Contests started: GONZAGA (7), CENTRIPETAL (11), TURBULENT (9), POLYCHROMATIC (13), STIMULATED (10), FUDDRUCKERS (11), ALEJANDRO (9), SLIME (5)
Contests won: TOMORROW (8), CHIPOTLE (8), CRYPTIC (7), HUNT (4), MOLASSES (8), LEFT OUT (4, 3), APRIL FOOL (5, 4), MAZUMA (6), TURBULENT (9), RED HERRING (3,7), SYMPOSIUM (9), ANIME (5), SOMMELIER (9), ADRENALINE (10), ORTHODOXY (9), DISTRICT ATTORNEY (8, 8), HORSE (5), SUBLIME (7), BOXERS (6), PIQUANT (7), PILLOW CASE (6, 4), PURSUIT (7), DUNGEON (7), CHICKEN (7), LEAGUE (6), ANY CLUE STARTING WITH CALL IN (?), DEEP LEARNING (4, 8), MOUNT EVEREST (5, 7), SINEW (5), DEMESNE (7), MAILER (6), ANY CLUE THAT RESOLVES TO THE EMPTY STRING (0), WARHOL (6), LEONINE (7), REIMBURSEMENT (13), LIBERTARIAN (11), RICOCHET (8), PRIDE FLAG (5, 4), INEVITABLE (10), CORONA (6), PIERCE (6), CRUCIBLE (8), GOOGLE-FU (6-2), MATCHA (6), CARPE DIEM (5, 4), ANAMANAGUCHI (12)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 143 | TOMORROW (8) | Endless anxiety ends up strangely moot after today. | "after today" = TOMO + RROW, strangely moot = TOMO, endless anxiety = WORR(y), ends = positional indicator, up = reversal | Akumu | 5 |
| 385 | BINARY STAR (6, 4) | Stellar pair ruined by tar rains. | Stellar pair = <BYTARRAINS> | Akumu | 5 |
| 399 | HUNT (4) | Ends in run-around, which results in a coin! | Ends in RUN = UN, "around which" are results in a coin = HT, H+UN+T, &lit | Akumu | 5 |
| 803 | SYMPOSIUM (9) | The opening half of an orchestral piece is followed by heavy metal, a grand loss for expert presentation (9) | Expert presentation = SYMP(-hony) + OS(-m)IUM | Akumu | 5 |
| 201 | CHIPOTLE (8) | Pepper pot in Chile (8) | "pepper" = CHI(POT)LE | Akumu | 4 |
| 369 | CRYPTIC (7) | Odd, an interment site before you leave a hospital department | Odd = CRYPT + IC(u) | Akumu | 4 |
| 502 | COLOR OR COLOUR (5 OR 6) | Put one hundred on red outside, fifty inside (double zero), and spin (5) | "Spin" = Put CR (one hundred on red) on the outside of OLO (fifty inside double zero) | Akumu | 4 |
| 793 | RED HERRING (3,7) | Spooner's leader, impatient, gives misleading information (3, 7) | Misleading information = Spoonerism of HEAD RARING | Akumu | 4 |
| 895 | ANIME (5) | Cartoon characters in Pakistani merchandise (5) | _ANI ME_ | Akumu | 4 |
| 1043 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A PUZZLE GENRE (?) | Cut off around only finishing half of sudoku and find the answer online (4, 2) | Find the answer online = LO(_OKU)P | Akumu | 4 |
| 1302 | ORTHODOXY (9) | Dorothy, in a twister, gets a hug and a kiss for thinking inside the box (9) | Thinking inside the box = ORTHODY* containing OX | Akumu | 4 |
| 1381 | DOMINION (8) | Achieve little and refuse returning control (8) | Control = DO + MINI + ON< | Akumu | 4 |
| 1612 | SUBLIME (7) | Behave like dry ice beneath citrus? (7) | ddef, dry ice sublimates (or sublimes) directly into vapor, and "sub-lime" hence the question mark | Akumu | 4 |
| 2154 | MOUNT EVEREST (5, 7) | Strangely true, even in the majority of Hillary's conquest (5, 7) | MO(UNTEVERE*)ST | Akumu | 4 |
| 2177 | SINEW (5) | Every point of the compass has one solid power (5) | I (one) in S, N, E, W - every point of the compass | Akumu | 4 |
| 2181 | DEMESNE (7) | Reckless men seed their territory (7) | MENSEED* | Akumu | 4 |
| 2720 | MAILER (6) | A circular stack of paper, around fifty-one left (6) | A circular = MA(IL)ER< | Akumu | 4 |
| 2953 | ANY CLUE THAT RESOLVES TO THE EMPTY STRING (0) | Even I am empty (0) | Even characters of "I" | Akumu | 4 |
| 3520 | LEONINE (7) | Lion-like Japanese demon finally driven into shelter (7) | LE(ONI+_N)E | Akumu | 4 |
| 11049 | MATCHA (6) | Pair well with a green tea (6) | def. "green tea" from MATCH (pair well with) + A | Akumu | 4 |
| 344 | ASKING (6) | Old lace and queen partners naming a price | naming a price = AS (arsenic, old lace partner) + KING (queen partner) | Akumu | 3 |
| 368 | CRYPTIC (7) | Mysterious shout leads to bloodless visual | Mysterious = CRY + (o)PTIC | Akumu | 3 |
| 396 | HUNT (4) | Search hard until nap time starts | Search = H_ U_ N_ T_ | Akumu | 3 |
| 411 | GOLD LEAF (4, 4) | Go eat a fish to start to get bad cholesterol thinned out and shiny coat (4, 4) | GO (go), E_ A_ F_ (eat a fish to start), to get LDL (bad cholesterol). Def. "thinned out and shiny coat" | Akumu | 3 |
| 460 | APRIL FOOL (5, 4) | Rudely fill a poor jester with molasses (5, 4) | Jester with molasses = <FILLAPOOR> | Akumu | 3 |
| 461 | LEFT OUT (4, 3) | Selfless viking to talk up others without being included himself (4, 3) | Without being included himself = LE(i)F (selfless viking) + TOUT (talk up others) | Akumu | 3 |
| 503 | MAZUMA (6) | Bones from an endless labyrinth with a person in the middle (6) | Bones (slang for dollars) = MAZ_ (endless labyrinth) + _UMA_ (a person, in the middle) | Akumu | 3 |
| 741 | LARCENY (7) | Crawl back out west, eastern New York began thievery (7) | L(-w)ARC< + E_ N_ Y_ | Akumu | 3 |
| 772 | TURBULENT (9) | Leaving you is dry, fast, and bumpy (9) | Bumpy = TURB< + U + LENT BRUT ("dry," as a champagne) and LENT ("fast," as a period of abstention) are both written away from the central U. |
Akumu | 3 |
| 919 | SOMMELIER (9) | Mix lime into some red wine, steward (9) | Wine steward = SOM(MELI*)E+R | Akumu | 3 |
| 1009 | ADRENALINE (10) | Hormone makes a nerd fall back on a pick-up cliche (10) | A+DREN<+A+LINE | Akumu | 3 |
| 1562 | HORSE (5) | Raspy-sounding equine (5) | "hoarse" | Akumu | 3 |
| 1940 | PURSUIT (7) | Chase hind end of cheap headless animal costume (7) | _P + (-f)URSUIT | Akumu | 3 |
| 2580 | PARALLEL (8) | Never diverging from average with endless genetic variation (8) | PAR+ALLEL(-e) | Akumu | 3 |
| 2832 | ORDINAL (7) | Sword in Aladdin hides out of position (7) | "of position" = _ORD IN AL_ | Akumu | 3 |
| 3197 | PARASITE (8) | Average tea is stirred up for capitalist (8) | PAR+ASITE* | Akumu | 3 |
| 3267 | SPHINX (6) | Half woman, half lion, half ball, half worm, and half ox (6) | Half-woman, half-lion = SPH(-ere) + IN(-ch) + (-o)X | Akumu | 3 |
| 3341 | PALINDROME (10) | Tremble and implore me to tag a totem, for example (10) | "me to tag a totem, for example" = ANDIMPLORE* | Akumu | 3 |
| 3501 | CRYPTIC CLUE (7, 4) | Chromium penny found in town brought back a mystery movie's befuddling evidence (7, 4) | befuddling evidence = CR + Y(P)TIC< + CLUE | Akumu | 3 |
| 3591 | AWOO (4) | Top-grade Hong Kong action star John gives a howl (4) | A+WOO | Akumu | 3 |
| 3631 | REIMBURSEMENT (13) | Head cut off, arm and sack too, all of me, all given in rent payment (13) | RE(_IMB + _URSE + ME)NT | Akumu | 3 |
| 45 | AFICIONADO (10) | Fan's peakless whirlwind ends fifty-to-one union | AFICIO (AFLCIO with L (fifty) to I (one)) ended by (tor)NADO | Akumu | 2 |
| 327 | PHENOMIST (9) | Puzzling galactic alien eats up middle chipmunk after acid test. | Puzzling galactic = PH + E[<NOMIS<]T | Akumu | 2 |
| 335 | SAMUS (5) | Bounty hunter nabs hydrogen from certain killer whales | Bounty hunter = S(-H)AMUS | Akumu | 2 |
| 382 | EUDAEMONICS (11) | O, cinema! Entangled in feuds without origin, learning to find happiness. | Learning to find happiness = (f)EUDS around <OCINEMA> | Akumu | 2 |
| 458 | MOLASSES (8) | Avogadro's number of donkeys make a sticky brown mess (8) | MOL (abbrevation for mole, Avogadro's number of things) + ASSES (donkeys) = MOLASSES (a sticky brown mess) | Akumu | 2 |
| 623 | NOTHING ELSE (7,4) | Avoid beginning to twist up, pivot back towards class for non-native speakers only (7, 4) | Only = _NOT + HINGE + <LSE< | Akumu | 2 |
| 628 | DELAWARE (8) | Recall a time without a large, blocked off river (8) | River = <- ERA + WA(L)LED <- | Akumu | 2 |
| 753 | TWO-MAN (3-3) | Time to gender a personnel requirement (3-3) | A personnel requirement = T+WOMAN | Akumu | 2 |
| 771 | MAKE (4) | Build ambition (4) | Ddef, ambition as in "on the make" | Akumu | 2 |
| 777 | MORATORIUM (10) | Tie up a snitch in the back of an atrium for a stop to unwanted actions (10) | MO(RAT)OR+(-atr)IUM | Akumu | 2 |
| 809 | ABYSSAL (7) | The darkest possible is a headless baby girl upside-down (7) | _ABY+SSAL< | Akumu | 2 |
| 824 | SOMETHING WITH DEFINITION 'WORD' | Word is, before leaving a meadow, I was caught in a swarm of bees (5) | B(I)B+LE(-a) | Akumu | 2 |
| 897 | ANIME (5) | For example, My Hero Academia's Mina gains energy after retreating (5) | For example, My Hero Academia = ANIM< + E, "'s" is contraction of "is", not a possessive. | Akumu | 2 |
| 1417 | PARADOX (7) | Illogical construction makes two jetties, reportedly (7) | "Pair of docks" | Akumu | 2 |
| 1536 | EPISODIC (8) | After everything, ninety-nine mince pies do come back in parts (8) | EPIS*+OD<+IC | Akumu | 2 |
| 1537 | DISTRICT ATTORNEY (8, 8) | Chief prosecutor is hard-nosed, interrupting halfway through a rant to remove you from competition (8, 8) | DI(STRICT)AT(-ribe)+TO(-u)RNEY | Akumu | 2 |
| 1710 | BOXERS (6) | Unpleasant smell leads to unique parts of a Persian king's underpants (6) | B.O. + XER(-xe)S | Akumu | 2 |
| 1723 | PIQUANT (7) | Colorful lead scientist and numerical analyst (7) | Colorful = P.I. + QUANT | Akumu | 2 |
| 2047 | LEAGUE (6) | The French malaria consortium (6) | LE+AGUE | Akumu | 2 |
| 2167 | OF (2) | Belonging to radio frequency in secret (2) | _O F_ | Akumu | 2 |
| 2392 | DISENFRANCHISEMENT (18) | Taking a vote due to disagreement about putting dressing in fine-grated and cored Edam (18) | DIS(ENF(RANCH)I*)S(E_M)ENT | Akumu | 2 |
| 3242 | WARHOL (6) | Verbal battle spoils pop artist (6) | "war haul" | Akumu | 2 |
| 3706 | LIBERTARIAN (11) | Freedom-lover put time and energy into bookkeeper (11) | LIB(E)R(T)ARIAN | Akumu | 2 |
| 3757 | RICOCHET (8) | I crochet badly and bounce off the walls (8) | ICROCHET* | Akumu | 2 |
| 3863 | PRIDE FLAG (5, 4) | Failed RPG twisted symbol of inclusion (5, 4) | FAILEDRPG* | Akumu | 2 |
| 3867 | ANIMAL (6) | At least replace the leading duo with a horse or some such (6) | "horse, or some such" = (mi->A)NIMAL | Akumu | 2 |
| 3868 | BELOW (5) | Feel down underneath (5) | "BE LOW" | Akumu | 2 |
| 4090 | PIERCE (6) | Stick the landing this time (6) | "Stick" = PIER + CE (common era) | Akumu | 2 |
| 5265 | EXTRACT (7) | Remove surplus nutmeg, state "shortened" (7) | EXTRA + CT | Akumu | 2 |
| 9405 | GOOGLE-FU (6-2) | Tailoring strings go forward and back with fuel mixture (6-2) | Tailoring [search] strings = GO + OG< + LEFU* | Akumu | 2 |
| 11980 | ANAMANAGUCHI (12) | Scott Pilgrim's band in Ghana, in Macau, in Bedlam (12) | Anamanaguchi is a band headlining multiple Scott Pilgrim media works, anagram of GHANAINMACAU indicated by "in Bedlam" | Akumu | 2 |
| 12313 | ANY HUMAN BONE (?) | Secretly demand I bless a jawbone (8) | Hidden word _MAND I BLE_ | Akumu | 2 |
| 126 | IMPROVE (7) | Get better devil: travel. (7) | "get better" = IMP + ROVE | Akumu | 1 |
| 127 | YOUR USERNAME (?) | Puzzler-gilded half of a seedless golden orange | Half of a seedless golden orange = KUM(q)(uat), gilded = covered in gold, AU. A+KUM+U. Definition "puzzler." | Akumu | 1 |
| 169 | BLANK (5) | Empty from the edge of Rhode Island to Louisiana | "Empty" = B(RI -> LA)NK | Akumu | 1 |
| 184 | CHOCOLATE (9) | Brown, jumbled without leaders, rank or file at its heart (9) | "Brown" = (in)CHO(COL)ATE. jumbled = INCHOATE, without leaders = double beheadment, rank or file = COL (colonel or column), at its heart = position | Akumu | 1 |
| 192 | CONTEXT (7) | Crossed out negative material for setting (7) | "setting" = CONTE(N->X)T | Akumu | 1 |
| 241 | TELEVISION (10) | Cable tangled, live on site (10) | "Cable" = (LIVE ON SITE)* | Akumu | 1 |
| 242 | FIRM (4) | Hard force crazes rim (4) | "Hard" = F+(RIM)* | Akumu | 1 |
| 269 | GOAL (4) | Intent one in a backlog (4) | Intent = LOG< with "one"=A inserted | Akumu | 1 |
| 353 | REFRAIN (7) | Strange, almost infrared repetition. | Repetition = <INFRARE(d)> | Akumu | 1 |
| 407 | DOUGH (5) | Money scratched up from research to development (5) | Money = (R->D)OUGH (scratched up = ROUGH) | Akumu | 1 |
| 429 | ARETAICS (8) | Virtuous science tilts headlessly and heartlessly after starting out from zero (8) | Virtuous science = (i)TA(l)ICS ("tilts" headlessly and heartlessly) after (t)ARE (starting out from "zero") | Akumu | 1 |
| 632 | LUNAR NEW YEAR (5, 3, 4) | Starts to leave until next April, returns by every way but south, and changes their mind near a day in January or February (5, 3, 4) | A day January or February = L_ U_ N_ A_ R_ + NEW (every way but south) + (N->Y)EAR | Akumu | 1 |
| 637 | PATRIOT (7) | Country lover out south repeats "strip, strip" instead of respecting redheads from the start (7) | Country lover = PA(RR -> _TRI_)OT_ | Akumu | 1 |
| 671 | SEAHAWK (7) | Make a loud noise, don't quit halfway and give one hundred percent in the best football team in the nation (7) | The best football team in the nation = SQUAWK (make a loud noise) - QU (quit, halfway) including (in) EACH (percent) - C (give one hundred) | Akumu | 1 |
| 675 | ANARCHY (7) | No particular Vault included an intentional lack of structure (7) | An intentional lack of structure = AN(ARCH)Y: "no particular," "vault" included | Akumu | 1 |
| 750 | FLIGHT (6) | Escape battle with largest initiative (6) | Escape = F(L_)IGHT | Akumu | 1 |
| 765 | INFERNAL (8) | Adiantum, taken as a whole, is endlessly hellish (8) | IN(FERN)AL(-l) | Akumu | 1 |
| 1395 | LYRICALLY (9) | Emotionally caustic, almost to every side, zealot loses promotion (9) | Emotionally = LY_ + R(-ad)ICAL + LY_ | Akumu | 1 |
| 1566 | ETCH (4) | Pick up, scratch surface! (4) | (-f)ETCH, &lit | Akumu | 1 |
| 1721 | GUIDE (5) | Make lead from gold, going to extremes to take control and ultimately rule (5) | Lead = G_(UI)D+_E | Akumu | 1 |
| 1775 | PILLOW CASE (6, 4) | Sleep surface lacking in special plastic (6, 4) | PIL(LOW)CASE* | Akumu | 1 |
| 1787 | TAUTOLOGY (9) | The obvious time for reflexive inversion of e^x (9) | "The obvious" = T + AUTO + LOG Y | Akumu | 1 |
| 2010 | DUNGEON (7) | Prison is a crap stretch of time (7) | DUNG+EON | Akumu | 1 |
| 2122 | ANY CLUE STARTING WITH CALL IN (?) | Call in oak or pine to make a door (5) | ENTRY ("in tree") | Akumu | 1 |
| 2747 | ASBESTOS (8) | Cunningly stabs Eos with fireproof material (8) | STABSEOS* | Akumu | 1 |
| 3122 | FRACTURE (8) | Break up a fight without winding up as a motherless adult (8) | FRAC(-as) + (-ma)TURE | Akumu | 1 |
| 3226 | QUINE (5) | Self-production from timeless fivesome (5) | QUIN(-t)E(-t) | Akumu | 1 |
| 3316 | FURNITURE (9) | Ernie barely fits into next chifforobe, and its like... (9) | Chifforobe and its like = FU(_RNI_)TURE | Akumu | 1 |
| 3336 | SYNONYM (7) | Equivalent of most of Heaton, Powell, Sylvia, Goodchild, Seaver, Piazza, Strawberry, et al. (7) | Equivalent = SYNO_+NYM. Heaton, Powell, Sylvia and Goodchild are the roster of the puzzling team Synod (at least for the latest MUMS hunt), Seaver, Piazza, Strawberry are all members of the New York Mets, so them and others, abbreviated (et al.) are NYM | Akumu | 1 |
| 3422 | HUMAN (5) | Buzz one individual (5) | HUM+AN (please note that "an" is the correct indefinite article for "individual", thank you) | Akumu | 1 |
| 3548 | CLUE W/ "TURING MACHINE" NOT MEANING A REAL TM (?) | Arriving before a well-known Turing machine for digging holes, brand a Barcelonan (7) | A Barcelonan = CAT+ALAN (CAT being a brand of construction and excavation equipment) | Akumu | 1 |
| 3633 | DISCOMFORT (10) | OMFG, atheist in Discord won't stop taunting beginner. Cringe! (10) | DISC(OMF(-g)))OR_ + T_ | Akumu | 1 |
| 3662 | COCKTAIL (8) | Mixed drink made with between one hundred forty-nine and one thousand crushed taco (8) | C(OC(K)TA*)IL | Akumu | 1 |
| 3838 | ROBUST (6) | Powerful comeback or bust (6) | RO< + BUST | Akumu | 1 |
| 3885 | MINERAL (7) | Remain ordered, large, and rocky (7) | MINERA*+L | Akumu | 1 |
| 4056 | INEVITABLE (10) | B Line twists around Perón but will always arrive in the end (10) | IN(EVITA)BLE* | Akumu | 1 |
| 4057 | CORONA (6) | Mythical bird takes flight on a star's outer atmosphere (6) | (down clue) COR< + ON + A | Akumu | 1 |
| 4110 | OVERHEAR (8) | To perceive another's speech from where I am! (8) | "over here" | Akumu | 1 |
| 4157 | SHATTER (7) | Bust of a second mercurial madman (7) | "Bust" = S+HATTER | Akumu | 1 |
| 4350 | DEUSOVI (7) | Borderless theater commune surrenders and allows strict cruciverbalist (7) | (-o)DEU(-m) + SOVI(-et) | Akumu | 1 |
| 4458 | CHROMATIC (9) | Eating half of roma tomato is stylish and colorful (9) | CH(ROMAT(-omato))IC | Akumu | 1 |
| 5726 | WORDPLAY (8) | What follows is a filling, rough, dry plow (8) | What follows = WORDPL(A)Y* | Akumu | 1 |
| 8368 | RUM (3) | Weird oak-aged liquor (3) | Double definition, weird / oak-aged liquor; also baiting an incorrect anagram interpretation | Akumu | 1 |
| 9314 | CRUCIBLE (8) | Surface of copper Russian coin imprinted with one hundred and one dramatic witch hunts (8) | def. "dramatic witch hunts," in reference to the Arthur Miller play, word play "surface of copper" = C, Russian coin = RUBLE, one hundred and one = CI, C+RU(CI)BLE | Akumu | 1 |
| 9406 | CENTER (6) | Location in many cities of parks and rec counters to receive unopened rent (6) | def. Location in many cities of parks, referencing the common "Central Park" in many cities = C(_ENT)ER<, REC counters (reverses) and receives (contains) unopened (without initial letter) RENT | Akumu | 1 |
| 10874 | POKER FACE (5, 4) | What can't be read in an edited preface is acceptable (5 4) | Def. "what can't be read", an edited preface = PERFACE, acceptable = OK, in PERFACE is OK = POKERFACE | Akumu | 1 |
| 12271 | INFERNAL (8) | Figure out from context clues when backing up a computer cluster is hellish (8) | INFER + NAL<, "figure out from context clues" = INFER, "when backing up" = reversal indicator, "a computer cluster" = LAN, "is" connector, "hellish" definition | Akumu | 1 |
| 47 | NONPLUS (7) | Not a French yes in dictionaries e.g., though to confuse, sounds like a French yes. (7) | NON (a French no) + PL (dictionary abbreviation for plural) + US (from "we," sounds like "oui".) | Akumu | 0 |
| 104 | COMPUTABLE (10) | Algorithmic plutonium replaces cozy's purpose (10) | "Algorithmic" = COM(FOR -> PU)TABLE | Akumu | 0 |
| 110 | MAKE (4) | Create castle horse (4) | "Create" = MARE with R exchanged for K, as a castle maneuver in chess. | Akumu | 0 |
| 130 | SLEEP (5) | Count two hundred to fifty barnyard animals to get it! | Count SHEEP (barnyard animals) to get SLEEP (&lit), two hundred = H and fifty = L in Medieval Roman numerals. | Akumu | 0 |
| 134 | SLEEP (5) | Barnyard animals swap height for length to lay down. | "lay down" = S(H->L)EEP | Akumu | 0 |
| 231 | RAISIN (6) | Tsar's mystic, put out, takes one in for dried fruit. | "dried fruit" = RASPUTIN - PUT + I (one) | Akumu | 0 |
| 427 | SHAYMIN (7) | With sky and ground, formed breeze without rotation as careless drives (7) | Def. With sky and ground forme, D + SASHAY (breeze) - <AS< (without rotation as) + MIND (care) - all Ds (less drives). | Akumu | 0 |
| 699 | CENTRIPETAL (11) | Tear copper face off a penny before looking inside (11) | Looking inside = RIP (tear) + _ETAL (copper, face off), preceded by CENT (penny before) | Akumu | 0 |
| 738 | SCHADENFREUDE | An unsympathetic state cruelly crushed a defense-less southeast (13) | "An unsympathetic state" = [CRUSHEDADEFEN(-se)]* | Akumu | 0 |
| 762 | HOLOGRAM (8) | Mario high-jumps up and then makes a record of a spectral image (8) | spectral image: (MARIO+H)<, then LOG <- I | Akumu | 0 |
| 823 | LIMA (4) | Bean an impoverished wild animal (4) | Bean = (-an)IMAL* | Akumu | 0 |
| 1510 | PICASSO (7) | Pablo, famously, is twelve points away from a bare loss (7) | PICAS + (-s)SO(-l)< | Akumu | 0 |
| 1543 | ANY CLUE ENDING IN LEVEL (5, 1) | In the Bronx, Ayn finds product on bottom level (5, 1) | Product on bottom level = B(RAND) X | Akumu | 0 |
| 1544 | ZEAL (4) | Great interest from banks of the American ruling class (4) | Substring of AZEALIA, from Azealia Banks who appeared in the film The American Ruling Class | Akumu | 0 |
| 1819 | MASKING TAPE (7, 4) | A somewhat sticky strip found in the thousands, like in carjacking and gym class (7, 4) | M(AS)K + IN + GTA + PE | Akumu | 0 |
| 1831 | ATELIER (7) | Bulldog barges into cut-rate studio (7) | AT(ELI)ER*, "Bulldog" as ELI through the sense of a Yale student/alumnus | Akumu | 0 |
| 1852 | CHIMNEY (7) | P. troglodytes briefly, briefly reverses desire for smoking pole (7) | CHIM(-p) + NEY< | Akumu | 0 |
| 1886 | MERCENARY (9) | Lackey of the French killed not a single condottiere (9) | MERCE(-des)+NARY | Akumu | 0 |
| 1903 | HOT AIR BALLOON (3, 3, 7) | Jessica Rabbit, as drawn, takes a shot that completely misses basket supporter (3, 3, 7) | HO T(AIR BALL)OON | Akumu | 0 |
| 2013 | CHICKEN (7) | Cowardly and stylish companion of Barbie (7) | CHIC+KEN | Akumu | 0 |
| 2027 | UNBEARABLE (10) | Intolerable, impotent, grasping, stark raving mad (10) | UN(BARE*)ABLE | Akumu | 0 |
| 2120 | ANY CLUE STARTING WITH CALL IN (?) | Call in alternates by half, a reversed lapse in logic (7) | _F_A_(LLAC)Y_< | Akumu | 0 |
| 2129 | ANY CLUE STARTING WITH CALL IN (?) | Call in OAK DOOR (5) | ENTRY ("in tree") | Akumu | 0 |
| 2151 | DEEP LEARNING (4, 8) | Recognition of layered patterns of entreaty among Elks to mix gin after tonic, essentially (4,8) | Recognition of layered patterns = DEE(PLEA)R+_N_+ING* | Akumu | 0 |
| 2152 | DEEP LEARNING (4, 8) | Wildly enlarged pine tree to organize data (4, 8) | tree to organize data = ENLARGEDPINE*, maybe. How to define deep learning?? | Akumu | 0 |
| 2313 | LAST (4) | Keep going, looking past Inside Out (4) | Exterior word from "looking past" | Akumu | 0 |
| 2593 | HOMESTUCK (9) | Zeroes in on snack food and niche webcomic (9) | HOMES+TUCK | Akumu | 0 |
| 2952 | ANY CLUE THAT RESOLVES TO THE EMPTY STRING (0) | Rats retreat, losing lead and getting nothing at all (0) | STAR< - STAR | Akumu | 0 |
| 3138 | GIMMICK (7) | Jiminy, a large character Short turned into around 2001! (7) | G(L -> IMM<)ICK, referencing Jiminy Glick, a fat idiot gimmick character played by Martin Short, with a TV show premiering in 2001. "A large character Short" all clues L. | Akumu | 0 |
| 3195 | PARASITE (8) | Leech's reputation goes back to a certain place (8) | PAR< + A + SITE | Akumu | 0 |
| 3320 | HONK (4) | Sound of potassium hydride? (4) | Sound (in the verb sense) = H ON K | Akumu | 0 |
| 3394 | CARAMEL (7) | A light brown Tokyo rain soaked into Carl (7) | CAR(AME)L | Akumu | 0 |
| 3396 | CARAMEL (7) | Absorbing Egyptian sun turns brown hue into darker brown hue (7) | CA(RA)MEL | Akumu | 0 |
| 3487 | LOREM IPSUM (5, 5) | Insane imp oral tradition leads to total gibberish, famously (5, 5) | LORE + MIP* + SUM = gibberish, famously | Akumu | 0 |
| 3922 | MELODY (6) | Bring back benefit within mine of canary emanation (6) | M(ELOD<)Y | Akumu | 0 |
| 4196 | ENNUI (5) | Boredom? Listlessness? Have a dash on a unicycle! (5) | EN + NUI* | Akumu | 0 |
| 4344 | SCALAR (6) | Italian ladder rung initially goes nowhere, but still has value (6) | "goes nowhere, but still has value" = SCALA+R_ | Akumu | 0 |
| 5266 | EXTRA (5) | Flashy technique to actinic gas inversion (5) | Flashy = (EX + TRA)< | Akumu | 0 |
| 9317 | FRITO (5) | Rift torn into last corn chip (5) | "corn chip" = FRIT (RIFT torn) + O (INTO last) | Akumu | 0 |
| 10873 | TELEPHONE (9) | Uncountable cutesy hearts drawn over a chain of miscommunications (9) | Def. "chain of miscommunications", uncountable = ALEPH ONE, cutesy hearts = __TE__, drawn over a = replace A in ALEPH ONE with TE. | Akumu | 0 |
| 11232 | JURY (4) | Lies under oath tick off each judge (4) | judge (v.) = PERJURY - PER | Akumu | 0 |
| 11285 | ENGINEER (8) | Never take out villain first, begin when Ultimate Soldier reveals plan (8) | plan = EN+GI+NE(-v)ER, reveals is connector | Akumu | 0 |
| 11321 | SWINDLE (7) | Pigs, keeping on the down-low, cheat (7) | SWIN(DL)E | Akumu | 0 |
| 11322 | CARPE DIEM (5, 4) | Whipped cream with an included pedi? Make the most of life! (5 4) | CREAM* around PEDI; whipped, like all words, is an anagrind | Akumu | 0 |
| 12120 | NATICK (6) | SoftFro's origin is one name describing head top's leading attribute when reordered (6) | Definition "SoftFro's origin," user SoftFro's hometown is Natick. One name NICK describing (containing) head top's T and leading attribute A when reordered, N(A+T)ICK | Akumu | 0 |