lavaloid

Contests started: GROUNDBREAKING (14), COCONUT (7), TIME MACHINE (4, 7)

Contests won: TANGIBLE (8), SLALOM (6), OK (2), MEASURE (7), MYCOLOGY (8)

All Submissions

Clue ID Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By Likes
9614 TANGIBLE (8) Concrete table absorbed spilled gin (8) TA[GIN*]BLE = def. concrete lavaloid 4
9804 SLALOM (6) Puzzle type where loop is restricted by small reordering (6) Puzzle type = defn.
where = link word
loop = O
is restricted by = insertion indicator
small reordering = SLALM (anag.)
lavaloid 4
10849 MYCOLOGY (8) Finally! Calm guy, cool/funky/odd guy, and fungi study (8) ___M __Y (COLO)* G_Y = fungi study lavaloid 3
9664 IDIOCY (6) Announcement from head of engineering department of Chevron spelled out absolute nonsense (6) Announcement from ... spelled out: gramogram indicator
head of: first letter indicator
engineering department of Chevron: EDOC

absolute nonsense: definition
lavaloid 2
9899 IFFY (4) Improbable equivalence to vertical axis (4) def: Improbable

equivalence: IFF
to: connecting word
vertical axis: Y
lavaloid 2
10131 OK (2) Fine state (2) ddef: Okay / Oklahoma lavaloid 2
10836 MEASURE (7) meter meter ender ender erasure erasure (7) def. meter
M (meter) + ERASURE - ende[R]
lavaloid 2
10068 OUT OF TUNE (3, 2, 4) A little flat which, initially, one Ugandan tenant offers fairly to a French one (3, 2, 4) O___ U___ T___ O__ F___ T____ + UNE

def: a little flat
lavaloid 1
10072 CURRY (5) The spicy food is going cold, hurry! (5) def: the spicy food

going cold = H -> C
[C]URRY
lavaloid 1
10095 CHEESE GRATER (6, 6) Encourage to possess (without example) separate kitchen gadget (6, 6) encourage: CHEER
to possess: containment indicator
without example: -EG
separate: SEGREGATE

CHEE (SEGR (-eg) ATE) R

def: kitchen gadget
lavaloid 1
10756 SEXTANT (7) After evading taxes, Newton and Tesla makes measurement device (7) TAXES anag. + N + T (physics unit) = measurement device lavaloid 1
10791 SCP (3) Spherical container's purpose, primarily: keeps fictional entities inside (3) [S]pherical [C]ontainer's [P]urpose

def. keeps fictional entities inside
lavaloid 1
10840 TIME MACHINE (4, 7) Nebraska university bends over backwards to accommodate Mach 1 electric starter in sci-fi device (4, 7) Nebraska = NE
university = MIT
Mach 1 = MACHI
electric starter = E

TIME(MACHI)N< + E
def. sci-fi device
lavaloid 1
10846 MEASURE (7) Portion noodles with Indonesian deer mixed in it (7) noodles = MEE
Indonesian deer = RUSA

ME(ASUR*)E = portion
lavaloid 1
10922 YOUR (4) A Chinese person's right to the right pronoun (4) 右(YOU) + R = pronoun lavaloid 1
9775 VIEW (4) Six disgusted remarks of scene (4) six = VI
disgusted remark = EW

def. scene = VIEW
lavaloid 0
9958 CORONER (7) One who studies COVID-19 without a forensic pathologist, maybe (7) One who studies: -ER suffix (e.g. philosopher)
COVID-19: CORONA
without A: remove A

forensic pathologist, maybe: def
lavaloid 0
9960 CORNER (6) One who studies COVID-19 without a love of predicament (6) One who studies: -ER suffix (e.g. philosopher)
COVID-19: CORONA
without a love: remove A O
of: connecting word

predicament: def
lavaloid 0
9974 MERCURY (7) Freddie is 80 (7) ddef: Freddie Mercury / 80 on periodic table lavaloid 0
10024 SATURN (6) TAS run messed up by object from outer space (6) TASRUN anag.
def: object from outer space
lavaloid 0
10040 AIR (3) Launch Artificial Intelligence before end of December (3) def: launch [a projectile]
AI + _____R
lavaloid 0
10141 STEALTH (7) Weird tale, infiltrating something in secrecy (7) S (TEAL*) TH = secrecy lavaloid 0
10308 TERRITORY (9) Region created when author Pratchett ate spoiled roti (9) Region = defn.
created when = linking word
author Pratchett = TERRY
ate = containment
spoiled roti = ROTI anag.

region = TER(RITO*)RY
lavaloid 0
10632 STATUE (6) Take legal action about tattoo on sculpture (6) S(TAT)UE = sculpture lavaloid 0
10759 BACKSEAT (8) Before starting transition, pseudonymous artist with no nose reportedly won't stop telling you what to do (8) Starting transition = T
Pseudonymous artist with no nose reportedly = homophone of "banksy" with no nasals

def. = won't stop telling you what to do
lavaloid 0
10806 LUDDITE (7) People who Rage Against the Machine's lead labelled unproductive due to messing up edit (7) [L]abelled [U]nproductive [D]ue + DITE*
def. people who rage against the machine
lavaloid 0
10885 TATTOO (6) Pattern for Yin-Yang border broke ToT (6) Yin-Yang: TAO (kind of)
border: container indicator
broke ToT: anag. TOT

TA (TTO*) O = pattern
lavaloid 0
10918 ZZZ (3) Snore as last bit of Rush song is put on loop (3) Rush song = YYZ
last bit of YYZ is put on loop = ZZZ = snore
lavaloid 0
10983 OCTAVE (6) Terrible orchestra can't even cover Beethoven's famous symphony 12 semitones above (6) defn. 12 semitones above
(O_C_E_T_A)* contains V (Symphony no.5)
lavaloid 0
11159 PURGATORY (9) Spanish cat, possessed by cat noise, initiates your torture (9) PUR(GATO)R + Y____ = torture lavaloid 0

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