Contests started: BONK (4), EGGCORN (7)
Contests won: PENNSYLVANIA (12), MUSEUM (6)
Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
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4889 | PENNSYLVANIA (12) | Stall hosts new country singer outside an Amtrak station (12) | PE(N)N+SYLV(AN)IA = "Amtrak station" | padi | 5 |
5464 | MUSEUM (6) | Headless emus join bizarre emu gallery (6) | eMUS EMU* = gallery | padi | 4 |
5020 | BABEL (5) | Bagel whose center is bit begets confusion (5) | BA(G->B)EL = confusion | padi | 3 |
5640 | LOGGING (7) | Processor process processing process? (7) | ddef: process done by a computer processor; or the process of processing trees | padi | 2 |
5642 | LOGGING (7) | Slow bozo finally realizes, activating "start recording" (7) | L(_O in place of A_)GGING = recording | padi | 2 |
5014 | EXISTENTIAL (11) | Experimental anti-Steelix concoction (11) | experimental = (ANTISTEELIX)* | padi | 1 |
6701 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A BOARD/CARD GAME (?) | Detailed routine about a cooperative game (6) | "Detailed" = remove the last letter (tail) "routine" = HABIT "about" = around "a" = AN def "cooperative game" = HANABI H(AN)ABI(-t) |
padi | 1 |
5635 | SUDOKU (6) | Most popular logic puzzles in Japan champion command of superior execution and reviewing state (6) | def = "champion" of the "most popular logic puzzles in Japan", that is the single most popular logic puzzle in Japan [source: http://www.nikoli.co.jp/en/puzzles/sudoku.html] wordplay = SUDO ("command of superior execution") + UK< ("state" but "reviewed" in reverse) |
padi | 0 |
6007 | QUINQUAGENARIAN (15) | Quine ran backwards has awkward situation, and I, withholding my initial ire, released an exemplar of older age (15) | QUINE RAN backwards "has awkward situation" = contains QUAGMIRE and I "withholding my initial" = remove M_ "ire released" = remove IRE AN "exemplar of older age" is the definition, since a quinquagenarian embodies older age. QUIN(QUAG(-m_)(-ire))E+(NAR<)+I+AN |
padi | 0 |
6011 | NEXT-LEVEL (4-5) | Following a measurement device is superior (4-5) | "following" = NEXT "a measurement device" = LEVEL def is "superior" |
padi | 0 |