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Aquatic Giants – Heyawake / Marching Bands
This is part 52 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
“One, two, three, four, five, I love marine wildlife.” – unknown
Dear Puzzling,
The grid on the ...
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Blunt Talk, Shrubby Barquentine
Clues:
I stand in the East, facing West in all directions
A day’s sail, just across the line
Unlucky year, a ship ran aground...
A different world, different age
Set the stage, elemental alias...
[...
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A Trivial Pursuit #13 (Geography 3/4): Things Fall Apart
This is part 13 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
Identify the 26 words clued by the images below, then ...
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Objects that are countries or nationalities (#2)
A follow-up to Dmitry Kamenetsky's Objects that are countries or nationalities.
Can you figure out what these countries and nationalities are based on the clues?
Country
Clue
?
nuts
?
punched paper
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A Land of Vehicles
I have a mountain named Ul, where cars are born.
I have a great farmland, where the cars cross.
I have a mountain of cauldrons, where ships are.
I have a benevolent river, where airplanes are.
I have ...
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Piece de Resistance - Five Flowers with One Missing
Five - Flowers with One Missing
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five ...
Removing the silver matter, you see ...
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Disembodied hand growing fangs
Across
2. Puzzle expert breaks first dilemma partially (7)
10. Nobleman bandleader (4)
13. Lead singer, AC/DC's second; extremely over-the-top (5)
18. Actor Morgan and organ lying on the same ...
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Extraordinarily Forgoes Anthem
Island oranges don't mix well (11)
Liquid wastes run into river (10, 4)
Cold canines found in the mountains (10)
A season before a season's past in Northern capital (10)
City at the ...
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Cryptic cross... with words
Solve the clues and fit the answers into the grid.
Far north Silicon Valley's research & development leaders surround Jessica (8)
Pop star loses British-American distribution ...
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Seven levels through Europe
Let's take a little trip through Europe, shall we?
Each level forms a word chain. Even-numbered levels (yellow) go clockwise, odd-numbered ones (white) go anticlockwise.
Each level has an answer ...
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Cryptic clues with a common theme
Concealed Yugoslav introduces military cemetery (6)
Buddhist temple is top three watching photos (3 3)
Central square hides koala to observatory (3-3)
Thriller writer John adds three lines to ...
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What crime have we committed?
We start in a city that rhymes with angina,
the masculine form, add in what's drunk in China,
then take phylum's first six, of the minor kind,
components will make what in our hand we find.
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She has a unique personality
Each square is one word, and each row also has a one-word answer.
The final answer is what I tell everyone whenever my sister is coming to town.
#1
Image credits: 1. Mickayyy, CC BY-SA 4.0; ...
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Endless pain and Belgian ale
Endless pain with prosecutor is board game and peace garden place in anonymous organization (6)
South German to a Spaniard is Hebrew month in alehouse with well-rounded finish (6)
100th ...
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A transgenre puzzle with rowing
Capital city that matches [A-H]+,
take out the first four and then add deux cents plus;
crossing the Danube, you make your way north;
stay on that route till the coastline comes forth.
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Hotly contested
Arab dad infiltrating computer network islands (6)
Franco-German brown egg is peaceful abode (6)
Haiku song corrupted southern port (9)
No heartless Swedes in springtime capital basin (9)
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Tomato sauce with flavourant vowels
Cathedral returns warm air, a madness (10)
All-salad cave mixes up historical house (12)
Endless tomato sauce with flavourant vowels gives Casbah mosque (9)
Dirk C.O. Rosalyn backed off a ...
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World-renowned for having many natural wonders
Ancient tombs perplex urban Bonnie (11)
Magic sleek hill mixed is small island (14)
Small island's hidden twin is Moroccan (7)
Dramatic sound and additional grotto are underground site (11)
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Deranged hippo person
Statue suing deranged hippo person (11)
Baltic port is original pope's German castle (12)
Animator and universe are perplexing snowy riddle (11)
Pop star and French city confusedly lock javelins ...
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You're a large automobile
Capital city says you're a large automobile (7)
Work horse videography camouflages monastery (9)
Football stadium building hides coastal city (6)
Black Sea hub hides Caspian Sea hub (4)
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Remote yet central
Dry lake messed up as a Lear (7)
Short Mervin found in summer vacation (4)
Probabilistic risk analysis conceals deep lake (6)
Historic city confounds a sand mark (9)
Fantasy prince's body of ...
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Crime lords and valuables
Lost consciousness's rate of return is Spanish valuables in Swedish valuables. (5)
The light side running a confused non-gay. (6)
Stirring a Malay T for a grateful Spanish spirit. (6)
Dear ...
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Riddle me this, birdman
I wanted to write a riddle in the form of a story, so here we are. Hope you like it.
This is the story of great birds, two.
Around and around in the sky, they flew.
One remained small, while ...
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Four Directions #14 - Where and what am I?
To my North is a place that means Warrior King
To my East is a whole town made of books.
To my South there's a very cold airfield for bridge dwellers.
To my West lies the mouth of a jungle snake.
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St. Beatle's Blues
Can you identify where these peculiarly named places are located?
Ableis
Askera
Handleama
Offington
Speechtown
St. Beatle's
Looking for names of countries.
Hint:
Hint #2:
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Heavenly sound system by grotesque creatures
I am part of South America
[ ] geographically
[x] politically
[ ] culturally.
I am
[ ] in the Bahamas
[x] older than that.
I unscramble
[x] the suffering caused by an ending ...
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Takin' muh niece on a tour
Muh niece Nancy was bored o' starin' at four walls so I took 'er on a tour. We went on muh sailboat, had chicken breast fo' dinner, and bought those li'l cans o' fruit juice that she likes. Went to ...
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More seasoned than shchi
Near a faith's top spots, I'm not quite a sea;
I contain water more seasoned than shchi.
As you jump in, you will float like a flea.
A basketball goat wanders right into me.
Forced into ...
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International Hunger Crisis
Study the Inkblot Test.
Read the anecdote.
Determine the name of the establishment.
Blots are not necessarily scaled relative to each other.
So I was really {3} one day, so {3} off to get me a {5}...