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INTERN (6) 9 hours from now bags
RECORD (6) 16 hours from now biocuriousgeorgie
CAUSTIC (7) 1 day, 9 hours from now thechairguy

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


Recent Clues

Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted
RECORD (6) Wrote down achievement (6) Double definition 8 hours ago
CAUSTIC (7) Corrosive acid usually smells terribly intolerable. Careful, beginners! It burns! (7) CAUSTIC
(Corrosive acid usually smells terribly intolerable. Careful <- beginners!)
CAUSTIC = Something that will give you chemical burns
9 hours ago
RECORD (6) Muck around with 'corder (6) Anagram (muck around) of CORDER is RECORD, and the whole clue is an &lit of the verb form 9 hours ago

Past Contests

Contest Winning Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By
OVINE (5) (ended 18 hours, 58 minutes ago) Pre-TikTok, social media followed one leader, like sheep (5) VINE after O_ biocuriousgeorgie
SPECULOOS (9) (ended 2 days, 5 hours ago) Seoul cops weirdly being sweet in Belgium (9) SEOUL COPS anagram, definition = “sweet in belgium” barley
SPECTACLE (9) (ended 2 days, 5 hours ago) Inspect a cleric’s cargo, there’s something you’ll want to see… (9) inSPECT A CLEric
definition = “something you’ll want to see”
barley
SPECTRE (7) (ended 2 days, 5 hours ago) Phantom pain initially subdued by secret concoction (7) pain initially (P) inside anagram of SECRET
definition = phantom
barley
NOVEMBER (8) (ended 4 days, 4 hours ago) "No" vote initially ousting constituent's leader in election time (8) def = election time
NO+{m->V}EMBER
koha____
CONTENT (7) (ended 4 days, 8 hours 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
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