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TIEBREAK (8) 1 day, 12 hours from now

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Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted
TIEBREAK (8) See who gets the gold touch at first. Secondly, Midas meets abysmal, tragic result! A bit of karma! (8) Touch + mIdas mEets aBysmal tRagic rEsult + A + Karma (letter selections) 13 hours ago
TIEBREAK (8) Weirdly bite rake to decide who wins (8) TIEBREAK (weirdly -> biterake)(anag)
TIEBREAKs decide who wins in case of a tie
16 hours ago
TIEBREAK (8) Entwined bar remark? Make uneven, go ahead! (8) Whole clue is definition on the surface (entwined = equal, bar remark = score, make uneven = break the tie, go ahead = also break tie by being ahead in score)

make uneven -> choose odd letters -> EnTwInEdBaRrEmArK -> ETIEBREAK
go ahead -> head letter goes -> remove E from start -> TIEBREAK
16 hours ago

Past Contests

Contest Winning Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By
BLEXAS (ended 1 day ago) Foremost of miracles out of midterms, possibly ushered in by bigots losing in the primaries! (6) B+L+EXA[-m]S

M (foremost of Miracles) leaving EXAmS (midterms, possibly) after (ushered in by) B+L (primary letters of Bigots Losing); &lit
koha____
OXONIAN (7) (ended 4 days, 11 hours ago) Maybe Thatcher initially opposed Nixon after corruption surrounding launch of Apollo (7) O_ + NIXON* containing A_
def = Maybe Thatcher
koha____
HAND (4) (ended 5 days, 11 hours ago) Worker has a nice day initially (4) Worker e.g. farmhand
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boop
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