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{
"completionText": "2nd April 1912:",
"puzzleDate": "2025-04-02",
"completionURL": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic",
"solutions": {
"The largest of Saturn's moons": "Titan",
"\"That's no ____!\"": "moon",
"Alcoholic drink best served with tonic": "gin",
"Often follows the Old Man": "sea",
"Architect of GNU, for short": "RMS",
"Sixth planet": "Saturn",
"The first note of a scale": "tonic",
"Designer of buildings": "Architect",
"Construct": "build",
"Coco, Yves, or Vivienne, maybe": "Designer",
"Greatest in size": "largest",
"\"The ________ Showman\": P. T. Barnum": "Greatest",
"Most common number of sides on a die": "Six",
"One wouldn't want to meet this kind of artist": "Con",
"Quick message": "note",
"Climb up": "scale",
"Large agricultural building": "Barn",
"Flying vehicle": "plane",
"Having many years": "Old",
"These might come in calendar, academic, or fiscal": "years",
"Courtroom activity": "trial",
"Try hard to win favourable attention": "Court",
"Desirable outcome in a game": "win",
"It's handy to be owed one": "favour",
"A mobile phone to a German": "handy"
},
"initialPuzzle": "The [[[Coco, Yves, or Vivienne, maybe] of [[One wouldn't want to meet this kind of artist]struct]ings] of GNU, for short] [The [[\"The ________ Showman\": P. T. [Large agricultural building]um] in size] of [[Most common number of sides on a die]th [Flying vehicle]t]'s [\"That's no ____!\"]s]ic be[Alcoholic drink best served with [The first [Quick message] of a [Climb up]]]s [Often follows the [Having many [These might come in calendar, academic, or fiscal]] Man] [[Try hard to [Desirable outcome in a game] [It's [A mobile phone to a German] to be owed one]able attention]room activity]s.",
"puzzleSolution": "The RMS Titanic begins sea trials."
},
{
"completionText": "1st April 1983:",
"puzzleDate": "2025-04-01",
"completionURL": "https://www.york.ac.uk/it-services/about/news/our-history",
"solutions": {
"So good they named it once": "York",
"Coal or great, perhaps": "tit",
"Consume food": "eat",
"Not science": "art",
"Not art": "Science",
"Second in command": "vice",
"\"___ equals ___\", Brecht play": "man",
"A leap one is controversial": "Second",
"There are several on Mars": "rovers",
"Awarder of degrees": "University",
"Location in a hospital": "ward",
"Eject liquid from the mouth": "spit",
"Entirely reliant": "dependent",
"🐱": "cat",
"Person or machine that performs calculations": "Computer",
"Male offspring": "son",
"Projection of the jaw": "chin",
"___-de-sac": "cul",
"Opposite of get": "put",
"Maker of Robins and Scimitars": "reliant",
"Red harbingers of Christmas": "Robins",
"Indulge excessively": "binge",
"1001 to Constantine": "mi",
"Always the same": "Constant",
"Sterling, colloquially": "quid"
},
"initialPuzzle": "The [A[Lo[🐱]ion in a ho[Eject li[Sterling, colloquially] from the mouth]al]er of degrees] of [So good they named it once] Com[Opposite of get]ing Ser[[A leap one is cont[There are several on Mars]ial] in com[\"___ equals ___\", Brecht play]d], formerly p[Not science] of [Per[Male offspring] or ma[Projection of the jaw]e that performs cal[___-de-sac]ations] [Not art], became an in[Entirely [Maker of [Red har[Indulge excessively]rs of Christmas] and Sci[1001 to [Always the same]ine]tars]] en[Coal or gr[Consume food], perhaps]y.",
"puzzleSolution": "The University of York Computing Service, formerly part of Computer Science, became an independent entity."
},
{
"completionText": "31st March 1998:",
"puzzleDate": "2025-03-31",
"completionURL": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla",
"solutions": {
"Olive or grape plant, maybe": "vine",
"Castrated male bovine": "Bullock",
"1995 Sandra Bullock movie \"The ___\"": "Net",
"\"___ old fox\"": "sly",
"Water meadows": "ings",
"Mean": "Par",
"Parents or siblings, for short": "fam",
"Owls are famously this": "Wise",
"Shrink": "contract",
"Euclid's mathematical treatise": "elements",
"\"No ____s!\": Wise words for superheroes": "cape",
"________ table of the elements": "periodic",
"A timed contract with a periodic payment": "lease",
"Image made from smaller pieces": "Mosaic",
"The Mosaic Killer": "Mozilla",
"The start": "source",
"\"You make a better ____ than a window!\"": "door",
"\"____ wide!\"": "open",
"One might enter this to open a door": "code",
"One of the five senses": "taste",
"In favour of": "pro",
"The taste of protons": "sour",
"Strong curved structure": "arch",
"Monarch": "king",
"Timmy never actually fell down one of these": "well",
"Blood sucking skin dwellers": "lice"
},
"initialPuzzle": "[1995 Sandra [Castrated male bo[Olive or grape plant, maybe]] movie \"The ___\"]s[\"No ____s!\": [Owls are [[Mean]ents or sibl[Water meadows], for short]ou[\"___ old fox\"] this] words for superheroes] re[A timed [Shrink] with a [________ table of the [Euclid's mathematical treatise]] payment]s [The [Image made from smaller pieces] Killer] [The start] [One might enter this to open a [\"You make a better ____ than a window!\"]] under an [\"____ wide!\"] [The [One of the five senses] of [In favour of]tons]ce [Blood suc[Mon[Strong curved structure]] skin d[Timmy never actually fell down one of these]ers]nse.",
"puzzleSolution": "Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license."
}
]
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