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I bet you're a
because
However,
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The poem is about
One of us – largest outside polar regions;
another one's island's shared with Indonesians;
a third one is found at the edge of the first,
a break from the dryness to quench people's thirst.
One of us separates Swedes from the Finns;
one – lake with skiing, casinos and inns;
one's a dry place near where Mongol herds graze;
one flows ...
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Start with eleven in one e four e six;
add what is missing from otherhood, oke, icks;
improving position, go upwards by one;
mix up for organs, remove fifty-one.
Add to the end an American nation;
abbreviate all and add short operation;
age for a few more years, then turn around;
prefix by fifteen – a trap on the ground!
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The next terms are:
Because
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They are
Explanation:
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I have made films on wood.
I have stopped by a park.
Going outside late makes me happy.
I'm yearning in grey.
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The message says
and it works as follows:
And of course
We get
And
Credit where due: There were a couple of errors in the first version of this answer, which I have fixed after Rubio kindly pointed them out.
Discredit where due: I originally claimed that one element in the process was "sometimes slightly sketchy", but the sketchiness was in fact all in ...
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Partial answer:
The completed crossword looks like this
By
we get this
As usual I have no idea where Gladys is.
Edit:
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My Prefix proved smokes danger,
my infix is to cover,
my Suffix founded by Gaozu,
I'm an Irish rover.
My prefix may have a pout,
my infix, an inside lout,
my Suffix is a long route,
I am a wandering trout
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Gladys is in
The grid:
Loop of rope / Shakespeare's pentameter
Technically just outside Las Vegas / Chameleon or gecko
Ground spice / E-book reader
String instrument / Time travel film
Inexpensive / Llama relative
Fossilized resin / Native American or South Asian
Brownish colour / Immigrants
Vagabond / Extreme stupidity
Riddermark / Very young ...
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The locations can be arranged into a 5x5 grid...
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If we
Now,
so perhaps we should enter
Credit where due:
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Section I
Lines 1-3:
Lines 4-6:
Lines 7-9:
Lines 10-12:
Lines 13-15:
So one of your favourite poets is
Section II
Taking each three-number code $m.n.p$ to mean
another of your favourite poets is
Section III
Another of your favourite poets is
Thanks @Deusovi for help with this!
Section IV
Thanks to @OmegaKrypton for all but the suffix here.
My ...
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Section IV
My prefix is shiny and precious.
My infix is archaically long ago.
My suffix contains German beer.
I heard of something ending once,
So I wrote about it, of course!
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Standing on the shoulders of several giants, I can gather a complete answer.
Let's first solve the cryptic puzzles:
Then fill the blanks of the non-cryptic puzzles with these, and solve them:
Finally her location is revealed by
to be the
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With a small stretch, I say a
My prefix is a rotation.
My suffix is a stiff bristle.
My infix is holding a kitten.
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Partial answer with solutions for the chess problems:
(no-computers; these were easy enough to figure out without Stockfish)
Note that
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Partial answer with the crossword
Using the answer from Glorfindel to try and find the code
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Once again, I feel like I’m swooping in and snatching the answer, using the excellent solutions already provided by @Glorfindel for the chess puzzles and @Jay for the crossword. Thanks to you both!
If we:
Specifically:
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I think Gladys got
Reasoning
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Answers (including those found by Gareth McCaughan)
Heads cut in Iran for war, anarchy's starting; {2} briefly turned to crater (4 6)
Baby Tony misguidedly goes around {8}'s easternmost embayment (6 3)
Beach village tribe's initiation ritual unfinished, brought back near {11}'s capital (7)
solved by Gareth McCaughan
Mother stands by {7} finishers in wild ...
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I deserve none of the credit, because @Jay, @Rand, and @Stewie did all of the work. That said,
Gladys is at
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I used a lot of time on this, so I have to post the complete crossword:
Also, my English isn't that good, so solving crosswords is terribly hard.
Blue colors:
Green tiles:
Red tiles:
Yellow tiles:
In summary:
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Almost-complete crossword:
(There's a few clues I haven't managed to solve, but I've found all the coloured letters at least.)
Green letters:
Blue letters:
Yellow letters:
Red letters:
My guess at her location:
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Partial answer, going off the full answer chart:
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1: konica, 11.10, 17.04
2: turbine, wind, taxiing
3: encryption, ssh, scrypt
4: ethics, lunch, bonus
5: no-computers, poetry, magic
6: topology, many-body, free fall
7: lie-groups, puzzles, roots
8: api-v2.2, authentication, c#
9: outreach, ethics, soy
10: adb, security, xiaomi
11: down-votes, not-an-answer, gravatar
12: syntaxe, noms, argot
13: ...
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@Glorfindel has found the answer and explicited the second stanza, here is an explanation for the first one:
One of us – largest outside polar regions;
Another one's island's shared with Indonesians;
a third one is found at the edge of the first,
a break from the dryness to quench people's thirst.
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I have answers to everything ... except that one doesn't work, in a way that makes me wonder whether the problem might be in the puzzle rather than my working out. (I haven't looked at the other answers here, which I assume have almost all my answers and got there first, except to verify that they don't resolve the thing I'm confused about. [EDITED to add:] ....
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