The answer word has been split into three parts.
Below are the clues for each, listed in no particular order.
- Bambi’s mother, musically
- kitchen weapon
- Atlas, but solar
Hope it’s not all Greek to you.
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I think the intended answer is:
PANDORA - the first human woman in Greek myth (hence the 'Hope it's not all Greek to you' line), responsible for opening a jar (often thought of as a 'box', as per the title) which then released all the evils of humanity.
Meaning the clues should be resolved in the following order:
kitchen weapon
PAN - a heavy kitchen implement which could cause some damage (think slapstick comedy scenes);
Bambi’s mother, musically
DO - Bambi is a deer; Bambi's mother, being a female deer, is a DOE; and in The Sound of Music, the lyric from the Do-Re-Mi song is "DO - a deer, a female deer..."
Atlas, but solar
RA - in Greek mythology, Atlas was the Titan condemned to hold the heavens on his shoulders for an eternity. Thinking instead of gods in myth who are connected with the Sun ('solar'), one potential is the Egyptian sun god, Ra. In imagery, Ra is often depicted as supporting the Sun with his head:
Image source: Wikipedia
Putting this all together, we have:
PAN+DO+RA = PANDORA, a character with connections both to Greece and to boxes, both mentioned in this puzzle.
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3$\begingroup$ You got it. reveal spoilerThere is a tiny hint you did not describe: "hope" in the last sentence. hope is the single positive element left inside the jar after Pandora unleashes all the world's evils $\endgroup$PM 77-1– PM 77-12025-11-23 23:43:10 +00:00Commented Nov 23 at 23:43
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This is inside the box: (I hope)
Bambi’s mother, musically
Do, a deer, a female deer
kitchen weapon
Pan, much overused as a slapstick weapon
Atlas, but solar
Ra, the Egyptian god that moves the sun across the sky
which together form
Pandora
a somewhat famous letter of things out of boxes.
