Gecko Locator's Christmas Quiz 2019

Dear Fellow Elves

It is my sad duty to inform you of some shocking news. Many of you may already have heard rumours, but I can now confirm that we have lost contact with Santa and are unsure of his current whereabouts. The cause of his disappearance is not clear, but we cannot at this stage rule out enemy action.

It is absolutely imperative that we find Santa as soon as possible, and if it does turn out that he has been kidnapped by the Antisanta, carry out a rescue operation.

Ordinarily we would be able to use the homing beacon functionality on Santa's sleigh to find him almost immediately, but you may recall that sleigh security was significantly tightened recently after that time that a group of you, led by Twinkle, broke in and stole a canister of nitrous oxide from the fuel depot. Unfortunately Santa only gave the entry password to one elf, and she is currently off sick with a nasty bout of reindeer pox and incapable of recalling her own name, let alone a password.

The good news is that Santa was aware of this before he went missing and sent us a few clues to the password in case of emergencies. The bad news is that none of us have yet been able to decipher them.

The first elf that can work out what the password is will win not only our everlasting gratitude, but will also be taken off the reindeer mucking out rota for the whole of January. The clues are given below.

Regards,

Shimmer S. Colquhoun

Head of Operations

Clue 1

We have no idea about this. Has anyone been in regular contact with a 'Cliff'?

///state.contact.cliff

Clue 2

We first thought this was just a postcard from Santa on his pre-Christmas tour, but it's all rather cryptic. Maybe there are some clues here?

Dear Elves,
    I am having a lovely time doing the rounds and asking all the children what they want for Christmas. However, it has been very tiring, as I
hear badly nowadays, so I've taken a break from talking to kids and spent the last couple of days reading a detective novel. I read
it backwards, in three directions at once, and left it overnight to see if I could work out who did it. But no matter how much I thought, I was
still confused. I thought I was going to have to give up and peek at the ending, which would have been very annoying, until thinking
back over part of Twinkle's nitrous incident gave me the vital clue. After finishing the book, I tried to do a dot-to-dot puzzle, but after a few
beers the Spanish folks next door started singing very loudly. In the end, I just couldn't concentrate on the puzzle at all, and the dots would only
join up in the wrong order. I've been having a lovely time all the Christmas markets, but I need to stop overindulging or I won't fit in my suit! My
initial thought is never stop eating lettuce, so I'll be too full to eat all the mince pies and sausages. But you know how long my diets normally last!

See you soon! Santa

Clue 3

We have no idea...

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