super easy for the knitters and require some uninteresting googling for the rest.
Barbara - would your puzzle come with English subtitles?
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Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:55 pm
Meg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:29 pm On the beach. With my margarita. The cabana boy is ready to bring you any libation you desire.
Is there a cabana girl?
The cabana boy is a figment of my imagination. If you want to invent a cabana girl, go for it. But it’s a heavy responsibility. Muggles will expect a cabana girl to have a personality. Don’t you have enough on your plate, what with keeping track if who’s on shore (thank you for doing that) and who's hanging with Isaac? But I digress. I’m sure nobody on this forum would want to stifle your imagination!
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Ashore with a fun aha!
It's a coffee table book about coffee tables
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On shore, and happy to be on solid ground!
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Question for @Joe Ross Have there really been more contests dealing with sports than knitting?
Last edited by boharr on Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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On shore!
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Ashore, with a Dortmunder lager in hand.
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Meg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:27 pm
Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:55 pm
Meg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:29 pm On the beach. With my margarita. The cabana boy is ready to bring you any libation you desire.
Is there a cabana girl?
The cabana boy is a figment of my imagination. If you want to invent a cabana girl, go for it. But it’s a heavy responsibility. Muggles will expect a cabana girl to have a personality. Don’t you have enough on your plate, what with keeping track if who’s on shore (thank you for doing that) and who's hanging with Isaac? But I digress. I’m sure nobody on this forum would want to stifle your imagination!
Maybe you should be planning a cabana marriage?
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TPS wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:34 pm
TPS wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:47 pm Not happening this week.
I know a lot about the subject, maybe too much, but this was a NEVER for me.
Um... This "WAS a never" for you? Isn't it only Thursday?

I'm reminded of all the many wonderful quotes I've heard over a lifetime about how starting with a positive attitude is much more likely to result in a positive outcome. They probably started with the children's tale The Little Train Who Could. (Though not SNL's Mr. Mike's version.)

We've seen you post dire predictions before, followed by an edit to say you solved it. So I'm guessing you're underestimating yourself. But hey... to each his/her own. If you don't think you'll solve it, you could not even try and be immediately correct! Enjoy your weekend either way!
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I found some stuff I think I was supposed to find, but it's not leading me anywhere.

I may be drinking on the ship this week.

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Safely on shore...one of the key entries threw me off because it looked like it could be used in a different fashion with a similar theme. That expression was only familiar to me due to its use in an alliterative nickname for an old-time baseball player...
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On shore. Resting the grey matter for Gaffney’s week 5 painfest.
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We made it way more difficult than it was, but finally got to shore.
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Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:55 pm
Meg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:29 pm On the beach. With my margarita. The cabana boy is ready to bring you any libation you desire.
Is there a cabana girl?
She’s the one wearing a hula skirt, playing a uke in Oahu, and saying aloha offering you a lei. ( couldn’t fit Oreo in there).
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Quick swim to shore after a GREAT golf day!

Woke up this morning to some colorful visitors.
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Onshore - “grid, 6D, and submitted” :-)

Good health and happy solving,
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