"Backdrops" February 2,2023

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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Ashore 🏖🍹
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BigPear wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:46 pm Isaaac, pour me another. Not even a red herring or a rabbit to keep me company…
Same.
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Once again BCD and MaineMarge have made a shore landing with a good team effort.
Thanks Mike! We bow down to your expertise!

And here the tall cedars make the perfect backdrop for our oldest flower garden- another good team effort
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Ashore, after some serious 11D with the grid.
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Finally ashore after a long evening of rabbit hunting. Another good one!
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On the beach, one of those lucky weeks where my initial hunch happened to work out
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I felt extremely lucky to have solved this quickly & am amazed & pleased many other muggles have, also.

For those still working, this is not an easy trip, IMHO.
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Ashore. Tough one.
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As @MaineMarge said in #84 above, we made it to shore. For a while, I rowed with one oar which made us go in circles. Then MM rowed with the other oar so we went in circles the other way. Then MM found the compass which was in the bottom of the boat and it was clear sailing.
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Dropped back to pass and after multiple completions, touched down on shore.
Allen Iverson said it all ...
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Joe Ross wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:27 am I felt extremely lucky to have solved this quickly & am amazed & pleased many other muggles have, also.

For those still working, this is not an easy trip, IMHO.
More often than not to me metas are like those Magic Eye posters from the 90s where people were asked to find the hidden optical illusion. You either saw it right away, or you had to stare it for hours to see something, with your mind getting distracted and forming its own answers so you could do something more productive.
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I think you early solvers have weirdly wired minds. I see nothing nothing nothing!
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Acarl wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:45 am I think you early solvers have weirdly wired minds.
No question about that......
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A great thing about being retired is that I have time to do things such as making a snowman for my love.
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Flying_Burrito wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:36 am
Joe Ross wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:27 am I felt extremely lucky to have solved this quickly & am amazed & pleased many other muggles have, also.

For those still working, this is not an easy trip, IMHO.
More often than not to me metas are like those Magic Eye posters from the 90s where people were asked to find the hidden optical illusion. You either saw it right away, or you had to stare it for hours to see something, with your mind getting distracted and forming its own answers so you could do something more productive.
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Totally! I’m on the ship, staring at the wall cross-eyed!
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Good Friday morning

A report is a little early so I can be waiting on the week 1 and a happy birthday to Ada

So far we have 4 on the ship and 79 on the shore.
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Ashore! Just in time to struggle with Matt’s meta
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At sea. I don’t see a thing!
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