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 zero.)
Someone who'd thought about such matters said:
"All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
Inner qualifications: zero, devo, teen, parses, tech, lobo, tonal, tunes, spend
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belle Haleine, eau de voilette
boîte-en-vAlise
george washingTon (allegorie de genre)
la mariée mise à nu par ses célibaTaires, même (le grand verre)
monte caRlo bonds
nu descendant un escalIer n° 2
porte-chApeAux
Why not sneeze, rose sélavy?
à regarder d'un œil, de prèS, pendant preSque une heure
Hints and solution, rot13'd:
Gur cvpgherf qba'g znggre; gur gvgyrf qb.
Va guvf chmmyr, gur gvgyrf unir qvssrerag pncvgnyvmngvba guna gur bevtvanyf.
Pna lbh svaq "mreb" nzbatfg gur gvgyrf?
Vs lbh pna'g svaq "mreb", pna lbh svaq "mr"?
Lbh pna svaq rnpu bs gur vaare dhnyvsvpngvbaf va gur gvgyrf, ohg rnpu vf vagreehcgrq ol fcnprf be chapghngvba naq fhpu.
Sbe rnpu vaare dhnyvsvpngvba, svaq gur eryrinag gvgyr naq wbg qbja vgf pncvgny yrggre. Gurfr yrggref fcryy: Jung neg vf
J mreb Jul Abg Farrmr, Ebfr Féynil?
U qrib Oryyr Unyrvar, Rnh qr Ibvyrggr
N grra Obîgr-ra-inyvfr
G cnefrf Yn znevér zvfr à ah cne frf péyvongnverf, zêzr (Yr Tenaq Ireer)
N grpu Cbegr-puncrnhk
E ybob Zbagr Pneyb Obaqf
G gbany Trbetr Jnfuvatgba (Nyyrtbevr qr traer)
V gharf Ah qrfpraqnag ha rfpnyvre a° 2
F fcraq À ertneqre q'ha œvy, qr ceèf, craqnag cerfdhr har urher
