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Hint #224: Last Laugh

This is a bit of a callback to earlier puzzles. No hints otherwise.

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Hint #223: Awful Actors

If you want a sixth, consider an anagram of the word IRONED.

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Hint #222: Triple Trouble

The word you’re looking for is based in onomatopoeia and is also the name of a band.

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Hint #221: Letters and Numbers?

The puzzle’s name is the hint.

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Hint #220: Vowel Vexation

In order, the lengths of the words you are looking for are:

13 letters

18 letters

14 letters

12 letters

10 letters

7 letters

There is more than one solution to most of these.

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Hint #219: Silly Set

If you work out two or three of them, the remainder should fall into place. The easiest ones are 1 and 4.

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Hint #218: Separated Sets

It might help you, for every puzzle except #3, to put the letter ‘S’ at the end of every word.

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Hint #217: Cryptic Curios

Every one of these objects can be found inside. In fact, most generally are not found outside.

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Hint #216: Rotten Rebuses

You know what, you shouldn’t need a hint for this one. All I’ll say is that three of them are desserts and leave it at that.

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Hint #215: Trivia Time II

These will all fall to a bit of research, but I should clarify a couple of things here.

Question 4: I’ve added a small clarifier to the question that wasn’t present in CJ’s original version. Not a hint, just giving credit where it’s due.

Question 6: if you replace “Australia” with “the USA”, the answer would be either 49 or 50 - the contiguous 48 states plus the District of Columbia, and possibly Alaska. Hawaii and Puerto Rico do not count; while they are officially (respectively) a state and a territory of the US, they are not part of the mainland. Alaska is subjective.

Question 8: “CE” and “AD” are synonymous, except that “CE” is written after the year whereas “AD” is written beforehand.

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Hint #214: Mixed Munchies

The first and fourth sets cannot be found naturally and must be made, either manufactured or hand-made.

The second and third sets can be found in nature and eaten immediately.

The fifth set is a set of adjectives that still pertain very strongly to foodstuffs.

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Hint #213: Collatz Curiosity

You only need to find one example of a starting number that fails to touch the number 1.

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Hint #212: Silly Sequences IV

#5 is a tad obscure.

#7 is complete at the time of writing, but in two years a fifth member will be added.

#8 should be well-known to long-time readers of this blog!

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Hint #211: Twisted Tunes III

#10 is, as mentioned, a bit obscure. You may find yourself searching through music until the quiet comes...

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Hint #210: Five-Cross II

Don’t forget, you only need to solve five of the clues.

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Hint #209: Loopy Letters

Puzzle #2: the hint is in the title.

Puzzle #4: try speaking.

Puzzle #6: anagrams are your friend.

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Hint #208: Bit Buster

Eve has a Bachelor’s degree in information technology (though it’s not necessary to have one to solve the puzzle!)

Ali is a bit of an “anachronism” (his words, not mine) and likes old sayings.

Elijah is a critic.