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Triple Power

Solution

The clues all hint at items in Ingredients:

ClueAnswer
Suggestive emoji (8)EGGPLANT
Bugs Bunny’s food of choice (6)CARROT
What the moon famously isn’t made of (6)CHEESE
Also known as Prunus Cerasus (4,6)SOUR CHERRY
Sounds like [...] body (6)MUSSEL (sounds like “muscle”)
_____, where’s my super suit? (5)HONEY (reference to “The Incredibles”)
Gone ____ shaped (4)PEAR (British Slang)
The fruit that honks (10)GOOSEBERRY
Hated by vampires (6)GARLIC
I can’t believe it’s not ______! (6)BUTTER
TOMATOEGGPLANTAPPLE
HONEYSEA BASSRICE
RASPBERRYAPRICOTCARROT
CAVIAR

The phrase “get up from the table” in the flavour text suggests to move up one entry in the table (list) in the Ingredients manual, giving the arrangement shown on the right.

The puzzle’s arrangement of items resembling the keys on a keypad, and the phrase “locked up” in the flavour text, together hint at the module Keypad Lock. Furthermore, in addition to the overtly presented serial number, the puzzle’s title suggests to assume three batteries are present. The solution to the Keypad Lock module would then be:

TOMATO
6
EGGPLANT
7
APPLE
4
HONEY
1
SEA BASS
9
RICE
8
RASPBERRY
3
APRICOT
2
CARROT
0
CAVIAR
5

Reading the first letters of the new ingredients in the order of Keypad Lock’s table 2 yields the solution.

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