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Scurra · Daedalian Member

Quiet illumination
Dolores Del Rio
Mickey’s friend is up for it
Happy croc
Stationmaster
Serious organ
Trendy period
Orchestral greeting
The cows came home
East Sussex playwright
Crazy greyhound
Broken bobsleighs

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(note: I have taken one or two tiny liberties, but only in the interests of making the puzzle work! The title of the puzzle may be useful. Or not.)

Scurra · Daedalian Member

OK, here's a clue: the number in brackets - added below - indicates the number of words in the answer you are looking for.
It could be said that the one marked with an * should be (10) and not (5) but we can argue about that later...

Quiet illumination (5)
Dolores Del Rio (2)
Mickey’s friend is up for it (1)
Happy croc (1)
Stationmaster (2)
Serious organ (1)
Trendy period (1)
Orchestral greeting (1)
The cows came home (5)*
East Sussex playwright (3)
Crazy greyhound (1)
Broken bobsleighs (3)

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[I'd also note that in a sense the title of the puzzle is the final answer to the puzzle too, since I couldn't figure out any other way to do it. Any suggestions as to how this might be dealt with in a different way would be welcomed.]

MillerTime · Deceased Extra-Terrestrial Member

Dolores Del Rio: Wild flower?

Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

I doubt you are being ignored -- I suspect that people are having trouble figuring out where to start. At least I am.

I don't understand where MillerTime's answer comes from. A quick search onf "Dolores Del Rio" turns up this: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0003123/ so the most obvious 2 word "solution" would be "Mexican star" but that doesn't seem conclusive enough.

A number of them sound like parts of cryptic clues: broken bobsleighs, for example. (The most interesting thing I can anagram "bobsleighs" into, however, is "Hogs' Bibles" or maybe "Bibles? Gosh!")

I assume that there is some truly conclusive answer for each of these. That would imply that they are all direct quotes from something or some set of things that are related. However, Googling a few of them doesn't seem to lead anywhere interesting.

Perhaps if MillterTime would explain the thinking behind his answer, then it would spark some similar thinking in some of the others.

Foggy · In the clouds

For the first one, it seems like it's trying to clue SILENT LIGHT, which would be a one letter change of the SILENT NIGHT carol. Unfortunately the rest don't really work in that respect.

Serious organ sounded like it might be BRAVEHEART, but that doesn't get me very far either.

Logain · Stretch Armstrong

Yeah, there's not one clue I feel even slightly confident on enough to stick with it in order to try and work out a second answer to see if there's a pattern.

...and I can't stop thinking of a "gaytor" for a happy croc right now Cannibal

Scurra · Daedalian Member

Foggy · In the clouds

Crap...got it.

Quiet illumination (5) is Silence of the LamPs.
Dolores Del Rio (2) AmeXican Beauty
Mickey’s friend is up for it (1) PlUtoon
Happy croc (1) GladGator
Stationmaster (2) RaiL Man
Serious organ (1) Graveheart
Trendy period (1) ChicagE
Orchestral greeting (1) Bandhi
The cows came home (5)* The Return of the KinE
East Sussex playwright (3) Shakespeare in Cove?
Crazy greyhound (1) AmadBus
Broken bobsleighs (3) Chariots of Fi?e

Foggy · In the clouds

Incidentally, it's not so much a matter of being too obscure, it's more of a matter of having not enough to really start with. Enumerations, total words lengths, and some sort of hint to theme might have helped (e.g., calling it Moxie Awards might have helped.). If Brain Boggler is an additional clue, I'm not sure what the answer is.

Logain · Stretch Armstrong

I totally agree with Foggy here. It's a very nice puzzle seeing the answer, but giving it a title like Foggy suggested...and maybe word lengths or a clue to word lengths...the answer Brain Boggler would have been more than solvable without hints.

Newish Boy · Daedalianish Member

Nice puzzle, once you see it.
I'm guessing that East Sussex playwright = Shakespeare in Hove, rather than Cove .
Not sure about the last one ...

The Cruciverbalist · Lucrative Britches

Chariots Off Ice?
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Scurra · Daedalian Member

For the record, the replaced letters spell out Brain Boggler, which is how the puzzle came about in the first place.

1. P = B
2. X = R
3. U = A
4. G = I
5. L = N
6. G = B
7. E = O
8. B = G
9. E = G
10. H = L
11. B = E
12. C = R

But since I couldn't make anything clever out of the new letters, I got a bit stuck.
I tried something like word lengths, and someone told me that it was far too easy as it looked as though you were after some sort of title (book, movie, song etc.) with some of them.

Thanks anyway.

Antrax · ESL Student

I don't understand why Quiet illumination is (5) and not (4).
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Scurra · Daedalian Member

Because there is, contrary to popular opinion, a definite article at the beginning of that one...

Antrax · ESL Student

It appears there is. I stand corrected Felicitous

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