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ANY CLUE THAT USES A GIMMICK FROM "THE PUZZLE THAT CANNOT BE NAMED", BONUS POINTS IF YOU MATCH THE NUMBER OF WORDS TO THE ENUMERATION (?) domes | Mists! (3) | Re: | Secret | txt: → ||Secret domes txt: "Re: Mists!" (3)|| Unscrambled clue: Secret domes txt: "Re: Mists!" (3)

Apply Devilry gimmick: the answer ICE is inserted into "txt", and clue is respaced:
Secret domes(t+IC E+xt)remists! (3)

&lit. (entire clue is definition and wordplay) - "secret" = hidden word indicator; ...mes]IC E[xtr...
1 week, 6 days ago
THE CHILD (3, 5) ancient beside is monster (3 5) puzzle unloved X Zinedine [Zinedine+THE CHILD → THEO] X is beside ancient unloved puzzle monster (3 5)
THE(-o)+CHI+(-o)LD
1 week, 6 days ago
THE CHILD (3, 5) ||`B`||||`a`||||`b`||||`y`|| ||`Y`||||`o`||||`d`||||`a`|| ||`h`||||`i`||||`t`||||`c`||||`h`||||`e`||||`d`|| ||`t`||||`o`|| ||`L`||||`u`||||`k`||||`e`||'||`s`|| ||`h`||||`e`||||`a`||||`d`|| ||`a`||||`w`||||`k`||||`w`||||`a`||||`r`||||`d`||||`l`||||`y`|| (3, 5) redacted clue: Baby Yoda hitched to Luke's head awkwardly (3, 5)
def: Baby Yoda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grogu)
wp: (HITCHED L_)*
1 week, 6 days ago

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