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Contests started: TRAINGLE ( 8), SOFTFRO (7), CHESHIRE (8), RASPBERRY ALE (9, 3), DJMATHMAN (9), DISCORDANT ANT (10, 3 OR 13), ANY CLUE USING PALINDROME WORDPLAY (?), THE GREAT ESCAPER (3, 5, 7 OR 15), CUTE MAGE (4, 4), THE CHASE (3, 5), PONYSEW (7), SONI (4), LYDIAN (6), FRITO (5)

Contests won: TWITCH (6), WEREWOLF (8), TCKMN (5), DOCTOR (6)

All Submissions

Clue ID Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By Likes
8287 COPPER (6) Grab each element (6) COP+PER calica 3
8159 WEREWOLF (8) Had been with smooth motion backwards to a transforming monster (8) WERE + FLOW< calica 2
8225 DOCTOR (6) Do a fancy X-ray or treat an injury (6) DO+CT (as in CT scan)+OR calica 2
5958 VACCINE (7) Start of cowpox mixed into cave-in produces immunity (7) CAVE-IN + C anagrams to VACCINE; COWPOX is also a clue to the definition, given that it's the original vaccine. calica 1
8103 TWITCH (6) Start of the witch streaming video (6) T (start of "the")+WITCH = streaming video on twitch.tv calica 1
8119 SILPH (5) Phil's garbled scope maker (5) PHILS*

The Silph Scope is an item in Pokémon games.
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8666 PICROSS (7) Select Perot without first killing a game (7) PICK + ROSS - K calica 1
5825 OOO (3) Coin-based tokusatsu hero, whose suit could be said to hug thrice (3) Kamen Rider OOO is a coin-based tokusatsu hero. OOO also means hug three times. calica 0
6465 ANY INFINITE STRING (♾️) Recursive string follows nothing with unity and replaces unity with nothing (∞) 0→01 and 1→0 are the substitution rules applied recursively to produce Fibonacci word calica 0
8150 BROAD (5) Masculine relative promotion: a museum? (5) BRO+AD

There's a Broad museum in Los Angeles.
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8158 CHESHIRE (8) Switzerland, she ruined one reply for an English county (8) CH(as in .ch addresses) + SHE* + I + RE calica 0
8197 TCKMN (5) Total compensation to a thousand heartless men is a puzzler (5) TC+K+MN calica 0
8222 DORD (4) Flipped droid without start of innovation has density, perhaps? (4) DOiRD<

Not sure if "has" is a valid connecting word though :(
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8244 PRIMER (6) Pre-rim scrambling makes for an incredibly confusing story (6) PRERIM*

def is the 2004 time-travel movie; I really want to do an &lit for this but I'm not sure of a good anagram to use there
calica 0
8252 ANY CLUE WHICH INCORPORATES THE NUMBER 100, 101, OR 102 (?) 101, 51, and starting hairs? (5) CI+LI+And

cilia are kind of like hairs
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8261 WALTZ (5) Barrier without first of London time zone has three beats? (5) WALL-L+TZ

def is because a waltz is 3/4 time
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8296 NORTH (5) Direction for a Carolina in action or thought (5) Hidden word

Def references North Carolina
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8337 DRAGON (6) Beowulf's enemy seems to be a bit of a snoozer (6) "DRAG ON" homophone/homograph? there was a dragon slain by Beowulf calica 0

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