Contests started: HORSE (5), INTERNET TROLL (8, 5), HILBERT (7), HOMESTUCK (9), BUTTE (5), WARNOCK (7), TILL (4), VEGGIE TRAY (6, 4), NOTEPAD (7)
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), ANY CURRENT WORLD LEADER (?), FEDERER (7)
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 |
9978 | ANY CURRENT WORLD LEADER (?) | Letter from Greek president (2) | ddef for XI (letter from Greek; President of China) | 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 |
10302 | FEDERER (7) | Served to, um, uh, a tennis legend (7) | Served to = FED, um = ER, uh = ER, a tennis legend = definition | 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 |