Enigmarch 2026, Day 7: WILD

[tahnan]

Getting slightly ahead of the every-two-days pace, here's...it seemed like a good idea when I started, and by the eighth or ninth clue I started really, really hating it. Here's hoping it's better than I think.

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The Call Sign of the Wild

It seemed like for the entire first half of my cross-country drive, I couldn't get anything on the radio except very staticky station identification. At least I got some recommendations for the second half?

• "You're listening to...you're tuned in, you must think everyone should tune in! And if you're ever in Indiana, listen to our sister sta...at 101.1: music you crave, music you desire, musi..."
• "...top of the hour here a...the hits you want to hold onto! Whole lot more upbeat than my last j...ern Ohio...100.3, Sad Songs All Day. Real tearj..."
• "You're bringing it up a notch here on...rom the West Coast, while in Missouri, wh..."The Candle", 97.2, lighting up your ni..."
• "...your friendly DJ playing the gentle music you lo...mething gentle for your friends in Rhode Island on 97.2 "The Breeze"..."
• "Let's get a big ol' moooooo for your friends here in the stu...nnsylvania, where th...101.2, "The Vineyard", whic..."
• "Reignin' supreme here on...adio, just like our friends flying high at 89.3, Maine's favo..."
• "...keepin' it weird here o...ton's home for whatever you're into. And let's shout ou...100.1 in West Virginia, who're keeping one eye open at all times, if you know what I mean...."
• "When you're liste...s, you're as dear to us as our own kin! And spea...riends at 103.3...accompanying Illinois folks on their drive home, right by their sid..."
• "You know us, sly as little foxes here a...just like those funny g...101.3 in New Jersey, your station for 24-hour comed..."
• "....love 70s funk, which is why I'm thrilled to join The Gang here o...back home in Connecticut, where I...106.1, "like a warm blanket of music," we'd ca..."

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Comments

[lorelei]

It took me a while to figure out what to do with these entries, but I liked it well enough when I figured that part out. (I'm guessing your annoyance is about the limited diversity of those entries?) And I was pretty sure which letters I wanted to use.

But then I got stuck on ordering for a long time, and only after coming back to this later did I figure out how to get the answer. (In retrospect, the ordering makes sense, I just couldn't see it.)

[tahnan]

Yeah, the annoyance was in part the limited number of options available, and in part just that the clues turned out really hard to write. (It's well and good to listen to 92.5 "The River", but no one is tuning into 103.7 "The Casual Perusal". Not an actual possible clue; just the kind of thing that was Just Not Going to Work.)