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Recent Clues

Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted
OXONIAN (7) Tic-Tac-Toe fragment turned over in an English university property (7) OXO (Tic-Tac-Toe fragment) + NI (IN, turned over) + AN
definition = English university property
1 day, 20 hours ago
HAND (4) Hospital and aid (4) H + AND = HAND
definition = aid
2 days, 4 hours ago
OXONIAN (7) Maybe Thatcher initially opposed Nixon after corruption surrounding launch of Apollo (7) O_ + NIXON* containing A_
def = Maybe Thatcher
2 days, 6 hours ago

Past Contests

Contest Winning Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By
HAND (4) (ended 4 hours, 5 minutes ago) Worker has a nice day initially (4) Worker e.g. farmhand
Acrostic
boop
IZANAGI (7) (ended 2 days, 12 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 5 days, 3 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 5 days, 8 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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