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AUTO-ENUMERATE (4-9) 1 day, 13 hours from now jkittykitkat63
FLOSSING (8) 1 day, 15 hours from now biocuriousgeorgie

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PROTEST (7) 12 hours from now
GRASSROOTS (10) 1 day from now
MEGAPHONE (9) 1 day, 8 hours from now

The current champion is dohz, with 334 wins! All hail dohz! Full stats


Recent Clues

Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted
FLOSSING (8) Dancing with topless chief in brief affair (8) [-b]OSS inside FLING 7 hours ago
GRASSROOTS (10) Bottom-up tree guardian hugs bottom right cypress's bottom (10) Bottom-up = def
Tree guardian = GROOT, hugging bottom right = GR(ASS + R)OOT, then cypresS bottom
1 day, 8 hours ago
GRASSROOTS (10) Redistribute pieces of rags to the people (10) letter bank of RAGS TO; def="the people" 1 day, 18 hours ago

Past Contests

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HIGH TIME (4, 4) (ended 1 hour, 25 minutes ago) Inside, hurry! Might go crazy, this should've happened sooner! (4, 4) inside HIE, MIGHT* = "this should've happened sooner"
(not &lit, just exclamatory)
Polaris
FANDANGO (8) (ended 4 days, 12 hours ago) Dance derived from primarily foxtrot and tango (timeless) (8) F_ + AND + [-t]ANGO
Is it weird that these are both words in the NATO alphabet?
Polaris
GRAWLIX (7) (ended 5 days, 19 hours ago) #-#<-@*<-+++?-^£|*! (7) G(-at)(-hsah)< + RA(-ts)< + W(-hat) + L + I + X Zimodo
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