Started by noneuclidean
Yurt, unfinished house, and a home needed this many balloons to fly (3, 8)
Yurt = TENT
unfinished house = HOUS_
and = AND
"A home needed this many balloons to fly" is a reference to the film Up and the number of balloons needed to lift the house according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000
Submitted by dylanamite
| Clue ID | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10001 | Yurt, unfinished house, and a home needed this many balloons to fly (3, 8) | Yurt = TENT unfinished house = HOUS_ and = AND "A home needed this many balloons to fly" is a reference to the film Up and the number of balloons needed to lift the house according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000 |
dylanamite | 1 |
| 10023 | Haunted snot sculpted into a square (3,8) | HAUNTED SNOT = anagram fodder sculpted into = anagrind a square = def, 100*100 |
dpad | 1 |
| 9999 | Awfully odd cheer gets cut from broadcast: "A hundred to the second! A hundred to the second!" (3,8) | anag. AHUNDREDTOTHESECOND - anag. ODDCHEER = TENTHOUSAND* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10002 | Dropping cup, ink ruined uncounted pink hats (nearly the number of submissions received by cryptics.jackbrounstein.com!) (3,8) | TENTHOUSAND(-cupink)* = a myriad | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10003 | Myriad trials, initially open-and-shut, become complicated when lead prosecutor leaves us on the stand floundering without final preparations (3,8) | double wp T_ + anag. O(-p_)ENANDSHUT anag. USONTHE(-_s)TAND def: myriad, which originally meant 10,000 |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10004 | Time to destroy all four walls of apartment with great view and sweet treats... MMMMMMMMMM! (3,8) | T+(-p)ENTHOUS(-e)+(-c)AND(-y) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10005 | You, saint, intend to become Japanese man? (3,8) | TEN(THOU ('you') + SAN ('saint', as in "San Francisco"))D ('intend' minor elision) = "Japanese man" - 10000 in Japanese is "man" | phenomist | 0 |
| 10011 | Honda's tune with team leader was a messy number (3,8) | number = def team leader = T HONDAS TUNE T = anagram of ten thousand messy = anagram indicator |
jovi_al | 0 |