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Contests started: MEAN (4), BEAN (4), ANY CLUE ENDING IN LEVEL (5, 1), ANY CLUE ENDING IN A BEAN (7, 7), SUBLIME (7), SMASH (5), GROSSLY (7), PATREON (7), RICE (4), SAFE WORD (4 4 OR 8)

Contests won: YUCCA (5), PREY (4)

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Clue ID Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By Likes
1862 PREY (4) Subject eaten by Python! (4) P(RE)Y
&lit
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1132 PALLET (6) Extraterrestrial follows gloomy cloud bed (6) gloomy cloud = pall
extraterrestrial = et
bed = definition
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1422 ARGUMENT (8) Angle! (8) &lit double def
Angle = argument (reasoning)
Angle = argument (complex numbers)
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1673 MUSEUM (6) This building has a military history exhibit, made of... emus? Um, weird (6) this building has a military history exhibit - definition
made of - connector
emus um - MUSEUM*
weird - anagrind
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1682 YUCCA (5) Yuck, a sound storage site for nuclear waste (5) "yuck, a" abean077 2
1917 MIND (4) Watch 1000 in opening day (4) Watch - definition (eg, "mind the children while I'm out")
1000 - M (Roman numerals)
In - IN
opening day - D_
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2075 WHEAT (5) Staple crop's origin: watery warmth (5) _W+HEAT abean077 2
1181 NOSFERATU (9) No California city times your Spanish vampire (9) No = NO
California city = SF
times = ERA
your Spanish = TU
definition: vampire
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1243 SYNOD (5) Church in Plessy nodded (5) in plesSY NODded abean077 1
1430 GRADE (5) Level slope (5) Double definition
Level = grade (rank)
Slope = grade (incline)
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1538 ANY CLUE ENDING IN LEVEL (5, 1) ADG are doctors at top level (5, 1) "ADG are" anagrams to GRADE A, as indicated by "doctors"
"Top level" is definition
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1601 MAYPOLE (7) Polish being allowed to return to festival in Summer's dance (7) Polish being = POLE
allowed to = MAY
return = reversal

Festival in Summer's dance: definition (refers to maypole dance)
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1658 POINTLESS (9) Stupid & dull? (9) Double def
stupid = pointless (ridiculous)
dull = pointless (opposite of pointy)
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1662 LAMPSHADE (9) In work, acknowledgement makes lame P.S. (9) In-work acknowledgement - definition
lame P.S. = "LAMPS HAD E"
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1178 PLATEAU (7) Map of land's divisions hears it's obligated to flatten (7) Map of land's divisions = PLAT
hears it's obligated to = OWE = EAU
flatten: definition (verb)
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1491 HAZE (4) initial, headfirst, antecedent, zygotic, & earliest initiate (4) to initiate/to haze (e.g. fraternities)
initials of HAZE
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1554 ZEAL (4) Colored skin changes saint into cousin-marrying state with passion (4) "colored skin" = ZEST, which is the colorful part of a citrus peel
"Saint" (ST) changes into "cousin-marrying state" (AL)
Definition: passion
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1610 IODINE (6) Element not found by throat hump ...that is, around Wednesday (God...) (6) I(ODIN)E

Element not found by throat hump - definition, as a "throat hump" (goitre) is caused by a lack of iodine
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1616 FERTILE Plow under animal part reportedly containing lots of nutrients (7) "fur till" abean077 0
1618 GREAT EXPECTATIONS (5, 12) Pip's story goes round Eagleton; initially consumed experience points the end away. Go Electrons! (from neutral state containing Boston's transit system) (5, 12) GRE_+ATE+XP+_E+C(T)ATIONS abean077 0
1646 SAAG PANEER (4, 6) Cheesy spinach dishes from India diminish even open heart, doubly open sounds a-ful (4, 6) Diminish even open heart = SAG PNER
Doubly open sounds = SAAG PNEER
A-ful = SAAG PANEER
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1716 BOXERS (6) Beers change first emu into ox: novel workers with the strength of three horses (6) Beers, change _E into OX
Definition refers to the horse Boxer in the novel Animal Farm, who is said to have the strength of three horses
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1720 DERRING-DO (7-2) Courageous spirit fish' exclamation upon finding land turns initial hardships into final yield (7-2) Courageous spirit - def
Fish - HERRING
Exclamation upon finding land - land HO
turns H_ into _D
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1769 AMPUTATE (8) Center clans cut off ends & impute hated procedure on surgical table (8) A + MPUT + ATE
procedure on surgical table - def
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2087 COMMENT (7) Endless compliment? Start to interject (7) compliment (verb) = commend

COMMEN_+T_
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