Remember, this puzzle hunt was run in April 2021.

extraction  noun
ex·trac·tion | \ik-strak-shən\
1    The act or process of extracting something

  • The Jig is Up:
    • First “word”: entry 1, def. 1b, 3rd word, index of letter is numeral heard in a fort.
    • First “word”: entry 2, def. 2, 4th word, index of letter is reversed net amount.
    • Last word: entry 1, def. 1, index of word is messed up tenure of number, 2nd letter.
  • The Chess Fairy:
    • First word: entry 2, def. 1b, 6th word, change last letter to form name of animal.
    • First word: entry 2, def. 2, 11th word, drop last 4 letters, duplicate new last letter.
    • Second word, singular form: def. 2a, 4th word, replace ‘o’ with ‘in’.
    • First word: entry 1, def. 1c, 6th word, drop last 4 letters, find homophone that is an animal.
  • The (x, y) Conundrum:
    • Last 2 words: (2, 5)
    • Last 2 words: (8, 1)
    • Last 2 words: (4, 2)
    • Last 2 words: (6, 4)
  • Word Scramble:
    • First 10 letters of first word: from 2nd word, first 4 letters to 8th word, first 4 letters.
    • Last word, simple verb form: from intransitive def. 1b, 8th word, first half to transitive def. 2, 4th word, 3rd letter to 6th letter.
    • First 10 letters of first word: from last word, first 4 letters to 9th-to-last word, first 4 letters.

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13 12 3 8 9 10 11 2 4 5 1 14 6 7