Jonathan, 37 seconds in: “I know how to do this puzzle”. And he was right.  And he was better at finding each of the answers.

I mostly contributed by wheel-of-fortune-ing / guessing the right answer.

It took us about 53 minutes, our log is below, and the puzzle can be found here.

Log:

0:00:00

Opening puzzle

0:00:26

Printing

0:00:37

J: I know how to do this puzzle

0:00:49

J: every line has a rule

0:00:55

J: the first is 5 letter palindromic substring

0:01:08

J: take the middle and you get MISUSING

0:01:21

J: The second is first letters, you get LEADING

0:01:33

J: Then colors plus a letter. CEIL and COPPER are the last two. PREACH -> PEACH

0:03:38

that gives us ULR (applying the line rule again to each line’s word)

0:04:43

J: 5 is double letters? (me: they have 2 each?) …

0:05:27

MAGICCRASHHELMET -> CH

0:06:27

J: 6 is one non-repeated…

0:06:57

J: EGGSHELLS->H

0:09:05

J: 8 is slient letter.

0:09:09

15 is tripled letters.  [I got one! An obvious one, but still, I was helping.]

0:10:13

J: 8 is M from LEMMING, I guess.

0:16:04

J: I guess 9 is M, HEAD MOST, maybe?

0:16:14

Researching 13 

0:19:54

J: 11 is last letter… SLEIGHT -> T

0:20:19

J: 20 is backwards

0:25:12

J and I slogged through 20, Got DS, probably swapped to SDIN

0:26:37

23: ENCRUST, N

0:28:00

U L R . CH H . M M . T … T … . SD . . N . so far  [That “ULR?CHH?MM” looks wrong… ]

0:28:07

J: 21 has street fighters in it

0:29:57

13 the pope one, seems to have an error, but works out to BONIFACE, so 9 I (or 8 H)

0:31:07

Oh, the off by one on Benedict and Boniface is due to antipopes… so we want 8 H.  [I got another one!]

0:33:15

19 you add a preceding letter, you get ITERATE… add L

0:37:26

Making spreadsheet. we may need to reorder by extracted word, say

0:44:02

J: 12, add a letter sound at the beginning… except hmm MEXICO

0:47:05

J: 14 has body parts?

0:52:17

Looks like after URLICH is HAMETT, guys in Metallica, just guessing METALLICA  [Here’s where I wild guess. We had almost nothing in the second half.]

0:52:30

CORRECT!  [Hooray guessing!]