Bracket City Answers: Nov 14, 2026
The puzzle
Puerto Rico votes for "Commonwealth" over "Statehood" or "["We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to [you only do this once (unless you're a [titular creature in an An[took a [ask to see an ID]] Lloyd Webber musical or its catastrophic (😉) film adaptation]?)] on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our ___ Day!" - [___ Clinton is not on one, but George Washington is] [one way to [what you don't want to do to a 🥫 of 🪱🪱🪱] a door][word before spreading or s[[["___ the gap" 🚆]-numbing or earth drilling] bagel choice]ing] in ___ Day 👽️🇺🇸]"
The finished sentence
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November 14, 1993 — read the story.
Every clue, solved
Show the table
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our ___ Day!" - Bill Pullman in ___ Day 👽️🇺🇸 | Independence |
| "___ the gap" 🚆 | mind |
| ___ Clinton is not on one, but George Washington is | Bill |
| ask to see an ID | card |
| boring bagel choice | plain |
| mind-numbing or earth drilling | boring |
| one way to open a door | Pull |
| titular creature in an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical or its catastrophic (😉) film adaptation | cat |
| took a card | drew |
| what you don't want to do to a 🥫 of 🪱🪱🪱 | open |
| word before spreading or splaining | man |
| you only do this once (unless you're a cat?) | live |
About this Bracket City
The Saturday, November 14, 2026 puzzle nested 12 clues inside one sentence, written by Madeline Weinstein. 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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