This puzzle, as the title Spooneristically suggests, revolves around defecation.
The clues all have apropos answers:
Clue | Crappy answer | Index | Letter |
---|---|---|---|
Unclasping and letting fall | DROPPING | 2 | R |
Popular Green Day album | DOOKIE | 6 | E |
You go to this guy for everything in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta | POOHBAH | 6 | A |
Name of a beetle type | DUNG | 1 | D |
Problematic kind of matter | FECAL | 1 | F |
Member of Carlin’s seven words | SHIT | 3 | I |
Successes in baseball | RUNS | 1 | R |
Lousy performance or complete disaster | SHITSHOW | 5 | S |
Bar seat | STOOL | 2 | T |
Yikes! A way to be scared | SHITLESS | 5 | L |
Natural fertilizer | MANURE | 6 | E |
Name of a Japanese dog breed | SHIHTZU | 5 | T |
Particular kind of self-satisfied smile | SHIT-EATING GRIN | 4 | T |
Miniature, Standard, or Toy | POODLE | 6 | E |
Name of a planet | URANUS | 2 | R |
Pip-ful game in a casino | CRAPS | 5 | S |
Gastro-intestinal specialist | PROCTOLOGIST | 11 | S |
Yank an employee away from his job, or throw something away | SHITCAN | 2 | H |
Record by Papa Roach | CACABONITA | 8 | I |
Completely inebriated | SHITFACED | 5 | F |
Noisome Rick and Morty character | MRPOOPYBUTTHOLE | 10 | T |
Compound in bat cave | GUANO | 3 | A |
Location on a ship | POOPDECK | 1 | P |
A type of singing | SCAT | 4 | T |
Grinning emoji name | PILEOFPOO | 3 | L |
Jaunty South Park character | MRHANKEY | 8 | Y |
Taking the indexed letters, you get the phrase READ FIRST LETTERS SHIFT APTLY
.
Read the first letters of the clues and Caesar shift by 2 to get WRAP ROUND APPROPRIATE PENCIL
.
Print the puzzle, cut out the strip of letters at the bottom, and wrap around a #2 pencil to get PLEASE ASK HQ FOR AN INFO DUMP
.
Upon calling HQ, your team receives a diaper full of (among other things) four strips of paper. The strips are labelled:
These people are all the first at something. Take the 2nd letter of the 2nd name of the 2nd person to do each and get LENT
as the solution.
Activity | 1st person | 2nd person | Extraction |
---|---|---|---|
Walk on moon | Neil Armstrong | Buzz Aldrin | L |
Niagara in a barrel | Annie Taylor | Bobby Leach | E |
Pulitzer drama award | Jesse Lynch Williams | Eugene O’Neill | N |
American Idol winner | Kelly Clarkson | Ruben Studdard | T |