Contests started: IXPOWHXQELZTBUMXDS (18), 867-5309 (3-4), ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A STRING OF SEVEN OR MORE EMOJI (?), IRON (III) CHLORIDE (4 (3) 8), SWAN LAKE YACHT KIOSK (4 4 5 5), HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUĀPUA'A (20'1), PRETTY GIRL IN CRIMSON ROSE (8) (6, 4, 2, 7, 4 (1)), BOOKS THAT ARE BORING (5 4 3 6), WACKY TOBACKY (5,7), SYNTAX ERROR (6, 5), 鏡 雨 (1, 1), IN THE DETAILS (2, 3, 7), CALICA (6), L1K (3), 52 (2 OR 5-3), I DON’T KNOW (1, 3’1, 4), ANY CRYPTIC CLUE (3, 7, 4), DOUGHS (6), PROJECTYL (9), PUNCHINGCATTO (13), MAD HATTER (3, 6), DUCK KONUNDRUM (4, 9), FLASH FOOD (5, 4), IHNN (6), RUSTY (5), KOALA (5), ZIMONZE (7), TERMINAL (8), DYLANAMITE (10), JAMIE HARGROVE (5, 8), FIRETRUCK (9), SOFTFRO’S KIDNEY (7’1, 6), CHAOTIC (7), MST (3), BETAVEROS (9), DOUGHS (6), PENZO (5), PHENOMIST (9), INVALIDD (8), FLATLUIGI (9), AUTUMN LEAVES (6, 6), TCKMN (5), HI (2), PROCYON (7), CALICO CAT (6, 3), RIVER PEBBLE (5, 6), THE CAT IN THE HAT (3, 3, 2, 3, 3), ANY WORD OR PHRASE CONTAINING EXACTLY ONE HUNDRED LETTERS (?), TASTHING (8), LUPPYLUPPY (10), SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME... (5, 5, 5, ETC.), ANY CLUE WITH AN ENUMERATION OF "SOMETIMES" (SOMETIMES), HELP! I'M TRAPPED IN A CRYPTIC CLUE (4! 2, 7, 2, 1, 7, 4)
Contests won: IXPOWHXQELZTBUMXDS (18), DIME, FIFTY-FIFTY (5-5), NASDAQ (6), 漫畫 (2), REFRIGERATOR (12), FACTORIAL (9), PEORIA (6), NAVEM MERCIBUS IMPLERE (5, 8, 7), YULE LOG (4, 3)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6207 | 漫畫 (2) | Transcript of Japanese comic read traditionally: "Brush field one." "Say 'net' again." "Water." (2) | "Transcript of Japanese comic" (def) + read top-down, right-to-left: 聿 (radical 129, "brush"), 田 (radical 102, "field"), 一 (radical 1, "one") ⺜(form of radical 73, "say"), 罒 (form of radical 122, "net"), 又 (radical 29, "again"), 氵(form of radical 85, "water") | Cheshire | 4 |
| 6001 | DIME | In Madrid, tell me where to make a sharp turn (4) | "Dime" is Spanish for "tell me"; "where to make a sharp turn" is the definition | Cheshire | 3 |
| 6096 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A PALINDROME (?) | Evil olive (4) | "Barren brownish-green" is a ddef for DRAB | Cheshire | 3 |
| 6102 | NASDAQ (6) | Stock market Q-and-A's are dodgy (6) | QANDAS* | Cheshire | 3 |
| 6000 | FIFTY-FIFTY (5-5) | Nothing fair (5-5) | Ddef: "50 minus 50" is nothing, while "fifty fifty" is fair | Cheshire | 2 |
| 6013 | AESTHETICS (10) | Put ashes on the jerks, they're always fashionable (10) | Ashes = Æs; "the jerks" = "the tics" | Cheshire | 2 |
| 6044 | TITTLE (6) | One of Beijing's Three Tenors set in stone (6) | "One of Beijing's three" = definition Tenors (TT) set in stone (TILE) |
Cheshire | 2 |
| 6101 | BOBBINS (7) | Dylan takes out the trash (7) | BOB + BINS "Bobbins" is British slang for "junk" |
Cheshire | 2 |
| 6141 | ANY CLUE WHOS SURFACE IS A PALNDROME, HAS SEVEN OR MORE EMOJIS, AND DOESNT USE THE LETTER E (?) | 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 (1) | 😢 (7x def) | Cheshire | 2 |
| 6256 | DEMISEMIHEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER (26) | His voice trembles after repeatedly sampling his EDM sound with Six Flags (26) | QUAVER after HISEDM (letter bank) A 256th note is typically portrayed having "six flags" in a musical score |
Cheshire | 2 |
| 6310 | ELLIPSIS (8) | Fiji's crown... (8) | (ddef) | Cheshire | 2 |
| 6421 | REFRIGERATOR (12) | Rare tiger for refurbished appliance (12) | RARETIGERFOR* | Cheshire | 2 |
| 6610 | POLYDACTYLY (11) | Condition of "Paralyzer" artist: it's demonstrated throughout every line of Homer's epic poems? | ddef: "Paralyzer" was a hit by Finger Eleven, while the original Greek versions of the Odyssey and Iliad were written in dactylic hexameter | Cheshire | 2 |
| 7028 | PEORIA (6) | It's a city in Europe (or I am lying) (6) | Euro(pe or I a)m | Cheshire | 2 |
| 8179 | YULE LOG (4, 3) | Sounds like you'll record something festive on TV! (4, 3) | YULE (homophone) + LOG | Cheshire | 2 |
| 11892 | SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME SLIME... (5, 5, 5, ETC.) | Limes chopped up and reused for all the descendants of a legend (5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5...) | LIMES (letter bank) | Cheshire | 2 |
| 5914 | DOZE (4) | Just shy of twelve winks (4) | Just shy of twelve = (DOZE)n; "winks" is the definition | Cheshire | 1 |
| 5929 | IXPOWHXQELZTBUMXDS (18) | During nine left-wing politicians' pandemic coverage, a loveless Doctor Cross and a homeless man trap a confused quetzal and steal its gold; the whole thing signals a traumatic ending (18) | Nine = IX Left-wing politicians = Ds Nine left-wing politicians' pandemic coverage = IX (POX) Ds During nine left-wing politicians' pandemic coverage, a loveless Doctor (WHO - O) Cross (X) and a homeless man (BUM) = IX [PO (WHX BUM) X ] DS During nine left-wing politicians' pandemic coverage, a loveless Doctor Cross and a homeless man trap a confused quetzal (QELZTAU) and steal its gold (-AU) = IX{PO[WHX(QELZT)BUM]X}DS "The whole thing signals a traumatic ending" = definition |
Cheshire | 1 |
| 6027 | BAD (3) | Dirty Beyoncé commercial (3) | (def) + "B ad" | Cheshire | 1 |
| 6086 | JUMENTOUS (9) | One diet soda additive in e-cigarettes left out will create the strong scent of horse urine! (9) | One diet soda additive (MENTO) in e-cigarettes (JUULS) left out (-L) & def | Cheshire | 1 |
| 6401 | HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUĀPUA'A (20'1) | Bizarrely-named fish recipe: "punk ham as needed" (20'1) | PUNKHAM (letter bank) | Cheshire | 1 |
| 6443 | LIL NAS X (3, 3, 1) | Rapper "Richard Nililnon" is an example of this (3, 3, 1) | ddef: LIL NAS X / LILN AS X | Cheshire | 1 |
| 6463 | ⚠️(1) | Hazardous sign of global warning? (1) | (ddef) | Cheshire | 1 |
| 6641 | FACTORIAL (9) | Operation! (9) | (ddef) | Cheshire | 1 |
| 6702 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A BOARD/CARD GAME (?) | "Unhinged" game: cheating, right! (5: 3 9) | MAGICTHEGATHERING* &lit "Unhinged" is a set of non-tournament-legal cards in Magic |
Cheshire | 1 |
| 6731 | BAGS (4) | Grabs silver buried in bluff (4) | B(AG)S | Cheshire | 1 |
| 7234 | BREADTH (7) | Wide range of placement for run: First, second, third... to the one named for sourdough (7) | "Wide range of placement" = def. run: First, second, third... to the one named for sourdough -- find the ordinal number for "bread", which is "breadth" |
Cheshire | 1 |
| 7382 | NAVEM MERCIBUS IMPLERE (5, 8, 7) | Ambiguous name’s bumper— evil crime! (5, 8, 7) | &lit | Cheshire | 1 |
| 11612 | I AM GROOT (1 2 5) | I AM GROOT! (1 2 5) | Grootian-language ddef&lit | Cheshire | 1 |
| 12195 | ANY CLUE THAT HAS TO END IN A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF QUESTION MARKS (?) | Indicator of certainty at the end of this statement (4, 8, 5) | ddef | Cheshire | 1 |
| 6028 | QUINQUAGENARIAN (15) | Potential energy in between two charges associated with amber arranged in an era that started in 1971 (15) | (U in) inside "qq"; UAG "amber" stop codon; "in an era" anagrammed Definition: "That started in 1971" |
Cheshire | 0 |
| 6036 | MESOTHELIOMA (12) | Subject of many suits is home to male drunk (12) | "Subject of many suits" = def; "is home to male" anag. | Cheshire | 0 |
| 6088 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A PALINDROME (?) | Al lets Della call Ed "Stella"? (5) | WEIRD (ddef) | Cheshire | 0 |
| 6163 | QUESTION MARK OR ? (8 4 or 1) | Make a Blogatog submission? (8 4) | ddef: "Blogatog" is a Tumblr feed where users can ask questions to Mark Rosewater, the most well-known designer of Magic: the Gathering cards. | Cheshire | 0 |
| 6419 | NAN (3) | Flight itinerary: Los Angeles, CA to Spokane, WA to Santa Fe, NM to Billings, MT to St. Louis, MO to Lincoln, NE to Lubbock, TX to Duluth, MN to Memphis, TN to Atlanta, GA to Detroit, MI to Raleigh, NC to Syracuse, NY to finally arrive at Fiji's largest international airport (3) | Connect-the-dots as wordplay; The IATA code for Nadi International Airport, which handles nearly all international flights to Fiji, is NAN | Cheshire | 0 |
| 6464 | ANY INFINITE STRING (♾️) | Pie product has transcendental value (okay, it's actually about 8.54) (♾️) | ddef: π*e = 8.5397342226735670654635508695465744950348885357651149618796011301792286111573308075725638697104739439137749425116774676463211875... | Cheshire | 0 |
| 6603 | TITS UP (4, 2) | Dead birder's comment, perhaps (4,2) | ddef | Cheshire | 0 |
| 6624 | INSOUCIANT (10) | Frivolous auctions in derangement (10) | AUCTIONSIN*, with no letters ending up where they started | Cheshire | 0 |
| 6899 | TO BOOT (2, 4) | Even farther toward fire (2, 4) | “Toward” = “to” “Fire” = “boot” from a company, as a verb |
Cheshire | 0 |
| 6907 | ANY CLUE THAT USES TEXT EMOTICONS SOMEHOW (?) | (^◕ᴥ◕^) |┬┴┬┴┤_･)⁾├┬┴┬┴| (￢_￢) --------- (a,T) (3) | CAT: sounds like "see a T" | Cheshire | 0 |
| 7349 | SWEET CAROLINE (5, 8) | Drunken row, celesta in English pub sing-along (5, 8) | ROWCELESTA* + IN + E | Cheshire | 0 |
| 7625 | TMESIS (6) | “DIY: Coin Containers”? I’d say The Times is fringe (6) | DIY: coin “containers” I’d say (definition) T(he Ti)MESIS |
Cheshire | 0 |
| 10117 | ANY WORD OR PHRASE CONTAINING EXACTLY ONE HUNDRED LETTERS (?) | Bowling Green, Ahmedabad, Toronto, Jakarta, Bogota, Yokohama, Managua, New York City, Bombay, and Kaho'olawe (wow!) may not become optimum list of vacation destinations (5, 7, 3, 1 5 4 2 2 7, 6, 4 2 6 4, 3 5, 7, 4, 3 3'1 2 2 4 2 6?) | <greenahmedabadtorontojakartabogotayokohamamanaguanewyorkcitybombayandkahoolawewowmaynotbecomeoptimum> -> "Aruba, Jamaica..." | Cheshire | 0 |