REBUS puzzles

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JimInOz

·Sep 18, 2023·Melbourne Australia

Canuck

Okay! But please explain how the clues point to the names of the book and the author! Doesn’t make any sense to me.

See my pondering here.

https://omegaforums.net/threads/rebus-puzzles.106743/page-334#post-2235683

 

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Canuck

·Sep 18, 2023

What part did the cave people have in this rebus?

 

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Matty01

·Sep 18, 2023

Canuck

What part did the cave people have in this rebus?

Miners = minus

 

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Canuck

·Sep 18, 2023

A - B - S - T - R - U- C - E, for sure.

 

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Matty01

·Sep 18, 2023

Canuck

A - B - S - T - R - U- C - E, for sure.

A very impressive solve!

 

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Charlemagne1333

·Sep 18, 2023

JimInOz

Davidson (Plums minus plums)

I have to give credit to you, Jim.

I was having trouble with my plums…

 

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Charlemagne1333

·Sep 26, 2023

Not a gimme, this one 😉

 

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TasMike

·Sep 26, 2023

Charlemagne1333

Not a gimme, this one 😉

Robert Vaughan Robin Williams
V (five)
Variants (Vary ants)
of
Di (Diana) ves (Vs)
and
Lazarus (The Raising of Lazarus)

Vaughan Williams

Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

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Canuck

·Sep 26, 2023

D’you mean that Robert Robin is wrong? 😗

 

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TasMike

·Sep 26, 2023

Canuck

D’you mean that Robert Robin is wrong? 😗

I was lucky. Vaughan Williams jumped out at me and then it was just a matter of matching one of his works.

 

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Charlemagne1333

·Sep 26, 2023

TasMike

Robert Vaughan Robin Williams
V (five)
Variants (Vary ants)
of
Di (Diana) ves (Vs)
and
Lazarus (The Raising of Lazarus)

Vaughan Williams

Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

A proverbial tip of the hat.

An impressive solve @TasMike well played.

 

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TasMike

·Sep 27, 2023

Simplicity!

 

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JimInOz

·Sep 28, 2023·Melbourne Australia

Simplicity?

 

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TasMike

·Sep 28, 2023

All your question-marked items are clues.

Second picture is the English pronunciation of a city that's not English.
Google should help with the character on the bottom row.

 

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Matty01

·Sep 28, 2023

TasMike

Simplicity!

A Swiss watchmaker?

fill
Eep
‘Doof’
Ore

Philippe Dufour

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JimInOz

·Sep 28, 2023·Melbourne Australia

Matty01

A Swiss clockmaker?

fill
Eep
‘Doof’
Ore

Philippe Dufour

Brilliant work!

Once I got Wipers in my mind it blocked the pattern.

 

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Matty01

·Sep 28, 2023

JimInOz

Brilliant work!

Once I got Wipers in my mind it blocked the pattern.

Thankyou!
I stared at it for about 15 minutes this morning and drooled incoherently
Post dinner pour became fill and it suddenly made sense…

 

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Matty01

·Sep 28, 2023

Matty01

A Swiss watchmaker?

fill
Eep
‘Doof’
Ore

Philippe Dufour

I think the full answer is
Simplicity by Philippe Dufour

 

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TasMike

·Sep 28, 2023

Great work Matty - solved another one that I thought might last a little longer.

Once I decided to use Philippe Dufour, Simplicity presented just too good an opportunity not to use like that.

 

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Charlemagne1333

·Sep 28, 2023

A pic of their greatest work will suffice.