Contests started: DRAGON (6), ANY CLUE THAT USES &, @, /, OR ^ AS AN INDICATOR (?), ID CARD (2, 4), REVEAL (6), SNOWSTORM OR SNOW STORM (9 OR 4, 5), ANY CLUE THAT STARTS WITH "MACHINE TO STEAL" (?), HALFTIME OR HALF TIME (8 OR 4,4), PLINTH (6), MAYBE (5), THEY (4), OVERDUE (7), GREEN TEA OR BLACK TEA (5, 3 OR 5, 3), ANY CLUE THAT STARTS WITH "ANY CLUE THAT" (?), ANY CLUE ENTIRELY MADE UP OF WORDS FROM PREVIOUS CONTESTS' PROMPTS (?) , ANY CLUE THAT IS ALSO A COMPLETE LIE (?), A CLUE (1, 4), BLIZZARD (8), ANY CLUE THAT USES NEW YEAR'S THEMED WORDPLAY (?), PREPARE (7)
Contests won: ANIMOSITY (9), ANY ONE-WORD BAND NAME (?), OUROBOROS (9), PASSWORD (8)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8511 | OUROBOROS (9) | Symbolic snake you rob or ostensibly plunder (9) | _OU ROB OR OS_ def = ancient snake symbol "plunder" indicates hidden word |
Marnix | 5 |
| 9727 | PASSWORD (8) | Dad's weapon is key (8) | d: key PAS SWORD |
Marnix | 4 |
| 8410 | UWU (3) | Self-reflection seen on one side of sunny, light, cute little face? (3) | def = cute little face sunny light = UV "Self-reflection seen on one side" = Take "UV" and reflect it back on itself from *inside* the V, which gives you "UWU" |
Marnix | 3 |
| 8413 | ANIMOSITY (9) | Cartoon has nothing for finale, has a rest before start to years of hostility (9) | def hostility; ANIM(E<>O) + SIT + Y | Marnix | 3 |
| 8411 | UWU (3) | Cute face of diet program splits literally everything, but gets mended around the middle? (3) | def = cute face diet program = WW (Formerly known as weight watchers) Split WW literally as much as you can into double-u double-u. Now mend UUUU back together, but only in the middle, giving you UWU |
Marnix | 2 |
| 8417 | ANY ONE-WORD BAND NAME (?) | Duo bassily croon (3) | double def: LOW | Marnix | 2 |
| 8918 | THE CHASE (3, 5) | The Red Sea, which regularly returned to The Beast's place (3,5) | Def: The Beast's place (The Chase is that gameshow where "the beast" tries to take as much money as they can from contestants by being good at trivia) The + rEd SeA wHiCh < (Indicated by "regularly returned") |
Marnix | 2 |
| 9673 | SUPERTEAM (9) | Paddling upstream with early start overpowered group with a desire to win (9) | def: "Overpowered group with a desire to win" (NBA superteams are formed for the purpose of making teams win championships by putting a bunch of hall-of-famers together) UPSTREAM*+E |
Marnix | 2 |
| 8422 | ANY ONE-WORD BAND NAME (?) | Band's released the same album numerous times (It was trendy before) (7) | Def: Band's released the same album numerous times Chicago, canonically, has 37 albums titled "Chicago." trendy + before = CHIC + AGO |
Marnix | 1 |
| 8434 | FETCH (5) | Iron scolding - it isn't going to happen (5) | FE + TCH "Stop trying to make fetch happen. It isn't going to happen" |
Marnix | 1 |
| 8573 | PITY (4) | Python file embeds tech department's shame (4) | P(IT)Y Python file (.PY is the file extension for the Python programming language) Embeds (container indicator) tech department's (or IT department's) shame (def.) |
Marnix | 1 |
| 8983 | MAESTRO (7) | Top musician bungles some art (7) | Def: top musician (SOMEART*) = MAESTRO |
Marnix | 1 |
| 8317 | BOUTIQUE (8) | Spectral sound starts second shrill shriek (We hear it all the way to the store) (8) | def: store Spectral sound (boo) + sTarts second (t) + shrill shriek (eek) We hear it all the way to (homophone everything) |
Marnix | 0 |
| 8420 | ANY ONE-WORD BAND NAME (?) | Alt rock band is small and mid (4) | def: Alt rock band; small (WEE) + 'and' mid (N) = WEE + N | Marnix | 0 |
| 8425 | MASTERMIND (10) | Bulls and cows followers' king, now excavated, speaks (10) | def: Bulls and cows follower (Bulls and Cows is a codebreaking game that inspired the board game "Mastermind.") king = MASTER; now = positional indicator; excavated, speaks = "MINED" = MASTER + "MIND" |
Marnix | 0 |
| 8426 | C'MON (1'3) | Rapper slices spiritual, noise, exasperated yell (1'3) | def = exasperated yell Rapper = COMMON slices = indicator to remove spiritual noise = OM C(-om)MON |
Marnix | 0 |
| 8676 | WATER (5) | Fluid toxic element in battle (5) | WA(TE)R | Marnix | 0 |
| 11670 | NIX (3) | My backside's gone (3) | ddef this only makes sense if you know Marnix submitted it so hi :cutemarn: |
Marnix | 0 |