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CHORTLE (7) 4 hours from now dohz
INDICATED (9) 1 day, 5 hours from now rpl
HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM (5://3.7.3) 1 day, 13 hours from now Zimodo
RAISON D'ÊTRE (6, 1'4) 1 day, 18 hours from now phenomist

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EMBRYO (6) 7 hours from now
COME AND SEE (4, 3, 3) 19 hours from now
XANADU (6) 22 hours from now
ITINERARY (9) 1 day, 2 hours from now

The current champion is dohz, with 281 wins! All hail dohz! Full stats


Recent Clues

Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted
INDICATED (9) It's pointed out I hang around Charlie, but not Ted (9) INDI(C)A + TED 10 hours ago
ITINERARY (9) Heading off? Try to follow it during a specific period of time! heading off try = (-t)RY
to follow = concatenation
it = IT
during = IN
a specific period of time = ERA
IT+IN+ERA+(-t)RY
1 day, 3 hours ago
COME AND SEE (4, 3, 3) Russian film said how to copy files on a Mac (4, 3, 3) "command c" 1 day, 4 hours ago

Past Contests

Contest Winning Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By
KLOTSKI (7) (ended 7 hours, 51 minutes ago) I can complete many (somewhere in the thousands) a puzzle (7) defn = a puzzle
I after LOTS (many) in KK (thousands, somewhere inside them)
quatrevingtneuf
COCA-COLA (4-4) (ended 13 hours, 21 minutes ago) It's pretty sweet that fashion designer hangs around California, near Los Angeles (4-4) COCO around CA next to LA vi0let
HAUNTER (7) (ended 2 days, 8 hours ago) Predator ate a Pokémon (7) defn = pokémon
HUNTER around A
quatrevingtneuf
BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON (4-4, 5, 6) (ended 2 days, 15 hours ago) Yu-Gi-Oh card that they used in a blog, were mixed up (4-4, 5, 6) Yu-Gi-Oh card - Definition
they used in a blog, were - anagram fodder
mixed up - anagram indicator
THEYUSEDINABLOGWERE*
Rainy
VIOLET (6) (ended 3 days, 3 hours ago) To live freely beyond the blue… (6) defn = beyond the blue (end of the EM spectrum)
/TOLIVE
quatrevingtneuf
OCTAVE (6) (ended 3 days, 6 hours ago) Circle central road at interval (6) O (circle) + CT (central) + AVE (road) vi0let
JUST DESERTS (4, 7) (ended 4 days, 21 hours ago) A deserved punishment is precisely what's at Baskin-Robbins, it's said (4, 7) def: "a deserved punishment"
"precisely": JUST
"what's at baskin robbins": DESSERTS -> "it's said": DESERTS
Taargus
ON MAIN (2, 4) (ended 5 days, 1 hour ago) “I’m anon?” [changes to be at my public account] (2, 4) (ON MAIN)*

changes = anagram indicator
to be = connector
at my public account = def
dohz
HUMORESQUE (10) (ended 5 days, 6 hours ago) Comedy, partial burlesque, or romantic genre (10) comedy: HUMOR
partial burlesque: ESQUE
def: humoresque is a romantic genre
Taargus
YSAŸE (5) (ended 5 days, 14 hours ago) Composer's final melody gets easy to play (5) defn = composer
Y (final of melody) + /EASY
quatrevingtneuf
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