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 cloud.)
In wordplay, a letterbank is a set of letters you can use to form words, using each letter none, one, or more times. E.g., if BANK is your letterbank, you could form the words banana, kana, nab, etc.
Here are some letterbanks and some words that can be formed from them. And some clues for the bank-words and the formed-words. The clues aren't all so clear, but maybe if you figure out a word from a set it can help you figure out the others.
| C L O U D BANK | Cumulonimbus might form one |
|---|---|
| c o u L Ⓓ | was able |
| _◯_ _ | chill, but perhaps less so |
| _ _ _ _ _BANK | Conspiracy nutjobs hate it even more than economists do |
|---|---|
| _ _◯_ _ | funny |
| _ _ _ _◯_ _ | USA president between William and Warren. |
| ◯_ _ _ | unit of text |
| _ _ _ _BANK | Not so much shore as shoal |
|---|---|
| _◯_ _ | nothing in Nezahualcóyotl |
| _ _◯_ | Apollo 11 people |
| _ _ _ _ _BANK | Telemarketer? I don't even know 'er! |
|---|---|
| _◯_ _ | funniest deck on a pirate ship |
| _ _◯_ | it springs eternal |
| _◯_ _ | noble gas (i.e., NOBLE works as a letter bank) |
| _ _◯_ _ | tubular noodle |
When you're done, the circled letters should tell you why there
was a clou mist in my room after I took a shower:
◯◯◯◯ ◯◯◯ ◯◯◯◯
Hints and solution, rot13'd:
Gur onax-jbeqf ner: pybhq, jbeyq, fnaq, cubar
Urer'f nyy gur qngn:
+ pybhq / Phzhybavzohf zvtug sbez bar q pbhyq / jnf noyr b pbby / puvyy, ohg creuncf yrff fb + jbeyq / Pbafcvenpl ahgwbof ungr vg rira zber guna rpbabzvfgf qb b qebyy / shaal e jbbqebj / HFN cerfvqrag orgjrra Jvyyvnz naq Jneera. j jbeq / havg bs grkg + fnaq / Abg fb zhpu fuber nf fubny n anqn / abguvat va Armnuhnypólbgy f anfn / Ncbyyb 11 crbcyr + cubar / Gryrznexrgre? V qba'g rira xabj 're! b cbbc / shaavrfg qrpx ba n cvengr fuvc c ubcr / vg fcevatf rgreany r arba / aboyr tnf (v.r., ABOYR jbexf nf n yrggre onax) a craar / ghohyne abbqyr
