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Several metals were misused
My best guess is that the metals are
and the way they were misused is with
Misused this way, instead of being metals, they became compounds with the given properties:
A metal was misused to choke ...
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Three quiet men
The answer is the four-letter word:
See me on one
after a second din
I'm the third man
I stopped solving at four
and I'm on five
As for the Hint:
The title relates to...
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A Connect Wall to Stymie You
The four connected groups are:
As for the hidden connection between these four groups in this connecting wall...
A note on my solve path:
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Two Blinkers, A Pair of Boats, etc
I think the answers are as follows
Notice how it spells
That's because
For example
Another example
Try it for yourself
Title Explanation (thanks to Amoz for drawing my attention)
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Problem Solving in Freefall
The answer is:
Finished grid:
Once we have that, we can see that it forms:
Cryptic answers (Extra letters in bold):
Across
Down
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Paranormal Activity
Filled crossword grid:
Clue explanations:
Nurikabe logic:
As seen by reading the unshaded letters in standard reading order, Gladys is visiting
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Fox Moons - Enigmatic Puzzle
Given the coordinates, we can find the following places.
9JPJ+RM9 Bath
CRMX+V4 Mexico City
HX8H+M7 Seoul
JMC2+67 Seattle
G2R6+FX7 Salida
P4VX+RP Queens
V75V+8VG Paris
V7FV+CWP Paris
9GQJ+VQC ...
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Round and Round (the World)
Completed grid:
6a.
6b.
6c.
6d.
7a.
7b.
7c.
8a.
8b.
8c.
9a.
9b.
9c.
Inward
1–5a.
1–5b.
1–5c.
1–5d.
1–5e.
1–5f.
1–5g.
1–5h.
1–5i.
1–5j.
1–5k.
Which gives us:
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Flipped Einsteins in the Einstein Tiling
Your choice of partial tiling (and description) suggests we should be dealing with
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please Extend this list of Units
Since it's been 3 weeks, a partial answer to explain the puzzle, without quite being able to spot the intended solution...
This puzzle has been inspired by another one on this site - namely, this one. ...
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A Royal Flag Of North
Is it
Half-crushed snail, and half-grown field
And a now crushed sun drop in between the yield
And spikes to the side to hold me high
Oh, I command ye, what fictional flag am I?
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A Message Of Encouragement
I think the word you are looking for may be
And the theme relates to this:
Clue Answers:
The Groups: (not 100% sure)
Final Connection:
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Who is the game character I'm thinking of?
This is almost certainly
He takes care of BB
gamgee
mysterious soldier
I'm not familiar enough with the game to elaborate on the last point, but the other two points fit so well that I'm fairly ...
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