Note: The introductory text is only for flavour. All information needed to solve the puzzle is in the images below. Feel free to skip ahead to where it says "puzzle starts here".
Prologue
It was a tense time in Jafe Q. Puzzlesmith's office. All his new puzzles kept falling short. People were simply too clever for his usual tricks. The last one had just been solved in ten minutes sharp. To add insult to injury, while driving to work that morning he had just –
You know what, this was exactly the problem. Immediately he could hear the wheels turning in readers' heads. Falling flat? Ten minutes flat? Flat tyre? People had learned to catch these subtle clues so effortlessly. From the moment he mentioned "Q" as his middle initial, someone was probably already keeping track of whether he was using every letter of the alphabet in the text.
That's it, he thought. No more clues like "which traffic sign is red" or "how many bits are in a byte". Or "how many brains a person has", for crying out loud. It was time to bring out the obscure stuff. Muahahahaha!
Determined, he walked into the room holding his dead tree collection and started working on a new puzzle.
Puzzle starts here
Clue 1
Clue 2
Clue 3
The final answer is a mythological creature.
Hint:
Each clue has a separate answer. Put together, they point to the final answer.
Erratum for clue 1:
I seem to have confused two characters that look a bit alike: ⾟ and 𦍒. My bad!