Contests started: None!
Contests won: EXODUS (6), INVERSE (7), PORTAL (6), FRAY (4), REMEDY (6), EN GARDE (2, 5), CASE (4), ANY ROMAN EMPEROR (?), ANY CLUE THAT HAS NO LETTERS IN COMMON WITH ITS ANSWER (?), SONDHEIM (8), REPRISE (7)
Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
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7490 | REMEDY (6) | "Doctor! My deer for a cure!" (6) | Anagram("doctor") of MY DEER | Exalted | 4 |
7679 | ANY ROMAN EMPEROR (?) | One Roman inhabitant! (4) | hidden word (_NE RO_), &lit | Exalted | 4 |
7389 | PORTAL (6) | Harbor aluminum for gateway (6) | PORT("harbor")+AL | Exalted | 3 |
7526 | EN GARDE (2, 5) | Toss up grenade and shout, announcing a challenge (2, 5) | Anagram("toss up") GRENADE to get a "shout announcing a challenge" | Exalted | 3 |
7000 | PRIDE (5) | This month comes before the fall (5) | (this month) (comes before the fall) ddef | Exalted | 2 |
7086 | INVERSE (7) | Poetic way to write negation? (7) | cryptic ddef (a "poetic way to write" would be IN VERSE) | Exalted | 2 |
7229 | BREADTH (7) | Thickness of diameter in something drawn (7) | BREA(+D)TH (diameter>D, something drawn>BREATH) | Exalted | 2 |
7605 | CASE (4) | Heartless motive for lawsuit (4) | CA(-u)SE ("motive" without the heart) | Exalted | 2 |
7695 | PARITY (6) | Intolerant leader interrupts celebration for equality (6) | PAR(I_)TY - first letter of "intolerant" in PARTY("celebration") | Exalted | 2 |
7703 | NETWORK (7) | System labor after deducting expenses? (7) | cryptic ddef ("labor, after deducting expenses" is NET WORK) | Exalted | 2 |
8106 | REPRISE (7) | Advance in business after sales employee's repeat performance (7) | RISE("advance in business") after REP("sales employee") | Exalted | 2 |
6983 | ANY CHARACTER FROM NORSE MYTHOLOGY (?) | Raven is, uh, twisted spirit? (5) | (HU<)+GIN - Hugin (anglicized form) is one of Odin's ravens | Exalted | 1 |
7026 | TILL (4) | Cultivate affected lilt (4) | TILL* | Exalted | 1 |
7042 | EXODUS (6) | Religious tome requires booking it out for masses (6) | ddef (religious tome) (booking it out, for masses) | Exalted | 1 |
7062 | YOUR FAVORITE FOOD (?) | Weed a row of growths at your feet--you can stick 'em in a stew (8) | POT+A+TOES | Exalted | 1 |
7105 | MISSOURI (8) | State, "I'm seriously confused," then lose your head and feel . . . right? (8) | MISSOURI*(-y_)(-_el) | Exalted | 1 |
7212 | POPCORN (7) | Snack and soda with a not-quite-clichéd film, perhaps (7) | soda > POP, a clichéd film, perhaps > CORNY POP+CORN(-y) |
Exalted | 1 |
7324 | OASIS (5) | Sanctuary is also destroyed--at the end, all is lost (5) | Anagram of IS ALSO, removing the end of ALL | Exalted | 1 |
7380 | FJORD (5) | Finish off decapitated Viking Ironside amidst banks of flooded inlet (5) | BJORN is the famous "Viking Ironside", so (-b)JOR(-n) ("finish off"ed and "decapitated"), within F__D ("banks of flooded") to get an "inlet". (As for whether or not one needs to be finished off if they've already been decapitated...well, you might as well be sure, right?) |
Exalted | 1 |
7446 | FRAY (4) | Unravel loud sunbeam (4) | F("forte")+RAY | Exalted | 1 |
7622 | WHOA (4) | Oddly, "Wahoo!" was shout of surprise (4) | odd letters of WAHOO WAS | Exalted | 1 |
7917 | ANY CLUE THAT HAS NO LETTERS IN COMMON WITH ITS ANSWER (?) | Sound off! 1000 plus 8, buddy! (4) | MATE (homophone of M[1000]+EIGHT[8]) | Exalted | 1 |
8074 | SONDHEIM (8) | Composer of one of the Nine Realms, for example, below grassy soil containing nitrogen (8) | SO(N)D("grassy soil containing nitrogen")+HEIM("one of the Nine Realms, for example, below [the previous bit]") | Exalted | 1 |
10555 | MULE (4) | Inconclusively mull over Estonian leader's pack animal (4) | "mull", inconclusively (MUL), placed above leader of Estonian (E) (down clue) | Exalted | 1 |
7361 | MUFFIN (6) | Seabird trades apple core for slice of meat to make baked good (6) | (p>M)UFFIN ("seabird"->PUFFIN, "apple core"->_P_, "slice of meat"->M_) | Exalted | 0 |
7369 | AC (2) | Current Gygaxian defensive measure (2) | ddef (AC current, Armor Class) | Exalted | 0 |
7451 | ANY GREEK GOD (?) | Sauron loses ring; claims Ungoliant's head and reforms planet (6) | URANUS (planet and father of the Titans), from an anagram of SAUR(-o)N(+U_) | Exalted | 0 |
7554 | TARDIGRADE (10) | Microorganism Doctor's spaceship, replacing crystal heart with incline (10) | TARDIS("Doctor's spaceship"), with S->GRADE("incline") | Exalted | 0 |
7623 | GARRULOUS (9) | "Verbose organization of a URL" or "Eaten by odd grubs" (9) | G(ARRULO*)_U_S - anagram("organization of") A URL OR, contained in("eaten by") odd letters of GRUBS | Exalted | 0 |
7714 | ANY DWARF FROM THE HOBBIT (?) | Norse god in dwarf (6) | THOR+IN | Exalted | 0 |
7898 | MERLOT (6) | Camelot's wizard twice detailed some religious books with wine (6) | MERL(-i)(-n)["twice detailed"]+OT[Old Testament] | Exalted | 0 |
7926 | MACABRE (7) | Spooky sounding tropical bird that's a prelude to bad beginning (7) | Homophone("MACAW+B_"[tropical bird that comes before the start of bad]) | Exalted | 0 |