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Thanks Quisling, got it now!

turast @ 29. Why the need to include the entire instruction in Upper Case as well as the names of various superheroes? Your question would not have suffered by merely alluding to them? As it was, anyone coming here for a gentle hint couldn't fail to see the entire answers writ large across their screen. I know this has been discussed many times before and we used to have two separate threads but, come on, only give explicit answers if someone's actually asked for them (which no-one had). I know others will completely disagree with this post but......

I agree with simond9x. I had solved the puzzle before seeing that post, but I know I would have felt unhappy at being confronted with a complete reveal if I was only looking for hints, which is the usual approach.

Simond9x and Piffleworthy,

Thanks for your posts, I'd had similar thoughts myself!

I was quite happy when my 'May contain answers' threads seemed to be unnecessary, but I found being given such a huge chunk of thematic stuff this week was a little depressing.

I've done everything but have one nagging problem...I have the 5 letters to colour in KALEL but with CRNT they don't make the right name - a "K" short and an "L" too many
Pretty confident about my Ls - unless there is a Chinese distance called ki or ik?!

Hearer - You have it right - Just required a selection of those letters added to title to get a thematic answer (not each one used once) - The clever part was KAL-EL being thematic....

Hi, hearer,

The consensus from previous posts is that you take the thematic name (5, 4), and delete any letters that are shared with KAL-EL ( I.e. any occurrence of A, E, K, and L). This leaves you with CRNT.

Ah I see - thanks crates and wintonian