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OVINE (5) 1 day, 6 hours from now koha____

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SPECTRE (7) 1 day, 20 hours from now
SPECTACLE (9) 1 day, 20 hours from now
SPECULOOS (9) 1 day, 20 hours from now

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


Recent Clues

Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted
OVINE (5) Sheepish, unknot rope plant (5) Sheepish: definition (of or relating to sheep)
Unknot: O (in knot theory, the unknot is a closed loop with a crossing number of 0; i.e., a circle)
Rope plant: VINE (thick vines resemble ropes)
31 minutes ago
OVINE (5) Pre-TikTok, social media followed one leader, like sheep (5) VINE after O_ 48 minutes ago
OVINE (5) Like sheep into vineyards... (5) in -> tO VINEyards
Def: like sheep
49 minutes ago

Past Contests

Contest Winning Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By
NOVEMBER (8) (ended 3 hours, 1 minute ago) "No" vote initially ousting constituent's leader in election time (8) def = election time
NO+{m->V}EMBER
koha____
CONTENT (7) (ended 6 hours, 18 minutes ago) Reasonably happy with competition changing direction near the end (7) CONTE(S->N)T
this is where I thought you were going with replacing S to N and was very confused, haha
biocuriousgeorgie
EXCITEMENT (10) (ended 3 days, 1 hour ago) Crap... Republican goes for it, generating buzz (10) EXC{r->IT}EMENT; def=buzz koha____
BOREDOM (7) (ended 4 days, 2 hours ago) Lack of interest, then sudden hype surrounding variety of wine (7) lack of interest = BOREDOM, sudden hype = BOOM, variety of wine = RED, BO-RED-OM barley
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