Contests started: MONGOOSE (8), ANY CLUE OF THE FORM "IN WHICH [STH HAPPENS]" (?), CONSEQUENCE (11), ENTERPRISE, FOUR-LETTER WORD (4-6, 4), DESSERT SPOONS (7,6), TRANSNISTRIA (12), ANY CLUE BEGINNING WITH "HARRY POTTER AND" (?), ANY CLUE THAT HAS A DIFFERENT ANSWER BASED ON WHETHER IT'S AN ACROSS CLUE OR A DOWN CLUE (?), ANY CLUE WITH ITS WORDS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER (?), FAIL-DEADLY (4-6), CLEANSE (7), ANY CLUE THAT HAS NO LETTERS IN COMMON WITH ITS ANSWER (?), TUGENDHAT (9), ANY SI UNIT (BASE OR DERIVED) WITH THE PREFIX RONNA-, QUETTA-, RONTO- OR QUECTO- (?), IKAYAKI (7), BUCK (4)
Contests won: ANY CLUE THAT IS FORMATTED LIKE A "YO MAMA" JOKE (?), LINTEL (6), ANY CLUE WITH ONLY MONOSYLLABIC WORDS AND A MONOSYLLABIC ANSWER (?), APROPOS (7), TRAMP (5), SLEW (4), PROPRIOCEPTION (14), STERN (5), ANY CLUE OF THE FORM "IN WHICH [STH HAPPENS]" (?), PARLEYVOO (9), GET A LIFE (3,1,4), OVERDUE (7), SVELTE (6), WES CRAVEN (3, 6), EIGHTY-SIX (6-3), HELICOPTER (10), UPDOG (5), PRANK (5), INCORRIGIBLE (12), HÉLOÏSE (7), ENTERPRISE, OVERMORROW (10), ANY CLUE THAT USES THE SAME DEFINITION AND WORDPLAY (?), BROADWAY (8), TURTLE (6), CAPITAL (7), SPIRIT LEVEL (6, 5), EMOJI (5), PISTACHIO (9), PERIPATETIC (11), FRITO (5), PATHETIC (8), CINNAMON (8), AMORE (5), BANANA (6), DARKHOLD (8), MUSTARD (7), SHIVERS (7), STEFANIA (8), SPLENDOR (8), IOUEA (5), CENTER (6), MANTISSA (8), JACKAL (6), TONER (5), FREE-FOR-ALL (4-3-3), A CLUE WHOSE SURFACE READS LIKE A TWITTER BIO. EXTRA CREDIT FOR EMOJIS (?), VIEW (4), CRISIS (6), SCROOGE (7), INDITE (6), INBOX (5), AULD (4), B-SIDE (1-4), 1 (1), FFXIV (5), ENDLESS NIGHT (7, 5), ESTOC (5), ANY CLUE THAT INCLUDES THE SAME WORD THREE OR MORE TIMES (?), HOLBEIN (7), REVIVAL (7), LAUTREC (7), FUMBGY ZONE (6, 4), GALUMPH (7), ANY CLUE IN THE `SHE ___ ON MY ___ UNTIL I ___` FORMAT OR SOMETHING EQUIVALENT (?)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9847 | CRISIS (6) | Conservative Sunak's abandoning hot mess (6) | Conservative - C Sunak's - RISHI'S abandoning - deletion hot - H mess - def |
Botaku | 7 |
| 8965 | PROPRIOCEPTION (14) | Sense of epic proportion warped (14) | Sense - definition <EPICPROPORTION> warped - anagram |
Botaku | 5 |
| 11344 | GALUMPH (7) | Stomp former student in annual riddle event (7) | stomp - def former student - ALUM in - insertion indicator annual riddle event - GPH, short for Galactic Puzzle Hunt |
Botaku | 5 |
| 8924 | APROPOS (7) | Concerning contents of plea proposed (7) | Concerning - definition contents of - hidden word pleA PROPOSed |
Botaku | 4 |
| 9142 | PRANK (5) | Some top-ranking trick (5) | some - hidden word toP-RANKing trick - def |
Botaku | 4 |
| 9209 | CAPITAL (7) | Recap: Italy includes Rome, say (7) | reCAP ITALy includes - hidden word Rome, say - def |
Botaku | 4 |
| 9403 | CENTER (6) | Some public enterprise! (6) | &lit: def - a (community) center, for example, can be a public enterprise some - hidden word publiC ENTERprise (Many thanks to dohz for their consultation!) |
Botaku | 4 |
| 9557 | JACKAL (6) | Perform menial tasks for nothing at all, endlessly (6) | perform menial tasks - def for - link nothing at all - JACK-ALL endlessly - delete last letter |
Botaku | 4 |
| 9023 | ANY CLUE OF THE FORM "IN WHICH [STH HAPPENS]" (?) | In which a ram beats an ape (7) | HARAMBE In - hidden word whicH A RAM BEats an ape - definition |
Botaku | 3 |
| 9281 | EMOJI (5) | Eminem: O.J. is stuffing face on internet (5) | eminEM O.J. Is stuffing - hidden word face on internet - def |
Botaku | 3 |
| 9320 | PATHETIC (8) | Papa, the Tic-Tac stuffing is deplorable! (8) | paPA THE TICtac stuffing - hidden word is - link deplorable - def |
Botaku | 3 |
| 9325 | FOSSIL (6) | Remains of tailless Malagasy mammal before the Italian (6) | remains - def of - link tailless - delete last letter Malagasy mammal - FOSSA before - juxtaposition the Italian - IL (Italian definite article) |
Botaku | 3 |
| 9326 | CINNAMON (8) | Panic in 'Nam: onboarding prisoners to open-source UI (8) | paniC IN NAM ONboarding prisoners - hidden word to - link open-source UI - def |
Botaku | 3 |
| 9373 | BANANA (6) | Berry concealed by shrub: an anagram (6) | berry - def concealed by - hidden word shruB AN ANAgram |
Botaku | 3 |
| 9402 | IOUEA (5) | Cretaceous poriferan of Greek islet and Fijian island (5) | Cretaceous poriferan - def of - link Greek islet - IO and - juxtaposition Fijian island - UEA (Both Io and Uea have a Wikipedia page which is more than can be said of the answer :D) |
Botaku | 3 |
| 9503 | WONT (4) | Is not going to practice (4) | ddef: is not going to (WON'T) + practice (WONT) | Botaku | 3 |
| 9617 | TONER (5) | What a drug addict and a wrong-righter have in common: printer powder! (5) | drug addict - STONER wrong-righter - ATONER what they have in common - _TONER printer powder - def |
Botaku | 3 |
| 9758 | VIEW (4) | Compete and win point (4) | compete - VIE and - juxtaposition win - W point - def (i.e. an opinion/stance) |
Botaku | 3 |
| 9798 | CLUE THAT'S ENTIRELY IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (ANSWER, DEFINITION, AND CRYPTIC READING) | Крепость требует ключ (5) | Translation: fortress demands a key ddef fortress - замок (stress on first syllable) demands a key - lock, i.e. замок (stress on second syllable) Thanks to Yosh for their consultation! |
Botaku | 3 |
| 10683 | AULD (4) | Old contents of cauldron (4) | old - def contents of - container cAULDron |
Botaku | 3 |
| 11133 | ESTOC (5) | Tuck in white stockings (5) | tuck - def in - hidden word whitE STOCkings |
Botaku | 3 |
| 11134 | ENDLESS NIGHT (7, 5) | Christie novel mixes hints, legends (7,5) | Christie novel - def mixes - anagram (HINTSLEGENDS)* [Side note: it's a detective novel with a legend as a central plot point, so this ought to be &littable.] |
Botaku | 3 |
| 11264 | ANY CLUE THAT INCLUDES THE SAME WORD THREE OR MORE TIMES (?) | How to finish sonnets? "Set set, Set upset." (9) | SESTETTES how to finish sonnets? - def upset - anagram (SETSETSET)* |
Botaku | 3 |
| 11308 | HOLBEIN (7) | Warhol being part painter (7) | warHOL BEINg part - hidden word painter - def |
Botaku | 3 |
| 8767 | ANY CLUE THAT IS FORMATTED LIKE A "YO MAMA" JOKE (?) | Yo mama so strewn, dawg initially confused her for a foggy drive (8,7) | Answer: MOTORWAY MADNESS dawg initially - D confused - anagram <yomamasostrewnd> - MOTORWAY MADNESS a foggy drive - definition |
Botaku | 2 |
| 8863 | LINTEL (6) | Support from artificial intelligence (6) | support - definition from - hidden word artificiaL INTELligence |
Botaku | 2 |
| 8926 | ANY CLUE BUT THE WHOLE THING HAS TO BE IN THE FORM OF A POEM - IT DOESN'T HAVE TO RHYME BUT IT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZABLE AS A POETIC TRADITION (ANY) | Rose red, violet blue, brash data haul dashing to discuss an issue (1,7,6,2,1,7,6) | A TROUBLE SHARED IS A TROUBLE HALVED = <ROSEREDVIOLETBLUEBRASHDATAHAUL> dashing = ana to discuss an issue = def |
Botaku | 2 |
| 8966 | TRAMP (5) | Lady's companion shackled by quiet rampage (5) | Lady's companion - definition shackled by - hidden word quieT RAMPage |
Botaku | 2 |
| 8969 | SLEW (4) | C.S.Lewis essentially killed (4) | c.S.LEWis essentially - hidden word killed - definition |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9005 | STERN (5) | Frowning in consternation (5) | Frowning - def in - hidden word conSTERNation |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9029 | GET A LIFE (3,1,4) | In Turing et al., I felt a call to action (3,1,4) | in - hidden word turinG ET AL I FElt a call to action - def |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9066 | SVELTE (6) | Soviet letter, oddly elegant (6) | SoViEt LeTtEr oddly - letters at odd positions elegant - def |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9157 | LIAISON (7) | Affair leads to absurd alimonies ripping me off (7) | affair - definition leads to - link absurd - anagram <ALIMONIES> ripping ME off - delete ME |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9169 | HÉLOÏSE (7) | All without "N or M?", Oscar behind wheel acutely steers, initially into oddly naïve woman of letters (7) | all without N or M - delete all instances of N and M Oscar - O behind - juxtaposition wheel acutely - HÉLM steers initially - S into - container oddly NaÏvE woman of letters - def HÉL(-M)+O+(-N)Ï(+S)E |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9201 | TURTLE (6) | Cruel truth about components in drawer (6) | cruEL TRUTh about - reversal components - hidden word in - link drawer - def (cursor that can be instructed to draw an image on the screen) |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9247 | SPIRIT LEVEL (6, 5) | Vilest peril - broken measuring equipment (6,5) | (VILESTPERIL)* broken - anagram measuring equipment - def |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9382 | MUSTARD (7) | Sat in confusion during first half; murderer was the Colonel (7) | in confusion - anagram (SAT)* - STA during - container first half murderer - MURD was - link the Colonel - def (Colonel Mustard from Cluedo/Clue) |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9461 | UMAMI (5) | A bit of satsuma, mildly basic taste (5) | a bit of - hidden word satsUMA MIldly basic taste - def |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9476 | PERPETUITY (10) | Inalienability guarantee for house of ill repute? Pity (10) | inalienability guarantee for house - def of - link ill - anagram (fite me 😤) (REPUTEPITY)* |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9521 | MANTISSA (8) | Fowles novel reveals abysmal satanism (8) | Fowles novel - def reveals - link abysmal - anagram (SATANISM)* |
Botaku | 2 |
| 9541 | ANY URL (?) | Essentially vagarious online game (4.2) | essentially - hidden word vAGAR.IOus online game - def |
Botaku | 2 |
| 10649 | SCROOGE (7) | Miser's twisted self-esteem associated with ugly and malevolent beings (7) | miser - def 's - link twisted - reversal self-esteem - EGO associated with - juxtaposition ugly and malevolent beings - ORCS (EGO+ORCS)< |
Botaku | 2 |
| 10651 | INDITE (6) | Write, rearrange in edit (6) | write - def rearrange - anagram (INEDIT)* |
Botaku | 2 |
| 10658 | SNOOZE (6) | Ozone's complication? (6) | &lit: one notable effect of prolonged exposure to ozone is a feeling of tiredness complication - anagram (OZONES)* |
Botaku | 2 |
| 10703 | B-SIDE (1-4) | Next to reported increase in difficulty (1-4) | next to - BESIDE reported - homophone increase in difficulty - def (in the context of Celeste) |
Botaku | 2 |
| 10705 | LICENSE (7) | Certify selenic mixture (7) | certify - def (SELENIC)* mixture - anagram |
Botaku | 2 |
| 11180 | FINAGLE (7) | End gripping, grand plot (7) | end - FINALE gripping - insertion grand - G plot - def |
Botaku | 2 |
| 11204 | POSTAL SERVICE (6, 7) | Less proactive, confused mailmen etc. (6,7) | (LESSPROACTIVE)* confused - anagram mailmen etc. - def |
Botaku | 2 |
| 8876 | NUMBER ONE (6, 3) | Ember noun becomes something less sensitive (6,3) | EMBER NOUN becomes - anagram something less sensitive - definition |
Botaku | 1 |
| 8914 | ANY CLUE WITH ONLY MONOSYLLABIC WORDS AND A MONOSYLLABIC ANSWER (?) | Car from glib, rough Ames (8) | Car - definition from - hidden word gliB, ROUGH AMes |
Botaku | 1 |
| 8925 | ANY CLUE IN THE FORM OF A "L + RATIO +..." MEME (?) | L + ratio + you met jabs circulated by most people (8,8) | <LRATIOYOUMETJABS> circulated - anagram most people - definition ABSOLUTE MAJORITY |
Botaku | 1 |
| 8967 | SPRIGATITO (10) | Starter keeps prig at it? One Piece! | Starter - definition keepS PRIG AT IT One piece - hidden word |
Botaku | 1 |
| 8985 | MAESTRO (7) | Carcinoma estrogen content irradiated malicious character (7) | CarcinoMA ESTROgen content - hidden word irradiated malicious character - def (a villainous alternate future version of Hulk) |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9004 | THEY (4) | Winners, for instance, in just Heyawake (4) | Winners, for instance - def in - hidden word jusT HEYawake |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9006 | EMACS (5) | Editor swinging about maces (5) | Editor - def swinging about - anagram <MACES> |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9049 | RECKON (6) | Buried in wreck: one gauge (6) | buried in - hidden word wRECK ONe gauge - definition |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9078 | EIGHTY-SIX (6-3) | Chick Hicks' endless reign, even shitty engine drops straight away (6-3) | Chick Hicks - def (character from Cars, a racecar bearing the number 86) endless rEIGn even sHiTtY engine - STRAIGHT-SIX drops STRAIGHT away |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9087 | TORRENT (7) | Stream partner rotates segment about (7) | stream - def parTNER ROTates segment - hidden word about - reversal |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9125 | HELICOPTER (10) | The Police mixed up with Queen on flyer (10) | <THEPOLICE>+R mixed up - anagram with - juxtaposition Queen - R on - link flyer - definition |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9143 | UPDOG (5) | Shackled by demigod, punishing revolutionary for nothing much (5) | shackled by - hidden word demiGOD PUnishing revolutionary - reversal for - link nothing much - def (as in "What is updog?" "Nothing much, [...]") |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9147 | CREAM CHEESE (5, 6) | Emeer's cache concealed food (5,6) | <EMEERSCACHE> concealed - anagram food - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9151 | INCORRIGIBLE (12) | Broiling rice, stirring until hardened (12) | <BROILINGRICE> stirring - anagram until - filler hardened - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9173 | ENTERPRISE | Company to pern IT, seer evens the odds (10) | company - def to - link evens, odds pErNiTsEeR + PeRnItSeEr |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9188 | OVERMORROW (10) | Uncover Morrowind gems two days later (10) | uncOVER MORROWind gems - hidden word two days later - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9191 | BROADWAY (8) | Strong progress in theatre district (8) | ddef strong - BROAD (e.g. an accent) progress - WAY (e.g. make one's way through sth) in - link theatre district - BROADWAY |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9229 | CONCERTO (8) | Collaboration on opening piece (8) | collaboration - CONCERT (cf. in concert, in collaboration) on opening - O (first letter of ON) piece - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9267 | ERROR (5) | In fear or regret over mix-up (5) | in - hidden word feaR OR REgret over - reversal mix-up - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9285 | LYDIAN (6) | Puzzler's daily rounds never start (6) | puzzler - def 's - link (DAILY)*+N(ever) rounds - anagram start - first letter |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9291 | VAMP (4) | Volt and ampere shortly lead to a siren (4) | shortly - abbrev. (is this necessary?) volt - V and - juxtaposition ampere - AMP lead to - link a siren - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9294 | PISTACHIO (9) | Drupe & Co. leaving sociopathic mess (9) | drupe - def & - link leaving - deletion mess - anagram (SOCIOPATHIC)* - (CO) |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9307 | PERIPATETIC (11) | Stirred precipitate travelling (11) | stirred - anagram (PRECIPITATE)* travelling - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9319 | FRITO (5) | Snack mistaken for it (5) | snack - def mistaken - anagram (FORIT)* |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9334 | ARCHIVE (7) | Pack at the end of Curve Data catalogue (7) | pack - HIVE at the end of - juxtaposition curve - ARC data catalogue - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9360 | TOPIARY (7) | Shaken IPA drunk by conservative in ornamental shrub (7) | shaken - anagram (IPA)* - PIA drunk by - insertion conservative - TORY in - link ornamental shrub - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9366 | AMORE (5) | When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie in a bustling Rome (5) | when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie - def in - link bustling - anagram A+(ROME)* |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9374 | DARKHOLD (8) | Dead? Key of life swaps opening number for closing number in front of ancient castle in Forgotten Realms (8) | dead - D key of life - ANKH opening number - N_ closing number - _R in front of - juxtaposition ancient - OLD castle in Forgotten Realms - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9395 | SHIVERS (7) | French winter flanked by nazis, trembles (7) | French winter - HIVER flanked by - container nazis - SS trembles - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9396 | TREMOR (6) | Backward Bob gets second degree, shaking (6) | backward - reversal Bob - ROBERT gets second degree - swaps B(achelor) for M(aster) shaking (noun) - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9400 | SPLENDOR (8) | Asp, lend Orpheus guts and glory! (8) | aSP LEND ORpheus guts - hidden word and - link glory - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9417 | SALAD (5) | Regular assault and rummage (5) | regular aSsAuLt AnD rummage - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9419 | FEINT (5) | Fencing move sounds weak (5) | fencing move - def sounds - homophone weak - FAINT |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9449 | ZUGZWANG (8) | Zürich's neighbour associated with central buzzword before Lee forced to make a bad move (8) | Zürich's neighbour - ZUG (a Swiss canton) associated with - juxtaposition central - middle two letters buzZWord before - juxtaposition Lee - ANG forced to make a bad move - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9452 | PERFIDY (7) | Tracking chip planted in Allende's ally, constituting a war crime (7) | tracking chip - RFID planted in - insertion Allende's ally - PEY constituting - link a war crime - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9458 | CRAZY (5) | Disturbed some Lycra zygotes (5) | disturbed - def some - hidden word lyCRA ZYgotes |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9502 | FLICK (5) | Could be some chick film! (5) | &lit: def - alluding to the term "chick flick" could be - anagram some - hidden word chiCK FILm |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9504 | A CLUE WHERE EVERY WORD, AS WELL AS THE ANSWER, ARE ALSO VALID WORDS IN NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE(S) (?) | Pet in this language or in native Australian language? (3) | ddef - DOG in English, as well as in Mbabaram (is it from the same well if they're false cognates? :thonk:) pet - Dutch for "cap" in - Dutch for "in" this - Scots for "this" (or Quechua for the sound a cat makes when preparing to attack something, if you prefer 😂) language - Old French for "language" or - French for "gold" native - Italian for "female natives" Australian - Finnish for "Australian" (the ending being the same is actually somewhat coincidental) |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9522 | EXPONENT (8) | Subtraction, say, for engineer faced with one stuck between two Windows versions (8) | subtraction, say - def (in linguistics, subtraction is a type of exponent) for - link engineer - E faced with - juxtaposition ONE stuck between XP and NT |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9540 | REPECHAGE (9) | Final chance for the Queen to back away from dessert lacking its eponym, containing E174 (9) | final chance - def (it's the final chance for a team that initially failed to qualify to make it to the finals) for - link the Queen - ER to back away from - reversal + juxtaposition dessert lacking its eponym - PÊCHE (-MELBA) containing - insertion E174 - silver, i.e. AG (ER)< + PÊCH(+AG)E |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9558 | CALICO CAT (6, 3) | Regular chaplaincy and upside-down taco for tortoiseshell with white undercoat (6,3) | regular ChApLaInCy and - juxtaposition upside-down - reversal C_A_L_I_C_ + (TACO)< for - link tortoiseshell with white undercoat - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9573 | CASHEW (6) | Allergen given by that woman, swallowed by crow's cry (6) | allergen - def given by - link that woman - SHE swallowed by - insertion crow's cry - CAW CA(+SHE)W |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9641 | COASTER (7) | A bit of cocoa sterilisation provides protection (7) | a bit of - hidden word coCOA STERilisation provides - link protection - def (protects the countertop from getting wet or burned) |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9687 | FREE-FOR-ALL (4-3-3) | In the middle of Mischief Reef, oral law leads to brawl (4-3-3) | in the middle of - hidden word mischieF REEF ORAL Law leads to - link brawl - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9696 | A CLUE WHOSE SURFACE READS LIKE A TWITTER BIO. EXTRA CREDIT FOR EMOJIS (?) | xe/xem, PTSD, secretly free (6) | xE/XEM PTsd secretly - hidden word free - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9712 | ANY CLUE THAT IS ALSO A PARADOX (?) | Odd and not odd, off the wall decoration (4) | oDdAnDnOt odd off - remove odd letters the wall decoration - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9802 | SLALOM (6) | Bloom's album with earliest symphony by Lalo, opening movement (6) | Bloom's album - def with - link earliest - first letter by - juxtaposition opening - first letter S_ + LALO + M_ |
Botaku | 1 |
| 9803 | CANDELABRA (10) | Colombia's capital and El Abra as part of the Andes (10) | capital - first letter C_+AND+EL+ABRA as - link part of the Andes - def (referring to the Candelabra of the Andes AKA Paracas Candelabra) |
Botaku | 1 |
| 10728 | 1 (1) | Legendre's constant reportedly won (1) | Legendre's constant - def reportedly - homophone |
Botaku | 1 |
| 11171 | COELACANTH (10) | Glencoe, LA, can't hide fragment of living fossil (10) | glenCOELACANTHide fragment - hidden word of - link living fossil - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 11271 | NAG A RAM (3 1 3) | Harry, a male sheep, confused Agra man (3,1,3) | harry a male sheep - def confused - anagram (AGRAMAN)* |
Botaku | 1 |
| 11301 | WHODUNIT (8) | Starts with homicide (ordinarily), detective uncovers new information, triumphs! (8) | &lit starts - first letters W_ H_ O_ D_ U_ N_ I_ T_ |
Botaku | 1 |
| 11316 | REVIVAL (7) | Tel Aviv eradicates revolutionary prisoners in resurgence (7) | teLAVIVERadicates revolutionary - reversal prisoners - hidden word in - link resurgence - def |
Botaku | 1 |
| 11341 | FUMBGY ZONE (6, 4) | One of three channels: #fucked-up-memes-by-gay-youths, #introductions-corner, ...? (6,4) | one of three channels - def, from the meme the phrase originates from F_ U_ M_ B_ G_ Y_ introductions - first letters corner - ZONE |
Botaku | 1 |
| 11342 | ACROSTIC (8) | Hidden message read down or across (tick endlessly!) (8) | hidden message read down - def or - link ACROS_ + TIC_ endlessly - final letter deletion |
Botaku | 1 |
| 11984 | ANY CLUE IN THE `SHE ___ ON MY ___ UNTIL I ___` FORMAT OR SOMETHING EQUIVALENT (?) | ||She bullying on my sag [sic!] til i burst|| (14) | MISOGYNISTICAL she(-)bullying - def (ONMYSAGSICTILI)* burst - anagrind |
Botaku | 1 |
| 8582 | TRENCHCOAT (10) | Catch tenor rustling overwear (10) | overwear - definition rustling - anagram <CATCH TENOR> |
Botaku | 0 |
| 8854 | ANY ANAGRAMLESS CLUE WITH AN ANSWER THAT IS 15+ LETTERS LONG (?) | Give up rearrangement strategies, extract promises (15) | Give - filler uP REARRANGEMENT Strategies extract - hidden word promises - definition for PREARRANGEMENTS |
Botaku | 0 |
| 8868 | ANY ICONIC DUO “X AND Y” E.G. “FISH AND CHIPS”, “TOM AND JERRY” ETC. (X, 3, Y) | Aloof fan donates insides every now and then (3,3,2) | AloOF FAN DONates insides - hidden word every now and then - definition OFF AND ON |
Botaku | 0 |
| 8915 | INDIRECT ANAGRAM (8,7) | Unusual technique for mixing short irregular amine, genetic material with its components? (8,7) | Unusual technique - definition mixing - anagram short irregular - IRR genetic material - DNA and its components - ACGT <IRR AMINE DNA ACGT> |
Botaku | 0 |
| 8943 | PERUSE (6) | Secretly super useful scan (6) | secretly - hidden word suPER USEful scan - definition |
Botaku | 0 |
| 8945 | AND... SCENE! (3... 5) | Ends acne artfully? (3... 5) | &lit: Def - a visual arts person could say this when starting to use medication to end their acne, for instance. <ENDSACNE> artfully - anagram |
Botaku | 0 |
| 8968 | MAYBE (5) | Jepsen Maybelline? (5) | ddef: Jepsen's song "Call Me Maybe" tagline "Maybe it's Maybelline" |
Botaku | 0 |
| 8991 | ANY CLUE THAT USES A MATHEMATICAL SEQUENCE OTHER THAN EVENS/ODDS TO INDEX (?) | Kolakoski abhors pop band (4) | ABBA Kolakoski sequence begins with 1, 2, 2, 1 indexing "abhors" pop band - definition |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9027 | CIRCLE (6) | The coven's sorceress takes the L (6) | sorceress - CIRCE takes the L - circLe the coven - definition |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9028 | PARLEYVOO (9) | YOLO vaper's gibberish French talk (9) | (YOLOVAPER)* gibberish - anagram French talk - definition |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9040 | ET TU (2,2) | Lettuce contains Caesar's words (2,2) | lETTUce contains - hidden word indicator Caesar's words - definition |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9042 | LANCE (5) | Knight lost a lot, including his weapon (5) | LANCELOT\LOT lost - removal a, including - filler his weapon - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9054 | OVERDUE (7) | Moving north from Verdun, flanked by one late arrival (7) | verdun flanked by one - ONVERDUNE moving north from - bits and pieces, remove the Ns late arrival - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9060 | TARNISHED (9) | Some puzzled eh's in rather twisted, lacking Polish (9) | some - hidden word puzzleD EHS IN RATher twisted - reversal lacking polish - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9064 | DUMPSTER (8) | Badump! sternum conceals source of fire (8) | baDUMP STERnum conceals - hidden word source of fire - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9065 | ROTOM (5) | Backwards mover controls appliances (5) | mover - MOTOR controls appliances - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9071 | BOLD (4) | Rash, botched lobotomy conceals cutback (4) | rash - def botcheD LOBotomy conceals - hidden word cutback - reversal |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9073 | WES CRAVEN (3, 6) | Small charge interrupting snitch with stitches clipped, in turn writing Krueger (3,6) | small charge - EV (electronvolt) interrupting - container snitch - NARC with stitches - SEWN clipped - last letter deletion in turn - reversal writing Krueger - def (N(+EV)ARC+SEW(-N))< |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9077 | CONSEQUENCE (11) | Comeuppance for a row of crooks (11) | ddef - CONSEQUENCE, CON+SEQUENCE | Botaku | 0 |
| 9092 | HAYWIRE (7) | "Why I are out of order?" (7) | &lit - a robot asking itself a question like this suggests it has gone haywire <WHY I ARE> out of order - anagram |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9097 | GALOSH (6) | Group theorist loses identity, with heart in boot (6) | group theorist - GALOIS loses - removal identity - I with - juxtaposition heart - H in - filler boot - definition GALO(-I)S+H |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9113 | VOW (3) | Whoever regularly returns, loses Queen's oath (3) | whoever regularly - WOVR returns - reversal loses Queen('s) - delete R oath - definition |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9118 | INDICATOR (9) | Mark caught in India, in front of Jena gate (9) | Mark - def caught - C in - insertion in front of - appends Jena gate - TOR (gate in German) INDI(C)A+TOR |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9132 | ONIGIRI (7) | Jelly donuts: endless tonic, unfinished gin, even fruit! (7) | jelly donuts - def (in the Pokémon anime, onigiri was localised as jelly donuts) tONIc + GIn + fRuIt |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9150 | CLOUDS (6) | Water with Metal backing Wood reported as having no wins and losses, flanked by negative acolytes of Earth and infernal ally of Fire (6) | water with metal backing - def (i.e. vapour which is said to have a silver lining) reported - homophone (wood - would) as having no wins and losses - remove W and L flanked by - double juxtaposition negative acolytes of Earth - CL (acolytes of earth - salt, the negative ions in salt being chlorine) infernal ally of fire - S (sulphur = brimstone, hell being described as fire and brimstone) CL+(w)OU(l)D+S |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9156 | RABBIT (6) | Crab bites prisoner's pet (6) | cRAB BITes prisoner(')s - hidden word pet - definition |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9183 | SONI (4) | Artisan caste's regularly astounding, not grand (4) | artisan caste - def aStOuNdInG not grand - delete G |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9193 | ANY CLUE THAT USES THE SAME DEFINITION AND WORDPLAY (?) | The same definition and wordplay leads revolution, accepting European mortgage (6) | WADSET leads - initial letters revolution - reversal accepting - inclusion European - E mortgage - def (TSDAW)< +E |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9205 | BLOOD PACT (5, 4) | Broadcast regularly replaced by cut content for a contract (5,4) | B_O_D_A_T + _L_O_P_C_ regularly replaced by - every second letter replaced by cut - LOP content - C for - link a contract - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9230 | STAB (4) | Bats abandoned, leading to another attack (4) | (BATS)* abandoned - anagram leading to - link another attack - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9258 | CHARLIE PARKER (7, 6) | Fool-Stopper Yardbird (7,6) | ddef fool - CHARLIE (BrE slang) stopper - PARKER Yardbird - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9268 | CARBON (6) | Dinn, Obra came back in ashes, basically (6) | emaC ARBO Nnid back - reversal in - hidden word ashes, basically - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9282 | MCDONALD'S (9) | Old farmer's fast food chain (9) | ddef old farmer's ("Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O") fast food chain |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9308 | HABANERO (8) | Mocha ban erodes contents of Amazonian export (8) | mocHA BAN EROdes contents - hidden word of - link Amazonian export - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9310 | CRUCIBLE (8) | Club rice around in vessel (8) | (CLUBRICE)* around - anagram in - link vessel - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9313 | BUFFET (6) | Warren cut short in canteen (6) | Warren - BUFFETT cut short - delete last letter in - link canteen - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9316 | SMORGASBORD (11) | Ångström broods in ruins, not without choice (11) | (ÅNGSTRÖMBROODS)*-(NOT) = SMÖRGÅSBORD in ruins - anagram without - excluded (in the old-fashioned sense of "not within", should work after the keyword as well, I imagine?) choice - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9318 | TRANSNISTRIA (12) | Banach-Tarski trains crashed in breakaway state (12) | Banach-Tarski - double the string (TRAINSTRAINS)* crashed - anagram in - link breakaway state - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9347 | ANY CLUE BEGINNING WITH "HARRY POTTER AND" (?) | "Harry Potter and the Gossip Columnist" absurdly drops shot puts for seafaring skill (9,12) | SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY and - anagram fodder link (HARRYPOTTERTHEGOSSIPCOLUMNIST)* absurdly - anagram drops - deletion -SHOTPUTS for - link seafaring skill - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9358 | A CLUE THAT ONLY WORKS IF ONE ASCRIBES TO A WIDELY DEBUNKED CONSPIRACY THEORY (?) | Bin constructed with rotating tool, bra companion, even jet fuel-resistant stuff in the middle (11) | WASTEBASKET bin - def constructed with - link or juxtaposition, whichever way you want to look at it rotating - reversal tool - SAW bra companion - KET (in bra-ket notation) even - take even letters jet fuel-resistant stuff - sTeEl BeAmS in the middle - place between the previous two (SAW)< + TEBAS + KET |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9359 | TURIN (5) | I hear you are in the can; papyrus for the throne? (5) | I hear - homophone you are - U R in - container the can - TIN papyrus for the throne - def (see Turin King List) |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9367 | BLESS (5) | Get word from Pope, say, that Lim scratched out once arms and legs torn off (5) | Get word from Pope, say - def that - link Lim scratched out - LIM deleted once - link (i.e. once you have the word LIMBLESS, LIM is deleted) arms and legs torn off - LIMBLESS (Can you tell I'm annoyed at how long it took me to figure out Lim's fate in Obra Dinn?) |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9376 | COURTESY (8) | Respect lost eco yurts (8) | respect - def lost - anagram (ECOYURTS)* |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9380 | SPACEMAN (8) | Endless enamel caps zero-gravity astronaut (8) | endless - delete first and last letter zero-gravity - reversal astronaut - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9383 | TESTIFY (7) | A bit of latest, if you swear (7) | a bit of - hidden word laTEST IF You swear - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9384 | ECCEDENTESIAST (14) | Stepford wife with possibly seediest accent (14) | Stepford wife - def (cf. the trope Stepford Smiler) with - link possibly - anagram (SEEDIESTACCENT)* |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9399 | STEFANIA (8) | Eurovision-winning song in rhythm game makes evening loud (8) | Eurovision-winning song - def in - link rhythm game - STEPMANIA makes evening loud - replaces PM by F |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9422 | CHTHONIC (8) | Hiding in yacht, hon? I curse the infernal! (8) | hiding in - hidden word yaCHT HON I Curse the infernal - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9423 | BREACH (6) | Chasm within sombre Achilles (6) | chasm - def within - hidden word somBRE ACHilles |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9434 | ANTHEM (6) | Hymn about bug before border (6) | hymn - def about - link bug - ANT before - juxtaposition border - HEM |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9435 | DIDACTIC (8) | Characters in sordid act, icily instructive (8) | characters in - hidden word sorDID ACT ICily instructive - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9446 | EA-NASIR (2-5) | Ear full of soda and glass cations for disappointing copper merchant (2-5) | full of - insertion soda and glass cations - NA and SI EA(+NA)(+SI)R for - link disappointing copper merchant - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9459 | COAX (4) | Butter up dual of hatchet (4) | butter up - def dual of - CO- hatchet - AX |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9483 | SPATCHCOCK (10) | Butterfly coming from Belgian town, followed by "The Birds" director without greeting (10) | butterfly - def (spatchcocking is a special form of butterflying) coming from - link Belgian town - SPA followed by - juxtaposition "The Birds" director - HITCHCOCK without greeting - delete HI |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9515 | REDEEM (6) | Save 007 imprisoned by "7 Chinese Bros." group (6) | save - def 007 - (John) DEE, signed his letters with 007 imprisoned by - container "7 Chinese Bros." group - R.E.M. |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9525 | ELEVEN (6) | German elf Scheele ventilates components (6) | German elf - def ("elf" is German for "eleven") ScheELE VENtilates components - hidden word |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9542 | EPEE (4) | Protégée's bottom half containing its head, no good sport (4) | protégée's bottom half - ÉGÉE containing its head - ÉG(+P)ÉE no good - delete G sport - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9616 | ANY CLUE THAT IS A MASSIVE SPOILER (OF A BOOK/MOVIE/SHOW ETC.) (?) | (Curtain, A. Christie) ||Norton, i.e. X uses extreme confusion and eseroline, say (10)|| | NEUROTOXIN = (NORTONIEX+U_)* extreme - first letter confusion - anagram and - link eseroline, say - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9740 | HACK (4) | Shackled prisoners get along (4) | sHACKled prisoners - hidden word get along - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9741 | GRADUATION (10) | Range-limiting uniform ceremony (10) | range - GRADATION limiting - container uniform - U ceremony - def (Thanks to dohz for their consultation!) |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9742 | A CLUE (1, 4) | The faintest thrashing about locality in UTC+8:45 (1,4) | the faintest - def ("haven't a clue" = "haven't the faintest") thrashing about - anagram locality in UTC+8:45 - EUCLA |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9759 | BISHOP (6) | Tupac's role in two works (6) | Tupac's role - def in - link two - BI- works - SHOP (e.g. workshop) |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9760 | CUCKOO (6) | Clutch Kronos regularly in card game (6) | ClUtCh KrOnOs regularly - letters at odd positions in - link card game - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9841 | 11780 (5) | (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc) ||Desired number of votes from Sayaka's dying message and year of Byzantine insurrectionist's defeat|| (5) | desired number of votes - def from - link [DR:THH spoiler] - 11037 and - addition year of Byzantine insurrectionist's defeat - 743 (the insurrectionist being Artabasdos) |
Botaku | 0 |
| 9846 | AQUARIUM (8) | Aquinas' "Scriptum super libros Sententiarium" contents dropped into fish tank (8) | contents - hidden "word" (INASSCRIPTUMSUPERLIBROSSENTENTI) dropped - deleted into - link fish tank - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 10674 | INBOX (5) | Letter tray of stainless steel doped with boron (5) | letter tray - def of - link stainless steel - INOX doped with - insertion boron - B IN(+B)OX |
Botaku | 0 |
| 10704 | MOOCH (5) | Wander in camo? O Christ! (5) | wander - def in - hidden word caMO O CHrist |
Botaku | 0 |
| 10740 | 爱 (1) | I expressed love in Beijing (1) | 爱 (ài) as a homophone of "I" expressed - homophone indicator love in Beijing - def (i.e. "love" in Simplified Chinese) |
Botaku | 0 |
| 10751 | RAGDOLL (7) | Dollars laundered? Solve a Nuri-Maze by Baker's Cat (7) | DOLLARS - anagram fodder laundered - anagram solve a Nuri-Maze - go from S to G by - link Baker's cat - def (a cat breed developed by Ann Baker) |
Botaku | 0 |
| 10794 | FFXIV (5) | Decapitate, kill, strike me: vaster, opener critically acclaimed MMORPG (5) | decapitate - delete first letter kill - OFF strike - X (in bowling) me - I opener - first letter critically acclaimed MMORPG - def _FF+X+I+V_ |
Botaku | 0 |
| 10803 | BIKE LANE (4, 4) | Be like an oddly common occurrence in the Netherlands (4,4) | (BELIKEAN)* oddly - anagram indicator common occurrence in the Netherlands - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 11132 | LET'S DO "YOUR USERNAME (?)" AGAIN THAT WAS FUN | About K, about Zero Escape fan (6) | (ABOUTK)* about - anagram Zero Escape fan - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 11209 | ACE OF SPADES (3 2 6) | Motörhead hit, peeled face off, beat hearts (3,2,6) | Motörhead hit - def peeled "face off" - (-F)ACE OF(-F) beat hearts - in bridge, spades rank higher than hearts |
Botaku | 0 |
| 11218 | ELOPE (5) | Ruminant shed insect? Flee! (5) | ruminant - ANTELOPE shed - deletion insect - ANT (-ANT)ELOPE flee - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 11245 | TCHOTCHKE (9) | Some XTC - Hotch keeps souvenir (9) | some - hidden word xTCHOTCHKEeps souvenir - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 11268 | SQUINT (6) | Served opener (coq au vin & nuts) regularly, not cold, to peer (6) | opener - first letter COQAUVINNUTS regularly - C_Q_U_I_N_T_ not cold - delete C to - link peer - def |
Botaku | 0 |
| 11340 | LAUTREC (7) | Toulouse artist's novella "Utrecht's gems" (7) | Toulouse artist - punny def for (Toulouse-)Lautrec novelLAUTRECht's gems - hidden word |
Botaku | 0 |
| 11361 | POIGNANT (8) | Odds, then evens to pin nog at touching (8) | odds - P_I_N_N_ then evens +_O_G_A_T touching - def i.e. the odd letters followed by the even letters yield "PIN NOG AT" |
Botaku | 0 |
| 12111 | WHAT (4) | Nani? Luffy's crewmate's other half? (4) | nani - def Luffy's crewmate - STRAW HAT (in One Piece, Luffy leads the Straw Hats) |
Botaku | 0 |