I've tried solving this by myself and I genuinely cannot wrap my head around it, I'm fairly certain it's HEX code (since the characters don't go past the letter "f") but no matter what I decrypt HEX to it just gives me the same mess of text:
G}2ùr¶ÿÂ+P×.¡ *×à½}IA ä)a/0ðÆËÝ<mÀ[´á>î"æ×ÕdÂij [9ôcï³...
I've been thinking "etc playing below" means an anagram of ETC below either "pitcher" or "playing ... leagues", but the only promising ending is ECT, and the words it ends don't seem to fit the wordplay. Not sure though
Random note: I'm editing the CCCC archive and I've now reached the start of the "Ms. Fanning" series of clues. I'm still ever-so-slightly bummed that I didn't get to solve a single one of those clues, lol
PSA: C4 Archive has been updated to the start of the year. Volunteers happily invited to take a turn at doing the next one/two/six days/weeks/months...
Same announcement as above, but this time it has been updated to the start of 2021! No one has any obligation to continue the updating, but again volunteers are welcome. :0000
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interesting! I actually saw the notif pop up but I didn't know what specific crossword he was gonna do. Looks like it's gonna be worth watching which I'll indeed do later
Apparently P can stand for pitcher... Hmm not sure if that's relevant at all
Oh wait, I think I'm gonna have an attempt at this
@juicifer is the answer PROSPECT, &lit? Pitcher = P, and ECT is "etc playing", and that's all below the major leagues, which are (not sure on this part) basically the PROS because they're more experienced than the minor leagues. And a pitcher or other kind of baseball player playing below the major leagues is a prospect too, since they can be promoted to a more advanced team (including the major leagues themselves).
@juicifer Correct :00 were you referring to the "off squared"? I also considered that that should be the other way round, but I think having the colon there makes it fine
@juicifer Fair point. I think Deusovi implied that as well with one of my cryptic clues (afaik he said that "British aircraft are unnaturally overpowered way after" = AER* + OP + LANE (way after) isn't so great since it should be "with way after" for it to be syntactically correct in the wordplay.)
Personally I don't see any issue with it, but I'll keep an open mind and consider it for a time
Okay, after staring at msh's explanation long enough I now see what the answer is. (I guess I was tripped by the "quadrise" part which I stubbornly read as the Brit variant of an -ize verb.)
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333R85PVTS85112K8IZF26997L46HY7S400M
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DJOCDABYOOLEVEOGOOOUOELEPUTZHAWPZOHM
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I've been playing around with my favorite IQ puzzle app, and I got to this 5x5 that's completely stumped me. Can you figure out whether the answer is A, B, C, or D?
