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Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) - a Puzzling tribute
Completed crossword:
The yellow words from top to bottom, left to right, are
which, if
What a fitting tribute!
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Secret of the universe
The secret of the universe is
Because the famous leader who found the tabelet is
He invented a code named
The message on the piece of paper has been decoded using
so if we use the cipher above to ...
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Secret of the universe
My solution probably isn't going to earn any points, because I solved it within a couple of minutes by
without even thinking of
and the Mage was nowhere to be seen either.
At first I immediately ...
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The past is never dead. It's not even past.
As noted in @Peszo's answer,
They have been jointly solved by @Peszo, @Gamow, and @MariaDeleva in that answer.
It remains to predict the fate of future earth.
The fate of future earth is
The clues ...
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And the rest is hstr!
The quotes are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
They are all quotes from:
Which is why it is part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge
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A Trivial Pursuit #20 (Entertainment 4/4): Actors
The answer is:
Reasoning:
Next step:
Finally:
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The unwriteable punctuation mark
The answer is:
I will never be written, that surely would be impossible.
For thousands of years I was unused for practical purposes.
Reputedly the Irish invented me?
Nowadays I am often ...
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The Writings of Impostradamus
The year is:
Mechanical calculations are sickened by the brain.
A boom in four's power brings the tsardom lasting pain.
Icarus's opponent is failed by an 'O'.
A confused maple fool falls after a ...
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I found a puzzle that no-one can solve
You are:
I found a puzzle that no-one can solve.
I created a law but I was not a lawyer.
I lived in a hostile world but found refuge in a hut.
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Historical Crossword Puzzle
The events (most of them already found by Glorfindel) are:
The resulting grid is:
And the highlighted cells ...
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What is a Veteran Word™?
As suggested by the language tag, I think a Veteran Word™ may be
All the words in the left-hand column, according to
satisfy this criterion. VETERAN is "only just" a Veteran Word™ because
The words ...
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I was a middle sister
I think you are
Both of my siblings served in a war, in which the younger one got killed.
I knew the richest people in the world. But also the poor.
I died young, on a cold night.
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We're just hanging out, man
I believe your partner is
the words are
and the significance of your games is that
The five words so far are
The sixth must have been
and the reason you have not heard from him is that
and ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #01 (Geography 1/4): History
First, we need to resolve the six lines in the quote:
We can then observe that
Noting that
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Historical Crossword Puzzle
Partial answer ...
Clue 1:
Clue 2 might be:
Clue 3:
Clue 4:
Clue 5 could be:
Clue 6:
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Where do all the doors lead to?
I think the fourth door might possibly be
The quotation
and the plant on the door
(This has been confirmed by the questioner in comments. Thanks, Maria!)
Now, the time on door 2 looks to me like
(...
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Musical murder mystery
EDIT: Thanks to @00Average for the crucial hint and @Stiv for tieing up the loose ends!
Solution:
Thought process:
The musicians
The siblings
The murder
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And the rest is hstr!
Answer: Thanks to everyone as listed
First (Courtesy of @Beastly Gerbil) is:
Second row is
Line Three:
Line four (Courtesy of @Acerfire37):
Line five (Courtesy of @Juan Tomas):
Answer:
The ...
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5 Quotes 1 Figure
Partial answer.
1
How to solve:
2.
How to solve:
For the rest:
3.
Another bad drawing to show the pattern:
4.
How to solve:
Thanks to @IAmInPLS
Author of the quotes:
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Historical figure word-search
The rest are here just because I was instructed to add them so the puzzle would be complete.
All credits go to Kruga. I would not be able to find them otherwise.
From the remaining letters you can ...
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Where do all the doors lead to?
Since Door 1 is the only unsolved door, here is my guess:
Additionally,
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A stamp kingdom rebus
This might not be the right approach, but here's a possible interpretation of the first two:
Haven't found something similar for the third stamp yet. But these seem more rebus-y to me...
Anyway, as ...
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