Contests started: GOLD LEAF (4, 4), PRIMARIES (9), CENTRIFUGAL (11), SCHADENFREUDE, HYENAS (6), THUSLY (6), ANY (3), MUNICIPALITY (12), SPOUT (5), HAZE (4), DEFENSE ATTORNEY (7,8), FERTILE CRESCENT (7,8), GUIDE (5), PICKUP (6 OR 4,2), BROWNIE (7), AMBIGRAM (8), PREDATOR (8), GATEMAN (7), MATTER (6), PURSUIT (7), DUPLICATE (9), XKCD (4), DOUBT (5), CHRYSANTHEMUMS (14), COMMENT (7), WORD (4), HENTAI (6), MUNCHAUSEN (10), SULLIVAN (8), RUSTY (5), SENEGAL (7), ANY LIMERICK CLUE WITH AABBA RHYME SCHEME (?), ELISION (7), REVOLVER (8), CLUE CONTAINING "CLUE CONTAINING" (?), CRADLE (6), LUPINE (6), STAPES (6), MALLEUS (7), JACK-O'-LANTERN (4-1'-7), ANY NON-ALPHANUMERIC GLYPH THAT ISN'T ♀ (1), MERRY (5), PARK (4), HEARTS (6), ANY CLUE THAT CONTAINS ITS ANSWER (?), SAFE (4), STOP (4), GEORGE ORWELL (6,6), QUARTIC (7), PTA (3), INDEPENDENCE DAY (12, 3), NEW/OLD (3), ANY CLUE WHOSE WORDPLAY IS A REBUS (?), KAMALA HARRIS (6, 6), HIDE AND SEEK (4, 3, 4), CENTAUR (7), LEPRECHAUN (10), ANTIMETABOLE (12), DOZE (4), TWENTY-SIX OR 26 (6-3 OR 2), HYDROPHOBIC (11), WATER (5), ? (1), BULLSHIT (8), SEASON'S GREETINGS (6'1 9), INCORPORATED (12), PARAMOUR (8), SHACKLE (7), EMPTY (5), CRICKET (7), JUNE (4)
Contests won: LEON CZOLGOSZ (4, 8), KAIST (5), COIN (4), HOLIDAY (7), PRIMARIES (9), OR (2), PROSTHESIS (10), PUYO (4) / PUYO PUYO (4, 4), PATRIOT (7), KAKISTOCRACY (12), SEVEN (5), CENTRIPETAL (11), SEPARATION (10), FLIGHT (6), HOLOGRAM (8), WILSON (6), ISOTROPIC (9), SOMETHING WITH DEFINITION 'WORD', CONTINUUM (9), SURVIVOR (8), ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?), LUIGI (5), REBUS (5), PEACHES (7), SWARF (5), MAYDAY (6 OR 3, 3), MEAN (4), CURRENT (7), MISTAKE (7), MUNICIPALITY (12), BANDUNG (7), LITTLEBIGPLANET (15), REVERSI (7), MNEMONIC DEVICE (8,6), NOZZLE (6), GEMINI (6), RECEIPT (7), PICASSO (7), ANY CLUE ENDING IN LEVEL (5, 1), DEFENSE ATTORNEY (7,8), TONSILLOLITH (12), ETCH (4), ANY CLUE ENDING IN A BEAN (7, 7), FOX MULDER (3, 6), IODINE (6), POINTLESS (9), SMASH (5), CAVORT (6), DERRING-DO (7-2), GLEAN (5), TO AND FRO (2, 3, 3), J.LO (1.2), RAINSTORM (9), BROWNIE (7), ARAMIS (6), CHIMNEY (7), GATEMAN (7), OMELETTE (8), DIE/DICE (3/4), METRONOME (9), OUAGADOUGOU (11), TEMPEST (7), OCTOPI (6) / OCTOPUSES (9) / OCTOPODES (9), RUSTY (5), LABOR DAY (5, 3), ANY LIMERICK CLUE WITH AABBA RHYME SCHEME (?), SPINEL (6), ELISION (7), CARDINAL (8), CLUE WHERE 1ST WORD STARTS WITH A, 2ND B, ETC (?), STAN (4), CLUE CONTAINING "CLUE CONTAINING" (?), ANY CLUE WITH PRINTER'S DEVILRY AS WORDPLAY (?), MORSE CODE (5, 4), CHICKEN (7), MARRY (5), ANY CLUE THAT CONTAINS ITS ANSWER (?), INCANDESCENT (12), RAINBOW DASH (7, 4), UTADA HIKARU (5, 6), LOKI (4), ATLANTIS (8), DRAGON (6), PARTICIPATION (13), AUGUST (6), CANDLE (6), UNCHES (6), COFFEE (6), WATERLOO (8), UNIBROW (7), BIDEN (5), JE T'AIME (2, 1'4), SPLANCHNIC (10), CLUE WITH DIFF ANS WHEN A LETTER IS REMOVED (???), CHARMANDER (10), BRIC-A-BRAC (4-1-4), CELLAR DOOR (6, 4), CRYPTID (7), WILDCARD (8), QUINQUAGENARIAN (15), ZOUNDS (6), QUESTION MARK OR ? (8 4 or 1), ELLIPSIS (8), LIL NAS X (3, 3, 1), ANY CLUE THAT INCLUDES AN ENTIRELY TRUE EDUCATIONAL FACT (?), NIN (3), GUILTY PLEASURE (6, 8), BOOKS THAT ARE BORING (5 4 3 6), SECOND DOSE (6, 4), STAR WARS (4 4), VERTIGO (7), GRADUATE (8), ROTTERDAM (9), RETSINA (7), BLACKJACK OR JACK BLACK (9 OR 4,5), NO WAY (2, 3), K-I-S-S-I-N-G (1-1-1-1-1-1-1), DIM SUM (3 3), ANY CLUE WITH AN ABAB RHYME SCHEME (?), DOT-TO-DOT (3-2-3), GENE WILDER (4, 6), A CLUE MADE OF ONLY ANAGRINDS, WITH MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS (?), BETAVEROS (9), DEUSOVI/FUNGO (7 OR 5), HAND TURKEY (4, 6), JANUARY (7), SONI (4), LYDIAN (6), A CLUE (1, 4), SATURN (6), ANY CLUE THAT ONLY USES THE TEN HUNDRED MOST COMMON WORDS FROM XKCD'S THING EXPLAINER (?), GENESIS (7), ISLANDS (7), MARICOPA (8), ANY CLUE WHERE A PUNCTUATION MARK IS INCLUDED IN THE PARSE, NITRO (5), PAELLA (6), Z (1), ? (1), BAEZ (4), TO A T (2, 1, 1), BROUGHAMMED (11), VENETIAN (8), PHOENIX (7), CREMATE (7), HEARTBURN (9), CLANK (5), CANOPY (6), NUMEROLOGY (10), GOAT YOGA (4, 4), SPROUT (6), ENIAC (5), EMOTICON (8)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4935 | BIDEN (5) | "No Trump" declarer bid with east against north (5) | BID+E+N | AuLeaf | 8 |
| 1025 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | "Hotel California," originally by retro composer of classical music (4) | (_B+AC+H)< | AuLeaf | 7 |
| 498 | OR (2) | Alternative surgery takes place here (2) | alternative: OR surgery takes place here: O.R. |
AuLeaf | 6 |
| 990 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | "Single Ladies" flops (6) | MISSES (ddef) | AuLeaf | 6 |
| 1220 | BANDUNG (7) | Sanction waste product in Indonesian city (7) | BAN+DUNG | AuLeaf | 6 |
| 2508 | TEMPEST (7) | Test disrupted by effect of lightning storm (7) | T(E.M.P.)EST | AuLeaf | 6 |
| 2581 | OCTOPI (6) / OCTOPUSES (9) / OCTOPODES (9) | "Doctor Without Borders" letter following O works to produce 8-limbed cephalopods (6/9/9) | _OCTO_+PI or _OCTO_+P+USES or _OCTO_+P+ODES | AuLeaf | 6 |
| 2739 | ANY LIMERICK CLUE WITH AABBA RHYME SCHEME (?) | Start off with a citrusy highball / Then lop off first couple of eyeballs / And you'll get a verse / (Whose name comes from Erse) / Much like this one (but often more ribald) (8) | LIMERICK(-_ey) | AuLeaf | 6 |
| 5248 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE CONTAINS A CROSSWORD CLUE | Semi-metallic, like 5248: "Semi-metallic, like 5248: "Semi-metallic, like 5248: "Semi-metallic, like 5248: ... (4)" (4)" (4)" (4) | META(-llic) [half of "metallic"] | AuLeaf | 6 |
| 5343 | CLUE WITH DIFF ANS WHEN A LETTER IS REMOVED (???) | She co-starred in "Vanilla Sky" with actor Terry of "Everybody Hates Chris" and "Brooklyn-Nine-Nine", reportedly (4/6) | She co-starred in "Vanilla Sky": Penelope CRUZ ("Crews") He co-starred in "Vanilla Sky": Tom CRUISE ("Crews") |
AuLeaf | 6 |
| 12776 | EMOTICON (8) | Come in to set typeface? (8) | EMOTICON* | AuLeaf | 6 |
| 380 | LEON CZOLGOSZ (4, 8) | New Glock Ozzy sold finishes off eccentric presidential assassin | {*NE(w)GLOC(k)OZZ(y)SOL(d)} | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 451 | COIN (4) | Meet halfway, or maybe a quarter (4) | COIN(-cide) | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 554 | TETRIS (6) | Game of blocks to play with unstable sitter (6) | TETRIS* | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 607 | PUYO (4) / PUYO PUYO (4, 4) | Sega game that stinks, getting tangled up in spinning string toy (4,4) | PU+YO(PU*)YO | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 718 | SEPARATION (10) | Between definition and wordplay, it's necessary to parse, in a cryptic (10) | Between... necessary: SEPARATION* TO PARSE IN A: fodder cryptic: anagrind |
AuLeaf | 5 |
| 814 | WILSON (6) | American president in slow collapse (6) | anag. of INSLOW | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 834 | SOMETHING WITH DEFINITION 'WORD' | WC Fields ultimately has good word? (5) | LO(G)O+_S | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 1204 | CURRENT (7) | Bad dog tore up present (7) | CUR+RENT | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 1225 | CURRENT (7) | Copper line without lead transmitted electrical flow (7) | Copper: CU [railroad] line: RR without lead, transmitted: (-s)ENT electrical flow: CURRENT |
AuLeaf | 5 |
| 1998 | DIE/DICE (3/4) | Ultimately solid ice cubes scattered over a table (4) | _D+ICE | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 2485 | LEAD (4) | Metal for person in first place (4) | LEAD (ddef) [you thought it would be GOLD but it was PB, DIO] | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 2609 | RUSTY (5) | Timeless, dependable; or old, decaying? (5) | (-t)RUSTY | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 2632 | APPLAUD (7) | Very faint praise following a clap (7) | A+(PP+LAUD) | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 3168 | STAN (4) | Superfan that is tanning hides (4) | _STAN_ | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 4528 | ANY CLUE THAT'S A VALID ACNH PASSPORT TITLE (?) | Chaotic Life-Form (4) | FILE* | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 6579 | BOOKS THAT ARE BORING (5 4 3 6) | Gather in boat at sea to pursue reserves of dry reading material (5 4 3 6) | BOOKS+(THATAREBORING)* | AuLeaf | 5 |
| 363 | REFRAIN (7) | Periodic cries for nation to chant (7) | (c)R(i)E(s)F(o)R(n)A(t)I(o)N | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 452 | HOLIDAY (7) | Hold a party around one, free of responsibility! | fodder around I without PART (responsibility, as in "do your part): HOL(+I)DA(-part)Y | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 499 | PRIMARIES (9) | Mid-April/early May sign of spring: weeding through candidate November candidates (9) | (a)PRI(l)+M(ay)+ARIES | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 528 | OBSCURE (7) | Pregnancy doc's medicine is dubious (7) | dubious: OB'S CURE (OB=obstetrician, as in OB/GYN) | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 538 | AMBIGUOUS/SCHRODINGER (9 or 11) | In an uncertain fashion, I'm a detailed puss/box guy; single lead character of programmer ignored in shuffle (9/11) | In an uncertain fashion: AMBIGUOUS I'M A: fodder 1 detailed puss/box guy: PUS(s) BO(x) GU(y): fodder 2 single lead character of programmer: P_ ignored [from fodder 2]: (-p)USBOGU IMA+USBOGU in shuffle: AMBIGUOUS* In an uncertain fashion, I'm a detailed puss/box guy: SCHRODINGER single lead: S_ character of programmer: CHR IGNORED in shuffle: ODINGER* |
AuLeaf | 4 |
| 646 | PATRIOT (7) | Op art: it confounded a countryman (7) | PATRIOT* | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 674 | KAKISTOCRACY (12) | What puts power in the hands of dopes, crazies, and haters? Perplexed? Okay, it's crack (12) | anag. of OKAYITSCRACK | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 801 | RED HERRING (3,7) | Inspector's conclusion unfortunately hinged around blunder, with evidence pointing away from the truth (3,7) | _R+EDH(ERR)ING* | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 847 | SIESTA (6) | Retiring at una hora de la tarde! (6) | rev. AT SEIS &lit | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 848 | ISOTROPIC (9) | Portico is broken any way you look at it (9) | anag. of PORTICOIS | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 1094 | PEACHES (7) | Goes around a church, providing fruits (7) | PE(A+CH)ES | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 1116 | VANILLA (7) | Hostess White, taking ill, has first night off to get ice cream (7) | VAN(ILL)(-n)A | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 1129 | PALLET (6) | Bed or mouth's roof, say (6) | "palate" | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 1420 | ARGUMENT (8) | Fight's munitions, with sawed-off gun for mother (8) | AR(ma->GU(-n))MENT | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 1526 | GO ABROAD (8) | Journey a long way from home, with One Ring in mouth on the way (2,6) | G(O)AB+ROAD (surface ref. LotR) | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 1574 | DEFENSE ATTORNEY (7,8) | Defenestrate yon eccentric lawyer (7,8) | DEFENSEATTORNEY* | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 1661 | SMASH (5) | Actor Elliott returning in quiet cinematic triumph (5) | S(MAS<)H | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 1719 | CAVORT (6) | Frisk Victor or perhaps Tom's clothing (6) | CA(V+OR)T | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 1750 | J.LO (1.2) | This "Idol" judge might return to show! (1.2) | _JLO_< https://hollywoodlife.com/2019/05/20/jennifer-lopez-steven-tyler-american-idol-judges-new-panel-season-3/ (based on a semi-&lit I did for Alan Connor's crossword roundup on the Guardian blog) |
AuLeaf | 4 |
| 1854 | CHIMNEY (7) | Strangely, my niche is St. Nick's entryway (7) | anag. MYNICHE | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 2633 | LABOR DAY (5, 3) | A broadly abused holiday (5,3) | LABORDAY* | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 2760 | SPINEL (6) | Character next to tee-off: Yellow Ruby (6) | SPINEL(-ess) | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 2777 | LIGHT (5) | Ray with gills drawn back somewhat (5) | _LIG HT_< | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 2786 | ASBESTOS (8) | Hazardous material Grant almost put into rear (8) | AS(BESTO(-w))S | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 2798 | ELISION (7) | 51 in uproar about lack of space in cryptic clue (7) | E(LI)SION< | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 3300 | CLUE CONTAINING "CLUE CONTAINING" (?) | Confederate soldier held two spots for weapon in Clue containing toxic metal (4,4) | LE(AD+PIP)E | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 3324 | HONK (4) | "Duck", "duck", ... at last! A call of "goose"! (4) | HON+_K https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duck (and "duck" appears in the thesaurus entries for "hon" and "darling") |
AuLeaf | 4 |
| 3556 | MORSE CODE (5, 4) | Captain ultimately out of time to enter additional SOS transmissions, say (5,4) | MOR(SECO[-_n]D)E | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 4410 | CATS (4) | Endless stack exchange for felines (4) | CATS(-k)* | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 4527 | ANY CLUE THAT'S A VALID ACNH PASSPORT TITLE (?) | Ready-made pet (5) | DEARY* | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 4619 | AUGUST (6) | Laugh at Rusty taking clothes off repeatedly this month (6) | (-l)AUG(-h) (-a)(-t) (-r)UST(-y) | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 4637 | CANDLE (6) | Dessert topping at some parties, amidst music and levity (6) | _C AND LE_ | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 5342 | CLUE WITH DIFF ANS WHEN A LETTER IS REMOVED (???) | Not busty colonial flier's beginning to go from Britain to France by hand (4) | Not busty: [b->(F+L[eft])]AT Not busy: [b->(F+R[ight])]EE |
AuLeaf | 4 |
| 5499 | CHARMANDER (10) | Firestarter filling exotic dancer with pain (10) | C(HARM)ANDER* | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 5506 | BRIC-A-BRAC (4-1-4) | Fabric (abracadabra!) conceals trinkets (4-1-4) | _BRIC ABRAC_ | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 5815 | WILDCARD (8) | Joker's wacky riddles about losing keys (8) | anagram ("about") WAC[-ky]RIDDL[-es] for WILDCARD(-keys)* | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 6519 | NIN (3) | Anais N., alternately! (3) | even letters spell _N_I_N, &lit (cluing someone by their name, now that's big brain time) |
AuLeaf | 4 |
| 6876 | RETSINA (7) | Wine secrets in "abstinent" houses (7) | _RETS IN A_ | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 7962 | ANY CLUE WITH THE CLEAVE MECHANIC FROM MTG | Insid[e k]i[d's f]ou[r-]s[ong] re[cord la]bel, making form[ of Britann]ic [m]one[y] [used ]in[ ]t[w]o [coins — ]h[alf-p]ou[nd i]s[ on]e, essentially (VII[I]) | Inside kid's four-song record label, making form of Britannic money used in two coins — the half-pound is one, essentially (VIII) Inside SON (kid) is EP (four-song record) + TAG (label), making the shape (form) of two coins used in Britannic currency (the 20p and 50p, which is essentially a half-pound coin [though I don't think it's called that in the way a 50-cent piece is sometimes called a half dollar]) S(EP+TAG)ON Insidious rebel, making formic one into house, essentially (VII) insidious: def rebel: DEVIANT (as in one who strays from the norm) making formic one into house, essentially: ANT->_OUS_ DEVI(ant->OUS) |
AuLeaf | 4 |
| 9190 | SONI (4) | Someone primarily taking off companions' handles, warping icons! (4) | S_ + (-c_s)ONI* &lit | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 10044 | GENESIS (7) | Film critic gives 70% to *Inception* (7) | 70% of GENE SISkel | AuLeaf | 4 |
| 360 | REFRAIN (7) | Avoid downpour under roof's eaves around start of evening (7) | Avoid: Def RAIN under [R(oo)F around E(vening)]: R{E}F,RAIN |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 361 | REFRAIN (7) | Dog's cry about getting wrapped in lead... it's extremely repetitive (7) | Dog's cry about: ARF backwards getting wrapped in: container indicator lead: REIN it's extremely repetitive: RE{FRA<}IN |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 522 | AMBIGUOUS/SCHRODINGER (9 or 11) | Diego's stranger? No! Embraced Basher's slight character, embraced initially united country where Putin more or less decides elections for such a clue as this (9/11) | Diego's stranger? No!: Sp. for friend; AMIGO Embraced: container/content indicator Basher's slight character: B_ embraced: cont/cont indicator initially united: U_ country where Putin more or less decides elections: US AM(B)IG(U)O+US DIEGOS stranger: SODIGE* No embraced: N included Basher's slight character embraced: CHR (abbv for character) included initially: first letter of united country where Putin more or less calls elections: RUSSIA S(CHR)ODI(N)GE+R def: such a clue as this |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 550 | AMBIGUOUS/SCHRODINGER (9 or 11) | A mammal-boxing famed dude striking chords, without energy, in primarily grey region (9/11) | A mammal: A MOUSE boxing: container/contents indicator famed: BIG dude striking chords: (d)U(d)(e) [striking as in "crossing out"; chords ref letters A-G] without energy: A+M(BIG+U)OUS(e) in primarily grey region: AMBIGUOUS A mammal-boxing famed dude: SCHRODINGER striking chords: SCHROD* ["striking" as anagrind, as in "unusual"] without energy, ...: container/contents indicator [without X, Y => Y going outside X construction] in: IN primarily grey region: G_+R_ SCHROD*+IN+G(E)+R |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 603 | GREY/GRAY (4) | Heartless guy consuming Egyptian sun god for shade (4) | G(-u)Y around RE/RA shade: G(RE)Y/G(RA)Y |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 658 | NOTHING ELSE (7,4) | Strangely, see glint on western horizon... that's it! (7,4) | anag. of SEE+GLINT+ON+H_ That's it: NOTHINGELSE* |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 659 | TART (4) | Old prostitute starts shedding clothes (4) | (-s)TART(-s) | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 672 | KAKISTOCRACY (12) | Setter's into stock car racing, which Arthur's brother describes as idiots at the wheel (12) | [King] Arthur's brother: KAY around (I in *STOCKCAR) idiots at the wheel: KA(K(I)STOCRAC*)Y |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 673 | KAKISTOCRACY (12) | Cocky AI (stark mad!) having terrible reign (12) | mad: anagrind for COCKYAISTARK having terrible reign: KAKISTOCRACY* |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 685 | SEVEN (5) | Number five has spotted coating (5) | SE(V)EN | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 719 | SEPARATION (10) | Tossed spear into a gap (10) | SEPARATION* | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 745 | FLIGHT (6) | Exit stairs (6) | ddef | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 763 | HOLOGRAM (8) | Detective describes ship turning out west essentially to be something like a man-made mirage (8) | Detective describes: HOLMES around ship turning: rev. ARGO out: missing west essentially: _ES_ to be: link something like a man-made mirage: HOL(OGRA<)M(-es) |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 839 | SOMETHING WITH DEFINITION 'WORD' | Word in letter read aloud (3) | CUE ("q") [as in "once I give the word..."] | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 840 | SOMETHING WITH DEFINITION 'WORD' | Word that hurts after initial consideration (5) | C+OUCH (v) | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 842 | SOMETHING WITH DEFINITION 'WORD' | Word formed from Greek letters, say (4) | NEWS ("nus") | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 844 | LIMA (4) | Square of one thou returned to Peruvian city (4) | one thou: slang for one thousand square of 1,000: 1,000,000 slang for a million: A MIL returned: LIMA< Peruvian city: def |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1035 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A PUZZLE GENRE (?) | Piece of paper essential to skyscrapers (5) | _SCRAP_ | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1155 | MAYDAY (6 OR 3, 3) | Reportedly invented a holiday for Poles? (3,3) | MAY DAY "made a" | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1183 | MEAN (4) | Intend evil (4) | ddef | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1188 | NOSFERATU (9) | Twisted natures of the Vampyre? (9) | NOSFERATU* (The full English title is "Nosferatu: the Vampyre") |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1209 | MISTAKE (7) | Blunder makes it complicated (7) | MISTAKE* | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1221 | ACCOUTREMENTS (13) | Queer male, in inflections and accessories (13) | ACC(OUTRE+M)ENTS | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1268 | SHOT (4) | Regular school-time picture (4) | S(-c)H(-o)O(-l)+T | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1370 | NOZZLE (6) | Revolutionary automaker Musk catches a couple Z's by fuel dispenser (6) | NO(ZZ)LE< | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1454 | GRADE (5) | Class speaker's visibly aged (5) | "greyed" | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1531 | PICASSO (7) | Famous painter's eating disorder upset WWII agency (7) | PICA+SSO< | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1549 | ANY CLUE ENDING IN LEVEL (5, 1) | Characters in vassal country returned to the highest level (5,1) | _CLASSA_< | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1592 | FOX MULDER (3, 6) | "Returning male in uniform", X-Files' site describes Dana Scully's partner (3,6) | Returning: reversal indicator male in uniform X: M in U+X Files' site: FOLDER ...describes: container/contents indicator Dana Scully's partner: FO[(X(M)U)<]LDER |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1598 | THEME (5) | Topic from article by setter (5) | THE+ME | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1604 | IODINE (6) | On the table, I eat after 10 (6) | 10+DINE | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1607 | SUBLIME (7) | Blues composition about setter is wonderful (7) | SUBL(I'M)E* | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1633 | SEE (3) | Sieve's uneven spot (3) | S(-i)E(-v)E | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1638 | WAIT (4) | Break a stone, perhaps loudly (4) | WAIT ("weight") | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1660 | SMASH (5) | Son hit buttons rapidly in Nintendo fighting-game series (5) | S+MASH | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1708 | OMINOUS (7) | Third blue moon is strangely portentous (7) | {*U+MOON+IS} | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1718 | DERRING-DO (7-2) | Second admiral ordering strangely reckless action (7-2) | (-a)D_+ERRINGDO* | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1734 | GLEAN (5) | Good tip to learn (5) | G+LEAN | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1735 | TO AND FRO (2, 3, 3) | Shaking darn foot back and forth (2,3,3) | TOANDFRO* | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1738 | GUIDE (5) | Usher's oddly glum, indeed (5) | G(-l)U(-m)I(-n)D(-e)E(-d) | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1814 | BROWNIE (7) | Dude spilled wine on chocolate square (7) | BRO+WNIE* | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1843 | AMBIGRAM (8) | Body of Bambi's progenitor found in pod, perhaps (8) | (-b)AMBI(-s)+GRAM [short for grandmother] | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1849 | CRUISE (6) | Say, actress Penelope and actor Tom in "Vanilla Sky" (6) | CRUISE ("Cruz") ["Vanilla Sky" stars Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz] |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 1910 | PICKLE (6) | Clark Kent initially in heap of difficulty (6) | PI(C_+K_)LE | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 2020 | EGG (3) | Revolutionary general Washington lacking ingredient for caviar (ovum) (3) | EG(-roe)G< | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 2248 | FETISH (6) | What lies within revolutionary Amish site for perversion (6) | _F ETIS H_< | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 2486 | NITROGEN (8) | Element neon, say, or tin, losing electron on the return (8) | [NIT+RO+GE+(-e)N]< (def: element) | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 2761 | SPINEL (6) | Ultimately, as alternative option, teal gemstone (6) | _S+(-o)P(-t)I(-o)N(-t)E(-a)L | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 2782 | BASEL (5) | City on the Rhine's not founded without regular feasts (5) | BASEL(-_e_s_s) [ESS = regular fEaStS] | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 2873 | CARDINAL (8) | Acute, as sin(45) perhaps? (8) | ddef: Acute, as sin / 45 perhaps | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 3934 | NIDORAN OR NIDORAN♂ OR NIDORAN♀ (7 OR 8) | Future queen of Pokemon mixed iron and copper, in alchemy (8) | NIDORAN♀ (NIDORAN*+♀) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_symbols |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 3991 | MERRY (5) | Stumble into setter's chipper (5) | M(ERR)Y | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4055 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS AN MLP:FIM CHARACTER (?) | Dalton leaves a case containing julep (mixed alcoholic drink) (9) | A+P(PLEJ[-u]*)ACK the Dalton unit is abbreviated u |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4372 | AXIS (4) | 6a over x is 1 (4) | reversal ("over") of SIX A def: x is one |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4381 | AXIS (4) | x is one at the forefront! (4) | A+(X+IS) | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4403 | LOKI (4) | Audibly muted trickster god (4) | "low-key" | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4416 | ANTIDOTE (8) | Remedy consists of some Chianti? Do tell! (8) | _ANTI DO TE_ | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4497 | DRAGON (6) | Donkey's beginning to tease Donkey's mate (6) | D_+RAG ON (ref. Shrek) | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4541 | PARTICIPATION (13) | Opening with a photo, in reverse; then into violent engagement (13) | PART I + (CIP A)< + TION* Ref. Memento |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4555 | TYPO (4) | Bad poetry devoid of sense and meter, ultimately something that should never have been written (4) | TYPO(-_e)(-_r)* | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4655 | CHARTREUSE (10) | Yellowish-green and overly brown tree found around America (10) | CHAR+TRE(U.S.)E | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4734 | UNCHES (6) | Half of "unchessboard" white squares found orthogonally adjacent to exactly three black squares, or two on opposite sides, maybe (6) | UNCHES_ (ref. Uncyclopedia) | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4753 | WHY (3) | Deserving to lose food scrap, for what reason? (3) | W(-ort)HY | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4789 | COFFEE (6) | Starbucks drink is $100 in price (6) | C+OF+FEE | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4791 | COFFEE (6) | Say, "MOCHA AD!", getting ironic (6) | C(OF FE)E [CE=common era=anno Domini=AD] | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4802 | MELIORISM (9) | The idea "the night is darkest just before the dawn" is written in a deserted memorial, sadly (9) | (-a)MELIOR[IS]M* | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4860 | UNIBROW (7) | Feature of Bert's uniform: horizontal section with end of pen clipped to the left side (7) | U+NIB+ROW (well the tip is an end) | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 4890 | PENNSYLVANIA (12) | Presidential avenue, by name—corrupt, not beautied—mere helter-skelter! (12) | anag. PRESIDENTIALAVENUBYNAME minus anag. BEAUTIEDMERE | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 5473 | TETCBN (6) | This example TETCBN clue's big no-no, primarily! (6) | TETCBN (inits); &lit | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 6152 | ZOUNDS (6) | Zoo ruined as every other member's disappeared? Egad! (6) | Z_O_U_N_D_S | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 6316 | ANY CLUE WITH AN ENUMERATION META (?) | 5-iron brought outside (4) | F(IV)E | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 6328 | ELLIPSIS (8) | Returning some drinks i-spilled-but-let's-not-dwell-on-this-part-kthx (8) | _ELLIPS I S_< | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 6534 | GUILTY PLEASURE (6, 8) | Admission to the crime? Why not: "it's bad, but thoroughly enjoyable"? (6,8) | GUILTY PLEA + SURE | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 6673 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A PREVIOUS CONTEST WITH 0 ENTRIES (?) | Leaving railroad car, Chikorita crashes into Shaymin (7_3) | (-rr)CHAOTICIAK* | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 6746 | SECOND DOSE (6, 4) | Follow-up immunization's odd stench (of dead daffodils, primarily) penetrates olfactory organ (6,4) | S_E_C_O_+N(D+D_)OSE | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 6784 | VERTIGO (7) | Very old caged tiger chasing its tail in Hitchcock film (7) | V[ery] (ER/TIG [cycle of TIGER]) O[ld] | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 6851 | ROTTERDAM (9) | Spooner's offspring, kid who's grown up in Europe's largest port city (9) | Spoonerism of DAUGHTER [offspring] RAM [kid (as in baby goat) who's grown up] | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 7143 | DIM SUM (3 3) | Dummies get out of shape without eating first Chinese appetizer (3 3) | DIMSUM(-e_)* dummy thicc |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 7209 | DOT-TO-DOT (3-2-3) | "Child's play!" -Bart's young neighbor, about taking in Springfield Elementary bus driver (3-2-3) | child's play: D(OTTO)DOT< Bart's young neighbor: TODD Flanders about: reversal taking in: container/content indicator Springfield Elementary bus driver: OTTO |
AuLeaf | 3 |
| 7333 | GENE WILDER (4, 6) | Disrobing agent bewilders actor (4,6) | _GEN_+_EWILDER_ | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 9728 | A CLUE (1, 4) | Defenders of individual rights ultimately like this, say? (1,4) | this, say: ACLU+E | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 10098 | ISLANDS (7) | Earth as seen on board in-orbit multinational research base: bits of terrain surrounded by watery expanse (7) | I.S.(LAND)S. | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 11591 | PAELLA (6) | Baselessly turned beer hops into Spanish dish (6) | reversal of AL(-e)+LEAP(-s) | AuLeaf | 3 |
| 367 | BINARY STAR (6, 4) | An odd twin ray Sirius A or B ultimately produced... Sirius A or B? | AN, T(w)I(n)R(a)Y, (siriu)S A (o)R B produced: anagrind for [*ANTIRYSARB] Sirius A or B?: [BINARYSTAR]* (? for D by E) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 421 | ARETAICS (8) | Famous singer, Franklin Roosevelt's first wife—not hale—initially studied virtue theory | Famous singer Franklin: ARETHA [Teddy] Roosevelt's first wife: ALICE not HALE: ARET(-ha)A(-l)IC(e) virtue theory = ARETAIC+S(tudied) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 423 | ARETAICS (8) | Science of Virtue's Last Reward: a solar eclipse—even without mind-altering substance, in retrospect—is discombobulating! | def: Science of virtue "Last Reward... eclipse" even: (l)A(s)T(r)E(w)A(r)D(a)S(o)L(a)R(e)C(l)I(p)S(e) without mind-altering substance: ATEA(-dsl)RCIS is discombobulating: anag. of {*ATEARCIS} |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 473 | ENUMERATION (11) | Gruesome! The rest is history... Tune in, there's more at 11! (11) | Gruesome: anagrind THE REST is history: fodder without THE REST {*TUNEIN(-the,res)MOREA(-t)} 11: {ENUMERATION}* |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 476 | MOLASSES (8) | Sweet thing, the way girl from Spain is (8) | M.O.+LASS+ES (from Spain "is") | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 477 | HEBREW (6) | Jewish male's concoction (6) | HE+BREW | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 487 | MOLASSES (8) | Biblical man who famously crossed the sea carrying Vegas article: "What caused the Great Flood?" (8) | MO(LAS)SES ref parting of the Red Sea; surface ref Noah | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 519 | MAZUMA (6) | Amaze sumo man by disrobing for moolah (6) | (a)MAZ(e) (s)UM(o) (m)A(n) (b)(y) | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 529 | OBSCURE (7) | Doubt cast regularly, in a way, on the nigh-certain, to muddy the waters (7) | doubt cast regularly: (d)O(u)B(t)C(a)S(t) in a way: OBSC* on: charade indicator the nigh-certain: (s)URE to muddy the waters: OBSCURE (v.) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 552 | PROSTHESIS (10) | Experienced one's graduate project on cyborg generation, possibly? (10) | PRO'S THESIS [restorative] cyborg generation, possibly: PROSTHESIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg#In_medicine *Mechanical* prosthesis is technically the generation of a restorative cyborg, since a restorative cyborg is just a person with some sort of technology used to replace lost body function. (This doesn't say MECHANICAL but that's why "possibly" is at the end.) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 571 | SWEET (5) | Good person consuming bodily fluid containing salt but having a sugary taste (5) | S(WEE)T parody of http://cryptics.jackbrounstein.com/contest/109-sweet-5?highlight=561#clue561 |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 574 | MASQUERADE (10) | Adam's queer, dancing at ball with facial decoration (10) | MASQUERADE* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 579 | CHESSBOARD (10) | Bosch reads about setting for King's Game? (10) | CHESSBOARD* ("the king's game" is a nickname for chess; allusion to Ender's Game and/or Game of Thrones) | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 606 | NORMAL (6) | Translation of Roman numeral, ultimately in standard form (6) | Translation of ROMAN: NORMA* numeral, ultimately: _L in standard form: NORMA+L |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 642 | PATRIOT (7) | Member of the Brady Bunch, or the Three Stooges maybe, in Endless Road (7) | ref Patriots QB Tom Brady PA(TRIO)T(-h) (There is an Australian film on iMDb called "Endless Road") |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 648 | PATRIOT (7) | Football player beginning to shout out, "Fight, fight!" during ball game, perhaps (7) | Football player: (-s_)PAT+RIOT fight: SPAT [with] beginning to shout out: (-s_)PAT fight during ball game, perhaps: RIOT |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 684 | SEVEN (5) | First woman to penetrate the poles? No. (5) | No.: Number: S(EVE)N | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 687 | ANARCHY (7) | Arbitrary structure within non-governmental organization? (7) | arbitrary: ANY structure: ARCH within: container/contents indicator non-governmental organization?: AN(ARCH)Y |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 716 | GOOGLE (6) | With eye, try to look up (6) | eye: OGLE try: GO with X, Y: juxtaposition indicator (ambidirectional) to look up: GO+OGLE |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 717 | GOOGLE (6) | Try overhead train, try turning over engine (6) | Try: GO overhead train: EL [elevated railway] try: GO turning over: reversal indicator [search] engine: GO+(OG+LE)< |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 743 | SCHADENFREUDE | Founder of S&M takes chief psychologist in direction to get enjoyment out of others' suffering (13) | [wp] to get [def] construction S(CH)ADE+N(FREUD)E |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 744 | SCHADENFREUDE | Connery's declaration: founders of S&M and psychoanalysis delight in others' misery (13) | "Sade and Freud" in Sean Connery's accent | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 756 | TWO-MAN (3-3) | Superheroine not about sort of partnership between a couple of gents (3-3) | sort of partnership between a couple of gents: (-ca)TWOMAN | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 802 | RED HERRING (3,7) | Broken derringer Henry's clutched is not quite the smoking gun it might initially appear (3,7) | anag. of DERRINGER; H is clutched RED(H)ERRING* |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 841 | SOMETHING WITH DEFINITION 'WORD' | One person's word (4) | One: A persons: MEN [ignore apostrophe] word: AMEN (used to express agreement) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 850 | CONTINUUM (9) | "Out-of-State: On Time in Empty Space," described space-time, say? (9) | (-va)C(ON+T+IN)UUM | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 877 | MEME (4) | Yo-yo taken from Mexico to US or Canada? Say, ¿porque no los dos? (4) | YO YO translated from Spanish to English: ME ME https://i.imgflip.com/v6ljk.jpg |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 962 | SURVIVOR (8) | In trailer, "Princess Bride" monster returned to take on sixth person left alive (8) | trailer: R.V. "Princess Bride" monster: R.O.U.S. (Rodent Of Unusual Size) returned: SUOR< to take on: SU(RV)OR In ... sixth: SUR(VI)VOR person left alive: def |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 973 | CERULEAN (8) | Deep blue oceans' contents take command (8) | (-o)CE(RULE)AN(-s) | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 974 | THUSLY (6) | So clever, to follow no-good street tough (6) | THU(-g)+SLY [def: "so"] (Surface is to be read sarcastically) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1010 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | "Still Alive," returning to banish evil in place of Texan capital city that's home to the National Cowgirl Museum, if that means anything (3,3,2'1,5) | "Still Alive" returning to banish evil: (-evil)ALLITS< in place of Texan capital: replacing T_ city that's home to the National Cowgirl Museum: FORT WORTH if that means anything: FOR (t->ALL IT'S) WORTH |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1011 | ADRENALINE (10) | Ultimately, soldier in base takes one liter epinephrine (10) | AD(_R)EN(A+L)INE | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1013 | LUIGI (5) | Say "Bud Buddy", a supernatural board game character with a haunted mansion (5) | say: homophone indicator Bud Buddy: LOU (Costello; ref Bud Abbott) a supernatural board: OUIJA game character with a haunted mansion: LUIGI "Lou Ouija" |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1014 | PERHAPS (7) | Strange phrase with period at the start, maybe (7) | PERHA(P)S* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1069 | ROBINSON CRUSOE (8, 6) | Man in shipwreck, initially on overseas voyage, taking over lost island! (8,6) | ROB+IN+S_+ON+CRU(-i)S(O)E [O as cricket abbreviation for "over"] |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1087 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A PUZZLE GENRE (?) | Jerk entering NOT DOWN FOR CROSSWORDS in puzzles that aren't even crosswords (8) | ACROS(TIC)S [across = not down, for crosswords] | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1218 | MUNICIPALITY (12) | Character with retro-chic first pet boxer in city or town, maybe (12) | MU+(NI<)+CI(P_+ALI)TY = town, maybe | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1222 | ACCOUTREMENTS (13) | Accessories to heartless murder, strangely, in Highlights (13) | *(TO MU[-rd]ER) in ACCENTS: ACC(OUTRE*)MENTS | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1226 | SAFFRON (7) | Spice, not the least bit gentle, in no-good Sri Lankan wrap, perhaps (7) | not the least bit gentle: FF (piano) no-good Sri Lankan wrap, perhaps: SARON(-g) Spice: SA(FF)RON(-g) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1310 | OTHELLO (7) | Herein: two opponents, flipping each initial color within bounds! (7) | (rev. O_ T_ H_) + (-y)ELLO(-w) | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1315 | LITTLEBIGPLANET (15) | Small girl in aircraft beginning to tackle PlayStation video-game trilogy (15) | LITTLE + BI(G)PLANE + T_ | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1369 | NOZZLE (6) | No puzzle that stinks will be lost in a faucet (6) | NO+(-p.u.)ZZLE | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1398 | RUSTY (5) | Out of practice with Pigpen, you put R in place of I in "SPAIN" (5) | (yo->R)U+STY ["yo"==I in Spain] | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1400 | TOWER (5) | Perhaps keep top individual in debt? (5) | Perhaps keep: d. by ex. (n.) top: T (as in top quark) individual in debt?: OWER (in Wiktionary, but not other dictionaries; hence "?") |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1410 | ORALLY (6) | Confederate by, essentially, word of mouth (6) | _OR_+ALLY | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1429 | ARGUMENT (8) | Love letter sent to Romeo Montague in chaos and conflict (8) | anag. of M[o->R]NTAGUE | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1483 | GEMINI (6) | Twins in Dodge minivan (6) | _GE MINI_ | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1532 | INEPT (5) | Clumsy Nephertiti lost two objects and misplaced one (5) | Nephertiti lost two objects: NEP(-her)T(-it)I and misplaced one: (+I)NEPT(-i) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1546 | ZEAL (4) | Laze about, a layabout's lack? (4) | ZEAL* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1550 | DISTRICT ATTORNEY (8, 8) | Pretty distraction strangely throwing off chief of police and chief prosecutor (8, 8) | anag. of *(PRETTY DISTRACTION) throwing off P_ (chief of police): DISTRICTATTORNEY(-p)* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1561 | TONSILLOLITH (12) | Empty-hearted Hal is not returning with nearly underage crush, which gives a lump in one's throat (12) | (TON+SI+L[LOLIT(-a)](-a)H)< | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1563 | HORSE (5) | Equine shoer, in a way (5) | HORSE* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1569 | ETCH (4) | Carve out of wet chalk (4) | _ETCH_ | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1573 | DEFENSE ATTORNEY (7,8) | Lawyer's yield has no position to return profit in Japan (7,8) | DEFE(N+SEAT+TO)R+NEY< | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1588 | ANY CLUE ENDING IN A BEAN (7, 7) | Step in eye exam about coloring, about a bean (7,7) | RE+TIN(A+LIMA)GING | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1634 | DO (2) | Note in window (2) | _DO_ | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1659 | POINTLESS (9) | Slip notes around to no end (9) | POINTLESS* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1697 | AARDVARK (8) | A card shark, losing initial count, quietly turned to Victor the Anteater (8) | A (-c)ARD (sh->V)ARK | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1709 | OMINOUS (7) | Platelet in blood (type negative) not looking good (7) | O+MIN(O)US | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1807 | TAUTOLOGY (9) | Verbally imparted to everyone a one-note truism (9) | "taught all a G" | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1838 | ARAMIS (6) | Weapon is draped over one musketeer (6) | AR(A)M+IS | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1865 | PREY (4) | Pyre prepared for one killed by predation (4) | PREY* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1883 | GAME SIX (4, 3) | GI maxes out in penultimate match (4,3) | GAMESIX* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1937 | TRIVIAL (7) | Non-essential chambers of the heart lack opening and closing tube (7) | (-a)TRI(-a)+VIAL | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1948 | PURSUIT (7) | Penny farthing goes out for something often seen around an anthro fan following (7) | Penny farthing goes out for: F->P something often seen around an anthro fan: FURSUIT following: (f->P)URSUIT |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 1972 | SHIITAKE (8) | Asian mushroom is one object in smoothie (8) | SH(I+IT)AKE | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 2001 | DIE/DICE (3/4) | Advise short odds for one at the casino, perhaps (3) | (-a)D(-v)I(-s)E | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 2084 | SUBSCRIBE (9) | Follow part-time educator's crib note (9) | SUB'S+CRIB+E | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 2144 | ESSEN (5) | Poles overheard in German city (5) | ESSEN ("S, N") | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 2207 | OPUS (4) | Work out... pull-ups, say, to start (4) | OPUS (init.) | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 2380 | INTERSECT (9) | Bury nonconformist church cross (9) | INTER+SECT | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 2488 | NITROGEN (8) | Element needed to make #1 intern go crazy (8) | NITROGEN* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 2726 | HARRIES (7) | Railroad that is overtaken by every other heads attacks (7) | RR+IE overtaken by H_A_S: HA(RR+IE)S | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 2796 | ELISION (7) | Man is turning back on controversial cryptic device (7) | ELI+SI<+ON | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 2904 | WOLFRAM (7) | Metal tarnish to drift westward (7) | (WOLF+RAM)< | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 2989 | BACTERIA (8) | Atmosphere and such are initially brimming over with microbes (8) | Atmosphere=AIR (as in, "tone") and such=ETC. are=A (abbreviation for the unit) initially brimming=B_ over: reversal indicator microbes: (B+A+CTE+RIA)< |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3008 | ANY CLUE NUMBER ACROSS/DOWN (? 6/4) | 6A: Where to enter this revolutionary graph's y- or x-intercept (3,6) | SIXA<+CROSS | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3089 | CLUE WHERE 1ST WORD STARTS WITH A, 2ND B, ETC (?) | Alien big cat, dragon, etc., from grave house IDs (8) | CRYPT+IDS | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3131 | CLUE SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN THE ANSWER (?) | Font×Nova (5,3,5) | ×=TIMES Nova=NEW, ROMAN |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3156 | HOMO SAPIENS (4, 7) | Silly Simon's a hope for humanity (4,7) | *simonsahope: HOMOSAPIENS* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3157 | HOMO SAPIENS (4, 7) | Gay's penis agitated, going after a man (4,7) | HOMO'S+A+PIENS* owo | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3163 | STAN (4) | Turner's turned obsessive fanboy, perhaps (4) | S'TAN< | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3228 | CLUE CONTAINING A CHARACTER OR ITEM FROM CLUE (?) | Tangled rope takes king in card game (5) | PO(K)ER | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3273 | OEDIPUS (7) | Deusovi in a bad way, Victor turned to western prince--one keeping his eye on his queen mother's brooch? (7) | OEDI(v->P_)US [I guess this isn't usually what "queen mother" means though] |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3296 | CLUE CONTAINING "CLUE CONTAINING" (?) | Clue containing "peer down" stuck together (7) | CLU(MP)E+D | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3377 | BAD DOG (3, 3) | Returning canine character from Zero Time Dilemma has strange admonishment for a pet (3,3) | [BA(DDO)G]< | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3431 | HUMAN (5) | Fallible follower of Attila embraced mother (5) | HU(MA)N | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3555 | CHICKEN (7) | Poultry in Spooner's kitchen (7) | (k->CH)I(tch->CK)EN | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3564 | CLUE W/ "TURING MACHINE" NOT MEANING A REAL TM (?) | Girl in anime about Turing machine? (5) | ENI(G)MA* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 3664 | ANY CLUE RELATED TO HALLOWEEN (?) | Meme's eerie—revolutionary, ultimately: "Everybody Poops" (6) | (SPOOP+Y_)< | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 4054 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS AN MLP:FIM CHARACTER (?) | Initially, sitting president Eisenhower's lace (5) | S_+P_+IKE | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 4102 | MARRY (5) | Train taken by one PM Wed. (5) | Train: RR taken by: container/contents indicator one PM: Prime Minister Teresa MAY Wed: MA(RR)Y |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 4130 | ANY CLUE THAT CONTAINS ITS ANSWER (?) | Setter comes to love active passion (4) | L(i->O)VE | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 4159 | NORMALCY (8) | Scandinavian nation makes Washington clam up; it's business as usual (8) | NOR(wa->MALC<)Y | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 4167 | INCANDESCENT (12) | Passionate lineage of Amerindian civilization (12) | INCAN DESCENT | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 4299 | IRON (4) | Reportedly, setter merits press (4) | "I earn" | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 4399 | GEORGE ORWELL (6,6) | Twice, director Nicolas sent back fine Eric Blair wrote under this false name (6,6) | (GEOR< + GEOR<)+WELL | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 4400 | GEORGE ORWELL (6,6) | Twisted lower leg while taking Molly to meet co-creator of Animal Farm (6,6) | twisted lower leg: GEORWELL while taking: includicator Molly [ecstacy]: E to meet: concatenator co [short for company]: ORG. creator of Animal Farm: G(E+ORG)EORWELL* |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 4692 | SCREED (6) | Is a curse read regularly for tirade? (6) | _S_C_R_E_E_D | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 4828 | WATERLOO (8) | Lao wrote peculiar hit song for ABBA (8) | WATERLOO* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 5249 | BAOBAB (6) | Infant nearly swallows backwards snake in upside-down tree (6) | B(AOB<)AB[-y] | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 5268 | JE T'AIME (2, 1'4) | Black robot setter's declaration of amour (2, 1'4) | JET+A.I.+ME | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 5271 | EXTRACT (7) | Convoluted tax credit eliminating $501 for free (7) | free (from): def. for EXTRACT[-di]* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 5330 | SPLANCHNIC (10) | Intestinal pains; clench awkwardly without hope, ultimately (10) | SPLANCHNIC(-_e)* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 5507 | ABRACADABRA (11) | Oddly, Auburn Uni skinned lab rat with magical incantation (11) | A_B_R_+ACAD+(-l)AB RA(-t) | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 5574 | CELLAR DOOR (6, 4) | Recall horrid sort of odor in basement entrance (6,4) | CELLAR*+DOOR* oh no what's in the basement D: | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 5649 | AAA (3) | Call them, for your car needs a little battery (3) | ddef: Call them for your car needs: American Automobile Association a little battery: AAA |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 5657 | CRYPTID (7) | One leaves awfully dirty pic for a large-footed guy who's into the wood, say (7) | CRYPTID(-i)*; Bigfoot has large feet and lives in the wood | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 6105 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A PALINDROME (?) | Lean, big marten, *non*? Even on NE tram, Gib? N/A, el (6) | even letters fromo netramgibnael: _E_R_M_I_N_E_ def: lean, big marten, non? (an ermine/stoat is leaner and larger than most species of marten. "non" is French for "no" here) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 6108 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A PALINDROME (?) | "Taps", sides reversed, is "spat" (4) | wp: reverse another word for "taps" ("raps") SPAR< (as in a quarrel) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 6445 | LIL NAS X (3, 3, 1) | INXS all confused by "Old Town Road" rapper (3,3,1) | anag. INXSALL | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 6486 | ANY CLUE THAT INCLUDES AN ENTIRELY TRUE EDUCATIONAL FACT (?) | Fungi are closest to animals, primarily, not flora, ultimately! (4) | FACTA (inits) - _A = FACT | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 6563 | KVELL (5) | Rejoice in Dracula's defeat? (5) | quell (/kwel/) but replace /w/ with /v/ | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 6715 | UP TOP (2, 3) | The "responsibility" of power is in the head (2,3) | the responsibility of: UP TO power: P in the head: UP TOP (Brit. slang apparently) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 6716 | UP TOP (2, 3) | Two flavors on the highest shelf, perhaps (2,3) | UP + TOP (quark flavors) for example in a refrigerator or pantry, you might say "The ketchup's up top." (US regionalism) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 6906 | BLACKJACK OR JACK BLACK (9 OR 4,5) | Club ace and face card, maybe (9) | BLACKJACK ddef | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 7023 | K-I-S-S-I-N-G (1-1-1-1-1-1-1) | Kids' song when child ultimately goes out with "love"--which turns out to be friendship, most frequently (1-1-1-1-1-1-1) | KI(-_d)S S(o->I)NG; friendship most frequently is the most frequent letter in "friendship" (which is "i") | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 7179 | ANY CLUE WITH AN ABAB RHYME SCHEME (?) | Blood factor contained by a baby... such energy, lacking a U... featured in "Doge" or "Loss" maybe... it's exhibited by this here clue! (4 5 6) | (A+BAB(RH)Y)+ME(S[-u]CH+E)ME | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 7882 | A CLUE MADE OF ONLY ANAGRINDS, WITH MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS (?) | Mad; break down–stricken; deranged (7) | break: anagrind down-stricken: -D deranged: fodder mad: def for [ANGERED(-d)]* or [ENRAGED(-d)]* |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 8048 | BETAVEROS (9) | Hybrid beast taking over puzzling! (9) | BETA(VERO*)S* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 9288 | LYDIAN (6) | PC member Dylanamite cracked no meta (6) | LYDIAN(-meta)* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 10052 | GENESIS (7) | Start going crazy: seeing things, ultimately (7) | GENESI*+_S | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 10585 | ANY CLUE WHERE A PUNCTUATION MARK IS INCLUDED IN THE PARSE | –−Æ=🛑 (3) | END(-ash) | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 11515 | STAR (4) | Lost art: inscribing pentacle, perhaps (4) | _ST AR_ | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 11598 | Z (1) | Zero's first in the set of integers (1) | wp: Z_ link: "in" def: the set of integers (ℤ) |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 11819 | TO A T (2, 1, 1) | Without trace of singe, toast is perfectly done (2,1,1) | TOA(-s_)T | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 12077 | PORTCULLIS (10) | What might be evoked by "mischief": troublesome trolls & "I-C-U-P"? (10) | anagram TROLLSICUP ref. https://youtu.be/b8aZSlMLXwo?t=1651 |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 12156 | VENETIAN (8) | Blind-sort lattice in naive arrangement (8) | VE(NET)IAN* | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 12425 | STUN (4) | Tesla's driven into the nearest star? Wow (4) | S(T)UN | AuLeaf | 2 |
| 12700 | PEAR (4) | No-good, rotten grapefruit (4) | PEAR(-g)* hot take: grapefruit is just a worse version of an orange |
AuLeaf | 2 |
| 364 | REFRAIN (7) | Strangely empty Ren Faire's chant (7) | [*R(e)N,FAIRE]->[REFRAIN]*; ref Rennaissance Faire | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 366 | CRYPTIC (7) | Pity beginning crossword competitor's repeated failure... Like this clue! | Anag. of PITY,C,C,R; def.: Like this clue; surface implores voters to take pity on the poor solver whose clues never win and spare a few votes this way... What a panhandler! | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 406 | GOLD LEAF (4, 4) | Clumsy page fold left when there's no back flap, a colorful sort of page marker? | Anag. of *PAGEFOLDL missing (fla)P: {(-p)GOLDLEAF}* a colorful sort of page marker?: cd for gold leaf (gold leaf is often added to the edges of book pages) |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 440 | KAIST (5) | Foremost academic scholars regularly going in British-style uniform for university at Daejeon (5) | A_ and S_ inserted at regular intervals into KIT (Brit. term for uniform): K(A)I(S)T | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 445 | SHAYMIN (7) | Grass-type mythical initially seen in Sinnoh, avoiding drama on its home ground (7) | &lit; Shaymin comes from Sinnoh's "Flower Paradise" and is shy and reserved (ie, avoids drama) in its original, land form (on its home ground) Grass type: HAY mythical initially: M_ seen in SINNOH: SHA(YM)INNOH avoiding: deletion indicator drama on its home ground: NOH (Japanese masked play) S[HAYM]IN(-noh) |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 481 | LEFT OUT (4, 3) | As Rudolph felt? (4,3) | as Rudolph [was]: def (left out of reindeer games according to the song) FELT*: reverse anagram for LEFT OUT ? for reverse anagram |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 497 | OR (2) | This neighbor's ID shows place in hospital (2) | This neighbors ID: OR, state abbv. for Oregon (neighbors Idaho) shows: link place in hospital: OR, acronym for Operating Room |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 572 | MASQUERADE (10) | Square dancing's done around incognito ball (10) | Square dancing: *ASQUER 's done around: has MADE around incognito ball: M(ASQUER)ADE |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 590 | ANTARCTICA (10) | A timeless sort of tantric act in land to the south (10) | land to the south: A+NTARCTICA(-t) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 609 | PUYO (4) / PUYO PUYO (4, 4) | Softly, solver cracked tile-matching game in half (4) | Softly: P solver cracked: *YOU tile-matching game in half: P+UYO* |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 657 | LUNAR NEW YEAR (5, 3, 4) | Upcoming celebration, i.e., annual revelry, cavorting, taking up with no evil (5,3,4) | Upcoming celebration: LUNARNE(W)YEAR(-evil)* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 660 | INDONESIA (9) | Country Poles have made into second-highest grade (9) | Poles have made: N(DONE)S into second: I(NDONES)I highest grade: INDONESI+A |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 686 | SEVEN (5) | Odd digit's not odd? (5) | 'S+EVEN | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 712 | CENTRIPETAL (11) | Force required to make object spin around hot air is just over four ninths of a kiloNewton (11) | Force required to make object spin: CEN(TRIPE)TAL around X is Y: container/contetns indicator hot air: TRIPE just over 4/9 kN: 100 lb: CENTAL |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 720 | CENTRIFUGAL (11) | Out of college, argue fictional sort of policeman ultimately hides within arguably fictional sort of force (11) | out of college: ARGUE+FICT(-iona)L [ref Iona college] sort of: *ARGUEFICTL policemaN ultimately hides within: CE(N)TRIFUGAL* arguably fictional sort of force: CENTRIFUGAL [centrifugal force only exists in a rotating reference frame, and doesn't exist relative to an inertial frame of reference] |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 733 | LARCENY (7) | Unique characters of Carl & Lenny organized theft (7) | L(-l)ARCEN(-n)Y* ref Lenny and Carl from The Simpsons | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 734 | UCAOIMHU (8) | Mustachioed holy man leaving with editor and high-class setter for NPL (8) | anag. of MU(-st)ACHIO(-ed) + U (upper class): UCAOIMH*+U | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 748 | SCHADENFREUDE | See a French dud distraught, producing a morbid and callous sort of satisfaction (13) | SCHADENFREUDE* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 755 | TWO-MAN (3-3) | Tom and Jerry's country shortly abandoned, taking work in tandem, say (3-3) | Tom and: fodder Jerry's country shortly: D (abbv for Germany, ref WWII slang "Jerry" for German) taking work in: surrounding W tandem [bicycle], say: T(W)OM+AN(-d) |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 792 | CONTAINER (9) | Tin can or case, ultimately, sort of this! (9) | anag. of TIN+CAN+OR+_E, semi-&lit (either a tin can or a case is an example of container) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 835 | SOMETHING WITH DEFINITION 'WORD' | Magic word from the French to office department word (6) | P(le->HR)ASE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 849 | ISOTROPIC (9) | Sort of shell-less spicy tortoise is unaffected by directional selection? (9) | anag. of (-s)PIC(-y) (-t)ORTOIS(-e) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 856 | CONTINUUM (9) | Gradient differential of function minus f over mu (9) | (-f)CONTINU*+UM< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 862 | REARRANGEMENT (13) | Juggling initial timeslots with aim to have no one put on the back-burner? (13) | juggling: def initial timeslots: T with aim: next to MEAN to have no one: ME(-a)N+T put on: going after the back: REAR burner?: RANGE |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 906 | ANIME (5) | Ash captured Minun leaving international coalition back in Pokémon: Advanced Generation, perhaps (5) | AE containing reversal of MIN(-un) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 907 | ANIME (5) | Perhaps Inuyasha and myself take out foremost demon, for one (5) | AN(d->I) ME | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 932 | PEWTER (6) | Computer is said to come with this metal (6) | reverse WP: COMPUTER="come pewter" | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 939 | SMALL (5) | Short journey to exit shopping center (5) | S(-trip) MALL | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 944 | FALSE FRIEND (5, 6) | Fremder, perhaps?! (5,6) | "Fremder" sounds like "friend" but is German for "stranger." Cryptically, a "friend" who turns out to be a stranger (? for indirectness), &lit. | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 946 | A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1, 9, 5, 6) | Great play by Williams sister, somehow, with an ace going to the front and the rest in rear; damned difficult to penetrate (1,9,5,6) | A+STSIRE* penetrated by RE(ETC)AR+NAMEDD* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 947 | FALSE FRIEND (5, 6) | Who might turn on one Spaniard's pan, perhaps? (5,6) | who might turn on one: backstabber as cd for "friend" (q-mark for crypticness) "pan" meaning "bread" as def by ex |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 948 | AD-LIB (2-3) | Bauer, leaving Build-a-Bear Workshop, to say: "Here's lookin' at you, kid" (2-3) | wp: ADLIB(-bauer)* link word: to def: say, "Here's lookin' at you, kid" (ad-lib from Casablanca) |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 951 | HYENAS (6) | Scavengers make a mess of hen, say (6) | anag. of HENSAY | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 963 | PLENARY (7) | Returned call about bombed general (7) | PLE(NAR)Y< ["bombed" can mean "moved quickly" and is a synonym for "ran" according to Merriam-Webster] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 976 | CERULEAN (8) | Ocean color's sort of unclear, essentially green (8) | anag. of UNCLEAR+_E_ | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 977 | PERHAPS (7) | Criminal suspects capture one next to Henry, say (7) | PER(H+A)PS | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 985 | CERULEAN (8) | Energy in nuclear form makes sky blue? (8) | CERUL(E)AN* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1008 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | Rocked me, "Amadeus," out of US, heading back for Japanese soybean cuisine (7) | rev. EM*+AMADE(-us) for EDAMAME< [song: "Amadeus", opening theme from Steins;Gate 0 (with reference to Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus")] |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1049 | REBUS (5) | Symbolic puzzle about vehicle (5) | RE+BUS | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1050 | REBUS (5) | Figure puzzle by putting second vehicle in reverse (5) | (REBU+S)< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1055 | REBUS (5) | Figure puzzle's answer out from crack abuser (5) | Figure puzzle: REBUS(-a)* answer out from crack abuser: A out of *ABUSER |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1056 | REBUS (5) | Confederates conquered Union, as seen in the pictures (5) | REB(U)S | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1086 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A PUZZLE GENRE (?) | Parts of arguments which may be found in your newspaper (10) | CROSS WORDS/CROSSWORDS (ddef) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1109 | SWARF (5) | Returning some of raw salmon and chips (5) | rev. _F RAW S_ | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1130 | A CRYPTIC THAT'S A RHYMING COUPLET (?) | Force by energy; in retrospect, these lines//Have no use for meter, nor for rhymes (4,5) | F+RE(E)VERSE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1133 | A CRYPTIC THAT'S A RHYMING COUPLET (?) | For an example of such expressive verse//Have a taste of Edgar Allan first (6) | POE+TRY | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1144 | MOBILE PHONE (6,5) | Within walls of prison, train model inmate ultimately to place art sculpture in anterior cell (6,5) | within: cont/conticator walls of prison: P_N train model: H0 (scale for railway models) inmate ultimately: P(HO)N+_E to place art sculpture in anterior: preceded by MOBILE cell: MOBILE+P_(HO)NE |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1165 | A CRYPTIC THAT'S A RHYMING COUPLET (?) | Santa's reindeer, initially lacking consent//Reach the pinnacle of a dramatic ascent (4,2,1,4) | COMET+(-g)OAHEAD | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1184 | MEAN (4) | State an average (4) | ME+AN | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1185 | NOSFERATU (9) | Strange fortune's about a German vampire (9) | NOSFER(A)TU* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1192 | MEAN (4) | Average by taking from middle — median (4) | Average: MEAN by: link taking from middle: taking letters out of the middle of ME(-di)AN |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1198 | PLATEAU (7) | Poles are taken from odd pillar to Nosferatu's tray for Jacques (7) | odd pillar to Nosferatu: P(-i)L(-l)A(-r)T(-o)N(-o)S(-f)E(-r)A(-t)U poles are taken away from: PLAT(-ns)EAU tray for Jacques: def for the French word "plateau" from which the geographic term is derived |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1206 | CITY (4) | Like Madison's club ticket, halved and returned (4) | [(-tek)CIT+Y]< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1210 | MISTAKE (7) | Miscalculate setter's returns on bet (7) | M'I<+STAKE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1217 | CURRENT (7) | Mod's charge - going rate? (7) | d&cd (ddef with def [mod] & cryptic def [charge-going rate]) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1219 | CITY (4) | Urban center outside of key eastern quarter of municipality (4) | C(-enter)+(-mun)(-ici)(-pal)ITY | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1261 | SWARM (5) | Cloud of insects floated around Reggie's head (5) | SWA(R_)M | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1305 | OTHELLO (7) | "No good! Go to hell," enters Shakespearean general (7) | (-g)O T(HELL)O | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1311 | REVERSI (7) | Othello's reverend, endlessly overthrown (7) | rev. IS REVER(-end) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1328 | MNEMONIC DEVICE (8,6) | Devilish, headless, tailless devil coming after holy man, coming after man leaving a memory palace, perhaps (8,6) | M(-a)N + [(-d)EMONIC + DEVI(-l) + CE] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1359 | ON THE HOUSE (2,3,5) | Free-of-charge iced prostitute to employ to get rocks off (2,3,5) | ON THE (-rocks) + HO + USE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1399 | TOWER (5) | Loom as gift for weaver having lost way (5) | TO ["as gift for"] + WE(-ave.)R | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1412 | SHOWCASE (8) | Televise trial's highlight (8) | SHOW+CASE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1452 | PARADOX (7) | Perhaps Grandfather or Father's short-term medication contains spot and circle (7) | PA+R(AD+O)X | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1453 | PARADOX (7) | Casual speaker's two Ph.D.s in the danger of time travel (7) | "pair o' docs" | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1466 | ANGLE (5) | Director's lost energy to go fishing (5) | ANG LE(-e) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1468 | ANGLE (5) | Twist ankle, thou being thou (5) | AN[k->G]LE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1500 | RECEIPT (7) | Dessert shoved back in box without direct proof of purchase (7) | REC[EIP<]T(-angle) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1508 | PICASSO (7) | Photo, primarily of what's in your pants, included cubist signature (7) | PIC+O_, ASS included | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1530 | GO ABROAD (8) | Group having the commonest and rarest types put in notice for direction to travel (2,6) | group, including the commonest and rarest types: G(O & AB)ROUP putting in notice for direction: UP->AD to travel: G(O,AB)RO[up->AD] |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1557 | DISTRICT ATTORNEY (8, 8) | Dirt is thrown on court during no-class bout by challenger in court (8,8) | DISTRI*+CT+AT+TO(-u)RNEY [remove U as in Upper Class (Brit.)] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1575 | DEFENSE ATTORNEY (7,8) | Say Phoenix Wright, in rout, dashes to urn Fey first dropped (7,8) | DEF(ENS)EAT+TO+(-u)RN+(-f)EY surface ref. Sacred Urn |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1576 | ETCH (4) | Chet destroyed print (4) | ETCH* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1577 | MOONLIGHT (9) | Method by which hint of luminescence penetrates globe after sundown! (9) | M.O.+[O+N(L_)IGHT] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1583 | HORSE (5) | Hoser, eccentric dope (5) | HORSE* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1669 | KINDLE (6) | Returning E. L. Doctorow novel I kept initially on e-reader (6) | [(.stini) KINDLE]< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1699 | XIMENES (7) | The eleventh pharaoh, unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt, and famous cruciverbalist (7) | XI+MENES | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1700 | XIMENES (7) | Fuck around with ground mine setter (7) | X(IMEN*)ES< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1717 | BOXERS (6) | Some dogs, upset, cry about combat dog who died in 2012 (6) | BO(XER)S< https://www.google.com/amp/s/newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/27/beloved-bomb-sniffing-dog-who-retired-to-live-with-marine-handler-dies/amp/ |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1761 | ANAGRIND (8) | One daring to cook fudge, perhaps (8) | fudge, perhaps: AN+AGRIND* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1772 | SIGNATURE (9) | One little fly caught by steady hand (9) | S(I+GNAT)URE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1780 | SIGNATURE (9) | Solver and setter, say, each captivated by Doctor Strange [trademark] (9) | S(I)GNAT(U)RE* (in the adjective sense of "signature"; [trademark] reads as TM in surface) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1806 | RAINSTORM (9) | Initially rushing liquid rams into deluge (9) | R_+AINSTORM* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1809 | ANY CLUE USING A WORDPLAY DEVICE FROM PEACHES (?) | Boo hollow tubules backing up ship (8) | hollow tubules backing up: SEL(-u)BUT< Boo SELBUT: S[e->AI]LB[u->OA]T |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1846 | AMBIGRAM (8) | Say "WOW MOM" when mother returned to consume soft drink before little Edward (8) | AM(BIG R[-ed])AM< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1882 | NAMETAG (7) | Eccentric magnate's personal branding? (7) | NAMETAG* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1895 | GATEMAN (7) | Name tag returned to ostiary (7) | GATEMAN< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1925 | MIND (4) | Mental states (4) | MI+ND | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1947 | THE END (3, 3) | "And they lived happily ever after," you state, holding Cass and Eddy (3,3) | THEE+ND (Cass and Eddy are counties in North Dakota) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1980 | A CLUE THAT USES THE SAME NON-STOP WORD >=3X (?) | Lions initially love to go away, love to return, love to adapt (6) | EVOL<+(-l_)(-o)VE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 1981 | A CLUE THAT USES THE SAME NON-STOP WORD >=3X (?) | No returning, time and time again, for quality time, say (3-2-3) | ON<+EON+EON | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2077 | MINI GOLF (8) | Hot momma takes half of nights off for youthful swingers' game (4,4) | MI(NIG[-hts]+O)LF | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2080 | MINI GOLF (8) | Game where players take underhand swings at the ball with flamingo, strangely, after one-for-one exchange (8) | MIN(a->I)GOLF* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2111 | ANY CLUE INVOLVING A BINGO CALL (?) | Get up and run, absconding with large Zimmer frame (6) | WA(L)KE+R [Zimmer frame is a generic trademark] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2135 | ANY CLUE STARTING WITH CALL IN (?) | Call in WET CLAM (7) | S(CALL)OP | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2140 | ANY CLUE INVOLVING A BINGO CALL (?) | Cup of tea in Sabre Wulf (4) | _BRE W_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Wulf |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2208 | OPUS (4) | Breathed penguin, "That smells so weird," going outside (4) | OS* around P.U. def: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(comic_strip) protagonist |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2246 | BONDAGE (7) | Tying up's done, with bag in knots (7) | anag. of DONE+BAG | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2275 | OUAGADOUGOU (11) | Capital of Burkina Faso made out of pieces of Gouda (11) | letter bank | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2334 | RESONATE (8) | Mesh nets are difficult to get round (8) | RES(O)NATE* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2499 | AMAZING (7) | Perhaps unexpectedly shattering glass ceiling, after online shipping service suffered bit-flip attack (7) | AMAZ(o->I)N+G_ def: perhaps unexpectedly shattering (amazement, in the sense of awe, could be positive or negative) |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2749 | ASBESTOS (8) | All receiving O in place of A get carcinogen (8) | AS BEST (a->O)S [eg, "as best as I can"="all I can"] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2752 | MICROSOFT (9) | WoW character returned in endless fog outside of Windows corporation (9) | MI(CRO<)S(OF)T | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2762 | SPINEL (6) | Stone or North, in speech (6) | SPI(N)EL surface: two Olivers for the price of one |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2775 | LIGHT (5) | Start following abandoned set of steps (5) | (-f)LIGHT | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2778 | LIGHT (5) | Approaching white-lying white-out of regular characters (5) | L(-y)I(-n)G(-w)H(-i)T(-e) def: approaching white |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2872 | CARDINAL (8) | Setter had to return to penetrate sexy bishop? (8) | CAR(D'I<)NAL | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2875 | ELISION (7) | Game I lose in a bit of Printer's Devilry (7) | Game: anagrind (ie, manipulate) fodder: I LOSE IN a bit of Printer's Devilry: ELISION* |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2888 | CARDINAL (8) | Primary shade of primary color (8) | ddef | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2907 | WOLFRAM (7) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart almost split in half when band turns to recording, essentially, heavy metal (7) | WOLF(gang->_R_)AM[-adeusmozart] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2935 | FOGGY (5) | Full o' damp, therefore lacking visibility! (5) | F+O+(-so)GGY ["so" lacks visibility, ie is invisible] in definition reading, "damp" is used as a noun meaning "humidity" (as per various online dictionaries incl. Merriam-Webster) |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2937 | QUINCUNX (8) | Perhaps die five times next to Asian fruit whose seedy core turns into French one (8) | QUINC(_e_->UN)+X [def: Perhaps die 5 (ie, a 5 on a die)] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2963 | ANY CLUE THAT RESOLVES TO THE EMPTY STRING (0) | Null and void (0) | ddef | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 2996 | RELAYER (7) | One who communicates about film (7) | RE+LAYER | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3007 | ANY CLUE NUMBER ACROSS/DOWN (? 6/4) | 3D: Tossed about revolutionary actress Sandra for this clue (5,4) | THR(EED<)OWN | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3018 | ANY CLUE NUMBER ACROSS/DOWN (? 6/4) | Nonogram containing a transcendental clue? (2,6) | PI(A)CROSS | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3070 | SEDNA (5) | Neptunian leader with domain in ocean! (5) | SE(D+N_)A | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3073 | ANY CLUE WHERE EVERY WORD IS THE SAME LENGTH (?) | Lead male role from "All's Well That Ends Well" left Bert, ewe's mate, with horn pair (3) | (-bert)RAM [ewe's mate, with horn pair] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3090 | CLUE WHERE 1ST WORD STARTS WITH A, 2ND B, ETC (?) | Abigail Breslin's cinematic debut, Evenly Fix Gin, held in Jew-killing, leading military Nazi organization (5) | S(_I_G_N)S by M. Night Shyamalan | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3096 | CLUE WHERE 1ST WORD STARTS WITH A, 2ND B, ETC (?) | A big celebrity divulges era, finally, Graham had inverted (8) | (M_+EGA+STAR)< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3137 | CLUE SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN THE ANSWER (?) | subs^"ac" (10) | subs: CARETAKERS ^: CARET "ac": "acres": AKERS |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3139 | GIMMICK (7) | Stunt double, spy leader in "GI Jagger" (7) | GI (m->MM)ICK | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3160 | NEPTUNE (7) | Put crazy, Hawaiian goose outside the eighth planet (7) | NE(PTU*)NE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3210 | CLUE CONTAINING A CHARACTER OR ITEM FROM CLUE (?) | Scarlet takes Carl out for threesome or foursome, say (3) | S(-carl)ET | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3212 | CLUE CONTAINING A CHARACTER OR ITEM FROM CLUE (?) | In the past, Sami's lead pipe had every other character eliminated (4) | L(-e)A(-d)P(-i)P(-e): "Lapp" is an outdated term for the Sami people | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3227 | CLUE CONTAINING A PIECE OR TERM FROM CHESS (?) | Tangled rope takes king in card game (5) | PO(K)ER* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3297 | CLUE CONTAINING "CLUE CONTAINING" (?) | Victim of Clue containing neon changed gear from drive to reverse without a trace of water (4-3) | BO(NE)D[d->R]Y | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3352 | SYNONYM (7) | Thesaurus entry, say, unborn pygmy evens out (7) | S_Y_N_O_N_Y_M_ | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3378 | PALINDROME (10) | Former Biden debater runs into stadium for the Roadrunnders, say, in... perhaps San Antonio? Klaus' usual koi... not Nana's (10) | PALIN+D(R)OME SANANTONIOKLAUSUSUALKOINOTNANAS is a palindrome |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3430 | DANCER (6) | Perhaps a ballerina craned all around (6) | DANCER* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3442 | ANY CLUE WITH PRINTER'S DEVILRY AS WORDPLAY (?) | After looking for variation in coloration of Jovian moon mustelids, we have found only one, thin, Garret! A remarkable puzzler... (10) | ...one thing: a rEDDER IO FERret! def: a remarkable puzzler |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3460 | ANY CLUE WITH PRINTER'S DEVILRY AS WORDPLAY (?) | Red ice in wonderland, perhaps the mad queen (8) | def: red CARD IN ALice in Wonderland; ref Queen of Hearts |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3477 | PROMISE (7) | Writing about setter's going back on vow (7) | PRO(MI<)SE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3561 | MORSE CODE (5, 4) | Breaking out of AP escape room, student essentially enters cipher in telegraphic transmission (5,4) | _D_ in *[ESC(-ap)EROOM] -> MORSECO(D)E* (cipher in telegraphic transmission) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 3620 | PERFORM (7) | Present wrapped in paper for Meghan (7) | _PER FOR M_ (it's Meghan McCain's birthday today) |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4126 | ANY CLUE THAT CONTAINS ITS ANSWER (?) | Strangely, Grant yells to remove Lee's head in a peculiar fashion (9) | STRANGELY(-l_)* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4164 | SHATTER (7) | Stripping naked, get trashy, frisky, and savage (7) | stripping naked get trashy: (-g)ETTRASH(-y) frisky: anagrind savage (v.): SHATTER(-gy)* |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4168 | INCANDESCENT (12) | Motivate taking sweets out of one sort of bulb (12) | IN[CAND(-i)ES]CENT | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4206 | RAINBOW DASH (7, 4) | Colorful pony has a brown ID, strangely (7,4) | anag. of HASABROWNID | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4395 | CELERY (6) | Green energy train turned east of conductor's lead railway (6) | C_+(E+(LE<))+RY | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4396 | NICOLAS CAGE (7, 4) | Actor whose surname is a barred room with animals, sort of a scenic gaol (7,4) | anag. of ASCENICGAOL [gaol is the old spelling of "jail"] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4421 | ATLANTIS (8) | In last resort, against a sunken naval power (8) | ATL[ANTI]S* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4496 | DRAGON (6) | Winged reptilian species seem to last forever (6) | DRAG ON | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4558 | SAMPLE (6) | Taste essential bit of jetsam, please? (6) | _SAM PLE_ | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4586 | PRISTINE (8) | Pure metal found in wrench (8) | PRIS(TIN)E | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4600 | TABOO (5) | Forbidden way to swallow Obama's dog (5) | TA(BO)O | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4605 | NEW/OLD (3) | Not even with primary letters for 500-year-running practice, say? Au contraire! (3) | O(d->L)D; def: year-running practice, say? Au contraire! N_+E_+W_; def: 500-year-running practice, say? Au contraire! |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4668 | CHARTREUSE (10) | Jean-Paul's leader turns to church work with a greenish hue (10) | (s->CH)ARTRE [Jean-Paul] + USE [work with] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4675 | AUTUMN (6) | Lowest phonemically beheaded season (6) | AUTUMN ("(-b)OTTOM) very lazy much tired wow clue so bad |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4696 | BUNKUM (6) | Slimy Pokemon with small bump returns blather (6) | (BUN+KUM)< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4709 | OMEGA (5) | Letter from Ancient Greek found buried in sewage, mostly upended (5) | _OM EGA_< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 4876 | PUMPKIN (7) | Coach for Cinderella's shoe identifier? (7) | PUMP-KIN (cryptic ddef: an otherkin who identifies as a pump shoe) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 5246 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE CONTAINS A CROSSWORD CLUE | Nina: crossword's hidden message, sort of a crossword clue (6) | _A CROSS_ [well it contains "a crossword clue" so] |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 5586 | EVENING (7) | Getting level seven in game, essentially (7) | _EVEN IN G_ | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 5589 | OUT (3) | To lust regularly and openly... omnisexual, perhaps? (3) | (-t)O(-l)U(-s)T | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 5646 | REALIZE (7) | Discern further fibs in discussion (7) | REALIZE ("re-lies") | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 5862 | EDNASWAP (8) | Paws and Ears's lead single overturned by Rusty's 90s band (8) | (E_+DNA+SWAP)< [Rusty Anderson was a guitarist for Ednaswap in the 90s. Currently he plays lead guitar for Paul McCartney's band.] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6006 | QUINQUAGENARIAN (15) | Like my parents in quarantine: out of time, distressed about succumbing to fear without family members (15) | anag. INQUARAN(-t)INE around QUA(-kin)G [quaking = succumbing to fear; kin = family members] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6119 | ANY CLUE THAT DOESN'T USE THE LETTER E (?) | *La Disparition* was put in writing... so my catgirl oil lamp, confusingly, caught alight first thing (17) | La Disparition was put into writing so: LIPOGR(A_)MMATICALLY* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6145 | QUESTION MARK OR ? (8 4 or 1) | Somethin' heartlessly broken into, maybe a top? (8 4) | QU(ESTIONM[-h]*)ARK; def: ? | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6161 | PERIAPSIS (9) | Close encounter in space, maybe, when alien essentially replaces 20% of human lives (9) | PER(h_->_I_)APS + IS | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6208 | QUOTE UNQUOTE (5, 7) | Reportedly out of movies, essentially agitated, Quinto goes in line to get books (5,7) | QU[O.T.]EU(NQUOT[-_i_]*)E | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6327 | ELLIPSIS (8) | Space capsule returns, after Earth is... (8) | E+(LLIP+S)<+IS | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6339 | CAW (3) | Return with "A chicken's primary noise" for CROW (3) | (C_+A+W)< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6374 | DREAMT (6) | Lib and Fink got entangled and had a fantastic time in bed (6) | DEM and RAT regularly interspersed: D E M R A T |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6447 | BRUSSELS SPROUTS (8, 7) | Use up lobster as necessary to prepare food with high level of vitamin K (8,7) | use bank of UPLOBSTER | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6674 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A PREVIOUS CONTEST WITH 0 ENTRIES (?) | PC owner who ultimately enters chat here in France with high doubleton (7_3) | CHA(_O)T + ICI + A[ce] K[ing] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6754 | STAR WARS (4 4) | Skywalker saga entirely made from pieces of straw (4 4) | STARWARS (letter bank) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6833 | GRADUATE (8) | Class embraces revolutionary new circle constant to earn diploma (8) | GRAD(UAT<)E | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6877 | RETSINA (7) | Non-"dry" hidden vice? One is Greek alcohol (7) | (-sec)RET + SIN + A | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6878 | RETSINA (7) | Abstainer, losing initial core muscle, gets drunk on resinated wine (7) | (-ab)RETSINA* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6886 | GRENADINE (9) | Peculiar green drinking spot with trendy pomegranate syrup (9) | GREN(AD+IN)E* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6917 | NO WAY (2, 3) | Even union weary of unyielding protest (2,3) | _N_O_W_A_Y (even letters of unionweary) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 6919 | ANY CLUE THAT USES TEXT EMOTICONS SOMEHOW (?) | Me, initially: owo what's this here, neko-chan??? (6) | ME+O_+W_+T_+H_ (neko-chan: endearing Japanese cat [?s because it's actually a POKEMON based on a cat]) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 7213 | NO CONTEST (2, 7) | Questionable Content's described love that's unquestionable! (2,7) | NOC(O)NTEST* def: That's unquestionable! (as in the phrase "No contest!") |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 7455 | ANY GREEK GOD (?) | "Earth Shaker" pretense I put on (8) | POSE+I+DON Poseidon was the god of earthquakes (in addition to the sea and horses), and had the cult title of Earth Shaker |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 7975 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS THE NUMBER OF LETTERS IT CONTAINS (?) | Force 4+2.71...=(2+2)/1984 (4) | F+IV+E is 2+2, per 1984 idk if i should have used ∈ instead but w/e |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 8045 | DEUSOVI/FUNGO (7 OR 5) | Limitless movie passes dealer, primarily, replacing "Bandana" content with intergovernmental cooperation founded by France & Italy, et al., and the solution is yesterday's birthday boy! (5 or 7) | movie unlimited passes dealer, primarily: FANDANGO replacing (-b)ANDAN(-a) with U.N. and the solution is: linkphrase yesterday's birthday boy: F(andan->UN)GO movie unlimited: (-m)OVI(-e) passes: goes after dealer, primarily: D_ replacing bandana content with intergov. coop. founded by France, Italy, et al.: (-b)ANDAN(-a)->E.U. and: AND the solution is: ANS (puzzle parlance) D+([and+an]->EU)S + _OVI_ |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 8058 | HAND TURKEY (4, 6) | Toss results out, essentially, and return primary clue for outlined holiday icon (4,6) | H AND T + (-o)U(-t) + R_ + KEY holiday is not :christmas: |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 8203 | JANUARY (7) | New Year's jaunt might be set this month! (7) | anag. YEARSJAUNT could be JANUARYSET | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 9194 | BROADWAY (8) | Gone around dancing, primarily, after return of Globe Theatre (8) | BRO<+A(D_)WAY | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 9668 | SUPERTEAM (9) | Read steampunk novel that's not dank--it's OP (9) | SUPERTEAM(-dank)* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 9732 | ANY CLUE THAT IS A WINNING CLUE YOU'VE STOLEN OFF A PAST CONTEST, BUT INTERPRETTED TO SOMEHOW SOLVE INTO A DIFFERENT ANSWER (?) | Concealed by tumult, I'm eternally a tool (4-5) | _TIMETERNA_, a tool frum Hare Potr dat let Herminey go to sevral clases at wons. (funetic spelng) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 9736 | ANY CLUE THAT IS A WINNING CLUE YOU'VE STOLEN OFF A PAST CONTEST, BUT INTERPRETTED TO SOMEHOW SOLVE INTO A DIFFERENT ANSWER (?) | Creature with eight legs sacrifices first three for work of art (1) | wp: (-mit)E def: "e" is the romanization of 絵, the Japanese word for "picture". This character is used in many forms of Japanese art, such as "emoji". (The similarity to the word "emoticon" is apparently coincidental; isn't that crazy?!) |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 10036 | SATURN (6) | Planet revolves, spinning around main axis (6) | cycle of TURNS around A_: [>S](A)TURN[s>] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 10056 | WATER (5) | Tear up work by Magritte, even scattering the pieces (5) | work: W by: concatenation/charade Magritte, even: _A_R_T_E scattering the pieces: anagram of *ARTE tear up: def. for W + ATER(-mgit)*, as one's eyes might |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 10097 | SLANT (5) | Editorial view stripping down, eg, Manhattan Project, ultimately (5) | (-i)SLAN(-d) + _T | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 10153 | ANY RENAISSANCE ARTIST (?) | Michelangelo's sculpted figure ultimately lost by snackin' regularly with Leonardo (2 5) | DAVI(-d)+_N_C_I_ | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 11512 | NITRO (5) | Western fort intentionally conceals explosive (5) | _NI TRO_< | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 11519 | O (1) | Commonest character for blood! (1) | &lit wp: the word "blood" has a plurality of "o"s. (i guess technically it's a lowercase o, but if 0 can clue O then o should too) def: commonest character[istic] for blood (the commonest blood type, ignoring Rhesus factor, is O) |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 11581 | MARS (4) | Sort of ram sign, primarily one called "Ares"? (4) | MAR*+S and the surface is someone who can't spell but also it works as a schrodinger for ARIES with "one called" as a homophone indicator lol |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 11582 | V (1) | The fifth, sixth, or seventh color of the rainbow, initially (1) | 6th or 7th letter of the rainbow, initially: V(iolet) the fifth: def for V (as in eg King George V) |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 11699 | BAEZ (4) | Singer Joan denies initially riding exotic zebra (4) | BAEZ(-r_)* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 11820 | JEEPERS (7) | Daphne's cry, in vocal derision, about gym class (7) | JEE(P.E.)RS [ref. Daphne Blake of "Scooby-Doo"] | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 11836 | ANY CLUE (3 4) | Many a cryptic prompt begins with this top vocalist leaving number performed around Broadway location (3 4) | (-v_)ALUE around NYC | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 11838 | BROUGHAMMED (11) | Took a short stretch — one being semi-topless, with back draped in madam's clothes — following rough activity primarily in bed (11) | def: took a short stretch — one being semi-topless, with back draped (a brougham is a limousine with a roofless front section, and a limousine is a short version of a stretch limousine) link word: "in" wp: B(ROUGH+A_+M_M)ED |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 11858 | HYDROGEN (8) | Hg: yonder liquid element (8) | HYDROGEN* (surface describes mercury) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 12165 | PHOENIX (7) | Rap genre sheds the antithesis of Square Enix video-game attorney Wright (7) | remove HI...P [antithesis of "square"] from the outside of HIPHOP and add ENIX to get PHOENIX Wright | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 12350 | CREMATE (7) | Don't bury tract of land without a partner (7) | (-a)CRE+MATE | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 12396 | MAGICAL (7) | Eccentric Max Galactica removed ax act involving prestidigitation, perhaps (7) | anag. M(-ax)GAL(-act)ICA -> MAGICAL(-axact)* def: involving prestidigitation, perhaps |
AuLeaf | 1 |
| 12397 | MAGICAL (7) | Anime cat-gals cast nets out for type of girl in Sailor Moon, for instance (7) | MAGICAL(-nets)* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 12423 | ANY NON-CRYPTIC CLUE (?) | Fictional lung disease that's an anagram of "I imprison cosmopolitan couscous in iliac colon cover" (45) | pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (this is one of those purportedly noncryptic crosswords where it randomly gives an anagram of answers it thinks are too hard for the solvers to get. you know the ones, don't pretend you don't) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 12478 | CLANK (5) | Rattle-snake shed its skin, moving after cold left (5) | rattle = C+L+(-s)ANK*(-e) | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 12516 | CANOPY (6) | Copy an egregious bedcover? (6) | CANOPY* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 12523 | CALLOUS (7) | Disconcert local American with icy demeanor (7) | CALLO*+U.S. | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 12670 | SPROUT (6) | Shoot, and POTUS gets wound around tip of ear (6) | SP(_R)OUT* | AuLeaf | 1 |
| 478 | FINALLY (7) | At last, Sawyer eg losing direction? | ref Ton Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn: FIN(-n) ALLY, ? for indirectness | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 485 | APRIL FOOL (5, 4) | Doctor of ill pair (one out for blood) giving sucker (5,4) | {*OF ILL PAIR} = APRILFOIL* one (I) out for blood ([type] O): APRILFO(-i)(+O)L ("Sucker" used as regional variant for "lollipop" in surface; presumably the doctor is a pediatrician) |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 713 | CENTRIPETAL (11) | Rotary phone almost included in art wild animal like dog's swallowed (11) | phone almost: CEL(-l) X included Y: container/contents in art wild: *INART animal like dog: PET [i]s swallowed: container/contents CE(NTRI(PET)A*)L(-l) |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 843 | SOMETHING WITH DEFINITION 'WORD' | Whir word (4) | BUZZ ddef (sound; rumor) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 879 | SENSELESSNESSES (15) | Inanities left without directions? On the contrary (15) | S,E,N,S,E,(L)E,S,S,N,E,S,S,E,S | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 887 | SENSELESSNESSES (15) | Everyone but West doubles player Monica's family without game consoles in blackouts (15) | S,E,N+SELES(SNES'S)ES | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 908 | ANY ONE STARTER POKEMON (5/6/7/8/9/10) | Spell storyteller casts: one-third off fire starter? (10) | CHARM+ANDER(-sen) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 945 | A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1, 9, 5, 6) | Title vehicle from play one ran across a nurse, and more before long (1,9,5,6) | A+STRE(ETC+A+RN)AMED+DESIRE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1068 | RANDOM THINGS (6, 6) | Miscellany of rings, clothes, and, initially, one odd match (6,6) | R(AND+O_+M(-a)T(-c)H)INGS | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1090 | CELADON (7) | Essentially, icy... well, jade... tone! (7) | (-i)C(-y) (-w)EL(-l) (-j)AD(-e) (-t)ON(-e) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1131 | A CRYPTIC THAT'S A RHYMING COUPLET (?) | Disgusting poem's gouged out a couple eyeballs//from a certain gin or bourbon highball (4,7) | LIME RICK(-ey_) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1145 | A CRYPTIC THAT'S A RHYMING COUPLET (?) | Say poetic Frost's delusion//Firstly entered prostitution (6) | WHORED ("hoar+d_") three-syllable slant rhyme |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1166 | A CRYPTIC THAT'S A RHYMING COUPLET (?) | Scar ain't about to stop early, with the end near//Not without taking out Santa's reindeer (7) | Scar ain't about: fodder to stop early, with the end near: SCARAINTABOU(-t) Not without taking out Santa: double-negative deletion indicator [i]s: link word reindeer:(-s)CAR(-a)I(-nta)BOU_ |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1177 | INDIGO (6) | Rainbow-colored man-eating monster doing away with setter's company up front (6) | WENDIGO with WE turned to I | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1182 | DEAD HORSE (4, 5) | Narcs initially doing heroin beat—this, in America, may be to fight a lost cause (4,5) | Narcs: DEA initially doing: D_ heroin: HORSE |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1197 | INDIGO (6) | Isaac Newton's delimitations originally returned regular ROYGBIV rainbow color (6) | I_+N_+D_+[(-v)I(-b)G(-y)O(-r)<] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1205 | SAFFRON (7) | Spice from first starter leaving slight aftertastes, essentially (7) | S_+AFFRON(-_t_) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1231 | MISTAKE (7) | Miles E, with returning Miss Faraday, nearly tries case taken in error (7) | Miles E: MI+E Miss Faraday nearly: KA(-y) tries case: T_S with returning KATS taken in: MI(STAK<)E error: def |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1262 | BENEFACTOR (10) | Alternative to ham actor getting final part in "Death of a Salesman", one in supporting role (10) | BE(_N)EF+ACTOR | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1314 | REVERSI (7) | Green, perhaps, is flipped without end in color-flipping game (7) | [REVER(-end)+SI<] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1332 | MNEMONIC DEVICE (8,6) | Setter leaves "Miami Vice", going from one state to another on its western border, describing in code constructed memory technique (8,6) | M(ia=>NE)M(-i) [ONICDE*] VICE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1358 | ISLAND (6) | Setter will additionally call for kitchen centerpiece (6) | "I'll and" (def refers to "kitchen island" as in an isolated section of countertop that doesn't touch the wall) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1362 | ISLAND (6) | Perhaps Manhattan Project didn't end in immense devastation, initially (6) | SLAN(-t) in I_ D_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1450 | SKEPTICISM (10) | Source's error kept in one's first memoir, *Lack of Faith* (10) | lack of faith: [S(KEPT)IC]+I+S+M_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1498 | BLUR (4) | Dim blue state ultimately going to Republican (4) | BLU(_e->R) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1499 | HAZE (4) | Said former US President, "Bully" (4) | (ref. TR) homophone for Hayes | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1509 | PICASSO (7) | Cubist artist's a bozo in salsa (7) | PIC(ASS)O | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1568 | HEDGEHOG (8) | Ring in seven German notes for Amy Rose, perhaps (8) | H,E,D,G,E,H,G around O [Germany uses H instead of B] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1587 | ANY CLUE ENDING IN A BEAN (7, 7) | Set whose smallest member is one that's left crazy Muriel's runt a bean (7,7) | *MUR(-ie)LSRUNTABEAN: [NATURAL NUMBERS]* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1639 | WAIT (4) | Stay amorous, initially, with someone like Tyrion Lannister around (4) | W(A_)IT [ref. Game of Thrones] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1649 | GRINDER (7) | End of stud earring one lost, strangely, in meat processor (7) | anag. of _D+E(-a)RRING: GRINDER* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1651 | GRINDER (7) | Operator of organ meat processor (7) | GRINDER (ddef) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1696 | AARDVARK (8) | How to turn into a street, out for vengeance, initially in the name of Iron Man's father, Arthur Read, perhaps (8) | (How->A)ARD (st->V_)ARK | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1737 | PIQUANT (7) | Sharp gasp about upward-heading IQ, initially (7) | P(IQ+U_)ANT | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1781 | AMPUTATE (8) | Team up against heartless lunatic, and possibly disarm? (8) | anag. of TEAM UP A_T | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1808 | CAKE (4) | King taken by ace in rout, easy as pie? (4) | CA(K)E* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1813 | CAKE (4) | This dessert is baked Alaska, served with slice out of pie going around (4) | [-pie]C(AK)E | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1839 | PHILOSOPHY (10) | Inventor Farnsworth's work with vacuous holy doctrine (10) | PHILO'S+OP+H_Y | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1884 | GAME SIX (4, 3) | Sigma broke up with ex for Robotics;Notes DaSH, perhaps? (4,3) | GAMESIX* [sixth main game of the Science Adventure series] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1893 | OMELETTE (8) | Egg timer turned to start scramble to obtain egg breakfast (8) | O+MELE(T_+T_)E | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1894 | GATEMAN (7) | One might give out green light to go in magenta, curiously (7) | GATEMAN* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1913 | PICKLE (6) | Shot moose over gherkin (6) | PIC+KLE< | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 1970 | A CLUE THAT USES THE SAME NON-STOP WORD >=3X (?) | Partner provided partner to partner (4) | W+IF+E | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2004 | MAN-EATING PLANT (3-6, 5) | Factory with emanating liquid produces anthropophagic life form such as Audrey II (3-6,5) | MANEATING*+PLANT | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2032 | METRONOME (9) | Dole confiscates crazy moron's timekeeper (9) | MET(RONOM*)E | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2034 | METRONOME (9) | Musical instrument in place for an opera number set in Italian city (9) | Place for an opera: MET number: NO. Italian city: ROME Musical instrument: MET+RO(NO)ME |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2045 | XKCD (4) | Loveless Moor returning with cattle in popular webcomic (4) | (X[-o]+KC[-o]D)< | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2053 | DOUBT (5) | Question mark with period ate gumbo, even (5) | Mark with period: DOT ate: inclusion indicator gumbo, even: (-g)U(-m)B(-o) Question: DO[UB]T |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2057 | PLATITUDE (9) | It's rude to ditch Hispanic man cut with half of metal saw (9) | PLAT[-inum]+IT(-sr.)UDE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2081 | MINI GOLF (8) | Game of putting back before setter's beat poset game (8) | rev. [(FLOG+I)+NIM] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2115 | ANY CLUE INVOLVING A BINGO CALL (?) | Lucky second level (5) | S+EVEN | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2139 | ANY CLUE STARTING WITH CALL IN (?) | Call in MOCKERY over the phone, or COMEDIAN (5,7) | COLIN MOCHRIE ("Call in Mockery") | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2206 | CODA (4) | One prof's turning tail with a handful of notes (4) | [COD+A]< def: tail (literal English translation of "coda") with a handful of [musical] notes |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2209 | SALT (4) | Time served following regular assault and battery; cell's solution (4) | (-a)S(-s)A(-u)L(-t) + T def: battery cell's solution (Voltaic cells have two ions dissolved in salt solutions) |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2247 | SAFE WORD (4 4 OR 8) | Setter had left base with some exit clause? (4,4) | S(A FEW)ORD[-i'd] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2610 | MEW (3) | Pokémon, in Time-Warner packages (3) | _MEW_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2725 | TENACIOUS (9) | Clinging to nigh-consecutively odd-numbered cards, perhaps around non-odd six of clubs... but there's no clubs? (9) | TENAC(-e) + _I_O_(-c)_U_S | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2757 | PETERSEN (8) | Director Wolfgang's short set in prison (8) | PE(TERSE)N | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2898 | I DON’T KNOW (1, 4, 4) | Something's bridge part, maybe? (1,4,4) | I DON'T KNOW is part of the bridge in Something by the Beatles | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2903 | SPOONER (7) | Ill-formed prose on tongue-tied reverend (7) | SPOONER* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2914 | IT (2) | One-time computer science (2) | I+T | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2916 | IT (2) | Award-winning story of "King's Speech" ultimately no longer popular (2) | (-h)IT | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2917 | IT (2) | Regular letters from {H, I, M} to form "objective" pronoun? (2) | (-h)I(-m)T(-o) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2933 | FOGGY (5) | Primarily fairly damp, but essentially misty! (5) | F_+(-s)OGGY | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 2964 | CASCADE (7) | Chained actions snowballing, creating a domino effect, primarily! (7) | CASCADE (inits) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3003 | ANY CLUE NUMBER ACROSS/DOWN (? 6/4) | [1000D] Cut around last word in this clue (1,4) | M(D)OWN | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3004 | ANY CLUE NUMBER ACROSS/DOWN (? 6/4) | [1001A] Young girl takes killer whale back to this clue (2,6) | MI(ACRO<)SS | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3027 | RENDEZVOUS (10) | Changing, place order under seven oz. & dash off to meeting (10) | *UNDERSEV(-en)OZ: RENDEZVOUS* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3030 | CLUE CONTAINING UR LAST WINNING CLUE’S ANSWER (?) | Most fortunate designer that is wrapped in carnal cardinal sin (4) | LU(CK+IE)ST | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3037 | CLUE CONTAINING UR LAST WINNING CLUE’S ANSWER (?) | One caught in cardinal sin taking essential opportunity and beginning to search for Amelia Earheart, etc. (9) | AV(I)A(_T_)RICE+S_ [pl. of AVIATRIX] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3042 | CLUE CONTAINING UR LAST WINNING CLUE’S ANSWER (?) | Cardinal sin to take bud and yearn, without slightest penitence, for one-armed bandit (4,7) | SLOT(MAC)H+(-p)INE ["bud" and "mac" are both North American placeholder names used for men whose name the speaker doesn't know] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3093 | CLUE WHERE 1ST WORD STARTS WITH A, 2ND B, ETC (?) | Anything but charming, damsel exchanged for gale; hence, ignoring (10) | DIS(gust->MISS)ING | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3098 | INVOLVE (7) | Feature-length movie essentially replacing guy who's not exactly, ultimately, hot (7) | INVO(GU[-_y] -> L+_V_)E | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3101 | CLUE SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN THE ANSWER (?) | Length of 0.01 inches, held constant (3,5) | TEN MIL(+e)S 5280>>1/1200 |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3103 | CLUE SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN THE ANSWER (?) | Labile‽ (6,2,6) | reverse WP for LIABLE TO CHANGE, &lit | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3130 | CLUE WHERE 1ST WORD STARTS WITH A, 2ND B, ETC (?) | Artsy Betsy Cross denotation: echo, foremostly (3) | E+BY (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Eby; first name that came up on a search for "artist Betsy") | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3134 | CLUE SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN THE ANSWER (?) | SE×SS eg (4-8) | SE×=SETIMES=ANTI-SEMITES | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3213 | CLUE CONTAINING A CHARACTER OR ITEM FROM CLUE (?) | Something hidden in star actress Miss Scarlett's estate (4) | _TARA_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3363 | PALINDROME (10) | Perhaps Level 51's in nearby spiral galaxy consumed by pred, challenged to escape (10) | P(A(LI)NDROME[-da)red] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3379 | ANY COLOR WORD WITH DEF NOT "COLOR" (?) | Scarlet variety of paint from the east gets consumed by rats, perhaps (9) | scarlet: VERMI(LIO<)N | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3380 | ANY COLOR WORD WITH DEF NOT "COLOR" (?) | Plot with green; act to get liquor (10) | [plot]+[green act]=CHART+REUSE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3438 | ANY CLUE WITH PRINTER'S DEVILRY AS WORDPLAY (?) | Beast of Poseidon giving novel autism, sand quakes, and tremors (5) | ...novel autHOR SEisms and...: HORSE (def: "beast of Poseidon") Poseidon is the god of horses and earthquakes (and, obviously, the sea) |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3440 | ANY CLUE WITH PRINTER'S DEVILRY AS WORDPLAY (?) | The march will be at night, so bring a tent, protesters, but mind not to set fire to the trees in this secluded grove (7) | ...bring a tORCH, ARDent protestors... "secluded" as a printer's devilry indicator I guess (although usually the whole puzzle is printer's devilry if there's any at all) def: grove |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3470 | ANY CLUE WITH PRINTER'S DEVILRY AS WORDPLAY (?) | Through one's devilry, the mouthwash company managed to maintain goo, dribble working conditions (7) | ...good PR IN TERribble... | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3531 | ORIFICE (7) | Perhaps mouth of ice-encased river facing island (7) | [O(R+I)F+ICE] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3589 | DEVIL (5) | Director Lee initially embraced left? No. One's cruel decisions heed this shoulder dweller's advice (5) | Director Lee initially: D_+L_ embraced: container indicator left: reversal indicator No. One's: Number One has, ie I'VE cruel decisions heed the advice of the [D_(EV'I)L_] on one's shoulder |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3590 | ANGEL (5) | Director Lee initially embraced left? No. One's cruel decisions heed this shoulder dweller's advice (5) | Director Lee: ANG initially embraced: E_ left: L No one's cruel decisions heed this shoulder dweller's advice: ANG+E_+L |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3803 | DUBIOUS (7) | Upper classes in subpar grade school primarily captured life story in sketch? (7) | Upper classes: U+U subpar grade: D school primarily: S_ U+U in D+S_: D(U+U)S captured life story: D(U(BIO)U)S in: link sketch?: slang meaning of "sketch" (ie, sketchy) as def for dubious |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 3936 | ANY NON-ALPHANUMERIC GLYPH THAT ISN'T ♀ (1) | Small, taut, headless (1) | Answer: τ Small tau: definition t, headless: τ |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4181 | SAFE (4) | One found inside solid iron vault (4) | S.(A)FE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4207 | ZOOM (4) | Blow up nature park with dynamitic core (4) | ZOO+_M_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4300 | IRON (4) | Press on board, or in wrecks (4) | def: Press, on [an ironing] board IRON* |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4331 | UTADA HIKARU (5, 6) | Prosecutor in the "Mormon state" even picks a group whose debut album was Precious (5,6) | UTA(D.A.)H + _I_K_A_R_U_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4361 | ENDOTHERMIC (11) | Taking heat for its reactionary production, eccentric choir met end (11) | ENDOTHERMIC* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4362 | ENDOTHERMIC (11) | Affectedly minced about different sort of reaction (11) | END(OTHER)MIC* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4375 | AXIS (4) | A pair of intersecting line segments is a line that intersects another, normally, typically (4) | A: A pair of intersecting line segments: X is: IS a line that intersects another, normally, typically: AXIS ("normally" means "perpendicularly" here) |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4394 | CELERY (6) | Selection of vegetarian satyr electoral constituents (6) | _CELE RY_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4415 | ANTIDOTE (8) | Cure in favor of neglect (8) | pro-neglect = ANTI-DOTE sorry (not sorry) Deusovi |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4419 | HAIR (4) | Hot air fell (4) | H+AIR | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4439 | UNFORTUNATE (11) | Some sun for tuna, terminally ill (11) | _UN FOR TUNA TE_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4507 | SUMMER (6) | Adder's lead-up to the Fall (6) | SUMMER (ddef; ref. to the Serpent from the biblical book of Genesis & John Milton's Paradise Lost) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4533 | ATP (3) | One core source of power, with removal of Pi! (3) | A+(-pi)T+P_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4534 | ATP (3) | A catalyst, ultimately following PMF's initiation! (3) | A+_T+P_ The proton-motive force across the inner mitochondrial membrane powers production of ATP by ATP synthase |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4559 | SAMPLE (6) | Test star map fleet regularly abandoned (6) | S_A_M_P_L_E_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4624 | AUGUST (6) | Eighth month is French dip time—good for Jack! (6) | AU (j->G)US + T | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4631 | STRIPED (7) | Going in lines to disrobe puzzler Sophie (7) | STRIP+ED[deriofer] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4663 | HATSUNE MIKU (7, 4) | Basho art one's replaced with Hokusai subject one's replaced with first-ever Vocaloid voicebank (7,4) | HA(i->TSUN[a->E_]MI)KU much Japan, so little break, wow |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4711 | SLACKS (6) | Lessens what's taut primarily-schooled students retaining nothing (6) | surface is "Lessons that are taught to primary-school students who retain nothing" but in the worst grammar ever def: Lessens what's taut (ie, loosens something stretched tight) wp: S_+(LACK)+S_ |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4771 | ZHUZH (5) (OR ZHOOSH (6)) | Pep in one's step starts to get overtaken by a bit of Zinfandel wine, before being changed by Jesus (6) | in: linkword [sorry] one's step starts: O_+S_ to get overtaken by ...: contents indicator for Z_HOH around OS a bit of Zinfandel: Z_ wine, before being changed by Jesus: water: H-O-H (structural formula for water) Pep: Z_+H(O_+S_)OH |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4784 | ABSTAIN (7) | Don't vote in a bats loony! (7) | surface: bats as in "crazy" anag. of IN A BATS |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4857 | MASTIFF (7) | Regularly smears a thief (of a dog) wearing a black mask (7) | _M_A_S_T_I_F_F_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 4892 | REPLY (5) | Player breaks down, without a response in chess or elsewhere (5) | REPLY(-a)* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 5397 | SANITY (6) | A sty in poor sound quality (6) | SANITY* def: sound quality | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 5414 | AULD LANG SYNE (4, 4, 4) | Sell Nan gaudy crap for New Year's remembrance (4,4,4) | anag. SELLNANGAUDY | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 5494 | ANY CLUE WHICH CONTAINS EXACTLY ONE LETTER (?) | Nazis infiltrated left and right, described by, primarily, exactly one letter (6) | L(E_(S.S.)O_)R | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 5573 | INSTITUTE (9) | Part of MIT hunt ultimately takes place in on-site trek... every other instance thereof (9) | IN S(_T)ITU + T(-r)E(-k) #2020 | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 5599 | CRAB RAVE (4, 4) | Yearn to embrace woman's underwear at Lobster Fest? Not quite (4,4) | CRA(BRA)VE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 5600 | CRAB RAVE (4, 4) | Crazy (but not at all unknown) weather for Smobster Bash (4,4) | CRA(-z,y)+BRAVE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6089 | AGGREGATING (11) | Amassing assorted pieces of granite in baggage, evenly ground (11) | _A_G_G_+(REGATIN*)+G | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6151 | QUESTION MARK OR ? (8 4 or 1) | This clue is not "Fair's putting out alien: bizarre [in quotes]: BAZAAR" (8 4) | This clue is not fair: QUESTION* MARK[-e.t.] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6168 | ANY CLUE (?) | Grift pen... from THAT bank? You might leave a trace! (11) | FINGERPRINT (uses GRIFTPEN as letter bank; is a clue as in forensic evidence) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6260 | DEMISEMIHEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER (26) | 256th note to US lib is "Upset circus performer swallows that man, leading to death within"... I'm aquiver, disturbed! (26) | DEM+IS+EMI(HE)M<+I(DEMISE)M+IQAVER* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6305 | ANY CLUE THAT SOUNDS DIRTY BUT ISNT (?) | Pine's reshaped to form man's normally erect body part (5) | SPINE* (humankind/mankind/man is unique among primates for primarily walking upright, with spine erect) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6394 | ANY CLUE THAT USES A CHESS ABBREVIATION (?) | PB 2 initially indicated to leave loan office? (4,4) | PAWN + (-bi)SHOP | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6446 | BRUSSELS SPROUTS (8, 7) | Buck Bloster's UPS-shipping majority of Russian vegetables (8,7) | anag. BLOSTERSUPS around RUSS_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6448 | JACKKNIFE (9) | Cryptic cruciverbalist alias Gladys takes chalk outside and puts pen back in pocket protector? (9) | JA(C_K+KNI<)FE; def: pocket protector | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6456 | MARROWSKY (9) | Mary works around clock; work stood for stock clerk Wood (9) | anag. MARYWORKS | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6539 | DEWCLAW (7) | Reverend Spooner's indicated reverent astonishment at vestigial midleg appendage (7) | Spoonerism of CLUED AWE -> DEWCLAW | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6625 | BELITTLE (8) | Beast's bride embraces hirsute cousin Pooh-Pooh? (8) | BEL(ITT)LE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6626 | BELITTLE (8) | Slight bug turning Molly drunk? (8) | BE(e->LIT)TLE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6679 | MOIST (5) | Wet month's period (5) | MO+IS+T | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6686 | TANG (4) | PC's MS Paint got regularly removed after promoting foremost Trumpian to leading position (4) | (T<)_A_N_G_(<t) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6750 | SECOND DOSE (6, 4) | Necessity for full antiviral protection to suppress cyber attack in rocket tip after nitrous oxide escapes (6,4) | [-no]SE CON(DDOS)E | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6800 | ASTRID (6) | Fringe character snuck into last ride (6) | _AST RID_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 6903 | TO BOOT (2, 4) | Also also, automated accounts are almost all around (2,4) | (TOB+OOT)< assonant alliteration! | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 7049 | YOUR FAVORITE FOOD (?) | Stylish English county is charming, though lacking primarily agrarian poultry product (7 7) | CHIC+KENT+ENDE(-a_)RS | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 7128 | ANY CLUE ONLY USING WORDS FROM PERSON DO THING (?) | Use big no-good thing make person feel good and make person want more, but feel no good, and make do (2) | OD* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 7182 | FUN FACT (3, 4) | Cool; detail is unaffected by a damaged, bad eye getting removed (3 4) | cool detail: FUNFACT(-badeye)* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 7217 | THERIANTHROPE (13) | Shapeshifter's hard three-point shot, without hint of difficulty displayed (13) | THERIANTHROPE(-d_)* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 7224 | THERIANTHROPE (13) | "Animorphs" subject draws all its resources from "Hare Point" (13) | THERIANTHROPE (letter bank is HAREPOINT) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 7696 | ANY ROMAN EMPEROR (?) | "Fiddler on the Roof" even replaces hammy lead with original eccentric (4) | _N_(h->E)_R_O_ | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 7974 | FLASK (5) | Container of alcohol regularly filled with sake almost spilled (5) | F__L__ + ASK(-e)* "regularly" here is "every third letter" |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 8046 | BETAVEROS (9) | Hybrid dragon/phoenix/rodent takes time with Linux, say (9) | BE(T)AVER + OS | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 8196 | NEW YEAR'S EVE (3, 4'1, 3) | Doctor Yew even embraces bum on raucous holiday (3 4'1 3) | NEWYE(ARSE)VE* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 8890 | ANY ICONIC DUO “X AND Y” E.G. “FISH AND CHIPS”, “TOM AND JERRY” ETC. (X, 3, Y) | Those who don't wait for any revolutionary use CRISPR, possibly, in collaboration with head of England's Cambridge University (4,3,4) | Those who don't wait for any: (TIM+E+AND TIDE)< | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 8893 | ANY ICONIC DUO “X AND Y” E.G. “FISH AND CHIPS”, “TOM AND JERRY” ETC. (X, 3, Y) | NPR news show giving presents? (4&3) | HERE & NOW is a ddef for "present" | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 9667 | SUPERTEAM (9) | Heat of early 2010s from USA temper flaring? (9) | SUPERTEAM* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 9703 | ANY CLUE WHICH IS ALSO A TRUE SENTENCE (?) | VII+IX−VI is divisible by II (4) | (-s)EVEN+(-ix) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 9729 | PASSWORD (8) | Not taking first option, swap doors in "Chaos Gate Opener" (8) | (-o_)PASSWORD* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 9912 | ANY CLUE WITH AN "OBVIOUS" ANSWER THAT'S ONLY RULED OUT BY THE ENUMERATION (?) | Humanitarianism essentially shown with map taking one back to waterway (7) | not [PA(NA)M+_A_]< but CHAR(I)T+_Y |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 9913 | ANY CLUE WITH AN "OBVIOUS" ANSWER THAT'S ONLY RULED OUT BY THE ENUMERATION (?) | Surfer almost taking over pre-ante, essentially, with primary carrot top for H2O (5,6) | not SURF(_A_+C_)E[-r] but COU[-p]+(C_+H_)+POT AT 0 |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 9999 | TEN THOUSAND (3, 8) | Awfully odd cheer gets cut from broadcast: "A hundred to the second! A hundred to the second!" (3,8) | anag. AHUNDREDTOTHESECOND - anag. ODDCHEER = TENTHOUSAND* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10002 | TEN THOUSAND (3, 8) | Dropping cup, ink ruined uncounted pink hats (nearly the number of submissions received by cryptics.jackbrounstein.com!) (3,8) | TENTHOUSAND(-cupink)* = a myriad | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10003 | TEN THOUSAND (3, 8) | Myriad trials, initially open-and-shut, become complicated when lead prosecutor leaves us on the stand floundering without final preparations (3,8) | double wp T_ + anag. O(-p_)ENANDSHUT anag. USONTHE(-_s)TAND def: myriad, which originally meant 10,000 |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10004 | TEN THOUSAND (3, 8) | Time to destroy all four walls of apartment with great view and sweet treats... MMMMMMMMMM! (3,8) | T+(-p)ENTHOUS(-e)+(-c)AND(-y) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10006 | FIRE (4) | *Zero Time Dilemma*'s Carlos fights with this axe (4) | FIRE (ddef) hahahahahahhahahahAAHHAHAHAHAHAA |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10007 | FIRE (4) | "Element what's got atomic number 26" describes iron? Not half! (4) | def: element (as in classical) what's got atomic number 26: Fᴇ [iron] describes: includicator iron? Not half: IR(-on) [giving F(IR)E] |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10021 | SATURN (6) | Lunatic runs at a discontinued GM automobile (6) | a discontinued GM auto: SATURN* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10027 | EARTH (5) | Ground-breaking embrace comprised by "hearthug" (5) | reverse container clue; EARTH is interrupting HUG in H(EARTH)UG (ok obviously there's semantic overlap between wordplay parts, but at least there's none in the answer so it's not TETCBN-y. so it's not the WORST sin) |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10028 | EARTH (5) | "Earhart: bank and land!" (5) | letter bank of EARHART context: i am on a time-travel rescue mission to save amelia earhart by radioing potentially life-saving instructions to her (but she's extremely stubborn and keeps saying that she'd rather die in battle than give up. you're not a friggin' soldier amelia, you're a pilot. there will be more chances to show off even if this doesn't work! think of your future, dammit!) |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10035 | SATURN (6) | Kooky astronaut leaves oat on gas giant (6) | anag. *ASTR(-o)N(-a)U(-t) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10043 | ANY CLUE THAT ONLY USES THE TEN HUNDRED MOST COMMON WORDS FROM XKCD'S THING EXPLAINER (?) | This "word-play word-crossing game" helper event starter is mad because this month's number repeated? Point taken (11, alphanum.) | SE(PT.)ACUBE*+7,7 | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10051 | GENESIS (7) | Perhaps revolutionary gaming system from 1983 is a former SEGA console (7) | GE< + NES + IS | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10059 | ANY CLUE MENTIONING "A GIRL ON EACH SIDE" (?) | A girl on each side eating brains; consumption going over the rainbow? (7, abbr.) | (A+G_L) around (IQ+TB), all reversed: LGBTQIA | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10544 | MARICOPA (8) | County where voting machines have experienced technical difficulties from unfortunate copier jam; tank is missing inkjets (8) | MARICOPA(-inkjets)* [anag. COPIERJAMTANKIS minus INKJETS] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10587 | ANY CLUE WHERE A PUNCTUATION MARK IS INCLUDED IN THE PARSE | Why… nag regulars' portion of meal? (8) | [-w]H[-y] E[-l]L[-i]P[-s]I[-s] N[-a]G portion of meal: HELPING |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 10682 | ANY CLUE THAT USES NEW YEAR'S THEMED WORDPLAY (?) | Funny bone from arm, mostly, in prime selections of Auld Lang Syne, etc. (drivel melody) (5 5) | AR(-m) in the prime-indexed letters of AULDLANGSYNEETCDRIVELMELODY | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 11514 | STAR (4) | Sort of actress? *nod* Second fiddle? That's out! (4) | sort of = anagrind for ACTRESSNOD fiddle = anagrind for SECOND (not entirely sure if the tense works though) that's out = subtracticator &lit for *STAR(-*second) |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 11518 | O (1) | Everyone in attendance's giving hand to loved ones possibly standing in circle (1) | ddef [standing] O = [the audience]'s [standing] ovation = [everyone in attendance]'s giving hand to loved ones [possibly standing] ("loved ones" here refers to the performers that the audience "loves" enough to shower with applause) in = linkword circle = O [surface is supposed to be a seance or other event where a close-knit group stands in a circle and takes each other's hand] |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 11599 | ? (1) | Hook hand visibly used in interrogatory climax (1) | ? looks like a hook hand | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 11644 | EDGE CASE (4 4) | Irish Republican's going to take notes, naturally, when BF's missing in unusual circumstances (4 4) | Irish: ERSE Republican's going: (-r) to take notes, naturally, when BF's missing: +DGECA [all the naturals except B and F, in no particular order] in: link unusual circumstances: def |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 11698 | BIAS (4) | Back in Pisa, 1 building's leaning (4) | _B1AS_< | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 11708 | BULLISH (7) | What? Micah's ill? Uber Eats is thrown up, showing prices rising (7) | _BU LLI SH_< boy that surface almost makes sense doesn't it. right up until you think about it. |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 11837 | BROUGHAMMED (11) | Went by carriage and rammed head alone into tree branch (11) | RAMMED with the R surrounded by BOUGH | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 11997 | SEASON'S GREETINGS (6'1 9) | Sean eggs sister on about "Happy Holidays"? (6'1 9) | anagram of SEANEGGSSISTERON | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 11998 | SEASON'S GREETINGS (6'1 9) | Present-signer's notes, eg, as different as "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Hannukah"? (6'1 9) | wordplay: present SIGNERSNOTESEGAS different[ly]; https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/different supports "different" as an adverb as: linkword definition: "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Hannukah" are two examples of greetings used in the holiday season |
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| 12076 | PORTCULLIS (10) | Gate to castle court pulls out when first person stands in for second person, according to texts (10) | PORTCULL(u->I)S | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12157 | VENETIAN (8) | Setter leaves Vientiane, crazy about city of canals (8) | VENETIAN(-i)* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12166 | PHOENIX (7) | CuteMage left new order to exhume e.g. Pontiac Firebird (7) | anag. EXHUMEEGPONTIAC - CUTEMAGE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12390 | SCORCHED EARTH (8, 5) OR (8-5) | Hero scratched wildly, being anything but resourceful (8-5) | SCORCHEDEARTH* (ref. destruction of resources) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12391 | HEARTBURN (9) | Bar hunter from acid tripping up (9) | HEARTBURN* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12415 | ANY NON-CRYPTIC CLUE (?) | Michael who played Alfie and Alfred (5) | ENIAC< | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12417 | BEVERAGE (8) | Drink alcohol to drink 🎶vodka tonic🎶, aged without taste of drink (8) | BE(V_)ER+AGE(-d_) tonic is the first note of a musical scale, very avant-garde clue |
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| 12477 | CLANK (5) | Gary leaves, jostling keys' real gold chain at regular intervals to produce metallic sound (5) | GARY removed from anagram of the odd letters from KEYSREALGOLDCHAIN = *[K_(y_r_a_g)_L_C_A_N] = CLANK(-gary)* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12483 | FIRST (5) | Which street has the best view of the US Capitol? Maybe Pine Street? (5) | FIR+ST post!!! (again!!!) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12515 | CYNICAL (7) | Lacy arsenic play's about putting out bum, like the humour in Cyanide & Happiness? (7) | CYNICAL(-arse)* = like the humo(u)r in C&H [surface ref. Arsenic and Old Lace] |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12517 | NUMEROLOGY (10) | Cast rune, gloomy about calculating one's destiny, perhaps (10) | *[RUNE GLOOMY] | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12537 | TACTILE (7) | Touching story about desert plants wanting air conditioner (7) | TA[C(-ac)TI]LE | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12538 | GOAT YOGA (4, 4) | "Gym mama" to blog about losing 3000lb in exercise routine with kids (4 4) | (GOATYOGA[-mmm lb])* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12565 | EMERGE (6) | Appear sort of big and lime green, but not a blinding cast (6) | EMERGE(-ablinding)* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12572 | COMFORT (7) | After endlessly long sleep, turn-off regularly turns to pleasure (7) | COM(-a) + F(-f)O(-n)R(-u)T< | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12573 | EMERGE (6) | Discard, cut, and transform Ace into Queen in CuteMage's show (6) | (-cut)EM(a->ER)GE the return of the coveted CuteMage cameo |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12597 | LEGO (4) | Child's plaything is "See in Say"? On the contrary! (4) | L(EG)O (say=EG in see=LO) | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12598 | LEGO (4) | Sign, for "Radio Golf", within block of building (4) | sign = LEO for radio[,] golf = G LEO, G within = LE(G)O = block of building apparently it exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Golf |
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| 12645 | DEFAULT (7) | Rent due; flat not modified (7) | DEFAULT* | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12673 | ENIAC (5) | Retro actor who played "Alfie" on an early computer (5) | ENIAC< | AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12690 | HELP! I'M TRAPPED IN A CRYPTIC CLUE (4! 2, 7, 2, 1, 7, 4) | In hell, with internal sob (optics lacking superficially): "Bad spot? Not half... Can I depart?" Turns out, essentially, taking Anagrammatic Lord's way out of wordplay's ultimately impossible! | bad spot? not half: PIM(-ple) Can I depart? Turns: TRAPEDINAC< with internal sob (optics lacking superficially): CRY+_PTIC_ internal to PIM+TRAPEDINAC in hell: HELL around PIMTRAPEDINACRYPTIC out, essentially: _U_ taking Anagrammatic Lord's way out of wordplay's: WORDPLAYS - WORDLAYS* is taken by HELPIMTRAPEDINACRYPTICCL+U ultimately impossible: _E full parse: HEL(PIM[-ple] + TRA[*(-lordsway)P]PED I NA[CRY + _PTIC_]C<)L + _U_ + _E |
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| 12706 | ONION (5) | Three switch labels for powering up a bulb (5) | three switch labels for powering up = ON, I, ON [the middle one is a toggle switch] def: a bulb |
AuLeaf | 0 |
| 12816 | NEEDLE (6) | Elder men — lacking rum, disheartened — turn to vessel for doing shots (6) | rev. ELDE(-r_m)EN | AuLeaf | 0 |