Enigmarch 2025, Day 27: LOOP

[tahnan]

Imperfect, needless to say, but done, darnit.

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A Strange Loop

Start with...

1. ...a word that's also a concept in mathematics.
2. Add a comparative suffix (even though it's not a comparative adjective) to get a time-loop movie.
3. Take the second half and add an E to the end to get a French word.
4. Translate that word into English. (Make a note of the third letter.)
5. Take the second half of this word, and put the word's second letter after it, to get a female figure from Greek mythology.
6. Write down their male counterpart.
7. Think of a bird that rhymes with him. (This is not your final anser.)
8. This bird was the nickname of a MLB pitcher who started his career with the Chicago White Sox. Take his first (given) name. (Make a note of the second letter.)
9. That name is also the first name in the possessive in the title of a BBC show (i.e., the first name in "[1] [2]'s ..."). Take the second word in the name.
10. Pick three letters from that name, rearranging them as necessary, to get a word that follows "tin" in a compound word.
11. Add a letter to that name to get a prominent feature of a great cat....
12. ...and take the name of that cat. (Starts with an L, but note its second and fourth letters.)
13. Take the collective noun for that cat. (Note the second letter, which will appear at the start of the final answer.)
14. Change a sound in that noun to get...

...and then anagram the given letters into a single word.

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