1. founder
2. enrage
3. pounds
4. stone
5. poem
6. colour (or rather, color- american english, feh)
7. control
8. sheathe
9. hemp
10.
11. blame
12. fabulous
13. cataract
14. genius (the obvious answer here is 'salons'. Am arguing semantics; the question is 'workplace of both' which implies a singular answer, not a plural one)
15. seize
16. salt

Last edited by crystalwren (08-12-2012 08:43:27 PM)

What if all the answers are...horrible plant puns?

Actually, that's a horrible idea.

Also, if anyone wants, I can throw possible answers into paint.net to get a look on how things look in the puzzle grid.

New Zealand Laurel
Japanese box hedge
Dwarf Japanese box
Camilla Japonica
Nandina Domestica

None of these are ringing quite true, though.

Also, my head hurts and I've done barely any actual work today. Keep this up, Mr Riddler, I swear I'll sic Batgirl in her Batbra(TM) onto you.

Last edited by crystalwren (08-12-2012 10:59:57 PM)

Malacoda wrote:

What if all the answers are...horrible plant puns?

I was actually wondering about that.... unfortunately, I'm no botanist.

Hiya folks! The one and only Harley Quinn here! Mistah J and I had a fallin' out. I shot at him, he tried to blow me up--just a little lover's spat, ya know? Well red's outta town and Catlady's been no fun since she started hagin around B-man, so I had nowhere to go. Luckily enough, I ran into old Eddie, and he offered me a place to stay.The place is real swell too! A king size bed, all to myself. I sure do miss my Puddin, though *sigh*.
I miss red too. That gal sure likes her alone time with her plants. Makes since though; humans can't get close to her. Except for yours truly, of course

Anyway, since I'm stayin at Eddie's place, I thought I might as well drop in and see what he's been doin on this forum of yours!

Eddie told me all about his plan and these puzzles he's been workin on, and he made me promise not to tell anyone that the first answer is soldier--aw crud.

Anyways, he sure was happy about how no one remembers what he said about Ivy's toxin, and how it's good for plants and bad for everything else.

I don't know what he's doin with these puzzles, but they sure seem hard! Good luck, everybody!

Good eye, Light!! The middle phrase starts shining through!

8. Lackey would make "truly" fit.

Ohh, I see.  Soldier, violet -- we thought they were solder and violent.  So you can take the answers to the clues and get another word by changing the number of letters.

Does it seem to anyone else like there are a lot of plants in M_S's list?

I think that 7 is "cornrow", derived from "corners." Q and E are used to lean and peek around corners in FPSes.

I think 12 is "flamingo," derived from "flaming."

Based on OITL's guesses and mine, the current guess at the middle phrase is: IVYTOUC_ISCO_MAN

It looks like the 8th letter is H: IVYTOUCH

What answer for 8 could yield an H?

I also think 9 could be something other than "vinyl," something with E as its second letter, so you would get "IVYTOUCHES" as the first 10 letters.

If we need an "E" for 9 instead of "I". I can think of "Leather", but it doesn't make sense to change word into "Leat" to fit in 4-word... unless it's actually "Lead"

Davine Lu Linvega wrote:

I think that 7 is "cornrow", derived from "corners." Q and E are used to lean and peek around corners in FPSes.

Well, all she is doing is taking away or adding a letter, not re-arranging them, and changing cornrow into corners doesn't add or take a letter.

But CORONER works.  Since it is a human occupation, Ivy took away one of the Os to make the word into corner.

Last edited by OnlyInThisLight (08-15-2012 09:48:24 PM)

DAMNIT.  TWEED.  ANSWER IS WEED.


XDXDXDXDXD

The actual answer has nothing to do with Ivy's clues.  She took the Riddler's original answers, and if they were animal or human related (such as an occupation or an animal) she removed one letter to make a new word. If the word was plant related, she added one letter to make a new word.  These new words that Ivy created are the words that the numbered, written clues below the grid are referring to.  To suss out the original, Riddler-created answer, you first look at her clue.

So, for number 8, "One who puts a sword away" you can see the grid has SEVEN spaces.  That means what we are looking for is either a SIX letter long plant-related word that when you add an extra letter to makes a word what means, "One who puts a sword away" or an EIGHT letter long animal or human related word that when you minus one letter spells a word that means "One who puts a sword away."

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For example, it could be SHEATHES.  While sheathes is something a plant can potentially do, it more often relates to the human act of putting a sword away.  Ivy thus took away the last S, turning the word into a noun (the SHEATHE itself) instead of a verb.  The original clue may have read something like, "to put a sword away."

OR

It could be BLEARER, which is anything that blurs the eyes.  Since plants, to my knowledge, have no eyes, this makes it human related.  Ivy thus took away the L, making the word BEARER, much as like a sword bearer.

13, "Gazing, as at the sun" could be STARRING.  An actor starring in a big time role is a human related occupation, so Ivy took away one of the R's to turn the word into STARING, which plays in to the phrase, "as at the sun" kind of like a pun.  Because the sun is a star.  Maybe?  D:

Last edited by OnlyInThisLight (08-18-2012 05:01:08 PM)

So 8 is Heather, to which Ivy added an S to make Sheather.    Staring was originally Starling.

The sentence, "Ivy touches con man" appears across the middle of the puzzle as a result.

Last edited by OnlyInThisLight (08-18-2012 10:40:16 PM)