A noble daughter with the blood of ancient royalty
Her face pale as a corpse, and heavy with lines
Her skin smooth and cool to the touch.
In one way, she is old and dead,
In another, she is young and alive as well.
In perfect step, she dances with her lover
A leader who glares w...
I feel like there's something "naughty" about it... "0-ish" = "naught-ish" = "naughty", but that obviously isn't a complete clue, and isn't 5 letters...
I think "-ish" is likely the (or a) definition and the answer is something like KINDA (K in DA?), SORTA, MAYBE, or a synonym like QUASI or CLOSE. Can't make '000' fit yet though...
I was also thinking that "-ish" could be a trick such that it means we need to remove the letters I S H from an eight letter word meaning zero (def: 0 or 00)
@Deusovi, doesn't that solution involve the same kind of concatenation you just claimed you wouldn't do? Or does it involve "dividing along etymological lines"?
I was leery of that hyphen though. Then was like, meh. First rule of cryptics - feel free to ignore all punctuation and capitalization if needed to Make It Work™
It's ISIDIUM. "Is idiom" describes both "about face" and "face fungus." I couldn't figure out an elegant sounding wording that avoided double duty on about and/or fungus. :/
Group A and B are all U.S. presidents' last names with different exceptions.
Group A: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, ...(It's all presidents' last names except Polk)
Group B: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, ... (It's all presidents' last names except Taft and Carter)
What's the ...
I was playing with some electronics recently, and I had bought three logic gates to make a small flat device that took two inputs, A and B, and returned them in the opposite order (B then A).
Unfortunately, I was using some acid to separate a couple of pieces of metal that were soldered togeth...
After successfully finding the treasure in
The treasure hunt of Mr. Jones, it turned out that the treasure was not so magnificent after all and barely covered the cost of the guides.
Mr. Jones had no choice but to go on his next treasure hunt.
Here we are now in front of a new maze of rooms ...
I had some disturbing mail through the door the other day. It was addressed to me from an anonymous person. I was about to through it in the bin when I saw that it was addressed to Beastly Gerbil, not my real name so I realised it was a puzzle. It started off like this:
Someone is in danger, ...
Without comment as to which words I'm talking about, there are two words in the clue which could be removed without wrecking it, but whose removal would make things more open-ended than they should be.
Regarding the CCCC, I've been exploring the idea that "Possible wild avian" clues a three-letter bird (e.g., EMU, TIT, OWL, KEA, etc.) or its sound, but no luck yet.
How it works
You are given 3 clues, ODD, EVEN and FULL. The answer to each clue is a single word. The ODD and EVEN words are anagrams using the ODD and EVEN letters of the FULL word.
Example:
FULL - Rearranged letters
ODD - Hindu goddess
EVEN - Persistent shew
Answer:
FULL - ...
I had some disturbing mail through the door the other day. It was addressed to me from an anonymous person. I was about to throw it in the bin when I saw that it was addressed to Beastly Gerbil, not my real name so I realised it was a puzzle. It started off like this:
Someone is in danger, an...
A ceiling won't stop rain from filling your shoes, if your issue is a wall is missing. Suppose you lie about that wall, you'll find newts in your boots, a fool's condition. Who knows, it slows your shadows down, whilst walking across my shallow ground. Do you know now?
And there is a stegonagrpohic message in their for a name of a relative
Can anyone make WILDCARD work for the CCCC? A wildcard team is a possible one, and Trump is definitely a wildcard (or maybe even a trump card is a kind of wildcard, but doubtful). Maybe some kind of ddef plus bonus wordplay?
@TBA, this site uses CA as an abbreviation for "private carriers", but I don't think it's standard enough. Plus, I don't think @Rubio would play that loose with the synonyms. WILDCARD seems like a dead end...
Maybe the answer is something like OVERTURN or OVERRIDE, rough synonyms of "trump". Plus, Trump is concerned with overturning Obama's policies (although that would require double duty...).
Or maybe we need to subtract "flu" from a "possible wild bird". But I haven't found a bird that contains the letters "flu".
Here's a shot in the dark: CUCKOLDS [def. policy concern for Trump ("cuck" is an alt-right term designed to emasculate their opponents)] which is a (rough) sound-alike for CUCKOOS (a wild bird which is a potential carrier of the avian-flu).
Maybe a soundalike for HORNBILLS (a bird), since BILLS is a political term...
(click to visit this picture via Google Street View)
The weather was less pleasant than pictured above
but the afternoon began nicely enough that I wasn’t about to
waste an hour already traveled to Ridge Trail.
Along an open stretch of trail,
an incoming cloud dominated the vista.
It tumb...
An easy one for the middle of the week!
Jane and John were discussing a business idea. John wanted to make a little set to keep track of the date. It was to include two cubes with a single digit on each face that could be rearranged to show any day of the month (1-31).
"Look," he said, "there a...
A noble daughter with the blood of ancient royalty
Her face pale as a corpse, and heavy with lines
Her skin smooth and cool to the touch.
In one way, she is old and dead,
In another, she is young and alive as well.
In perfect step, she dances with her lover
A leader who glares w...
Group A and B are all U.S. presidents' last names with different exceptions.
Group A: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, ...(It's all presidents' last names except Polk)
Group B: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, ... (It's all presidents' last names except Taft and Carter)
What's the ...
I was playing with some electronics recently, and I had bought three logic gates to make a small flat device that took two inputs, A and B, and returned them in the opposite order (B then A).
Unfortunately, I was using some acid to separate a couple of pieces of metal that were soldered togeth...
After successfully finding the treasure in
The treasure hunt of Mr. Jones, it turned out that the treasure was not so magnificent after all and barely covered the cost of the guides.
Mr. Jones had no choice but to go on his next treasure hunt.
Here we are now in front of a new maze of rooms ...
I had some disturbing mail through the door the other day. It was addressed to me from an anonymous person. I was about to through it in the bin when I saw that it was addressed to Beastly Gerbil, not my real name so I realised it was a puzzle. It started off like this:
Someone is in danger, ...
In how many different ways can two knights and two rooks be placed on 5*5 chessboard so that no one attacks the others?
How it works
You are given 3 clues, ODD, EVEN and FULL. The answer to each clue is a single word. The ODD and EVEN words are anagrams using the ODD and EVEN letters of the FULL word.
Example:
FULL - Rearranged letters
ODD - Hindu goddess
EVEN - Persistent shew
Answer:
FULL - ...
Could anyone help me with solving this one?
(click to visit this picture via Google Street View)
The weather was less pleasant than pictured above
but the afternoon began nicely enough that I wasn’t about to
waste an hour already traveled to Ridge Trail.
Along an open stretch of trail,
an incoming cloud dominated the vista.
It tumb...
An easy one for the middle of the week!
Jane and John were discussing a business idea. John wanted to make a little set to keep track of the date. It was to include two cubes with a single digit on each face that could be rearranged to show any day of the month (1-31).
"Look," he said, "there a...
