What's My Line?

Delightful! I love the way you disguised the fish being caught by those lines. The fact that they were all at the end of the lines was a nice constructing touch. :D

The Cap’n lands another beauty!

I think I must have gotten a pike at this somewhere along the line, since for once I caught on quickly! This was a really smooth sailor. Thanks, Rick!

I had to get to the last nudge to figure this out, because I had 6 downs highlighted but some were wrong: I was going with DROP for the downs (dropSITES, dropCAlls, DRAG/drop, FUELdrop, dropPHONE?, POWERdrop) … so I was always going to be lost! Revealing the fish nudge made me see 4 fish; had to google to confirm PORGY and LANCE - never heard of these as fish! Still with the wrong downs highlighted, that gave ELGLERS… close enough anglers that that was my second try (first tried fisherman). So, sort of backsolved and realized you wanted DATA and TOWN, so it was lines not drops we were after. (Even so, TOWN line would have puzzled me.. never use that phrase. I assume it’s like county line or state line?). Isn’t it odd that the words that go with LINE almost all go with DROP? The only one I had that didn’t quite work with DROP was phone, though I constantly do drop my phone. And I was bothered that SITE and CALL were both plural, so that seemed off. Anyhoo.. that was my voyage, cap’n, and it was still a fun ride!

Wow, very impressive! Wish I hadn’t succumbed so early to the nudges.

Saw the fish but not the "lines"...needed Hint 3 to land it. Thanks Cap'n Rick!

An appropriate themed puzzle from the Cap'n. Took a minute to find all the "lines" -- got hung up on HOSE for quite a while. Thanks for the puzzle, Rick!

Wow this one's a keeper! I had to google that a couple of those were indeed fishes (PORGY, LANCE) but knowing how elegantly symmetrical you always are I was sure they had to be. Thanks Cap'n!

I struggled, not knowing that lance and porgy were fish, so it took some nudges...

Every line lands a fish, in stark contrast to my personal history with this occupation. Thanks, Capn!

Nice one, Cap'n! I saw four of the lines quickly, and noted the last letters were forming something... found another pair based on the need for symmetry and got an answer that made sense... but I didn't catch the fish at the ends of those lines. :D Cleverly done!

Thanks captain! Been decades since I’ve gone fishin’…

Great construction! Immediately saw all the fish, but not the lines, needed that third hint.

Wow - didn’t even see the fish until reading comments here! I found the symmetrical ‘dropped lines’ and the starting letters made no sense, but the ends - aha! But totally missed that they ‘crossed’ with the fish dangling at the end. Doh!

The compleat meta. I was able to do it without the nudges, possibly because I was a test solver for a much earlier iteration of this one. Neither the Cap'n nor I can remember. Even so, I had to check a couple of the fishwords and line words.

Six down and four to go, Miss Kilgallen.

Well, I have no idea what a Lance, Porgy or a Fluke (other that a whale's tail fin) is, this was a KAS 4 for me. Weird reaction to the nudges. Saw lots of things about PHONEs and CALLS and messaging ans stuff abount oceans looked for LINES and ones but didn't see them. Tried to look for things dropped but hard to see things that are omitted especially when there aren't any. But I finally saw them with nudge three. Nudge four was a complete ????? to me as I had obviously been looking before stooping to reveal the nudge. Final nudge I realize and SKATE and and PERCH (and shark obviously) were fish I had E,R, then A, I figured it was ANGLER and the symmetric N confirm, meaning PORGY and LANCE must be the other two.

Tricky fun K4 for me but I guess you hit one of me weak areas. The Lines were very subtly dropped. If I had caught them (I tried but apparently I'm a fish chowderhead) It's have be a K3.

Clever. Good one. But I'm a dunce.

My lines on the West side of the grid dropped into a huge rabbit hole. I tried to force DATA into DATELINE, NAIR into HAIRLINE, and EATER into WATERLINE. Of course the East side of the grid wouldn't cooperate.

Totally overcomplicated this by the way, got “angler” and was like, oh a professional angler is a fisherman… was puzzled when it was wrong, thought about it for a bit, and was like oh, let’s just try “angler.”

Nice! Never heard of the porgy fish :-)

I saw all the fish and entered fisherman but was wrong (well yes but no). Then when I saw the lines I had not heard of town line but sure did of hose line And tug line so that complicated things a bit. My own fault trying to make life difficult. Fun solve

Compleatly hooked on a wrong "angle" for a bit, but nothing fishy about this meta, Cap'n. You cast a large SSShadow indeed, thanks!

Great puzzle, Capn! I'm thinking the word "line" could use some R&R this weekend after the... queue of meanings it took on throughout the grid (career, fishing, six theme senses). It's also neat how A DROP IN THE OCEAN conjures up fishing, at least subliminally mid-solve and perfectly clearly now, looking back.