Another puzzle, yay! What do I want for dessert?
An element, a blue liquid you breathe.
The end of a sentence.
wgpz tzggjr wgvxf bmzzi mzy
It's three til' 4, plus forty more.
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I looked at it a little earlier, but without success. It took a minute or two to convince myself that although AMATEUR has 7 letters and means "non-professional" it matches nothing else in the clue. ETHIOPE or AETHIOP could mean "in an African country once" and contain OP (= work) but I couldn't make either work.
I would be unsurprised if "I abandoned for a" meant I->A, and/or if "in an" meant A()N.
I wondered whether "non-professional work I abandoned for a" might be DAY (from DIY) or DAYOP (if "work" is its own thing rather than the noun qualified by "non-professional") but again failed to fit either into an actual solution.
But I ran dry both on the "amateur" and the "d()y" paths
Well, I had tried almost everything you did -- I didn't consider anything with "op"
I still wonder if it's more straightforward wordplay, and the definition is just something obscure about either structures or governments in an African country. I googled "charaty", for example.
These days, I saw a rebus on the net that shows a calendar of December, with some random dates turning into Christmas. I feel very puzzled about this. Can you help me?
Edit: I found that rebus on Bing.
The Kingdom of Dahomey () was an African kingdom (located within the area of the present-day country of Benin) that existed from about 1600 until 1894, when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by the French, and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast.
For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire. ...
That's DIY with "I" replaced by "A HOME", for "an African country once"
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