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8:32 AM
I want to say ENAMOUR for the C4, which is RUOMANE backwards and somewhat close to ROMANCE, but it doesn't quite seem to fit
Actually I think the answer's ROMANCE instead with ENAMOR backwards around C (circa, "about")
...maybe?
 
it wasn't supposed to be a great clue, just to sound silly
and ROMANCE is indeed it, well done Sp
 
Just to check, the parsing is: {ENAMOR}<- ("inflame with love" backwards, or "about") around ("about") C (circa, or "about") = ROMANCE ("love inflamed") ?
 
pretty much, yes
I actually had the reversal after the container, but I just realized the order doesn't matter
 
:P true (the ENAMOR/ROMANCE wordplay is a nice observation)
CCCC: That woman provided nothing but dismissed leads? Wonderful (8)
 
9:14 AM
Nice surface
 
^
 
Anyone up for a game?
 
I'm too distracted by the fact that I can almost form wonderful itself with (h-)er (i-)f (n-)ul to actually think about the clue
 
10:00 AM
@Sp3000 Well done!
Is this even legal? Love doesn't mean 0 and about doesn't mean RE. :)
 
Yeah I spent way too long trying to get ENAMOUR to fit with the {RE}<- (and before that I was thinking of words with {CA}<-) :P
 
10:58 AM
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Q: I didn't write this with the answer

Soha Farhin PineWhen I use my keys, they make such a sound. Many a bygone writer and poet have dated me for their work. In the olden days, I fared well The ones who play me have the same name, but they soon fell when the treacherous device with spiders had word. Talk I will of my forefather whose birth wa...

Can anyone work off my comments?
The two longer verses are still unsolved.
 
11:25 AM
2 hours ago, by Jan Dvorak
Nice surface
I agree ^
 
 
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2:25 PM
@Sp3000 Answer to your CCCC is HEAVENLY: sHE gAVE oNLY -- the words have their "leads" dismissed. Nice!
 
Yup - nicely done
 
2:36 PM
CCCC: Take solvents without a supervisor? Have god above save one's bacon (8)
 
does MathJax work in titles here?
 
@Mithrandir A quick glance at the section suggests that it doesn't work. The real question is: Does MathJax belong in the title? (Suggested answer: No.)
 
@MOehm Heh. I was just wondering if it was possible to have a non-existent title.
..preview says it does work; the question is - does it work upon saving...?
 
Ah, I see. Why not use [This title intentionally left blank] or something like this.
 
Conclusion: It works.
 
2:48 PM
@Mithrandir When it works in preview mode, it should work in the actual post. You can always think of a backup title and use that when you see that it doesn't work. (But I'm not sure that an invisible title is such a good idea.)
 
I'm not actually planning a puzzle with an invisible title, don't worry.
Just wondering from a curiosity viewpoint.
 
 
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5:35 PM
I just answered my own question.
Is it alright?
Should I have waited longer?
 
6:25 PM
puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/6688/… - anyone think this is delete-worthy? it should be in Low Quality Posts review queue.
 
Yes.
 
@Mithrandir did you delete from review?
@SohaFarhinPine Usually I suggest, especially on puzzles where people have posted answers that appear to have some partial correctness, that you give specific feedback on those answers to help steer the solvers to the intended solution path. But it looks like you already did a fair amount of that, and it didn't seem to help much. So -- I'll repeat something here I've mentioned to you before, that seems generally applicable to many of your puzzles:
If you have to basically give people every piece of the solution, and then explain it after the fact because even the answer pieces aren't maki
Many times it seems you've tried to put wordplay into your puzzles that is, let's just say, not at all straightforward and requires your solver to make unmotivated leaps of intuition to get to the same place your mind was when you were setting the puzzle. That is pretty literally "guess what I'm thinking" territory, something you should be trying to keep your puzzles well clear of
 
6:42 PM
@Rubio no, I think I flagged and put it in review
 
it was already in review. :)
or at least i think it was
 
No, I flagged hours ago.
 
I know, I saw
 
Or wait, maybe I did review
I don't remember.
It's possible, though.
 
oh wait. I'm confusing people. there's been different flags and different voters on it
if everyone got on the same page it'd be gone by now ;)
 
@SohaFarhinPine Also - puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/53561/… - you're unlikely at this point to get a complete answer. Mainly because you changed it after someone had already answered it, and your change made what had been a full solution into a partial one. Someone noted in comments that you really shouldn't do that; they were right--breaking an answer by moving the finish line is unfair to the answerer.
 
 
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8:13 PM
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Q: Solve For The Word (3)

Hyperactive 2 BrainsHere is the puzzle : 57 -1 - 0 -72 ----------- A 45 -6 - 3 -54 33 12 -6 -36 R - L --I - Z-------------- D I = A D = L Ignore the minus sign between the numbers and letters its just for arranging the columns right ...

 

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