This is a relatively easy manual tiling puzzle. In fact the tiling is all done for you, you just have to specify how many of each of the 26 given tilings to use. The puzzle is:
Using N complete sets of tetrominoes, tile N 4x5 rectangles in such a way as to minimise diversity of pieces across the ...
@G_as_in_Gnome Hm. That would define "char" by "is buried", which doesn't mean char and which doesn't have the right grammar. And I don't really see RIP there, either. (Something that I can see, though is "rests" for "is buried", as in "Here rests ...", but it's probably too llong to fit here.)
Inspired by this puzzle.
You have many airplanes starting at the same airport. Each plane has a fuel tank that holds just enough fuel to allow the plane to travel $\frac{1}{10}$ the distance around the world. These airplanes possess the special ability to transfer fuel between their tanks in mid-...
@oAlt never mind, for some reason I failed to spot the most basic reason why it's not as promising as I thought (as MOehm pointed out): the tenses are different
If char is somehow an adjective it could still work. However it's not used as an adjective
Something that I've been thinking of is Chamber, where AMBER is the composer of ring, and Chamber is a sepulcher, but I can't see how is buried, e.g. links to the CH
this is another stretch, but ch
could stand for chain, a unit of measurement = 66 feet, so 6 feet underground?
Also, not sure if this was intentional as I'm really new, but the ? at the end usually implies puns in NYT crossword, is it safe to assume the same is in play here?
I'm not sure what it cound mean here, though, and I don't see the significance of "e.g." if it isn't a component of the wordplay, i.e. EG or SAY are used in the wordplay. "Buried, e.g." as a unit would mean that we need something of which an example is "buried", or maybe "is buried". Hm.
"In sepulcher?" could also mean something like "engraved" or "encrypted" in an oblique way, but I don't really see how this can work with the rest of the clue. As defs, they are too long anyway.
@G_as_in_Gnome In my opinion e.g. and i.e. are different things and not interchangeable.
And the "e.g."? "Buried in" could indicate a hidden answer, but "buried, e.g., in" doesn't. (At least I think it doesn't.) Also, to be a member of something is not to be a composer of it. (I think the same applies to "amber": There are amber rings, but amber isn't a composer of rings. A jeweler β 7 letters! β might be, perhaps.)
@MOehm okay, makes total sense. The ? at the end keeps making me think it's a pun with the word composer, and could mean like something that composes another thing could be a 'composer' of that item, like a pun
@msh210 and there is my answer π€£
So i'm thinking things like gold can be a composer of ring because rings are composed of gold, but again idk if that level of pun is something traditionally clued in by a ?
I keep going back to Charnel, Chanel is a composer of a ring, and the letter R is also a 'composer' of ring as in ring is composed of the letter R, so it's buried in Chanel = Charnel
(I'm kinda stumped by the hint, though: is msh implying that a question mark being placed at the end of the clue doesn't necessarily mean that that question mark applies to the last word/s of the clue? Cuz I thought that wasn't allowed (but again I'm an amateur so I'm not one to dictate).)
I can think of one more "Ring", which is the fairy ring, in which case the composer is MUSHROOMS (greater than 7 letters) or FUNGI (less than 7 letters, but doesn't seem promising at all)
Oh, MYCELIA's 7 letters but I can't think of a way to justify it at all
(and anyway that doesn't really "compose" the ring)
> Fairy rings are caused by an individual fungus growing underground. The fungus sprouts lots of small threads, called mycelium, in a circular shape. A year later, the mushrooms pop up out of the ground at the edge of the circle, creating the fairy ring.
@oAlt but the mycelia is the part of the fungi that creates/lays down the foundation/composes (verb) the ring, whereas the fruiting body (the fungi) is what the final ring is composed of
Inspired by this recent question here is a variation.
Three identical aeroplanes are based on an island with one airport.
Each plane can take fuel to get less than halfway around the world.
Fuel can be transferred between planes in flight instantaneously.
Planes are also fuelled instantaneously ...
Four Shinto Priests have traveled from their various prefectures in pilgrimage
to the top of Mount Fuji. You must find pathways for them to move up and down
the mountain until they can all achieve the peak. Often, this will require you
to guide them into positions from which they can assist each ...