Sunken Treasure

Super fun, Darth, and a great aha moment. My first instinct was right but not quite looking deep enough. "If at first you don't succeed, keep trying" doesn't always work, but this time it did!

Thanks!

Great puzzle, thank you!

The Force was strong with this one. Thanks for the puzzle, Darth!

Had to plumb the depths for the AHA riches. Nice start to the week and a great earworm! Thanks for the puzzle Darth!

Thanks for the puzzle, ill ever be in awe of you geniuses and your knowing things and your having ideas and your abilities to make it all work

Took a second to realize I needed to plumb all the way to the bottom of the word, and then another second to sort out the ordering. Cool idea, thanks.

Required a bit of deep thought. I missed the cue in the clue for 42D the first time through. Thanks!!

Great puzzle. Thanks.

Fun way to start the week....thanks for the fun puzzle and meta

Nice puzzle that required putting 2 clues together. Like the others, I didn't go deep enough at first.

I grew up in Pittsburgh and have always been a Pirate fan, so of course I liked this one. A quick solve but fun. Now lets all get up and shake our (pirate) booty.

Very cool, Darth - really enjoyed your puzzle!

I must be more familiar with cooking than high finance since I first thought of the "liquid" assets. Very nice, Darth! Reminded me of a board game I'd play as a kid with my brother where you had to head down to the bottom of the board/ocean and then come back up to meet the ship. But the ship kept moving across the top with every roll of the dice, and I could never time it right!

Well done - and a great aha moment! Like a few others, I didn't plumb deep enough the first time. Thanks!!

Fun aha moment - mine occurred after seeing “sea floor” mysteriously in quotes….

Great puzzle, thanks!

Thanks, Darth! The story about the sinking of the Golden Fleece put gold in my head as the buried treasure. Turns out that wasn’t far off. Thanks for the puzzle!

You scattered the clues like a treasure hunt. Fun time, and a relief.

Nice execution of the theme

I C what you did there... great job!

Enjoyed this one! Thanks1

Argh! Nice one!

Fun puzzle...thanks Darth!

This was quite a challenge! I did what it looks like many did, right off the bat (no not the echo kind of bat) — central entry told me to look under the C’s (“it can’t be that easy…” — and of course it wasn’t). Then saw all the other little clues that could be interpreted various ways: Does the vertical “DEPTHS” indicate the area of the puzzle to look in? (The bottom 6 rows?); should I be looking at all the letters in SONAR to direct me to the treasure? Or using the letters in ECHO, maybe? I then looked for “sea” in other languages, looked for things that live under the sea that are spelled with an extra thing “among” them (such as CHORAL having an extra H among the CORAL). Finally put this aside for a while, until I looked at the published nudges this morning and thought… “yeah, I saw all that; doesn’t help… except I hadn’t noticed that there were exactly 7 C’s so that first instinct was a good one. Looked again and realized I needed to get to the BOTTOM of those C words… to their floor. Doh! This could easily be a WSJ or Gaffney! Very smooth and a great challenge. I was beginning to doubt my meta mojo!!

Ooh, nice one! I was on the right track yesterday with looking under the Cs... I just didn't go far enough down. OF COURSE treasure would sink all the way to the bottom... ugh. LOL.

The nudges only confirmed everything I'd already thought about. Just had to spend a couple more minutes and voila!

Fun puzzle! Spent a lot of time initially trying to get a solution from all the “pirate talk” in the grid (AR, ARAR,…). When that didn’t work, I had to C what else I could do!

Thanks for the fun!

You are now watching me type a comment in real-time on your Zoom video. Yes, this was after it was revealed, but scout's honor, I did not peek. Fun puzzle...definitely one in which I can C's the day!