The Sphinx's Lair

1:56 AM

BOB'S+LED is done on a track over ice, which is hopefully not thin

wasn't the enum 4,4 though? or am i seeing things again

1 hour later…

3:00 AM

@Jafe it got edited

2 hours later…

5:03 AM

well canine my felines, maybe it's bobsled then

juicifer

5:15 AM

man, bobsled popped into my mind immediately but I was like that must be a diversion because it doesn't fit the enumeration at all lol

2 hours later…

6:55 AM

same here actually

3 hours later…

9:32 AM

@Jafe correct, I did another oopsie, I'll probably take a break from setting C4s until I can sort my clue backlog out

Speaking of taking a break, I'm also gonna take a break from making this puzzle... I've lost interest for a few reasons so I'm just gonna save it for next Advent Calendar if I'm still active by then

CCCC: Music video in which Michael Jackson and several others dance and spank the monkey (4,2)

@Jafe beat it ddef lol

yep!

I just got it too, and I'm not gonna comment on that lol

10:02 AM

CCCC: Not a meek, introverted biker appears in this music video (4,2,2)

10:18 AM

@msh210 TAKE ON ME ("biker appears in this music video", specifically at least one biker appearing near the start of the video) = NOT A MEEK, introverted (anagram indicator, "introverted" means having the qualities of an introvert and one of them is not showing their "true self", I guess?)

10:34 AM

@oAlt ah ha! Good one

10:55 AM

@oAlt yeah. I intended the anagram indicator to work by almost- literally turning the string into itself.

11:09 AM

CCCC: A camel transporting bananas and more into desert, initially not abandoned (9)

took a beating on chess.com from "RandA_lThor"

probably not our rand though, this one was from the US

@oAlt OMEDAR(-n)* into DRY -> DROMEDARY, a camel!

@Jafe yeah :)

CCCC: No time in prison for tennis's #1 (7)

@Jafe ALCARAZ (Carlos Alcaraz, currently ranked #1 tennis player in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals) = No T (time) in Alcatraz (former US prison)

11:31 AM

@oAlt that's right

12:22 PM

CCCC: Christmas carol ending with final bit of improvisation, but going back around: "Okay everybody, from the top!" (4)

2 hours later…

2:08 PM

@oAlt NOEL (improvisatio)N O(kay) E(verybody) (caro)L

@AncientSwordRage yeah :)

3:02 PM

CCCC: Underanalysing every third artist? (4)

3:14 PM

@AncientSwordRage ..d..a..l..i..

1 hour later…

Sphinx

4:19 PM

Q: Lost and mostly drowned

Don't go diving looking for those, you won't find much Cardigan Bay [5] Atlantic [3] Baie de Douarnenez [1] Baltic Sea [4] Lake Svetloyar [6]