Contests started: PET PEEVE (3, 5), WHITEOUT (8 OR 5, 3), PRAYER (6), ENIGMA (6), SLEEP (5), EAT (3), BLANK (5), ROLEPLAYED, DAYS (4), RAISIN (6), FIRM (4), ODDBALL (7), BINARY STAR (6, 4), EGO SEARCH (3, 6), FINALLY (7), MASQUERADE (10), ANARCHY (7), TWO-MAN (3-3), MORATORIUM (10), COMPOSITION METAL (11, 5), BULLWINKLE (10), A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1, 9, 5, 6), ROBINSON CRUSOE (8, 6), FREAKED (7), LITTLEBIGPLANET (15), NIGHTSHADE (10), BLUR (4), MILLENNIAL (10), MOONLIGHT (9), HEROIC COUPLET (6, 7), POINTLESS (9), J.LO (1.2), ARAMIS (6), PREY (4), NAMETAG (7), BOURGEOIS (9), KANGAROO ISLAND (8, 6), JAMES CAAN (5, 4), TOLKIEN (7), INCUS (5), BRIDGE (6), NASHVILLE (9), MEDIEVAL METAL (8, 5), GIGAHERTZ (9), BLACK (5), AWAY (4), NEKO (4), SPEED (5), HARDBASS (8), ANIMAL (6), SEASICKNESS (11), BASS DROP (4, 4) OR BASSDROP (8), SURPRISE (8), BEAT (4), MELODY (6), HEARTBEAT (9), GOD MORGEN (3, 6), PLAN (4), HONEY (5), RAWSTYLE (8), CHEW (4), DATA (4), FAR (3), FESTS (5), FLU (3), FUELS (5), HAND (4), HAT (3), LOSE (4), MARRY (5), OVERHEAR (8), PACKET (6), SHATTER (7), SPAR (4), TOMB (4), TRIP (4), WREAKS (6), BABYMETAL (9), SPLATTERSHOT (12), DELPHI (6), FINLAND (7), BASHFUL (7), FUNHOUSE (8), CHRYSOBERYL (11), EXONERATION (11), PEVERELL (8), BESIDE (6), WALK OF FAME (4, 2, 4), ARENDELLE (9), STARRY (6) OR STORY (5) OR STARRY STORY (6, 5), TIME STOP (4, 4), UTADA HIKARU (5, 6), SCALAR (6), HEARSE (6), FUNCTION CALL (8, 4), LOKI (4), ATLANTIS (8), HOOP SNAKE (4, 5), WITH THE LIGHTS OUT (4, 3, 6, 3), ATROPOS (7), BELLA SWAN (5, 4), METALLIC PUNISHER (8, 8), HATSUNE MIKU (7, 4), COMMENSURATE (12), TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC (4, 3, 5, 9), MON DIEU (3, 4), CLUE WITH DIFF ANS WHEN A LETTER IS REMOVED (???), CLICK (5), COMMENCED (9), PROJECTION (10), QAZVIN (6), SQUEEGEE (8), INTESTINES (10), STOLID (6), PADDYWHACK (10), STRONGEST (9), TOKAI TEIO (5, 4)
Contests won: DISCORD (7), QUIXOTIC (8), OBLONG, CHOCOLATE (9), ROLEPLAYED, P?DDLE (6), GOAL (4), MILLE FEUILLE (5 7), # (5, 6 OR 9 OR 10), AMBIGUOUS/SCHRODINGER (9 or 11), TART (4), DELAWARE (8), TIME-LAPSE (4-5), BURGER (6), ANY ONE STARTER POKEMON (5/6/7/8/9/10), WHITE DAY (5, 3), VERMILION (9), GUIDE (5), HENTAI (6), LAST (4), ANY CLUE NUMBER ACROSS/DOWN (? 6/4), CLUE WHERE WORDS ALTERNATE CONSONANTS & VOWELS (?), CRADLE (6), TENDON (6), IRON (4), NEPOTISM (8), INTEGRAL (8), ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE READS AS AN EQUATION (??), ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE COMPLIMENTS A PUZZLER (??), DEFLATE (7), COW (3), FESTIVE (7), SANITY (6), OSSOFF (6), GAMESTOP (8), MOON MOON (4, 4), HITCHHIKE (9), BACKSEAT (8)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5289 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE READS AS AN EQUATION (??) | Yup, x = x = 0 (1-4) | Wordplay: YA + X IS Def: x = 0 |
Sp3000 | 7 |
| 555 | AMBIGUOUS/SCHRODINGER (9 or 11) | Austrian scientist primarily sheltering Californian hard rock band right to leave ring within extremes of underground unrecognisable, unclear (9 or 11) | Austrian scientist = S_ C_ H_ R_ + O + _D((-r)ING)_E _R Unclear = A_ (M(-r)BIG + U_(O)U_ ) S_ |
Sp3000 | 6 |
| 1005 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | "Happy Material" (7) | CONTENT ddef. Opening to the first Negima! anime. Title technically has a star in the middle not included here. | Sp3000 | 6 |
| 1028 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | Delete cover of tune "World is Mine" (7) | _UN_ + EARTH = "mine" | Sp3000 | 6 |
| 4522 | ANY CLUE THAT'S A VALID ACNH PASSPORT TITLE (?) | New Leaf Insect (4) | FLEA* = insect | Sp3000 | 6 |
| 4525 | ANY CLUE THAT'S A VALID ACNH PASSPORT TITLE (?) | Unique Fish (4) | SOLE ddef | Sp3000 | 6 |
| 4926 | INTEGRAL (8) | Essential meta finally added to unfinished puzzle hunt without one (8) | Essential = _A in INTEG(-i)RL(-s) | Sp3000 | 6 |
| 94 | EDEN (4) | Eve's initial home in nature! (4) | E[ve]+DEN | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 164 | AGHAST (6) | Gag has ten characters in shock (6) | Hidden, def = "in shock" | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 196 | CHOCOLATE (9) | "Hot" drink ingested within cafe's walls! | C(HO(COLA)T)E = HOT, COLA taken in, all inside C[af]E. &lit | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 663 | DELAWARE (8) | First of fifty letters from Jude Law, a representative (8) | Def = "First of fifty", as in states Hidden _DE LAW A RE_ |
Sp3000 | 5 |
| 749 | UCAOIMHU (8) | Cryptic setter Lucas stripped, first to undress after cycling if you ask me (8) | Cryptic setter = _UCA_ + {imho -> OIMH} + U_ | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 789 | BURGER (6) | "Flipped" food offering, essentially! (6) | BURG< + _ER_ | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 1019 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | Smashes produced by remixing "This game" (8) | MEGAHITS* | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 1027 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | Unfinished "Cry Me a River" found in Hawaii (6) | WAI(-l)+ME+A = river found in Hawaii | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 1394 | DOMINION (8) | I broke tile game piece? No, card game (8) | DOMIN(I)O + N = card game | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 2237 | HENTAI (6) | Pervert in heat creating sexually explicit anime (6) | INHEAT*. This one wrote itself. | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 3444 | CRADLE (6) | Kindly hold back in field archery (6) | Kindly hold = _ELD ARC_< | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 4750 | NEPOTISM (8) | Prioritising one's own time, free up one's Monday (8) | Down clue only Prioritising one's own = (NEPO+T)< + I'S + M |
Sp3000 | 5 |
| 5337 | DEFLATE (7) | Discourage three consecutive notes (7) | Discourage = D+E FLAT+E | Sp3000 | 5 |
| 187 | OBLONG | Rectangular bologna trimmed, minced (6) | (BOLOGN[a])* | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 347 | ASKING (6) | Demanding spades in blackjack (6) | Demanding = S ("spades") in A+KING (ace-king natural/"blackjack") | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 374 | LEON CZOLGOSZ (4, 8) | McKinley's assassin deviously clogs nozzle with ring (4, 8) | McKinley's assassin = anagram of CLOGSNOZZLEO | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 584 | BOW OUT (3, 3) | Leave tail parts of rainbow trout? (3, 3) | Hidden-ish clue, taking right sides of rainBOW trOUT | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 760 | TIME-LAPSE (4-5) | Spooner's green bugs like short videos of plants growing (4-5) | Spooner's LIME ("green") TAPS ("bugs", as in wiretaps) = "like short videos of plants growing" | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 1021 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | "dance storm" has antecedent (8) | _ANCE STOR_ hidden. Song is from Taiko no Tatsujin. | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 3045 | ANY CLUE NUMBER ACROSS/DOWN (? 6/4) | 10A: Ancestors edited this clue (3, 6) | TEN ACROSS* | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 5317 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE READS AS AN EQUATION (??) | Rank = c √(sec² d - 1) (3, 5) | Rank (as in taxi rank) = c √(sec² d - 1) = c |tan d| = C ABS(TAN(D)) |
Sp3000 | 4 |
| 5354 | COW (3) | Lower half of chicken (3) | One that lows = COW(-ard) | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 6110 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A PALINDROME (?) | Slam in app animals (3) | Slam = _P AN_ hidden | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 6149 | GAMESTOP (8) | Exploit short positions primarily restricted to retail company (8) | Retail company = GAME ("exploit", as a system) + S_ P_ ("short positions" primarily) around TO = GAME+S_(TO)P_ | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 9810 | CLUE THAT'S ENTIRELY IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (ANSWER, DEFINITION, AND CRYPTIC READING) | 「ステルスオウジ」はポケモンの名前（3） | TL: "Stealthprince" is the name of a Pokémon ステルス ("stealth") → 捨てるス ("discard ス") オウジ ("prince" in Japanese, or 王子 in kanji) → プリンス ("prince", as a transliterated loanword from English) プリンス (purinsu) without ス (su) is プリン (purin), the name of a Pokémon (Jigglypuff) |
Sp3000 | 4 |
| 11103 | CHARLOTTE (9) | Anime character schemed endlessly (9) | CHAR (from programming) + (-p)LOTTE(-d) = anime (from 2015) | Sp3000 | 4 |
| 17 | DISCORD (7) | Fantasy land abolishes "wins" and "losses", leading to strife (7) | DISC[w]OR[l]D | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 58 | QUIXOTIC (8) | Abruptly lay off cross adult without hesitation? That's impractical (8) | QUI[t]+X+[er]OTIC | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 85 | COMPUTABLE (10) | Sitcom put a bleep not entirely fit for programming? (10) | Hidden word | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 166 | SQUARE (6) | Knight's aide getting ace to replace current plaza (6) | SQU{i->A}RE | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 200 | ROLEPLAYED | Acted extraordinarily, really dope (10) | (REALLYDOPE)* | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 233 | P?DDLE (6) | Try to sell bike part on the radio (6) | Try to sell (PEDDLE) = bike part (PEDAL) homophone | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 304 | MILLE FEUILLE (5 7) | Playwright Arthur's last to leave with French girl, going around France and other countries to make a French dessert (5, 7) | MILLE[-r] ("Playwright Arthur", without last) + FILLE ("French girl") around EU ("France and other countries") = "a French dessert" | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 323 | # (5, 6 OR 9 OR 10) | Quiet one, initially headless, back to make sign for Throwback Thursday (4 or 5) | Definition: "sign for Throwback Thursday" HASH = SH ("quiet") + A ("one") + H_ ("initially headless"), reversed component-wise ("back") POUND = P ("quiet") + O_ ("one initially") + (-f)UND ("headless back", as in to back a kickstarter project) |
Sp3000 | 3 |
| 340 | MEAN (4) | Measure of central tendency (but not "taking the middle")! (4) | ME(-di)AN &lit. Ignore quotes for cryptic reading. Also feels like there's a better way to do this. | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 389 | EUDAEMONICS (11) | Looking back, even psychic "Brain Power" creator possessing everything initially expected some ethics regarding welfare (11) | "Some ethics regarding welfare" = (_S_C_I_ + NOM(E_)A + DUE)< | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 543 | CHESSBOARD (10) | Couple left duke's wife and poet outside front of obscene mating place (10) | (-du)CHESS + B(O_)ARD = mating place | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 601 | VIA APPIA (3,5) | Mathematician Hart, one with a piano and pi rant's second way from old Italy (3, 5) | VI ("Mathematician Hart") + A + A + P + PI + _A__ = way from old Italy | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 631 | TART (4) | Dessert from Port Arthur (4) | Hidden _T ART_ | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 808 | WILSON (6) | Rebel from down under's short feral kid (6) | WIL(-d) + SON = Australian actress Rebel Wilson ("Pitch Perfect") | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 909 | ANY ONE STARTER POKEMON (5/6/7/8/9/10) | Pokémon drawing cut from clip (7) | CHESPIN ("Pokémon") = LOT ("drawing") removed from CLOTHESPIN ("clip") | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 1045 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A PUZZLE GENRE (?) | Escapade in escape room (5) | _CAPE R_ | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 1432 | GRADE (5) | Mark is overlooking unit in Serbia's capital (5) | mark = (-bel)GRADE | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 1722 | GUIDE (5) | Lead Python developer ignores last error (5) | Lead = GUIDO (van Rossum, Python's creator) - last + E | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 1887 | MERCENARY (9) | Soldier Brandybuck restrains wrestler John (9) | Soldier = MER(CENA)RY | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 3370 | LEVEL FIFTY ONE (5, 5, 3) | Puzzler is fine in elevator over there, protected by flood barrier (5, 5, 3) | Puzzler = L(F)IFT YON in LEVEE | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 5107 | AMADEUS (7) | A crazy couple from Europe's first to sponsor sci-fi AI program (7) | A+MAD+EU_+S_ = AI program from Steins;Gate 0, a sci-fi work | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 5139 | WAIF (4) | e.g. Felt from "Re:Zero", briefly?! (4) | e.g. Felt from "Re:Zero" = WAIFU briefly -> WAIF(-u) &lit Felt grew up as a thief in the slums but gets forcefully turned into a princess/royal candidate soon into the series at age 15. ? for the somewhat questionable "briefly". |
Sp3000 | 3 |
| 5197 | BUCKET (6) | Lucky boy's endlessly lucky during wager (6) | (Charlie) BUCKET = lucky boy = B(_UCK_)ET | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 5217 | PLASTIC (7) | Soft, pliable, not set essentially! (7) | P + ELASTIC - _E_ &lit | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 5314 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE READS AS AN EQUATION (??) | 86s = 501s + |S| (8) | Alternative version of 5311. Def = 86s Wordplay = DI S ("501s") + CARD(S) ("|S|", or cardinality of the set S) |
Sp3000 | 3 |
| 5320 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE COMPLIMENTS A PUZZLER (??) | Outstanding Deusovi, extremely smart and genuine at heart — is he ultimately God? (13) | Outstanding = D_I + STING ("smart") + _U_ + IS HE + _D | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 6015 | 867-5309 (3-4) | Reject central character from Konami, moving forward with love before Cirno gets Jenny's number (3-4) | 86 ("reject") + 753 ("Konami" = 573, move central character forward) + 0 ("love") + ⑨ ("Cirno", from Touhou Project) = Jenny's number | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 6103 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A PALINDROME (?) | Spat put salt (a li'l, at last!) up taps (5) | Down clue. Spat = put S+A+_L up C+H (cold/hot "taps") = C(LAS<)H Slightly dodgy insertion via "put ... up ..." but the visual image is stuffing something up a tube (i.e. inserted rising). Not the best surface either but I've already wasted too many hours. |
Sp3000 | 3 |
| 6181 | MOON MOON (4, 4) | Low Mass held in time for Gundam space colony (4, 4) | MOO ("low", verb) + M ("mass") in NOON ("time") = MOO+N(M)OON = Space colony from the Gundam series. A Low Mass is a Mass without singing. | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 9812 | CLUE THAT'S ENTIRELY IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (ANSWER, DEFINITION, AND CRYPTIC READING) | 濁ってないミルクを吸い込むこと（6） | TL: The act of soaking up unclouded milk 濁ってない ("unclouded") → make unvoiced ミルク ("milk", transliterated loanword from English) → ぎゅうにゅう ("milk", or 牛乳 / gyuunyuu) ぎゅうにゅう (gyuunyuu) unvoiced becomes the answer きゅうにゅう (kyuunyuu) = 吸入 ("inhalation") Def is 吸い込むこと (suikomu koto) = the act of inhaling (/ soaking up) |
Sp3000 | 3 |
| 10762 | BACKSEAT (8) | Annoying sort of driver reverses vehicle then takes off (8) | Annoying sort of driver = CAB ("vehicle") reversed + TAKES anagrammed ("off") | Sp3000 | 3 |
| 39 | NONPLUS (7) | Puzzle from puzzling organization being penned by us in France (7) | NPL ("puzzling organization") in NOUS ("us, in France") | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 52 | AFICIONADO (10) | Princess in trouble enthralling extremely idiotic lover (10) | Lover (as in "crossword lover") = FIONA ("Princess" from Shrek) in ADO ("trouble") around ("enthralling", makes more sense as archaic "enslaving") I[dioti]C | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 68 | SLIP (4) | Students cut up about careless mistake (4) | SLI[pu]P< | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 86 | PARAGON (7) | King Arthur's death to become a perfect example? (7) | P(end->A)RAGON | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 121 | YOUR USERNAME (?) | Setter's shakers (2) | Salt + Pepper | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 167 | POT BROWNIES (3, 8) | Ones with Mary Jane sink four-point ball, even five and six at first (3, 8) | "Ones with Mary Jane" (loose def for "things containing cannabis") = POT ("sink", in cue sports) + BROWN (4-pointer in snooker) + [f]I[v]E + S[ix] | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 221 | CHIPOTLE (8) | Offspring mostly consuming weed near bottom of the food chain (8) | Down clue. POT in CHIL[d] + [th]E = food chain. | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 513 | QUISQUOUS (9) | Quits "Quake" on us – not taken to be perplexing (9) | Sequential but non-contiguous deletion, QUI(-t)S QU(-ake) O(-n) US. | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 580 | ANTARCTICA (10) | A new strategy incorporating castle by a desert (10) | A+N+TA(R)CTIC+A = desert | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 769 | MAKE (4) | Cause Japanese defeat (4) | ddef. Cause (e.g. trouble) = Japanese word for loss/defeat, which is "make" in romaji. | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 770 | MAKE (4) | Compel impostor to undergo a sex change (4) | {f->M}AKE | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 833 | SOMETHING WITH DEFINITION 'WORD' | Word processing grade: E (6) | "Word" = AGREED* | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 925 | LIMIT (5) | Multimillionaire holds bounced check (5) | "check" = reverse hidden | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 1017 | ADRENALINE (10) | TrySail track ultimately heard in stadium waiting place (10!!!) | TrySail track = A(_D)RENA+LINE | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 1018 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | Start to chant "Everything Is AWESOME!!!"'s middle part around folk lowering head for gym exercises (13) | Down clue. C_+ALL+IS+(ethnic -> THENIC)+_S_ = gym exercises | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 1023 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A SONG TITLE (?) | ryo's "ODDS&ENDS" is a track? (4) | R_O ("ryo's odds") + A_D ("and ends", ? for &<->and) = a track | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 1073 | VERMILION (9) | Red cat going after tailless rodents, say (9) | red = LION after VERMI(-n) | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 1106 | VANILLA (7) | Leading character in visual novel, sick and abandoned initially! (7) | A ("leading character", of the alphabet) in VN + ILL + A_ = VANILLA, a catgirl from Nekopara | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 1486 | HAZE (4) | Blur portion of devilish Azed (4) | Hidden _H AZE_ | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 1533 | INEPT (5) | In Gamindustri, Neptune is incompetent (5) | Hidden _I NEPT_, references Hyperdimension Neptunia (Gamindustri being the world in which the games mostly take place) | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 1613 | FERTILE | Able to reproduce revolutionary contents of one-litre flask (7) | Able to reproduce = _E-LITRE F_< | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 2311 | LAST (4) | Partially spoil a story's ending (4) | _L A ST_ hidden | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 3053 | CLUE WHERE WORDS ALTERNATE CONSONANTS & VOWELS (?) | Vowel, one for one "No Game No Life: Zero" female (FIVE) | SCHW{a->I}, the lead female character of NGNL:Z | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 3318 | ISTHMUS (7) | Strip of land is consequently protecting Malta's capital (7) | IS+TH(M_)US | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 3412 | CEDAR (5) | Cared about tree (5) | Tree = CARED* | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 3738 | TENDON (6) | Takoyaki's first, finish with Japanese rice and battered vegetables perhaps (6) | T_ + END ON = "Japanese rice and battered vegetables perhaps" (tempura donburi = tendon) | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 3783 | VEGAN (5) | Star with new type of diet (5) | VEGA+N = type of diet | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 4294 | IRON (4) | Press seaweed the other way (4) | IRON< = press | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 4330 | TIM ALLEN (3, 5) | I'm being embraced by towering English actor from "Toy Story" (3, 5) | IM in TALL ("towering") + EN ("English", ISO language code) = actor from "Toy Story" | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 4520 | ANY CLUE THAT'S A VALID ACNH PASSPORT TITLE (?) | Self-Possessed Ground Traveler (2) | _EL_, as in the train | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 4526 | ANY CLUE THAT'S A VALID ACNH PASSPORT TITLE (?) | Regular Star? (7) | ddef for the Puzzlers Club regular POLARIS. Definite etymology overlap here but I thought it'd be amusing anyhow. | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 4607 | NEW/OLD (3) | Recognized, as a difference, say: "not time-worn" (3) | Recognized, as a difference = KNEW (the difference) say = homophone indicator -> NEW Definition = "not time-worn" Recognized, as a difference, say = TOLD (the difference) not time = remove T -> OLD Definition = "worn" (adjective) |
Sp3000 | 2 |
| 4712 | DELVE (5) | Look into numbered dodecahedron overlooking Taiwan (5) | Look into = DTWELVE ("numbered dodecahedron") - TW ("Taiwan" ISO code) | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 5232 | PAN (3) | Criticise bread from Spain (3) | ddef criticise = Spanish for "bread" | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 5288 | BOO-BOO (3-3) | Girl at the scream factory repeated mistake (3-3) | BOO ("girl at the scream factory, from Monsters Inc) repeated = mistake | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 5400 | FESTIVE (7) | Merry time in New York had by quintet (7) | Merry = EST ("time in New York", or Eastern Standard Time) in FIVE | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 5973 | DOZE (4) | Intrinsic to libido: zero sleep (4) | Sleep = _DO ZE_ hidden | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 6107 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A PALINDROME (?) | Star prof Sig, e.g., is for prats (7) | DON ("star prof", as in senior university teacher) + KEY (sig e.g., as in key signature) + 'S ("is") = DONKEYS = prats | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 6222 | BANK (4) | Something you want to make empty, not full, ultimately (4) | Something you want to make = BLANK ("empty") minus _L ("full, ultimately") | Sp3000 | 2 |
| 6452 | HITCHHIKE (9) | Popular Guitar Hero legend CHRS4LFE holding tip of hurt thumb (9) | Thumb = HIT+C(H_)HIKE HIT ("popular", as in "hit single") + CHIKE ("Guitar Hero legend CHRS4LIFE", also known for being a DDR champion) around H_ ("tip of hurt") |
Sp3000 | 2 |
| 8 | INTEGRAL (8) | Essential info about return of cross-media puzzling event (8) | INTE(GRA<)L | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 265 | GOAL (4) | Girl having zero aim (4) | G(O)AL | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 278 | MAIZE (5) | Half of maimai FiNALE to theme around unknown shade of yellow (5) | MAI(-mai)+_E around Z ("unknown") | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 308 | SUPER SMASH BROTHERS ULTIMATE (5, 5, 8, 8) | Pepperless evening meal's (potato dish and thin soup product's) second to be moved earlier, before one friend's party game (5, 5, 8, 8) | SUP(-p)ER'S + MASH + BROTH + {result -> ERSULT} + I + MATE = "party game" | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 507 | MARASCHINO (10) | Japanese cover pianist overlooks last Rabbit House worker making cherry liqueur (10) | MARAS(-y) + CHINO (from "Is the Order a Rabbit?"). (´・ω| *hides* | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 509 | OBSCURE (7) | Lesser-known streaming program fix (7) | OBS ("streaming program") + CURE ("fix", as a problem) | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 812 | ISOTROPIC (9) | Individual's site, one that's readily offering playable Innovation copy primarily! (9) | Acrostic &lit. Refers to isotropic.org (owned by dougz) which previously offered online Dominion before it was properly commercialised, and now only hosts Innovation. | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 899 | ANIME (5) | Maybe Charlotte is some woman I met (5) | Hidden | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 952 | AD-LIB (2-3) | Suspect's excuse cut short, interrupted by defendant's top secret note from Taito (2-3) | Down clue. "secret note" as in Groove Coaster (hinted by "from Taito") = D_ in ALIB(-i) | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 1046 | ANY CLUE INCORPORATING A PUZZLE GENRE (?) | Article on "Star Battle" light novel (3, 8, 3) | Down clue for THE ASTERISK WAR | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 1067 | WHITE DAY (5, 3) | Elder's first to replace light source in Australian islands' mid-March event (5, 3) | E_ replacing SUN in WHITSUNDAY ("Australian islands") = mid-March event | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 1617 | FERTILE | Red's being protected by Elite Four's leader in return? That's rich (7) | Rich = F_ E(R)TILE < | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 1950 | THE END (3, 3) | Nurse hiding that man's thirteenth novel (3, 3) | TEND ("nurse") hiding HE ("that man") = thirteen novel (in A Series of Unfortunate Events) | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 2066 | HASHISH (7) | Grass found in lunch Ash is having (7) | Grass = hidden _H ASH IS H_ | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 3055 | CLUE WHERE WORDS ALTERNATE CONSONANTS & VOWELS (?) | Female magazine finale cut in America, retired a Japanese game magazine (7) | F + (TIM(-e) in USA)< = FAMITSU | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 3386 | ANY COLOR WORD WITH DEF NOT "COLOR" (?) | Soup is blue ― blue, not red (6) | B+(-r)ISQUE (web color #ffe4c4) | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 3619 | DISCOMFORT (10) | Gossip about Aussie prime minister grabbing female is a slight pain (10) | DI(SCOM(F)O)RT = a slight pain, somewhat. ScoMo is Aus slang for Scott Morrison, the current prime minister. | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 3846 | BUTTER (6) | Acrid outer bit of Anjou substitutes for one cake ingredient (6) | B{i->A_ or _U}TTER = cake ingredient | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 3859 | CRAMP/CRAMPS (5/6) | Hinder "Cardcaptor Sakura" studio changing hands (5) | CLAMP ("Cardcaptor Sakura" manga studio) with L->R = hinder | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 3882 | KOW (3) | "Mobile Suit Gundam Wing" composer Otani is kind of weird initially (3) | K_ O_ W_. Would have loved to use "Shakugan no Shana" instead but it's got less name recognition. | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 3939 | ANY NON-ALPHANUMERIC GLYPH THAT ISN'T ♀ (1) | "Ni" in Japanese! (1) | ニ (katakana "ni") or 二 (the kanji for two, which is also "ni" in Japanese) | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 3986 | CINQUE (6) | Five from Italy in queue I hear (in queue I hear) (6) | IN+Q in CUE = five from Italy | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 4036 | AQUA (4) | Useless Goddess beheaded Runaway Spirit Squad devil (4) | Double anime clue just for fun. AQUA ("Useless Goddess" from Konosuba) = (-h)AQUA (devil from Kaminomi) | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 4278 | ANOTHER (7) | Mystery light novel-turned-anime "Baccano!" there in part (7) | _ANO THER_ = mystery light novel-turned-anime (also true of "Baccano!") | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 5070 | ANY CLUE THAT'S &LIT AND A QUESTIONABLE DEF?! (?) | Primarily "f@#$ all reality" composition?! (5, 4) | Anagram of F_ A_ REALITY = FAIRY TALE | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 5233 | PAN (3) | Thing that cooks emergency food takes one sec (3) | PAN = thing that cooks = PAIMON ("emergency food", as a meme from Genshin Impact) minus ("takes") I MO ("one" and "sec") | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 5311 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE READS AS AN EQUATION (??) | 86s = 501s + 7 × 2, say (8) | Def = 86s Wordplay = DI S ("501s") + CARDS ("7 × 2, say" as in two playing card 7s) Also works as a straight clue for EQUATION I guess. |
Sp3000 | 1 |
| 5325 | BLIZZARD (8) | IRVINE COMPANY GIVING BIRD SOME SPACE? (8) | Company headquartered in Irvine, California = BUZZARD re-kerned splitting the U into LI (needs sans-serif font like on Discord, preferably one where the U doesn't have a round bottom) | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 5399 | SANITY (6) | Reason Secret Solver participant didn't finish and took one year (6) | reason = SANT(-a) taking one + year = SAN(I)T(-a)Y This clue brought to you by Sp3000@BADSANTA. |
Sp3000 | 1 |
| 5449 | OSSOFF (6) | SoftFro has son oust oddly torn politician from Georgia (6) | OSTROFF ("SoftFro" IRL) with T_R_ ousted by S = politician from Georgia | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 5800 | CELLIST (7) | Musician who initially avoided fine is in court (7) | Musician = C((-w)ELL+IS)T = WELL ("fine") without W ("who initially") + IS, all in CT ("court", street abbrev) |
Sp3000 | 1 |
| 6399 | ANY "AMONG US" THEMED CLUE (?) | Starts to suspect Cyan is not the Impostor, lynches Lime after a bit (9) | SCINTILLA (inits) = a bit | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 6543 | FLUXX (5) | Card game hand beating a straight and pair of 10's has no hearts nor spades (5) | Card game = FLUSH ("hand beating a straight") + XX ("pair of 10's") -H -S ("has no hearts nor spades") = FLU(-sh)XX | Sp3000 | 1 |
| 118 | MAKE (4) | Force impostor to undergo a sex change (4) | Force = {f->M}AKE | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 292 | BLARE (5) | Proclaim loudly and speak impulsively to Stephen Colbert? (5) | BLURT ("speak impulsively") -> BLARE ("proclaim loudly") a la how Colbert is pronounced | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 355 | REFRAIN (7) | "Little Busters!" sequel about friendship initially, before Rin accepts accident at the beginning (7) | Sequel subtitle to the anime "Little Busters!" = RE ("about") + F_ + R(A_)IN. | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 504 | MAZUMA (6) | Male lead of "Yakitate!! Japan" produces bread (6) | M ("male") + AZUMA = bread (another slang for money, appropriate for the anime referenced) | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 888 | MEME (4) | https://imgur.com/QDRiIyf, say!? (4) | Character is Oshino Meme from the Monogatari series. Meme is Death Note (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-as-planned). | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 1821 | ATELIER (7) | Elaborate lie "reveals" characters for anime RPG series (7) | Anime RPG series = _ATE LIE R_ hidden | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 1924 | MATTER (6) | Business from toy company changing hands (6) | Business = MATTE{l->R} | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 2127 | ANY CLUE STARTING WITH CALL IN (?) | Call in ALEPH ONE (5) | Hidden _PH ONE. Would be nicer with extra fodder on the right but other options aren't great. | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 2204 | SALT (4) | French greeting uniformless sailor (4) | Sailor = SAL(-u)T | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 2205 | CODA (4) | Henry leaving for this revolutionary musical performance's conclusion (4) | H ("Henry") leaving AD HOC ("for this", literally) backwards = musical performance's conclusion | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 3183 | STACKS (6) | Primitive homes second to be flipped for heaps (6) | S{h->T}ACKS | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 3478 | PROMISE (7) | Start to properly romanise an overlooked Japanese meme song (7) | P_ + ROM(-an)ISE = song used in the Geddan (Get Down) meme originating from a GoldenEye 007 glitch | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 3533 | ORIFICE (7) | Compa's second sushi ingredient overwhelming IF's mouth, maybe (7) | _O_ + R(IF)ICE = mouth, maybe. Surface is Hyperdimension Neptunia (in which Compa and IF are close friends) | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 3672 | VERBIGERATE (11) | Without second line, part of song containing pirate's insult is utter nonsense (11) | Utter nonsense = VERSE containing BILGE RAT without S L (setwise) | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 3782 | HEADCANON (9) | Once had an unusual fan theory (9) | ONCEHADAN* = fan theory | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 3943 | ANY NON-ALPHANUMERIC GLYPH THAT ISN'T ♀ (1) | 2007 Vocaloid song with a line about a Japanese unit (1) | ㍍ = メルト (Melt, a 2007 Vocaloid song) plus a line, about (in rotation) = "a Japanese unit" (reads メートル or "meter" from top to bottom) | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 4230 | TURNIP (6) | Vegetable container in rubbish dump (6) | T(URN)IP | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 4535 | PTA (3) | Adaptation has gameplay mechanic from "Danganronpa 2" (3) | _PTA_ = Panic Talk Action from Danganronpa 2 | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 4708 | OMEGA (5) | Letter from Greece foreshadowing knight fleeing thousand and one (5) | Letter from Greece = OME(-n) ("foreshadowing" as a noun, N fleeing) + G ("thousand") + A ("one") Letter from Greece = SIG(-n) ("foreshadowing" as a noun, N fleeing) + M ("thousand") + A ("one") |
Sp3000 | 0 |
| 5013 | RARE CANDY (4, 5) | Beat red canary for level-up item (4, 5) | REDCANARY* = level-up item (think beat as in whisk) | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 5272 | JE T'AIME (2, 1'4) | Love phrase from black Sega card (2, 1'4) | Love phrase = JET ("black") + AIME (card for Sega arcade games, pronounced aimii) | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 5368 | IS (2) | Light novel exoskeleton surprisingly operable by male lives (2) | Light novel ... male = the titular exoskeleton from "IS: Infinite Stratos" that is usually only operable by women and the series resolves around the first male IS pilot = lives (/lɪvz/ not /laɪvz/) |
Sp3000 | 0 |
| 6344 | FINE (4) | End well (4) | ddef: end (musically) = well (in good health) | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 6396 | ANY "AMONG US" THEMED CLUE (?) | Perhaps Macy's returning in a bit to catch glimpse of impostor near vent (6, 6) | Perhaps Macy's = RETAL< (returning "in a bit") catching I_ ("glimpse of impostor") + OUTLET ("vent") = RETA(I_)L OUTLET | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 10970 | ON MAIN (2, 4) | New 2023 anime I cancelled earlier from my primary account (2, 4) | N ("new") with [ONIMAI ("2023 anime") - I ("I cancelled")] earlier = from my primary account | Sp3000 | 0 |
| 11323 | WHITE WHALE (5, 5) | Re:Zero beast bit then let air out with expelling kiss (5, 5) | WHIT ("bit") + EXHALE ("let air out") with W ("with") replacing X ("kiss") = WHIT+E{x->W}HALE = beast from the light novel/anime Re:Zero | Sp3000 | 0 |