Contests started: FORMULA ONE (7, 3), FIANCHETTO (10), JOHN CENA (4, 4), SCRABBLE (8), ANY CLUE THAT INCLUDES THE SAME WORD THREE OR MORE TIMES (?)
Contests won: FINAGLE (7), FIANCHETTO (10), FACETIOUSLY (11), NEPO BABY (4, 4), JURY (4), CHANNEL (7), KOROK (5), HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN (5, 2, 3, 6, 3)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11194 | FIANCHETTO (10) | Bishop's arrangement confused the faction | (THEFACTION)* | bigstuffedcat | 5 |
| 11184 | FINAGLE (7) | Frantically leafing through plot (7) | (LEAFING)* | bigstuffedcat | 4 |
| 11219 | NEPO BABY (4, 4) | Briefly, chess grandmaster to coddle child who only succeeds because of parents (4, 4) | NEPO is a common nickname ("briefly") for GM Ian Nepomniatchi; BABY = coddle. | bigstuffedcat | 3 |
| 11198 | BONGCLOUD (9) | Bad opening... Oh? No, winning in the end... it's up in the air?! (9) | &lit (ok, semi &lit) Bad opening = B Oh? No = ON winning in the end = G It's up in the air? = CLOUD |
bigstuffedcat | 2 |
| 11211 | FACETIOUSLY (11) | Satirically confront president's final promise-- shrewd (11) | Satirically = def FACE + T + IOU + SLY |
bigstuffedcat | 2 |
| 11235 | ELOPE (5) | Run developer content (5) | devELOPEr | bigstuffedcat | 2 |
| 11254 | CHANNEL (7) | Chat room for /pol/ frequenter that abandoned far right in favor of left (7) | "Chat room": def /pol/ frequenter: CHANNER; abandoning the R at the end ("far right") in favor of an L |
bigstuffedcat | 2 |
| 11257 | KOROK (5) | To get Zelda character: Right, left + right, circle right (5) | Right = OK Right, left + right = KO + OK Right, left + right, circle right = KO(R)OK |
bigstuffedcat | 2 |
| 11261 | HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN (5, 2, 3, 6, 3) | New Orleans locale wrongfully hires union's thug foes | "New Orleans locale": def (cf. the first verse of the song); (HIRESUNIONSTHUGFOES)* | bigstuffedcat | 2 |
| 11161 | INFINITE JEST (8, 4) | Strangely, it fits: Jennie is named after a line from Hamlet (8, 4) | Anagram ("strangely") of "IT FITS JENNIE"; Infinite Jest's title is a reference to a line from the "Alas, poor Yorick" soliloquy | bigstuffedcat | 1 |
| 11185 | MARTINI (7) | Drink inside K-mart, initially (7) | k MART INI tially | bigstuffedcat | 1 |
| 11229 | TRUISM (6) | Perplexed purist PM exchanged vacuous words (6) | "Perplexed purist, PM exchanged" = (PURIST)*, exchanging the M for a P. lit: vacuous words |
bigstuffedcat | 1 |
| 11234 | JURY (4) | Perhaps "Twelve Angry Men" might still be out (4) | dd: "Perhaps Twelve Angry Men" // might still be out (cf. "the jury is out") | bigstuffedcat | 1 |
| 11240 | REPEAT (6) | Perennial flower's end is record decay (6) | Perennial = lit. R + EP + EAT (in the sense of "erode") |
bigstuffedcat | 1 |
| 11163 | MIRROR (6) | Copy my introduction-- I give the trio of reporters nothing (6) | def: Copy. M + I + RR(O)R (RRR is the trio in REPORTERS) | bigstuffedcat | 0 |
| 11168 | EPIOUSION (9) | Three major mathematical constants, an amalgam without failure? Scholars can't make sense of it! | E + PI + O + (FUSION - F). lit: "Scholars can't make sense of it" | bigstuffedcat | 0 |
| 11173 | COELACANTH (10) | Company psychiatrist in the delirious ancient order (10) | CO + (TH(LACAN)E)*; lit = "ancient order" | bigstuffedcat | 0 |
| 11182 | TWIN PEAKS (4, 5) | Cult classic seen in a bimodal distribution (4, 5) | Double definition (a bimodal distribution is one with "twin peaks") | bigstuffedcat | 0 |
| 11210 | ACE OF SPADES (3 2 6) | A minor from fringes of sweatshop, jaded, having nothing but heart, finally wields that which defeats kings (3, 2, 6) | "A minor" = ACE (the chord Am) "from" = OF "fringes of sweatshop" = SP "jaded, having nothing but heart" = ADE "finally wields" = S "that which defeats kings" = def (cf. poker) |
bigstuffedcat | 0 |
| 11233 | JOHN CENA (4, 4) | You can't see it? Privy to about... about everyone now, on the face of it (4, 4) | You can't see it? = lit Privy = JOHN about = CA everyone now on the face of it = EN |
bigstuffedcat | 0 |
| 11262 | ANY CLUE THAT USES SAT-STYLE ANALOGIES AS WORDPLAY (?) | 1049 : 2.718 : ____ : inch (4) | MILE fills in the analogy and is also MIL + E | bigstuffedcat | 0 |
| 11263 | TCHOTCHKE (9) | Two half-stitches woven around a loop to make half a trinket (9) | TCH(O)TCH + KE. "a trinket" = def. |
bigstuffedcat | 0 |