Contests started: HORSE (5), INTERNET TROLL (8, 5), HILBERT (7), HOMESTUCK (9), BUTTE (5), WARNOCK (7), TILL (4)
Contests won: SENSELESSNESSES (15), DELETE (6), GO ABROAD (8), SAAG PANEER (4, 6), ORBIT (5), A CLUE THAT USES THE SAME NON-STOP WORD >=3X (?), EGG (3), THEREMIN (8), MULTIMETER (10), XKCD (4), INTERSECT (9), NEPETA (6), ETERNAL (7), INSIDE BASEBALL (6, 8), DEMISEMIHEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER (26), HOOSEGOW (8)
Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
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1506 | DELETE (6) | Get rid of Germany, and the French and Dutch too (6) | "Get rid of" = definition; Germany's country code = "DE", "the" in French = LE, "too" in dutch = TE | frictionlessemu | 5 |
1527 | GO ABROAD (8) | Leave a country badger to eat one frat member (2,6) | "leave a country" = definition, "badger" = GOAD, containing "one frat member" = A BRO | frictionlessemu | 5 |
2379 | INTERSECT (9) | Overlap between different cults? (9) | ddef, "overlap" = INTERSECT, "between different cults?" = INTER-SECT | frictionlessemu | 5 |
1973 | A CLUE THAT USES THE SAME NON-STOP WORD >=3X (?) | It's a flat title with flat contents - completely flat (8) | flat (as in apartment/residence) title is DEED, containing FLAT, gives DEFLATED = completely flat (like a tire) | frictionlessemu | 4 |
2641 | ETERNAL (7) | Eastern Alabama, but not as unchanging (7) | EASTERN+AL - AS = "unchanging" | frictionlessemu | 4 |
864 | QAT (3) | Shaq attempted concealing a narcotic (3) | "a narcotic" = definition; hidden word in "shaQ ATtempted" | frictionlessemu | 3 |
930 | PEWTER (6) | A metal weight carried by one of your cohort (6) | WT inside of PEER = "one of your cohort" makes PE(WT)ER = "a metal" | frictionlessemu | 3 |
2016 | EGG (3) | Common breakfast food, for example, gets gobbled first (3) | "Common breakfast food" = definition = E.G. containing G_ | frictionlessemu | 3 |
2042 | THEREMIN (8) | Over yonder, the smallest musical instrument (8) | Over yonder = THERE; the smallest = MIN.; musical instrument = THEREMIN | frictionlessemu | 3 |
1517 | INEPT (5) | Inadequate short penis partially retracted (5) | "inadequate" = definition, "partially retracted" as a reversed hidden word indicator in shorTPENIs | frictionlessemu | 2 |
1636 | SAAG PANEER (4, 6) | Grease a pan, cook a spinach-and-cheese dish (4, 6) | "a spinach-and-cheese dish" is the definition, "cook" an anagrind for GREASE A PAN | frictionlessemu | 2 |
1979 | SHIITAKE (8) | Before I catch endless crap, it's a tasty mushroom (8) | before I+TAKE, SHI(-t) = "it's a tasty mushroom" | frictionlessemu | 2 |
2041 | MULTIMETER (10) | Concealed by tumult, I'm eternally a tool (10) | _MULT I'M ETER_ = a tool | frictionlessemu | 2 |
2043 | XKCD (4) | Webcomic's textual display of a laugh about Kansas City (4) | Webcomic = XD around KC | frictionlessemu | 2 |
2514 | HILBERT (7) | The dish: Engineer turns into mathematician (7) | DILBERT -> HILBERT ("THE D IS H") | frictionlessemu | 2 |
2531 | SULLIVAN (8) | Ed, with a show, befouled a vehicle but not Ed (8) | SULLIED+VAN without ED = "Ed with a show" | frictionlessemu | 2 |
2588 | MEW (3) | Mega-disgusting cat noise (3) | M + EW = "cat noise" | frictionlessemu | 2 |
2625 | CITADEL (7) | Explicit ad eludes content-sentry's lookout (7) | "expliCIT AD ELudes" content = "sentry's lookout" | frictionlessemu | 2 |
5372 | INSIDE BASEBALL (6, 8) | Intimate knowledge of what happens at Rays home games? (6, 8) | ddef ("Intimate knowledge of" for the idiomatic sense and "what happens at the Rays home games?" because the Tampa Bay Rays are the only MLB team currently playing in a stadium with an non-retractable dome) | frictionlessemu | 2 |
6238 | DEMISEMIHEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER (26) | Brief note: Two instances of death-by-Michigan were separated by an engine shudder (26) | Two copies of (DEMISE+MI), with HEMI (= a type of engine) in between, followed by QUAVER (= shudder) -> "brief note" | frictionlessemu | 2 |
7694 | PARITY (6) | Celebrate about one's equality (6) | PARTY around I = "equality" | frictionlessemu | 2 |
624 | NORMAL (6) | Conventional, logical, and not bad French (6) | "conventional" = definition "logical and not" = NOR "bad French" = MAL |
frictionlessemu | 1 |
626 | PATRIOT (7) | Tom Brady, for instance, throws three in a play after scoring (7) | "Tom Brady, for instance" = definition = PA(TRIO)T "three" = TRIO "a play after scoring" = PAT ( = Point After Touchdown) |
frictionlessemu | 1 |
811 | ISOTROPIC (9) | Uniformity in all directions results from being connected by a path of homeomorphisms? Get real! (9) | "Uniformity in all directions" = definition "being connected by a path of homeomorphisms" = ISOTOPIC "Get real!" = insert 'R' |
frictionlessemu | 1 |
881 | SENSELESSNESSES (15) | Brainless ideas make everything backwards for South German city's tennis star and Nintendo (15) | "Brainless ideas" = (S ESSEN'S SELES NES)< | frictionlessemu | 1 |
1402 | ORALLY (6) | Oh, really? Hasn't he spoken out loud? (6) | "spoken out loud" = OHREALLY - letters of HE | frictionlessemu | 1 |
1962 | ORBIT (5) | A path was not rebuilt evenly (5) | "A path" = definition = even letters of nOtReBuIlT | frictionlessemu | 1 |
2281 | HORNY (5) | Hot, even Courtney's feeling amorous (5) | H + _O_R_N_Y = "feeling amorous" | frictionlessemu | 1 |
2526 | NEPETA (6) | Disciple's descendant to write back a letter (6) | "to write back" + "a letter" = NEP< + ETA = "Disciple's descendant" (Nepeta is the descendant of a character known as the Disciple in Homestuck) | frictionlessemu | 1 |
2638 | POURBOIRE (9) | I, poor rube, scrambled to provide a tip (9) | IPOORRUBE* = "a tip" | frictionlessemu | 1 |
5240 | PAN (3) | It hurts when you avoid me to search for gold (3) | "it hurts" = PAIN; when you avoid "I" get PAN = "to search for gold" | frictionlessemu | 1 |
6503 | HOOSEGOW (8) | "Coop a game bird? By what means?" says the Reverend (8) | spoonerism of GOOSE HOW = "coop" | frictionlessemu | 1 |
7849 | DYLANAMITE (10) | Animatedly weird puzzler (10) | ANIMATEDLY* | frictionlessemu | 1 |
880 | SENSELESSNESSES (15) | At the end, Earthbound protagonists detect fewer lapses of judgement (15) | NESSES at the end of SENSE LESS = 'lapses of judgement' | frictionlessemu | 0 |
1076 | ARTIFACT (8) | An archaeologist may find this part, if actually partial (8) | "An archaeologist may find this" = definition Hidden word in "pART IF ACTually", with "partial" as indicator |
frictionlessemu | 0 |
1403 | ORALLY (6) | Meme phrase with owl carrying Gore by mouth (6) | "by mouth" = definition "meme phrase with owl" = O RLY containing "Gore" = AL |
frictionlessemu | 0 |
6855 | NESSIE (6) | A boy with psychic powers; that is, a folklore creature (6) | NESS (the Earthbound character)+I.E. | frictionlessemu | 0 |
8802 | ANY CLUE THAT BEGINS "IN SOVIET RUSSIA..." (?) | In Soviet Russia, jet mix-up holds back suggestive 2001 sub (3 5 6) | USSR containing JTE* containing >RACY MMI = USS JIMMY CARTER, a nuclear submarine. | frictionlessemu | 0 |
8872 | ANY ICONIC DUO “X AND Y” E.G. “FISH AND CHIPS”, “TOM AND JERRY” ETC. (X, 3, Y) | Pokemon games' Dynamax mix-up drops two heads of Magneton (1 3 1) | X AND Y = Pokemon games = DYNAMAX* - MA (first two letters of MAGNETON) | frictionlessemu | 0 |