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bobble
bobble
01:14
You can put a movement indicator after the word it modifies, right? So "X, reversed" to mean "X backwards" instead of only allowing "reversed X"
juicifer
juicifer
02:10
yeah totally
PolygonPotpourri
PolygonPotpourri
Indeed; even 'X, back' would work.
 
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Jafe
Jafe
05:34
CCCC: All Mariah Carey wants for Christmas is going to sound like Christmas? (4)
oAlt
oAlt
@Jafe Yule, homophone of you (All ... Christmas) + 'll (will, is going to)
Jafe
Jafe
05:50
correct
oAlt
oAlt
CCCC: Secure, feeling essentially good, with confident face (4)
Jafe
Jafe
06:16
_L_ + O(C_)K
oAlt
oAlt
06:40
@Jafe yep
 
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Jafe
Jafe
07:54
CCCC: I'm going over to give special attention to lover (8)
 
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PolygonPotpourri
PolygonPotpourri
09:02
@Jafe IM< STRESS [lover] = MISTRESS?
Jafe
Jafe
yes!
PolygonPotpourri
PolygonPotpourri
Nice!
Jafe
Jafe
thanks
PolygonPotpourri
PolygonPotpourri
CCCC: It's about a small amount of money? (9)
 
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PDT
PDT
16:28
Hi guys I will be dropping a hint for my puzzle in a few hours I would like to know where you got stuck/would like some pointers towards and I will drop a hint accordingly.
 
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msh210
msh210
19:36
@PolygonPotpourri This probably isn't it, but possibly QUIDDITCH (on which people bet, so it's "about a small amount of money?") = QUID DITCH (a ditch containing a quid, which is about (around) a small amount of money)?
Daniel S
Daniel S
@PDT TBH I'm struggling to find an initial foothold. There's no cipher tag nor language tag. The only commonality I have between the names is that there are famous concert pianists with those names, which felt promising until I couldn't come up with Horatio...
msh210
msh210
20:01
@PDT I'd give it more time, I think. it's only been ~25 hours, and it's a weekend. But up to you, obviously.
bobble
bobble
Advent puzzles are supposed to drop hints once every 24 hours
msh210
msh210
20:18
@bobble ah, I hadn't realized (or I'd forgotten, more likely)
In that case, @PDT: I, too, am at a loss. My only promising-looking in, so far, is that rot13(gur svefg jbeq bs rnpu cerfrag frrzf gb or na npghny jbeq va erirefr, pehvfr, wrjry, gbl, punegf, ohg V qba'g xabj jung gb qb jvgu gung, rfcrpvnyyl pbafvqrevat gur ahzoref bs jbeqf va gur inevbhf cerfragf).
PDT
PDT
20:43
@msh210 that’s good work so far…
 
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PolygonPotpourri
PolygonPotpourri
23:33
@msh210 It's not that; sorry!

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