Happy March! It is #EnigMarch, and each day the excellent EnigMarch people post a prompt word; then puzzle nerds try to design puzzles around that word. (Today's word is musical.)
Since it's March, here are five cryptically-clued marches.
- Small emperor Tuesday swaps PAAS for egg, lightly scrambled at the end (What's the 3rd letter?)
- Chicago transit, bread in can (4th letter?)
- Just kidding, California westward in rear (6th letter?)
- Lots of laundry afterwards (9th letter?)
- Gratify the old senator, confused (4th letter?)
_ _ _ _ _ = Leader of band (that's a defintion, I'm not cluing the letter B, snap out of it)
This puzzle is a lot easier if you know lots of famous marches, like maybe you failed to solve the MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 puzzle "Something in Common" for eleven hours or you used some circus clown music as your phone's timer sound and now it's burned into your memory forever. In case that's not you, here's a list of famous marches, guaranteed to include the marches clued above:
All Sports
American Patrol
Americans We
Amparito Roca
Anchors Aweigh
Band of America
Bandology
Barnum and Bailey's Favorite
Belgian Paratroopers
Big Cage
Black Horse Troop
Black Jack
Blaze Away
Billboard
Bombasto
Boston Commandery
Bravura
Brighton Beach
Brooke's Chicago Marine Band
Chicago Tribune
Chimes of Liberty
Coat of Arms
Colossus of Columbia
Colonel Bogey
Combination
Commando
Coronation
Country Band
Crusade for Freedom
Children of the Shrine
E Pluribus Unum
El Capitan
Emblem of Unity
Entry of the Gladiators
Fairest of the Fair
Footlifter
Gallant Seventh
Hands Across the Sea
High School Cadets
In Storm and Sunshine
Independentia
Invincible Eagle
Invercargill
Joyce's 71st New York Regiment
Klaxon
Königgrätzer
Liberty Bell
Melody Shop
Men of Ohio
National Emblem
Officer of the Day
On Parade
On the Mall
Onward and Upward
On the Square
On the Quarter Deck
Old Comrades
Our Director
Pomp and Circumstance
Preußens Gloria
Last Long Mile
Purple Carnival
Purple Pageant
Radetzky March
Repasz Band
Robinson's Grand Entree
Salutation
Semper Fidelis
Semper Paratus
Screamer
Second Connecticut Regiment
Seventy-six Trombones
Southerner
Stars and Stripes Forever
Strike Up the Band
Sweeney's Cavalcade
Tenth Regiment
Thunderer
Up the Street
Washington Grays
Washington Post
White Rose
Solution, rot13'd:
F RZCREBE GH - B (rtt) + CNNF = Frzcre Cnenghf
RY + CVGN va PNA = Ry Pncvgna
(WX, PNY) jrfgjneq (erirefrq) va ONPX = O ynp xw NPX = Oynpx Wnpx
JNFUVAT GBA CBFG = Jnfuvatgba Cbfg
Tengvsl gur byq frangbe bar ovt nantenz sbe Ragel bs gur Tynqvngbef
Rkgenpgrq yrggref fcryy ZNWBE
