Day 4: "Lock"

Ugh, my phone is locked. They told me to pick a password that was hard to guess, so I picked a word that doesn't show up on the obvious website you'd use for this sort of thing. They also told me to pick a password that was easy to remember, but instead of actually memorizing anything, I wrote myself a little note:

α + β + ( γ mod δ ) + ( ε * ζ )

α = Bob Cratchit's second daughter (7)
β = wingless adolescent locust (5)
γ = stun, as with a scandal, or with electricity (5)
δ = crayfish, crickets, minnows, nightcrawlers (4)
ε = funny-sounding organ supposed to produce black bile (6)
ζ = letter that Alan Moore was able to milk for about three hundred pages (1)

Answer Checker:

Hints: The numbers in parentheses are the number of letters in each clue answer. How would you input any of these words on a locked phone? The "obvious website you'd use for this sort of thing" is phonespell.org. When you've found all the clue answers and converted them into numbers and done all the math, you still need to convert that number into a word. But it's not a word in phonespell.org's vobulary. Don't try to do it by hand. Put it into nutrimatic.org. Like, if the number you want to solve is 74663, feed "[pqrs][ghi][mno][mno][def]" into nutrimatic, and see what comes out.

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