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BLEXAS 23 hours from now coby

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


Recent Clues

Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted
BLEXAS Pleasant surprise in 2026: Ending terrible christmas by excluding mother (6) DEF: Pleasant surprise in 2026
"BLE": Ending terrible
"XAS": Christmas(XMAS) by excluding (-) mother(M)
5 hours ago
BLEXAS Endless blast around former friendly state shedding red (6) BLAS (endless blast) around EX (former) to make BL(EX)AS
definition = friendly state shedding red
11 hours ago
BLEXAS Austin’s left leaning state caused by kinky sex lab (6) def = “austin’s left leaning state”
anagram of SEXLAB
17 hours ago

Past Contests

Contest Winning Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By
OXONIAN (7) (ended 11 hours, 5 minutes ago) Maybe Thatcher initially opposed Nixon after corruption surrounding launch of Apollo (7) O_ + NIXON* containing A_
def = Maybe Thatcher
koha____
HAND (4) (ended 1 day, 11 hours ago) Worker has a nice day initially (4) Worker e.g. farmhand
Acrostic
boop
IZANAGI (7) (ended 3 days, 20 hours ago) Seized heart again, unfortunately, for old Japanese maker (7) seIZed + AGAIN anagram
definition: “old japanese maker” (he made japan, so I’m told)
barley
ANY CLUE THAT HAS ANOTHER CRYPTIC CLUE IN IT (?) (ended 6 days, 11 hours ago) "Panoramic snapshot of superb road, maybe (5)" is the first one (5) Inner clue: BROAD (definition = "panoramic")
snapshot of superB ROAD

Outer clue: VISTA (definition = everything in quote marks)
V+IS+T+A
(Five = V, IS, first letter of "The", one = A)

This was hard! 🥲
barley
HARMLESS (8) (ended 6 days, 16 hours ago) Leader in hospital with no arms; comes to, safe (8) Leader in hospital = H
with no arms = ARMLESS
comes to = gives the answer,
safe = harmless
blizihguh
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