Puzzle Boxes

Puzzle Santa has left a bunch of Puzzle Boxes under your Puzzle Christmas tree! To open them, you ought to use the following pieces, though 8 of them are frozen and won’t be used until the very end.


ACETALDEHYDE
ACQUIRED IMMUNITY
AISLE
ARABLE LAND
ARENA
ATE
BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
BRAINWASH
CHAD JOHNSON
CHESS
CONTEMPORARIES
COTSWOLD LINE
COY
CYNWYD LINE
DAMS
DARK
DART
DEVANAGARI
DOGMATIC THEOLOGY
DOMENICO DOLCE
DOOR
DRESS
DUNG BEETLE
EARL


EARMUFFS
EASTER EGG
EBB AND FLOW
ELONGATE
ELVIS
EXTREMELY LUSH
FEBRUARY
FOREMOST
FRIGGA
GAUL
GEORGE GERSHWIN
GLIADIN
HARSH
HATSUNE MIKU
HERBIE
HISTORIC VILLAGE
INCHEON
INCREDIBLY TANKY
INWARD-FACING
IONIC COMPOUND
ISAAC
JEROME ROBBINS
JOHN WAYNE
JUJU


LAP
LG CUP
LOUIS BOTHA
MORTGAGE
NEAR
NELSON RIDDLE
OMAN
ONES
REGIA AERONAUTICA
RELATIONSHIP
RESIN
ROUGHHOUSE
SEMIFINALISTS
SLOT MACHINE
SPRINGBOARD
STEP
SWIMMER
SWORD COAST
TERRA
TINY BIT
TRUNCATED ICOSAHEDRON
ULTIMATE QUESTION
WEAK INTERACTION
ZANY



You may check the answer to a subpuzzle using the answer checker. Incorrect guesses count towards your total limit.

Puzzle Santa had some
trouble seeing this box.

Puzzle Santa has been
using a phone to keep
connected, only
tapping out the latter
word of a pair each
time.

Puzzle Santa has left
dotted notches for
several words of
identical length.
In addition to them,
you'll need dashes of
the items on the right.

• A force
• A musician
• A pool item
• A tie
• Some competitors
• Something obtained
during lifetime

Puzzle Santa has left
over some things that
need to be translated.

Puzzle Santa has tried
sending messages
across the North
Atlantic, but they got
all mixed up.

Puzzle Santa has used
his pair of compasses
to navigate to faraway
places.

Puzzle Santa notes that
some numbers are very
symbolic.

a. Vertices
b. Answer
c. Lids and doors
d. Jersey
e. Days, commonly
f. Sound-alike

Puzzle Santa went there
and back again, shifting
pieces appropriately.


Largest _
The largest _ was found here
It makes plants _
Brown _
_ genus
_ closest living relative


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