Over 9,000: an Abbreviated Yet Awesome Tour Of Your First Equally Excellent Puzzle Mechanic

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index

The provided numbers are indices, not lengths.

CLUES

This puzzle, as the title suggests, has a lot of do-it-again. What can you do with the CLUES?

TITLE

Make sure you treat numbers appropriately when you index into the title.

FAQA9

Just indexing directly into the FAQ the normal way doesn't work... but why is it so long? Is there something else you could index by, yielding more data than just 5 letters?

NEW YORK TIMES FRIDAY CROSSWORD

There's not a well-defined way to index into a crossword puzzle, but can you find the numbers you need anywhere in the crossword?

  • Quote by Mark Twain about something anticipated transpiring in an unforeseen way. (42)
  • Generally, the x-axis in a scientific chart shows one of these (such as time) (18)
  • With “PART I NON-CONTRADICTION CHAPTER I THE THEME”, complete name of the team that won the 2013 MIT Mystery Hunt (48)
  • With “the”, 1776 document detailing many grievances with Britain (25)
  • Title of a variety cryptic from the 2019 MIT Mystery Hunt (5)