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00:37
is that elvish
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00:48
- sean connery visiting vegas for the first time
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(it's rot13, for avoidance of doubt)
crossword dropping shortly...
01:15
apparently i say "high up in the mountains" a lot... taking suggestions for alternative ways to say the same thing
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Q: Ticking Off Boxes

JafeThis is part 25 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own. Dear Puzzling, This is a Y’s Are Wild crossword. That means any instances of the letter Y in the grid are to be treated as wildcards that do not need to match the corresponding letter in the che...

sheesh i think i've tried every regular selection of letters of the words preceding "frequently" and none of them makes sense, there must be something i'm missing
 
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06:31
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Q: Did Martin die by suicide, murder or accidental death?

Pumbaa One day, the police find Martin's body and locate 3 suspects to record their statements: Alice: If Martin died of murder, then the murderer is Bob. Bob: If Martin died of murder, then the murderer is not me. Carol: If Martin did not die of murder, then must die of suicide. The police have conf...

 
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11:07
@Jafe in this mountainous region?
fwiw
11:22
works
11:39
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Q: A massive puzzle

Prim3numbahWhat's the answer to this puzzle? NPFAIMCHOLIRSTUE

@Jafe C4 hint 2b. The fodder+wordplay governed by "frequently" accounts for not all of the answer.
12:27
I really doubt "Tony Joe" is the def... Wikipedia gives me only one other "Tony Joe", who is Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo, but 1) I don't see where I can get the B and 2) there's no D in the clue at all, so most likely there's no D in the fodder (going by the assumption that "frequently" is indeed a regular-letter-selection indicator).
@Jafe "closer to the stratosphere than usual"
If it's BATTERS, then ERS may be selected regularly (play)E(rmaybep)R(ecociou)S(hes), every eight letters but starting at the fifth. But that would mean that "White A soccer" clues BAT somehow, which seems absurd.
@juicifer Loll
((BATT, I mean. Still seems impossible))
12:56
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Q: How did she do that?

RogerAThe King wants to test his 2 very smart advisors Sadin and Lena. In the courtyard he sets up 4 closed wooden boxes on a table. All are the exact same size. In front of each box there is a name plate. The King announces: “ Sadin and Lena, see these 4 sandalwood boxes? Each one has a fruit inside. ...

 
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14:08
Good one from today's Globe and Mail: Fellow supporting Judah's son continuously (2,3,2)
14:20
heh, i like that
14:34
Ahhh nice
15:06
Plays well with two-days-ago's Redactle topic.
(well, yesterday's; changeover time is 54 minutes from now)
 
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16:21
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Q: What's the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand?

Snack ExchangeWhat's the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand when the clock shows 10:10:15?

 
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17:35
ok @msh210 I'll take a shot. is this POM (slang, possibly derogatory, for a brit, which all three soccer players named joe white I linked above are) + P...O...U...S (every fourth letter of "precocious he's")?
meaning tony as a common noun as @oAlt noted
17:59
@juicifer yes indeed
@juicifer adjective, but yeah
er, yeah, adjective ... that's totally what I said
Woah
Great solve @juicifer
CCCC: Serbian shooter soon to be engaged in court battle with corrupt crook in jail, having no right to capture Kyiv's border (6 5 x2)
(two be clear: two answers both with enumeration (6 5))
@Ankoganit thanks! as it turns out writing code to look at all regular substrings helped out lol
But Gavrilo Princip isn't (6,5)…
@juicifer fun fact: if you take the whole clue (apart from the word "frequently") and take every seventh letter you get TWOABCS, which would be very cool if the clue was in fact a double pangram
18:07
@juicifer if you include the hidden letters that don't appear in the visible part of the clue, it is a double pangram
@msh210 I've heard he went by gavril princ to friends
@msh210 naturally
@juicifer nice find
thanks
(Punisa Racic is (6,5), but I'm not seeing wordplay for it.)
@juicifer ah one of them is Nikola Jokic (Serbian … battle) = crookinjail* minus r, plus k
@msh210 yup! halfway there
well really probably more than halfway there
but strictly speaking
18:18
Neither of the two recent mass shootings in Serbia was by a (6,5).
@juicifer Ah there's also a Nikola Jovik, it seems. He invaded Kyiv from the other direction, I guess.
@msh210 yeah, there you go
for context, nikola jokic's denver nuggets and nikola jovic's miami heat are facing off in game 5 of the nba finals tonight
CCCC: Poor farming yields unwanted growth (4,3)

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