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Yes but he mentions part in the clue - why is ram I corner ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You are up tomorrow!
Sorry for the late response, I dozed off.
Here is how I envisioned the solution:
Corner TRAP
Part of the MARket
Climbed Went up (reverse) TRAPMAR
Wall == RAMPART
So, let's see if I have this right. Yesterday I won because no one got the solution but it was a failure because my clue was invalid. Today I lose because my puzzle was solved and that is success. No wonder these are so hard! 
So, better clue today?
(Edited to fix spacing)
modified 29-Mar-22 5:35am.
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Better, yes - but having "PART" in there twice is a bit confusing.
Well done though! 
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Hi,
Here is what I came up with for your 'rampart' target word. Could make a somewhat legible sentence associated with the financial markets.
Hedge market split and made a comeback before the trap backfired. (7)
Hedge = definition
market split = mar
and made a comeback = ram
before the trap = ramtrap
trap backfired = rampart
rampart
Keep participating, I am looking forward to your future cryptograph clues. 
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Not heard rampart referred to as a hedge. 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yep,
I exchanged it at the last minute as a substitute for Wall Street market[^]. Something came up and I didn't want to spend more time on it. Feel free to modify the clue, there has to be a way to fit Wall Street into the clue.
I'll have more time in about an hour.
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Thank you for your response.
In my clue I had meant for "part of" to mean to take a piece of "the market"(the letters "mar" in this case), but I missed the fact that "part" was also in the solution itself. I also meant for climbed to mean reverse "trap" and "mar" after they had been combined to yield the solution which was perhaps also a bit confusing.
Your suggestion is very illuminating and will help me in my future attempts.
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As you appear to like feedback how about
This could help protect memory role ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I solved my first Wordle without looking up the word (did that yesterday and wasn't even close the two days before that)
Pretty good one too!
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Now if I ever solve a CCC I can die happy 
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Well done - the CCC is (depending on who sets the clue ) easier than Wordle, you have 4 hours and no guesses limit.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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To me CCCs are gibberish - and they are even in my language. Wordle is much easier for me.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Exactly
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It took me four tries to beat a Wordle game.
Ten years of CCC and I'm still none the wiser 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Now if I ever solve a CCC I can die happy
I'd rather you didn't - die that is!
As an aside, a couple of years ago someone signed my email up to an American company, so I keep getting emails with the subject "Die happy tonight" which was rather disconcerting - turns out it's a New York lap dance club ... if I find out who it was ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd rather you didn't - die that is!
We all die eventually and when that time comes I hope to say "I solved a CCC once  "
I didn't say I wanted to die right after solving a CCC 
OriginalGriff wrote: turns out it's a New York lap dance club
So you took the first plane to New York?
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Nope - I've seen what they look like in movies!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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For me, solving a CCC is a million times easier than setting up one. Often it is the fear of setting up the next CCC which discourages me from giving the solution.
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Just to make you happy - Sloppy orchestra for the hard worker (9)
Skip the 'die' part!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Don't worry, your CCC makes no sense to me...
I'll sooner die (unhappy) of natural causes than solve a CCC 
Also, I didn't say I'd have to die right after solving one 
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It's an anagram of orchestra giving carthorse ( hard worker )
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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That's not even a word I know! 
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A carthorse is a very sturdy breed of a shire horse typically used for heavy hard work
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: a shire horse
Bred by Hobbits? 
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That's better than me. I remember the first iteration of wordle I tried. Nowadays it's a 5 letter word, but back in my day it was a single letter and you got 26 tries to get it right. I don't know how I lost, but I did.
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2 weeks ago, dismissing the existing messy infrastructure to synchronize object tree in the current codebase (basically automatically synchronizing data with view models, recursively), I created a whole new single class to do the work, in a much better way. Took about 3 days to be fully functional (about 1,200 lines of code overall).
And then I pushed that to the codebase....
And then subtle bugs piled up and I realized I had suffered from hubris and I was falling... (very happy to finally use this word "hubris" in a personal and meaningful context), it was a rather stressful time, but after 2 days of intense testing and unit testing.. all problem were solved, even had a performance check.. and now it's all blue sky!
I suffered from hubris, hence defied the gods, but I ended up victorious, feeling pretty good about it!
modified 28-Mar-22 21:26pm.
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