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Contests started: HOLBEIN (7), VERMEER (7), LAUTREC (7), MATISSE (7), RAPHAEL (7)

Contests won: STAIRWELL (9), LEFTOVER OR LEFTOVERS (8) OR (9), SNOOZE (6), EROICA (6), PARTICIPANTS (12), INCHOATE (8), NAG A RAM (3 1 3)

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Clue ID Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By Likes
10666 SNOOZE (6) Zeno's paradox: getting zero sleep (6) paradox is being used as an anagrind here, so zeno's paradox = SNOZE
getting = insertion
zero = O
sleep = def = SNOOZE
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10589 LEFTOVER OR LEFTOVERS (8) OR (9) Quit before six bowls of cricket were uneaten (8) Quit = LEFT
In cricket, six bowls make up an OVER
Uneaten = def
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10604 ANY CLUE THAT CONTAINS THE PHRASE "LOST IN TRANSLATION" (?) Lost in translation, according to Aeneas's lover (7) According to = PER
Aeneas's lover = DIDO
Lost in translation = PERDIDO (spanish for lost)
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10665 NATIVITY (8) Vanity, it ruined Jesus's birth (8) ruined = anagram indicator
anagram VANITYIT = nativity = jesus's birth
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10668 EROICA (6) Beethoven's third porno: "No Time" (6) beethoven's third = def
porno = EROTICA
no time = remove T from EROTICA
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11276 NAG A RAM (3 1 3) Funny anagram! (3 1 3) *(ANAGRAM)
&lit: "nag a ram" is an anagram and a funny google easter egg
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10599 COUNTRY (7) Nation to poorly con yurt (7) *(CONYURT) rÿàń 1
10609 MEANDER (7) Walk around, put me in for the win, and walk around (7) Replace W (win) in WANDER with ME rÿàń 1
10619 CHLAMYDIA (9) A child may unfortunately get STI (9) *ACHILDMAY rÿàń 1
10629 PITCHER (7) Baseball player ripping up receipt, losing some energy for an hour (7) baseball player = def
receipt, losing some energy for an hour = replace one E in receipt with H ("some" clues that it's just one of the E's)
ripping up = *(rechipt) = pitcher
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10630 ARMY (4) Military dismembered Mary (4) *MARY rÿàń 1
10664 TROLL (5) Controlling, hoarding, nasty person (5) hoarding = hidden word indicator
controlling has troll in it
nasty person = def
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10720 PARTICIPANTS (12) Competition ruined captain's trip (12) competition = def (e.g. in a contest, the participants are the competition vis-à-vis you)
ruined = anagrind
captain's trip = fodder
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10792 INCHOATE (8) Developing into each cuckoo (8) developing = def
into each = fodder
cuckoo = anagrind
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11376 A (1) One letter! (1) ddef
&lit: "a" is one letter
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11479 OCTOTHORPE (10) #1912OlympianWithEightLimbs?? (10) # = octothorpe
olympian with eight limbs = punny def (like an octopus but the 1912 olympian is jim thorpe so it's octothorpe???)
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11662 GUTS (4) Fring captured Tyrus's main vampire site (4) Fring = GUS
Tyrus's main = T
captured = GU(T)S
vampire site = def ("vampire" is a song on Olivia Rodrigo's GUTS)
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10576 STAIRWELL (9) Inflation steals top-tier inflation agent on the way up (9) S(Tier+AIR)WELL rÿàń 0
10580 NORI (4) Nobody ordered Rachel's internationally leading seaweed (4) N_ O_ R_ I_ rÿàń 0
10617 OORT (4) Cloud of cheerios gutted rat (4) cloud = def
cheerios = OO
gutted rat = RT
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10621 PARAMEDIC (9) Doctor to panic, eat ramen, exchange news for 500 (9) doctor = def
panic eat ramen = PA(RAMEN)NIC
exchange news for 500 = Ns become D
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10634 STATUE (6) Nation with uranium is a bust (6) nation = state
with uranium = stat(u)e
bust = def
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10656 CHORALE (7) Song from Cleveland about Jewish dance (7) song = def
cleveland = CLE
jewish dance = HORA
C(HORA)LE
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10669 BLIZZARD (8) Poet admits singer without band is a treat (8) poet = BARD
admits = insertion
singer without band = LIZZO without O (band as in rubber band)
treat = def = BLIZZARD (like from dairy queen)
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10675 INBOX (5) Nonbinary band put in nine emails' place (5) nonbinary = NB
band = O
put in = insertion
nine = IX
emails' place = def = I(NB+O)X
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10774 THE GAME (3, 4) You lost it when Megadeth lost Dave's head and broke up (3, 4) you lost it = def (you just lost the game)
when = connector
megadeth lost dave's head = MEGAdETH
and = connector
broke up = anagram MEGAETH to THE GAME
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10787 STEVIA (6) Robot screens returning sweetener (6) robot = AI
screens = VETS
returning = reversal indicator
sweetener = STEVIA = >AIVETS
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