[Post-Hunt erratum: The eighth clue below was misprinted in the actual Hunt. The intended clue is below. We've gone over our version control logs and honestly have no idea how this happened. We're very very sorry.]
The Mock Turtle is "made of bits and pieces of other beings." Each of the blanks can be filled by a round-answer word. This forms a clue that can be answered by a phrase that is exactly two letters off from the name of a Carrollian character (or creature).
Clue with answer word | Answer to clue | Changed creature |
JAMES BOND creator and family (26,13) | FLEMINGS | FLAMINGO |
SNOOPY's airplane (in reality) (15,1) | DOGHOUSE | DORMOUSE |
A.A. MILNE's "very small" character (5,2) | PIGLET | EAGLET |
Beverage endorsed by TED WILLIAMS (14,9) | MOXIE | MOUSE |
Container for WARDLEY product (10,25) | FISH FOOD CAN | FISH FOOTMAN |
First word of LEVAR BURTON's children's TV show name (6,3) | READING | RED KING |
Focus of DOWNFALL meme (17,8) | (MAD) HITLER | (MAD) HATTER |
How "these LOCKS" were preserv'd (7,22) | UNSHORN | UNICORN |
Lancaster and CORNWALL, for example (4,21) | DUCHIES | DUCHESS |
Primary developer of the NUMBER THEORY library (20,24) | SHOUP | SHEEP |
Send email to experts on the TORAH (23,16) | WRITE RABBIS | WHITE RABBIT |
Usin' a TI85, perhaps? (12,11) | GRAPHIN' | GRYPHON |
What WORMTONGUE does, before being shot (18,19) | KILL THE WIZARD | BILL THE LIZARD |
Take the extra "bits" of the other creatures, order them by using the given indices, and you'll find out how to make more people fit at the tea-table: MAKE EDITS TO YOUR TABLE SCHEMA.