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)
Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
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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. |
calica | 1 |
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. |
calica | 0 |
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 :( |
calica | 0 |
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 |
calica | 0 |
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 |
calica | 0 |
8296 | NORTH (5) | Direction for a Carolina in action or thought (5) | Hidden word Def references North Carolina |
calica | 0 |
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 |