Contests started: None!
Contests won: HYDROGEN (8), JIMMY (5), ANY CLUE THAT DOES NOT SHARE LETTERS WITH THE ANSWER (?), AGOUTI (6), HONJOK (6), WONKA (5), HALF-ASSED (4-5), SEASON'S GREETINGS (6'1 9), CRAPS (5), SOAK (4), GIMME (5), CORDYCEPS (9), ANY CLUE THAT HAS TO END IN A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF QUESTION MARKS (?), ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (26), BUPKIS (6), MICHIGAN (8), HEADPAT (7), INFERNAL (8), NEW SOUTH WALES (3, 5, 5), EVONNE GOOLAGONG (6, 9), REDACT (6), WELTANSCHAUUNG (14), ANY HUMAN BONE (?), SUPERSTITION (12), ROCKET SCIENCE (6 7), PRODIGY (7), WILLIS (6)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12197 | ANY CLUE THAT HAS TO END IN A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF QUESTION MARKS (?) | Retained by simple rote memorization? (7) | EROTEME (archaic word for “?”) = simplE ROTE MEmorization | discountdadjokes | 5 |
| 12194 | CORDYCEPS (9) | Strip the ends of funky music albums — they’ll grow on you. (9) | CORD (strip) + YC (the ends of “funky” and “music”) + EPS (albums) = CORDYCEPS (they’ll grow on you) | discountdadjokes | 4 |
| 12264 | HEADPAT (7) | Heat pad massage is a comforting thing (7) | Anagram of HEATPAD | discountdadjokes | 4 |
| 12278 | INFERNAL (8) | In the underworld, fact becomes fiction in secret (8) | INTERNAL (secret) -T +F (fact becomes fiction) = INFERNAL (in the underworld) | discountdadjokes | 4 |
| 12293 | EVONNE GOOLAGONG (6, 9) | Gonna Google “oven repair service professional” (6 9) | *GONNAGOOGLEOVEN = EVONNE GOOLAGONG (a tennis player, or “service professional”) | discountdadjokes | 4 |
| 12312 | ANY HUMAN BONE (?) | Bar is a hip spot? (5) | PUBIS (part of the hip, or “a hip spot”) = PUB (Bar) + IS. | discountdadjokes | 4 |
| 11862 | HYDROGEN (8) | Mother is full of disgusting, grody gas (8) | HEN (mother) containing YDROG (disgusting “grody”) | discountdadjokes | 3 |
| 11993 | HALF-ASSED (4-5) | “A sad shelf. Poorly designed, poorly executed.” (4-5) | Anagram of ASADSHELF (“A sad shelf. Poorly designed”) = HALF-ASSED (“poorly executed.”) | discountdadjokes | 3 |
| 12130 | CRAPS (5) | Abolish, top-to-bottom, gambling game (5) | SCRAP (“abolish”) -> S moves from “top-to-bottom” -> CRAPS (“gambling game”) | discountdadjokes | 3 |
| 12236 | BUPKIS (6) | A belch, then a smooch? No third thing. I repeat — you get nothing. (6) | BURP + KISS (“A belch, then a smooch?”) - (r+s) (“No third thing. I repeat”) = BUPKIS (“nothing”) | discountdadjokes | 3 |
| 12265 | MICHIGAN (8) | Sort of rummy whisked ham icing (8) | Anagram of HAMICING | discountdadjokes | 3 |
| 12306 | REDACT (6) | Edit to obscure bloody performance (6) | REDACT (Edit to obscure) = RED (bloody) + ACT (performance) | discountdadjokes | 3 |
| 11853 | MUST (4) | Have to add up to the last cent (4) | MUS (definition of add reversed) + T (last cenT) | discountdadjokes | 2 |
| 11960 | ANY CLUE THAT DOES NOT SHARE LETTERS WITH THE ANSWER (?) | Cancelled platform test ended early — later, we hear (5) | QUIBI (Cancelled platform) = QUIz (test ended early) + BI (homophone of “bye” — “later, we hear”) | discountdadjokes | 2 |
| 11981 | ANAMANAGUCHI (12) | Oddly, Anne, a dude, a bottomless dude, and McBride form a band (12) | AN (AnNe) + A MAN (a dude) + A GU(y) (a bottomless dude) + CHI (actor McBride) | discountdadjokes | 2 |
| 11990 | EXAMPLE (7) | Test the rights of humanity, for instance (7) | EXAM (Test) + PLE (“the rights of humanity” -> the letters on the “right side” of peoPLE) = EXAMPLE (“for instance”) | discountdadjokes | 2 |
| 12183 | SOAK (4) | A type-changing Pokémon move? Oak’s confused (4) | SOAK (“A type-changing Pokémon move”) = anagram of OAKS (“Oak’s confused”) | discountdadjokes | 2 |
| 12249 | CHARABANC (9) | Branch has all the makings of a place for lots of people to sit(9) | Letter bank of BRANCH. | discountdadjokes | 2 |
| 11974 | AGOUTI (6) | Silver depleted, I become an animal (6) | AG (chemical symbol for Silver) + OUT (synonym of “depleted”) + I = AGOUTI (“An animal”) | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 11982 | HONJOK (6) | Flying solo into New Jersey, heads smack-dab into the middle of a U-Turn (6) | HONJOK ("Flying solo) = NJ (New Jersey heads) into the center of (smack-dab into the middle of) HOOK (a U-Turn). | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 11987 | WONKA (5) | Korean bread: knead first, then add a source of chocolate (5) | WON (Korean currency — aka “bread”) + K (first letter of knead) + A = WONKA (“source of chocolate”) | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12129 | TELEGRAM (8) | Marge let handstand send a message (8) | MARGE LET reversed (handstand) = TELEGRAM (I checked to make sure, at it can be used as a verb :D) | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12188 | GIMME (5) | Talk show host from 2 to 5, great lead-in — I’ll take it. (5) | G (great lead-in) + IMME (letters 2 to 5 from Jimmy KIMMEL) = GIMME (I’ll take it) | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12246 | DEAD WEIGHT (4, 6) | “The” IG, Dad? Ew, gross. Totally unnecessary. (4, 6) | THEIGDADEW* = DEAD WEIGHT (“Totally unnecessary”) | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12268 | PUNCH IN (5 2) | Bag’s bottom torn off… what a terrible start to the day. (5, 2) | PUNCHING (Bag) - G (bottom torn off) = PUNCH IN (Any day that starts with me punching in for work has to make quite an uphill climb to end up good. …What, just me?) | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12288 | YOUR FAVORITE COLOR (?) | Motley Crue lean into blue (8) | CRUE* + LEAN = CERULEAN | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12296 | ASTERISK (8) | Alas, Teri’s kids’ section is indicative of disorder (8) | alAS TERIS Kids (section) = ASTERISK (an anagram indicator, or “indicative of disorder”) | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12301 | CEMENT (6) | Hard rock set: “I’m in the Money” (6) | ME inside (“I’m in”) CENT (“the money”) = CE(ME)NT (“Hard rock set”) | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12303 | CHIN UP (4 2) | Raise your spirits with an upper-body exercise (4 2) | Double definition | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12310 | WELTANSCHAUUNG (14) | A newt’s gulch has everything you need for a comprehensive worldview (14) | ANEWTSGULCH letter bank | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12336 | ROCKET SCIENCE (6 7) | Crocket's niece goes crazy for aerospace engineering (6 7) | CROCKETSNIECE anagram | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12337 | PRODIGY (7) | Exceptional talent produces in gym’s first halves (7) | PRODuces + In + GYm’s (first halves) | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 12346 | GARBLED (7) | Ink ran after bad newspaper flip and muddled the message (7) | RAG< (“bad newspaper flip”) + BLED (“Ink ran after”) = GARBLED (“muddled the message”) | discountdadjokes | 1 |
| 11868 | JIMMY (5) | Force loud music to become moderate in a short period of time (5) | JIFFY (“short period of time”) -> FF to MM (loud music to become moderate) -> JIMMY (“Force”) | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 11996 | SEASON'S GREETINGS (6'1 9) | See song asserting insanely saccharine sentiment (6’1 9) | Anagram of SEE SONG ASSERTING | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12000 | SLOTH (5) | Second chance to close small opening for sin (5) | H (“second cHance”) at the end of (“to close”) SLOT (“small opening”) = SLOTH (“sin”) | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12009 | NYE (3) | End of year, party heads present a science bill (3) | First letters of “New Year’s Eve” (end of year party heads) = NYE (a science bill, aka Bill NYE, the Science Guy) | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12182 | TMESIS (6) | Cousin of infixation? No one: “It me, sis!” (6) | ITMESIS minus I (“no one”) = TMESIS (“cousin of infixation”) | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12192 | AFTERNOON (9) | A meaningless word eats a seagoing bird in the span of an early evening. (9) | A(F(TERN)OO)N (early evening) = TERN (a seagoing bird) inside FOO (a meaningless word eats — “foo” is a placeholder often used in programming) inside AN (in the span of an). | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12213 | CLOVER (6) | After hearing the call of the sea, a devotee can live there in luxury. (6) | C (homophone of “sea”) + LOVER (“devotee”) = CLOVER (“living in clover” means living luxuriantly.) | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12216 | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (26) | Roman legion ordered to present big bird song selection. (26) | Roman legion ordered -> The Roman alphabet in order, and “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ” is sung (as a single word) by Big Bird in a memorable (to me anyway) Sesame Street song. | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12258 | QUAY (4) | Water landing sounds critical (4) | QUAY = Homophone of KEY (“critical”) | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12279 | AKIMBO (6) | Awkwardly possible, covered in blood (6) | A[KIM]BO (KIM Possible within (“covered in”) ABO (blood types)) | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12283 | NEW SOUTH WALES (3, 5, 5) | Top story: Fired heads of hospital ward encounter troubles, reported Australian state (3 5 5) | NEWS + OUT + HW + ALES (homophone of AILS (“troubles”)) | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12309 | DRAGON BALL (6, 4) | Animated western to go start celebration for Akira Toriyama show (6 4) | DRAWN (Animated) -> DRAGON (“Western” to “go”) + BALL (celebration) = DRAGON BALL | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12327 | SUPERSTITION (12) | Building manager’s “Don’t touch me!” sounds like irrational behavior (12) | Homophone (SUPERSTITION and SUPER’S TITIAN — “Don’t touch me” is an English translation of “Noli me tangere,” the Latin title of a painting by Titian) | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12340 | WILLIS (6) | Georgia prosecutor leads witness in lawsuit, laughs in sidebar (6) | Fani WILLIS = first letters (leads) of “witness … sidebar” | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12349 | CREMATE (7) | Burn to ash a Mexican condiment with bits of tart emulsifier (7) | CREMATE (“burn to ash”) = CREMA + T + E | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12356 | TRENCHANT (9) | Vigorous attempt to give almost everything to fascinate (9) | TRy (“attempt” to give almost everything) + ENCHANT (“fascinate”) = TRENCHANT (“vigorous”) | discountdadjokes | 0 |
| 12382 | BLOKUS (6) | Sides of broil? Alright, she and I are game. (6) | BL (BroiL) + OK + US = BLOKUS | discountdadjokes | 0 |