Your final answer should find what I lost.
1 Answer
You have lost a:
First note that each clue:
has lost 4 letters. They need to be fixed like so (spacing added):
Animal skin with hAIR You might trade;
Direction of sunrise foR EARth;
Doneness that is by FAR More raw than well done;
Eye part responsible fOR ALlowing light in;
First part of a psychotheraPY REcall aiding technique;
Molten rock that used to LIE Underground;
Nazar aMULEts oppose this kind of eye.
Note in all cases that the missing letters spell real words.
Now we can also see that:
each of these corrected clues has a 4-letter answer, which we need to find:
Animal skin with hAIR You might trade = PELT
Direction of sunrise foR EARth = EAST
Doneness that is by FAR More raw than well done = RARE
Eye part responsible fOR ALlowing light in = IRIS
First part of a psychotheraPY REcall aiding technique = FREE
Molten rock that used to LIE Underground = LAVA
Nazar aMULEts oppose this kind of eye = EVIL
Now use the diagrams. What we have here are:
two sets of words that each comprise 7 of the 8 words needed to form a 4x4 word square.
These can be constructed like so:
So now putting the words in green together, we know you have lost:
a FLIP FLOP!
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$\begingroup$ Correct! One minor detail: rot13(V unq serr nffbpvngvba va zvaq vafgrnq bs serr erpnyy), though that doesn't affect the final solution of course. $\endgroup$ May 1, 2021 at 20:41