Common Marsupials and Rare Antelopes

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Following the surge of riddles from senpais: this by jafe, and this by Rand al'Thor

I hide as a puzzle in Malaysian spoon,
Bounding sturdy monument and sturdy wood.
Upside-down in common marsupials' and rare antelopes' front,
I'm a gesture, or three, for good.

Tom · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-15T17:45:53.043

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I hope my initial thoughts for your puzzle are

OK

I hide as a puzzle in Malaysian spoon,

sudoku is a puzzle which contains ok hiding in sudu - spoon in Malaysian.

Bounding sturdy monument and sturdy wood.

oak and obelisk for the sturdy wood and stone column.

Upside-down in common marsupials' and rare antelopes' front,

koala and kongoni (aka the hartebeest) have ok reversed on their front.

I'm a gesture, or three, for good.

OK - just OK, Okay or Okey dokey, and as a coincidence my first puzzle!

edited Jun 15 '19 at 17:45

answered Jun 15 '19 at 11:33

Tom

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Also it is made by $$\color{blue}{\text{OK}}$$ Tom got a hat-trick – 19aksh Jun 15 '19 at 11:38
@OmegaKrypton Self promotion much? :-) – Rand al'Thor Jun 15 '19 at 11:46
nailed it! will award check later :) – Omega Krypton Jun 15 '19 at 12:38
@Randal'Thor Hmmm... – Omega Krypton Jun 15 '19 at 12:43
@Tom better words are expected for line one and line three latter part (should also be in reverse) – Omega Krypton Jun 15 '19 at 17:16
Thank you @OmegaKrypton - that was extra nice cluing for the first line! – Tom Jun 15 '19 at 17:46

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 15 '19 at 11:13

Very partial answer

I hide as a puzzle in Malaysian spoon,

The internet code for Malaysia is .my, so this could mean my spoon. Interpreting "spoon" as Spoonerism, we might want to rearrange some letters: instead of "a puzzle in my", maybe a muzzle in pie? (Or "spy moon", but then the word "spoon" would be playing double roles.)

Bounding sturdy monument and sturdy wood.

I want to interpret "bounding" as being on the boundary rather than running. Probably there's some crossword-style letterplay going on here, and we're looking for first and last letters or some such.

Standing upside-down in marsupials' and antelopes' front,

This definitely looks like letterplay. The best-known marsupial must be the kangaroo, but turning "k" upside down gives nothing meaningful. The second best-known is probably the possum, and turning "p" upside down gives d. That d could be an upside-down p from the front of both "possum" (marsupial) and "pronghorn" (antelope).

I'm a gesture, or three, for good.

If we're still looking for letters, that could be V, as the V sign has three meanings listed on Wikipedia.

Common Marsupials and Rare Antelopes

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