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| Keywords | Content |
|---|---|
| start, begin | As clued by the flavor text, "worming" and "Leviathan" mean that this is a puzzle about the web serial Worm. |
| enumeration, clue, name | The numbers next to the clues are the enumerations, the number of letters in the answer to the clue. These enumerations don't match the direct answers to the clue. Instead, we need to "unmask" these answers. |
| enumeration, clue, name | The answers to the clues are the "cape names" of characters in Worm. The enumerations given match their civilian first names. For example, HOOKWOLF is the cape name of the civilian whose first name is BRAD. |
| extract | All of these characters participated in the battle of Leviathan. As clued by the flavor text, we need to differentiate the characters who survived that battle and the characters who died. |
| extract | Remove the characters who died in the Leviathan fight from the grid. Look at the intersections of the remaining characters. |
- Shield of legend (6)
- Complain, in slang (6)
- A terrible wingman, if they disliked time? (6)
- Shield bearing coat of arms (6)
- Brave (4)
- Earth seer (3)
- Young woman of honor and fame (8)
- 1930s American foreign policy (7)
- Royal messenger (6)
- Result of combining Peter Pan's enemy with Akela? (4)
- Force (5)
- Friedrich III, e.g. (3)
- When you might see stars? (7)
- Stoner, e.g. (8)
- Measure of innocence? (6)
- It comes in six flavors (8)
- Firm (7)
- Lizardlike (7)
- An umbrella or the ozone layer, for example (4)
- On which you might see a tussle on a Friday night? (6)
- Someone who thinks they're different (9)
- It's a Nether mob (5)
- Participant in a Plains Indian ceremony (7)
- Relat. to the mot. of Earth's crus.? (7)
- The people led by Jeanine Matthews (5)
- Coyote, e.g. (7)
- A cheap keyboard might ignore this (5)