15 votes
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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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13 votes
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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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12 votes
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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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11 votes
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A-Z related to countries

The list states the The introduction -- (-) ----- describes
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11 votes
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Pingala the Pirate

Poor Pingala's misfortunes Moreover, So that ... which is
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11 votes
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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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10 votes
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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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9 votes
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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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9 votes
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"Guess Where?" - a GCHQ word association puzzle (board game edition)

Categories: Matchings:
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8 votes
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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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8 votes
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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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7 votes
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Coasting Along the Coast

Gladys is in First, let's solve the fillomino. For the star battle,
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6 votes
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Flipped Einsteins in the Einstein Tiling

Your choice of partial tiling (and description) suggests we should be dealing with
5 votes
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World War MMV - Enigmatic Puzzle

(Credit to Stiv for decoding 2H.)
5 votes

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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4 votes
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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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3 votes

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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1 vote
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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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