Solution for Today's Cluely, Nov--19-2024, #12

 

Solution, notes, and explanations

Solution, notes, and explanations

Theme: "Imagine"

We all need a break sometime for the daily trials and tribulations. We need to "Imagine".

This cluely is a tribute to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Imagine".

And as the repeating chorus goes (in different variations):

"Imagine all the people,

Livin' life in peace" 

 

Clues

• Top left image: John Lennon and Yoko Ono. This is actually from their "Bed peace" and "Hair peace" protest.
• Top right image: United -Nations.
• Top right, not a clue, image: The dove carrying an olive branch, to signify peace on earth after the deluge.
• Bottom left image: Cover of the album Imagine, by John Lennon.
• Bottom right: Peace symbol, with Tie-die colors.

We did have again partial clue:  GRE, and RE.

And one letter clues: B and S-curves.

You did need to know your roman numerals: M=1000, D=500, (C=100), L=50, and I=1. So 1551=MDLI.

Last but not the least: "Leave the gun, take the CANNOLI." is the famous line from "God Father" (the first one).

 

Levels

• Support
• Advocate
• Contribute
• Activist
• Dreamer - from "Imagine" - "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. And maybe one day you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

How hard was it?

Well, it is 11x11, so it takes time to complete. And then, you needed to know your Roman numbering. 

Overall, not as hard as last week's, and a little long to do. We'll give it 5K race grade.

'till the next one (which will be NEXT year!!),

 Zachi (waddling along).

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Solution for Today's Cluely, Nov--12-2024, #11

Solution, notes, and explanations

Theme: Surrealism

This is an excuse to present some of the great works of Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, a Spanish surrealist artist. Featured in the center is his painting "The Persistence Of Memory", which is also features in the clues.

This is an 11x11 cluely, which should take you more time, and is possibly also harder. But it all pays off as the theme gets unraveled. 

   

Clues

• Top left image: Salvador Dali link
• Top right image: Sleep , 1937 link
• Center image: The Persistence Of Memory, 1931 link
• The bottom two were not featured in the clues, but they were still painted by Dali, and are beautiful:
• Lower left: Ship with Butterfly Sails,  1937 link
• Lower right: Elephants, 1948 link

We did have again one-letter clues: Zero is O, and the main element in Coal is Carbon, C.

New this time: Two clues for the same letters!! OffKey and Key. A way to make things easier.

Per popular demand: LP is what is better known today as a vinyl record, relic of the 60 and beyond, before the digital era. LP stands for Long Playing or Long Play, and the slow ones were 33+1/3 RPM, whereas the 'fast ones' (advocated by RCA later-on) are larger in size and rotate at 45 RPM.

Stay tuned: We are working on arrows up and left: Spelling things backward?!?

A few more interesting clues: Atomic clocks (link) are often using Caesium (CS), and element which is actually used in the definition of standard time units. Inuit are the indigenous people of the arctic. South of NY, and East of Ohio, is Pennsylvania, PA.

 

Levels

• Realism - Édouard Manet
• Impressionism - Edgar Degas
• Expressionism - Edvar Munch
• Abstract - Joan Mitchell
• Surrealism - Salvador Dali

How hard was it?

Well, our first 11x11. And then, knowing Inuit, or CS (Caesium), can. be tricky. But hopefully you enjoyed the theme, and mayb elearned a thing or two.

Overall, Harder then usual, and a little longer to do. We'll give it 10K race grade.

'till the next one,

 Zachi (waddling along).

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Solution for Today's Cluely, Nov-05-2024, #10

 

  

Solution, notes, and explanations

Theme: At the Beach

We are deep into autumn by now, and with the elections coming up, good time to recall summer-times at the beach.

   

Clues

• Top left image: Sand Castle 
• Top right image: Waves   
• Dune buggy: ATV  (All Terrain Vehicle)
• Small ocean: Sea

We did have again one-letter clue, S-curves.

Other clues of interest: Argon is noble gas, "Lady's fingers" vegetable is Okra, and the British spelling of Liter (Litre).

 

Levels

• Laguna beach, Orange county
• Santa Monica
• Santa Cruz
• Camel-by-the-Sea
• Venice beach, L.A.

How hard was it?

Overall, it was a mini-Cluely, and nothing stood out as especially hard. We'll give it 1-lap around the block .

'till the next one,

 Zachi (waddling along).

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