Contests started: A CLUE WHERE EVERY WORD IS AN ANAGRAM INDICATOR, GYATT (5)
Contests won: MEGAGON (7), TROLL (5), BLIZZARD (8), SEXTANT (7), TÁR (3), FLOP ERA (4, 3), HUMORESQUE (10), JUST DESERTS (4, 7), SIROCCO (7), GYATT (5), EXAMPLE (7), INCH (4)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10646 | MEGAGON (7) | It's me! Gag on a circle, in my opinion. (7) | Cryptic: literally "It's megagon" Definition: i am facetiously calling it a circle |
Taargus | 3 |
| 10757 | SEXTANT (7) | A tool for navigating south still exists (7) | def: tool for navigating cryptic: south (S) + still exists (EXTANT) |
Taargus | 3 |
| 10865 | TÁR (3) | Tailor's clothes are worn by a cute asexual lesbian conductor (3) | cryptic: Tailor's clothes (TR) around "a cute asexual" (acute A, or Á) def: Tar is a lesbian conductor |
Taargus | 3 |
| 10906 | WAS (3) | Past tense is past tense (see reverse) (3) | def: past tense is cryptic: "past tense see" is SAW, reverse is WAS |
Taargus | 3 |
| 12326 | INCH (4) | Confused chin and part of a foot (4) | chin* inch = part of a foot |
Taargus | 3 |
| 10667 | TROLL (5) | Toll taker! (5) | def: A troll takes a toll cryptic: "Toll take-r" This might not be strictly legal, but it was too good to pass up |
Taargus | 2 |
| 10781 | THE GAME (3, 4) | It's lost in truth, e.g., a meme (3, 4) | def: the game is lost :^) cryptic: contained in TRU(THEGAME)ME |
Taargus | 2 |
| 10812 | WAKANDA (7) | Marowak and Absol hide a hidden country (7) | cryptic: maroWAKANDAbsol def: Wakanda is a hidden country (at least Birnin Zana is? it's been a second since I saw the movie, but I wanted to make "hide" and "hidden" work lmao) |
Taargus | 2 |
| 11745 | WONDER (6) | Think about Marvel (6) | ddef (i wonder... / wonder at the sights) | Taargus | 2 |
| 11989 | EXAMPLE (7) | Take a test orally, e.g. (7) | “exam pull” homophone def: e.g. (you wanted me to do this, you clever bastard) |
Taargus | 2 |
| 12217 | MARTLET (7) | In heraldry, a bird with a little target? (7) | def: in heraldry, a bird Target is a mart, so a tiny Target is a mart-let |
Taargus | 2 |
| 10650 | SCROOGE (7) | Scavenge the start of many a Christmas carol for a Spanish duck (7) | Cryptic: “scavenge” is SCROUNGE, the start of many christmas carol is “O”, “a” in Spanish is “UN”, so replacing UN with O in SCROUNGE is SCROOGE def: scrooge mcduck! |
Taargus | 1 |
| 10671 | BLIZZARD (8) | Wow! Creator's a storm (8) | WoW creator is Blizzard blizzard is a storm |
Taargus | 1 |
| 10673 | GRINCH (6) | Green, really into no Christmas, horrendous at first! (6) | Definition: Describes the Grinch Cryptic: first letters of the first 6 words ("at first") |
Taargus | 1 |
| 10778 | STEVIA (6) | Stave it off, drop the tea, you might put it in your tea (6) | anagram "stave it" and drop a T That's a real popular song! Who wants to hear of it fifty times more? https://youtu.be/wnPm3h6sl84?t=151 |
Taargus | 1 |
| 10925 | LIGHT MODE (5, 4) | It's right on Twitter and right on Slack, but incredibly wrong on Discord as it might load wrong (5, 4) | You need to be using light mode on Twitter and Slack, but not on Discord or else you're a goddamn psychopath cryptic: "might load" wrong (spoonerism) |
Taargus | 1 |
| 10962 | FLOP ERA (4, 3) | Wolf left, dropped his tail, and - for each alpha - produced only bad music (4, 3) | Wolf left (FLOW) dropped his tail (FLO) for each alpha (PER A) -> FLOP ERA produced (linking) only bad music (def) |
Taargus | 1 |
| 10974 | ON MAIN (2, 4) | Oh, no! My anon Instagram now starts to post to my face account! (2, 4) | first letters of "Oh, no! My anon Instagram now" def: ON MAIN is "to post to my face account." Maybe that's too much? Is that "posting on main?" I prefer a good surface read anyway |
Taargus | 1 |
| 10978 | BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON (4-4, 5, 6) | Clue-hider sees Ivory Queen's attire on Kaiba's signature (4-4, 5, 6) | Clue-hider: BLUE (the dog) Sees: EYES Ivory: WHITE Queen's attire: DRAG on: ON def: kaiba's signature (as in, something that identifies him) |
Taargus | 1 |
| 11671 | SIROCCO (7) | Knighted anthropomorphic wallaby discussed the wind in North Africa (7) | "sir rocko" (hom.) | Taargus | 1 |
| 11672 | NIX (3) | 0 86 37 45 (3) | 0: def 86: throw out 37: Nixon (president 37) 45: letters 4 and 5 of "nixon" (somewhat tenuous, but it's cleaner) |
Taargus | 1 |
| 11931 | RIZZ (4) | Ms. Frizzle’s got charisma (4) | Ms. F[rizz]le | Taargus | 1 |
| 11957 | GYATT (5) | Goddamn hotel check-in got moved back (5) | (H->G)YATT check-in being the start of the word, like checking in is the start of a hotel stay |
Taargus | 1 |
| 10648 | HUMBUG (6) | Lying in mercury is, err, a college in Boston (6) | definition: "lying" is humbug cryptic: "in mercury" (hg) is "err" (um) and "a college in boston" (BU) |
Taargus | 0 |
| 10679 | SYNE (4) | Since I know Spanish is holding back New York (4) | def: "since" is "syne" cryptic: "I know" in Spanish is "se", "back New York" is "YN", "SE" holds "YN" |
Taargus | 0 |
| 10709 | XEME (4) | Cross out Jamie Hargrove's first bird (4) | cryptic: jamie hargrove is a pc MEME, cross out the first letter to get XEME def: xeme is bird |
Taargus | 0 |
| 10744 | 爱 (1) | I sang "We're no strangers to this" in Japan (1) | cryptic: "i sang" -> homophone for "爱" def: "this" is "love" in Never Gonna Give You Up, and in Japan, that's "爱" |
Taargus | 0 |
| 10779 | TELETUBBIES (11) | Teleport half of bisexual through tubes onto a TV show (11) | teleport half - "tele" bisexual through tubes - "tub(bi)es" |
Taargus | 0 |
| 10875 | TELEPHONE (9) | The outer cardinality of the set of ordinal numbers (except for the first) makes a phone call (9) | "the" outer letters are TE cardinality of the set of ordinal numbers is ALEPH-ONE, drop the first (A) makes a phone call: def |
Taargus | 0 |
| 10916 | ZZZ (3) | Captain Viridian's game featuring unusual gravity and sleep (3) | this one is quite silly! Captain Viridian's game is VVVVVV, but the "gravity" of this word is unusual - some V's now point down-left, and some V's point up-right! this gives us ZZZ (sleep) | Taargus | 0 |
| 10973 | HUMORESQUE (10) | Comedy, partial burlesque, or romantic genre (10) | comedy: HUMOR partial burlesque: ESQUE def: humoresque is a romantic genre |
Taargus | 0 |
| 10975 | JUST DESERTS (4, 7) | A deserved punishment is precisely what's at Baskin-Robbins, it's said (4, 7) | def: "a deserved punishment" "precisely": JUST "what's at baskin robbins": DESSERTS -> "it's said": DESERTS |
Taargus | 0 |
| 11747 | DIVEST (6) | Remove princess' clothing? (6) | def: remove wordplay: if princess diana had an article of clothing worn over the shirt, one might call it a "di vest" |
Taargus | 0 |
| 11968 | GOAT (4) | Ralsei is one of the greatest of all time (4) | ddef (I think I don’t need something to indicate the first letters because “greatest of all time” just abbreviates to GOAT) | Taargus | 0 |
| 11972 | EIGENLETTER (11) | "Same" word T, e.g.! (11) | a word for "same" is eigen; T is a letter T is also an eigenletter of the clue and EIGENLETTER |
Taargus | 0 |
| 11985 | ANY CLUE IN THE `SHE ___ ON MY ___ UNTIL I ___` FORMAT OR SOMETHING EQUIVALENT (?) | She sip on my shake til I’m silly (10) | SYMPHONIES* def: silly symphonies, predecessor to looney toons |
Taargus | 0 |
| 12218 | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (26) | The five boxing wizards jumped quickly from unique sort to be found in some bowls of soup (26) | "The five boxing wizards jumped quickly" - "uniquely" removes duplicates, "sort" sorts them alphabetically "found in some bowls of soup" - alphabet soup |
Taargus | 0 |