"Ahead of Time" March 1, 2024

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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hunkra
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Was complicating this initially. But with a well-rested brain, have sailed (leaped?) to shore. Hoping there is still enough booze left for the late-comers!
Channeling Molly Weasley on a good day.
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#163

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newbymar wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:09 am The brothers and I solved and then.....wait....that was too that word! Gave it some more time and then we had the AHA!
I think we are ashore! Or at least we have one foot on land!
Well, now I’m worried! Maybe I missed something?
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#164

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On shore. Chased a few rabbit holes for a bit before I noticed the real path. Nice!
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#165

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Late, but ashore - this is a great one to recruit new muggles with.
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#166

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Busy day and night yesterday. A quick swim to shore today.

Another fun one from Mike!

Stay well all
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#167

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At the SingleMalt Household the mail usually arrives round now. I'll be gingerly opening the mailbox fearing that an invitation to a pageant is about to rear it's ugly head...
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#168

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Quickly ashore. Must of had a tailwind this week.
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#169

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I’m ashore
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#170

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Ashore. We are thankful for a relatively straightforward meta this week. We completely missed the target last week.
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#171

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Late start, but still burrowed into dead ends - not even rabbit-holes - longer than I should have. Fun one! If I can elbow thru the masses, I'm looking to score a Last Word later this evening. Cheers!
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#172

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On the beach after being stuck on the boat for a few weeks.
* 2022 WSJ Mug Winner - I bask in its Glory *
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Wendy Walker wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:19 pm
Meg wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:23 pm On the beach! The cabana boy is wondering if @Wendy Walker is wearing fishnets in that cute picture!
I think they might be, @Meg! I just hope they matched my red dress -- my mother made it and even embroidered the flowers on the yoke.
@Bob cruise director, I have only the vaguest memory that the winning word was "uncontroversial." I'm surprised my mother didn't write it down for posterity!
I lost a spelling bee once because I misspelled Niagara. And, I was part of a team so I lost it for everyone. It scarred me forever.
Susan Goldberg
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#174

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Mister Squawk wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:03 pm Ashore after two weeks of FAILURE.
NOT failure. GROWTH!
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Zagman49
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#175

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Ashore, probably with hundreds of others.
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#176

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#177

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Ashore. Took forever. Thanks for all of the comments about overthinking it. I had lots of little ideas that went nowhere and finally realized that they were too complex to be real.
My avatar proves that it is sometimes better to be lucky than good!
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#178

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I am ashore early on a Friday. Too bad St. Archer brewing is out of business, or I would take one of theirs for last week's puzzle.
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Posting hyperlinks on this site:


[b][url=THE FULL HYPERLINK, STARTING WITH "HTTP..."]TEXT YOU WISH TO HAVE OTHERS CLICK ON TO REACH THE LINK, SUCH AS "This post."[/url][/b]


[url]https://www.________.com[/url]

or and MUCH BETTER:

[url=https://www.________.com]____ _____ ______ ___[/url]



[b]______ or hyperlink[/b]

[b]TEXT[/b] bolds "TEXT" so that its medium blue color can be read on this site with light blue background.
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#180

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I’m ashore!
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