Knot a Puzzle Solution

by Ata Gurpinar

The rope segments can be rearranged like a jigsaw puzzle and placed in the positions on the jumprope to form the following diagram:

As hinted by the flavor text mentioning "eleven-year-olds" and the eleven segments on each jump rope handle, the answer to each clue is eleven letters long, and they have been provided in alphabetical order by answer:

• Uncontrolled driving on top of, not through, water on the road. - AQUAPLANING
• Pageant winner (2 wds.) - BEAUTY QUEEN
• Instruct through performative example - DEMONSTRATE
• Having two colors - DICHROMATIC
• Final part of a journey or project - HOMESTRETCH
• Yellow condiment component - MUSTARD SEED
• Incessant, like a "story" with a luck dragon (Hyph.) - NEVER-ENDING
• Like a medical treatment that doesn't need a scalpel - NONSURGICAL
• Visual similarity - RESEMBLANCE
• Approve a document, often without inspection - RUBBERSTAMP
• Measurements for sound or colors - WAVELENGTH

As the ropes indicate, copying the entries to the connected to the handles on the right, results in the following arrangement. Since there are a number of entries equal to the number of letters in each entry, reading down the diagonal spells an instruction:

The message MOVE US AGAIN instructs the solver to perform the same rearrangement of answers a second time. If needed, the answers can be rewritten on the left handles in this new order and then copied to the connected handles on the right:

D	E	M	O	N	S	T	R	A	T	E
N	O	N	S	U	R	G	I	C	A	L
A	Q	U	A	P	L	A	N	I	N	G
R	U	B	B	E	R	S	T	A	M	P
W	A	V	E	L	E	N	G	T	H	S
N	E	V	E	R	E	N	D	I	N	G
M	U	S	T	A	R	D	S	E	E	D
B	E	A	U	T	Y	Q	U	E	E	N
D	I	C	H	R	O	M	A	T	I	C
R	E	S	E	M	B	L	A	N	C	E
H	O	M	E	S	T	R	E	T	C	H

Again reading down the diagonal provides the solution DOUBLE DUTCH.