It is March and the lovely EnigMarch people have challenged puzzle designers to write a puzzle inspired by today's word: "bow".
Oh no! The USA clown President Trump (egged on by his buffoonish adviser Elon Musk) gets so angry when Americans point out that he is not a king, he throws a tantrum and declares himself king. So I'm thinking about today's word, "bow." I'm thinking: Trump wants Americans to bow and scrape. Looking out for wordplay, I realize: the answer is within "scrape": we should treat him like scrape
So here are some phrases of the form this and that, where the middle "ha" of "that" is also a thing. Maybe you're worried: Wow, "bow and scrape" is kinda obscure. If I don't know some of these phrases, as seems likely, am I just out of luck? Take a look at the list of emoji titled "the middle parts." Notice that one of those is the poop emoji. That's a clue that you should write in "crap" for "Bow and s____e". Oh wait, someone already wrote that in.
Write in the others and the circled letters should remind you what America is (hint: not a kingdom).
| Bow and | s cⓇa p e |
| Blood, sweat and | t ◯_ _ s |
| Pen and | p _◯_ r |
| Twists and | t ◯_ _ s |
| Batman and | R _◯_ n |
| Flesh and | b ◯_ _ d |
| Black and | w _◯_ e |
| Marks and | S _ _ _◯_ r |
The middle parts: 🦍 💩 👂 🥊 🚻 👘 🪙 ⚱️
Hints, rot-13'd:
- Rirel pebffjbeq svraq xabjf n xvzbab'f oryg vf na bov
- Rirel pebffjbeq svraq xabjf gung n onguebbz va Oevfgby vf n ybb
- Napvrag ahzvfzngvfgf xabj gung gurer hfrq gb or pbvaf pnyyrq crapr
- Gung jrveq funcr ng gur raq vf na hea
Solution, rot-13'd, tho that doesn't do much to obscure the emoji sry:
obj / fpEncr / 💩 oybbq, fjrng / gRnef / 👂 cra / cnCre / 🦍 gjvfgf / gHeaf / ⚱️ Ongzna / EbOva / 👘 syrfu / oYbbq / 🚻 oynpx / juVgr / 🥊 Znexf / FcraPre / 🪙
