Clues: [contextual images] Instructions: Name That Landmark
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The landmark you are looking for is
MOUNT VESUVIUS!
The grid is actually
The planets of the solar system represented using chemical elements. The first is a bit of wordplay with using the element Mercury - Hg, while the rest are made up as follows, removing letters where necessary:
And as you can see, following the arrows spells out 'VESUVIUS' - the name of the landmark we are after!
OP Edit - Additionally, the chemical number for Mercury is 80. the phrase "80-1=explosion" is meant to point to the year 79AD when Vesuvius erupted. Furthermore, during the time period of 79AD, the only known planets were Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
answered Dec 14, 2022 at 22:26
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$\begingroup$ What was the thought process to put the elements in the places as you did? $\endgroup$– justhalfDec 15, 2022 at 14:25
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$\begingroup$ @justhalf I realised quite quickly it was planets from mercury, stargazing, and neptune at the bottom, and I think there is actually only one way to make each of the planets from element names given the restrictions, so it was actually very easy to make the names! $\endgroup$ Dec 15, 2022 at 14:37
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1$\begingroup$ Ah, ok. So basically from Mercury (space/planet hinted by stargazing), you extrapolated all the planet names and try to put elements that build up to the names? got it $\endgroup$– justhalfDec 15, 2022 at 14:50
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$\begingroup$ @justhalf pretty much, I also knew the planet names were in order as mercury was at the top so just had to find elements that fitted with the minus letter clues, the 85 = At clue, and the right amount of boxes, which was fairly simple to do with a list of elements $\endgroup$ Dec 15, 2022 at 14:55