The puzzle

"lo" becomes the first ["b["[[salacious movie rating]] minutes or ___" (🍕 delivery guarantee)] this ___"]age transmitted over AR[[🎶 "___ gonna give you up" 🎶]land gang leader [word before ["___-a-[🎶 ___ ___ ➡️ ___ ⬅️ ___ [Larry or Tweety]ie 👋] Baby" (nursery rhyme about an irresponsibly s[truck dreaded by the illegally-parked]ed baby 🌳👶⬇️)] 🪨 or pe[the night before, poetically] 🙄]er]ET

Final answer

The finished sentence

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"lo" becomes the first message transmitted over ARPANET

October 29, 1969 — read the story.

Every clue, solved

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ClueAnswer
"30 minutes or ___" (🍕 delivery guarantee)less
"___-a-Bye Baby" (nursery rhyme about an irresponsibly stowed baby 🌳👶⬇️)rock
"bless this ___"mess
Larry or TweetyBird
Neverland gang leader PeterPAN
XXX30
salacious movie ratingXXX
the night before, poeticallyeve
truck dreaded by the illegally-parkedtow
word before rock 🪨 or peeve 🙄Pet
🎶 "___ gonna give you up" 🎶Never
🎶 ___ ___ ➡️ ___ ⬅️ ___ Birdie 👋Bye

About this Bracket City

The Thursday, October 29, 2026 puzzle nested 12 clues inside one sentence, written by Ben Gross. Bracket City is solved from the inside out: each innermost [bracket] is a clue whose answer replaces it, which turns the next bracket around it into a solvable clue, until a single sentence is left — usually tied to something that happened on this date.

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