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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