Puzzlebrains

Fantastic picture - thanks.
The best we managed was to rediscover pinhole camera technology. I mean, we didn't even have a colander with holes in it!

It's a set of puzzles. But most of them are interactive, yes, although the most you ever have to really do is to click on something to move it; there's no 'fast reaction' stuff here.

Forty years ago, Cliff Johnson wrote one of the greatest puzzles ever - probably one of the key things that got me into the idea of meta puzzles in the first place. It was a computer game called The Fool's Errand . Twenty years later, he announced a sequel, The Fool and His Money . A decade or so af...

Hippy Birdy!

I had already got the two side clues before getting to the actual puzzle!
And hey, I've done meta-meta-meta puzzles before (notably in the Holidays set) so I've had similar long-term things. I grant you that this one was spectacular though.

Oh my.
Thanks.

Here's a fun variant on geography guessing games.
Plus you get some fun facts afterwards.

https://maptap.gg

Good work!

Argh! A late Hippo Birdy from here as well.

Thank you.

Are you trying to get me to kick you out?

I got a Purple Bunny from SparkOut too!
But mine was locked inside a mysterious box.

Hippo Birdy to my lovely sister

D'oh. Yes, I meant 39ac. No idea why I typed 38. (Other than to see if you were paying attention. )

OK, the Bunny has found a couple of errors.
I have uploaded a corrected version here, but here are the corrections.

One clue should be:
37ac He could be his own parent, no? (3)

The enumeration for 38ac should be (9) not (5)

Thanks, Maisie.

And here's a Christmas Crossword for those of you with copious free time in the next week or so (i.e. nobody. )

Hippo Birdy

I am sorry to hear that. Sending all my best to all of you.