Linus

Contests started: RAMPART (7), LIKE (4), MOUNT EVEREST (5, 7), OPUS (4), OZONE (5), ASH (3), NIDORAN OR NIDORAN♂ OR NIDORAN♀ (7 OR 8), PERU (4), XBOX DEMON (4, 5)

Contests won: HEROIC COUPLET (6, 7), GRINDER (7), LAMPSHADE (9), SICK (4), SWITCH (6), UPSIDE DOWN (6, 4), BONZA (5), BASEL (5), ZUCCHINI (8), SEDNA (5), SPHINX (6), VEGETABLE (9), FUELS (5), BLUEBIRD (8), CONTEST (7), ZOOM (4), ZHUZH (5) (OR ZHOOSH (6)), PANICKING (9), EDNASWAP (8), ACCIACCATURA (12), VACCINE (7)

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Clue ID Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By Likes
3084 SEDNA (5) Faraway planet's Danse Macabre (5) DANSE* Linus 7
2801 BASEL (5) Problem of calculating 1+1/4+1/9+1/16+1/25+... in base 50 (5) The famous Basel problem Linus 6
2507 BONZA (5) Spectacular, all but an A+ (5) BON(-AN)ZA. Using the noun meaning of spectacular ("time for the Skateboard Showcase Spectacular") and the adjective meaning of A+. Linus 5
4257 EMBER (5) Old flame at the end of many months? (5) Same wordplay as above, but more upfront about it Linus 5
4523 ANY CLUE THAT'S A VALID ACNH PASSPORT TITLE (?) Longtime Reckless One (3) EON* = Longtime Linus 5
1777 SWITCH (6) Console hag after last rites (6) WITCH after S Linus 4
2076 WHEAT (5) Pique one’s appetite with a grain (5) WHE(A)T Linus 4
2236 KINK (4) E.g., futa Splatoon girl squirts this following climax of dick (4) INK (‘Splatoon girl squirts this’) following K.
Def is “E.g., futa.”
Linus 4
3270 SPHINX (6) Classic riddle of trig function describing acidity (6) SIN(X) describing (as in outlining) PH Linus 4
4408 CATS (4) Puzzler Dan listened to musical (4) "katz" Linus 4
5390 PANICKING (9) A secret solver tradition: before starting gift, Santa is in pain (9) PA(NICK)IN + G_ Linus 4
5974 VACCINE (7) 1cc injected into vein, perhaps! (7) (We talked about this clue in the Discord, so it's a collaborative effort.)
&lit. Wordplay is VEIN around "a cc". I'm not sure how legit "perhaps" is as an anagram indicator, though.
Linus 4
1627 HEROIC COUPLET (6, 7) A woman loudly utters “Oh, I see — A revolution authorized for me.” (6, 7) The definition part is “me,” referring to the clue.

The rest is charades: HER OIC COUP LET.
Linus 3
1691 ARTIFICER (9) Redeveloped crafter that infuses two items initially! (9) Wordplay: anagram CRAFTER and infuse two Is.
Def: Artificer is a newly redeveloped D&D class who can craft magic items and whose “Infuse Item” ability initially allows infusing two items.
Linus 3
1927 MIND (4) Smallest distance to object (4) Smallest distance = MIN D
Definition is “object,” in the verb sense: “Do you mind if...?”
Linus 3
2233 FETISH (6) E.g., furry alien penetrates animal (6) Furry = fetish. ET inside FISH Linus 3
2256 DISCOVERY (9) Secret dance, absolutely (9) DISCO? VERY! Linus 3
2799 ZUCCHINI (8) Squash Facebook founder memetically with swine flu (8) ZUCC+H1N1 Linus 3
3169 STAN (4) Little Dipper's guardian is one short of the devil? (4) S(-A)TAN
Def: "Little Dipper's guardian" = Grunkle Stan from Gravity Falls
Linus 3
3878 VEGETABLE (9) Super Saiyan starts to build large energy plant (9) VEGETA+B,L,E Linus 3
4773 ZHUZH (5) (OR ZHOOSH (6)) 𝙸𝙽𝙲𝙸𝙽𝙴𝚁𝙾𝙰𝚁, in the first half, got written up and then fell over to the left, to add spice (5) 𝙸𝙽𝙲𝙸𝙽, written upward and then rotated to the left, is ZHUZH. Def = "add spice." Thanks AuLeaf and Deusovi for the tense and font corrections Linus 3
6018 867-5309 (3-4) Famous twin prime and lucky number goes upside-down on a calculator after food cancellation (3-4) Def: Famous twin prime
Lucky number = 7
GOES upside-down on a calculator = 5309
Food cancellation = 86
Linus 3
6085 ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A PALINDROME (?) Burst, SE, nests rub (5) S(PAT)E Linus 3
1657 LAMPSHADE (9) Clamps had each held a canvas over a bulb (9) cLAMPS HAD Each Linus 2
1674 SICK (4) Upset on the inside — ew! (4) The inside of “upset” is S. “Ew” clues ICK. &lit. Linus 2
1724 DERRING-DO (7-2) True bravery. Turn weird. Embrace making mistakes. (7-2) ERRING inside ODD reversed Linus 2
1812 BROWNIE (7) Keep stuffing a soft cheese and chocolate dessert (7) OWN stuffing BRIE Linus 2
2044 XKCD (4) A comic's side, down-right on a keyboard (4) Type the word SIDE. Now move your fingers one key down-right and type again. Linus 2
2253 FETISH (6) Maybe hyper endowments' heft is absurd (6) HEFTIS*. Def: hyper, the best fetish Linus 2
2263 LAST RESORT (4, 6) Plan guaranteed to work, in Discworld lore, starts rebellion (4, 6) LORESTARTS*
Def is “Plan guaranteed to work, in Discworld.”
Linus 2
2271 HENTAI (6) Lewd doujin cock rising up at me (6) HEN+TA<+I. Down clue only. Linus 2
2518 TEMPEST (7) Extreme temper leads to furor? (7) Temp, more temper, most tempest. That’s how English works Linus 2
4020 FUELS (5) A car's power sources are questionably useful when it doesn't start (5) (-u)SEFUL* Linus 2
4137 ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL (BOY) all 🔄, work "and", ←: no (4) all = ∀
"no" = (*NAD)+A <-
Linus 2
4366 NECKLACE (8) In mercy kill, arched even loop around the throat (8) even letters of "in mercy kill arched" Linus 2
4736 UNCHES (6) Uncle, he's like letters 1, 3, and 5 of this answer (6) UNC+HES. Change def as appropriate Linus 2
4786 COFFEE (6) Speaking like someone with the flu: drink (6) Speaking "coughy" Linus 2
4800 OCTOBER (7) Month's fresh post was red in the future (7) taken wholesale from phenomist's Pointless quiz a while ago
"fresh post" = OC, "was red in the future" = TO BE R
Linus 2
5665 LWOJLA (6) A small bag for carrying heavy items to a small village or other gathering place (6) Ddef.

(according to www.thisworddoesnotexist.com)
Linus 2
5853 EDNASWAP (8) Trade genes over the internet to a band I have not heard of (8) Ddef. (To trade genes over the internet is to e-DNA-swap) Linus 2
5891 ACCIACCATURA (12) About about about about one about about almost about face a note (12) About about = AC<
about about one = C(I)A
about = C
about = CA
almost about face = TUR(-n)
a = A
Def: the ever unambiguous word "note"
Linus 2
1648 GRINDER (7) Smile and turn red, pulverizing tool (7) GRIN+[DER] Linus 1
1656 POINTLESS (9) Inconsequential etiquette advice for Phoenix Wright? (9) 2xdef. Phoenix Wright points a lot; pointing is said to be impolite. Linus 1
1694 XIMENES (7) Eleven thousand and four compass directions leading to famous crossworder (7) what do you mean “four compass directions” isn’t a fair way to clue ENES Linus 1
1773 SIGNATURE (9) Contract enforcer tearing us into pieces (9) Anagram “tearing us” Linus 1
1828 UPSIDE DOWN (6, 4) It, itself, is umop apisdn? (6, 4) Write "upside down" upside down. Remember that a typed "a" looks different from a handwritten one. Linus 1
2074 CHUTZPAH (8) Chip?! Replacing me with a type of chip?! Sigh... this is balls (8) def: balls.
CHIP, replacing I with UTZ (potato chip brand), +AH
Linus 1
2201 FOUR (4) Image clue: http://i.imgur.com/b2sLEEb.png FOURIER (transform) - IER. Definition is enumeration. Linus 1
2587 OCTOPI (6) / OCTOPUSES (9) / OCTOPODES (9) 25.13274122871835... creatures with three hearts, who carry coconut shells for shelter, and who can squeeze through holes the size of a quarter (6) 8π. The definition is pretty long Linus 1
3424 HUMAN (5) You guys, say! (5) Homophone YOU MEN. Def is the adjective usage of human: "you guys are human." Linus 1
4030 PENNY (5) Pennsylvania and New York merge in exchange for thoughts (5) PENN and NY merge; def references "penny for your thoughts" Linus 1
4037 BLUEBIRD (8) Rev. Spooner describes ghost of Mario seen through a Gaussian filter as an omen of happiness (8) BOO, BLURRED (sorry Mad Jaqk I stole it) Linus 1
4100 MARRY (5) Prone to tarnishing Wed? (5) Ddef: if you are prone to tarnishing, then you are mar-ry Linus 1
4106 CONTEST (7) Dispute what you get for answering 7 out of the 10 multiple choice questions correctly? (7) C ON TEST Linus 1
4219 FUNHOUSE (8) Pay respects to anti-prostitute-employment building at the carnival (8) F, UN-HO-USE Linus 1
4917 BIDEN (5) President-elect from my fursona's lair (5) It's a... bi den Linus 1
5028 CINNAMON (8) The best spice convention is around where some soldiers were in the sixties (8) C(IN NAM)ON is the same wordplay as above. I thought of it independently and executed it worse Linus 1
6039 NEXT-LEVEL (4-5) 10 in 10, in retrospect, matched the enumeration (note: this clue assumes you're currently playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii World 4-4) (4-5) NE(X)T< + LEVEL(=matched)
Def: the enumeration
Linus 1
6184 INDIVISIBILITY (14) India tea-time island in the same place: island settled year always being in One Piece (14) We went to http://sphinx.mythic-beasts.com/~mark/random/indicators/ and took the worst ways to clue each part
IND+IV+IS+IB+I+LIT+Y
update: definition tense fixed
Linus 1
6404 HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUĀPUA'A (20'1) Him, a human -- ok, a nuke -- replaces all vowels with U with a plutonium battery for an extremely Hawaiianly-named fish (20'1) hUmUhUmUnUkUnUkU + a + Pu + AA Linus 1
6619 INFEST (6) Rev. Spooner hustled in the streets to spread plague (6) 🥄 of "finessed" Linus 1
1778 AMPUTATE (8) Summer club, chopping off head, transformed, peeling off skin, to cut off people’s arms and legs (8) cAMP mUTATEd. Coming to theaters this summer. Linus 0
1818 UPSIDE DOWN (6, 4) image clue: https://i.imgur.com/0zmcwpE.png The image shows the enumeration (6, 4) printed upside down. Linus 0
1824 UPSIDE DOWN (6, 4) Inverted silver lining a young bird's feathers (6, 4) A silver lining is an UPSIDE.
A young bird's feathers are her DOWN.
Linus 0
1988 LEVEL (5) Even when you flip it around, it’s perfectly balanced (5) 'cuz palindrome Linus 0
2015 EGG (3) Common farm sight that might shift around and say 'moo' (3) Caesar shift of "MOO" Linus 0
2086 BELL (4) (Inventor of)? ringing thing (4) Nonstandardly-formatted ddef. The ? indicates the parenthesized phrase is optional. Linus 0
2089 COMMENT (7) Hollow compliment? Interject (7) COM(PLI)MENT. lol Linus 0
2153 DEEP LEARNING (4, 8) Type of education with many convoluted steps and a high dropout rate? (4, 8) Cryptic definition only. A typical deep learning model (like the one I'm training now :P) might have a series of convolutional filters, and use 'dropout' to avoid overfitting. Linus 0
2826 ELISION (7) Excluding spaces, it yields motion from motel? (7) motel, where EL IS ION, is motion. I apologize to MadJaqk for this clue Linus 0
3105 CLUE SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN THE ANSWER (?) A quick brown fox jumps to avoid his lazy dog, inexhaustibly supplying the full text of "Gadsby" (2, 5, 10, 3, 7, 3, ..., 8) Letter bank for that one book that doesn’t use the letter e Linus 0
3741 TENDON (6) This crossword entry, without white tissue? (6) [clue 10 down only] TENDO(-W)N. Idea from dylanafright Linus 0
4047 ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS AN MLP:FIM CHARACTER (?) Worshiper of Rainbow Dash as too cool up in the air (9) Def = "Worshiper of Rainbow Dash"
(ASTOOCOOL)*, anagrind = "up in the air"
Answer: SCOOTALOO
Linus 0
4083 DASHING (7) Debonair–ing? (7) – = DASH Linus 0
4195 ZOOM (4) Mature Trails: a place to watch animals streak (4) M trails ZOO = "streak" Linus 0
4221 MINT (4) Plant indirectly sloppily eating without vouchers (4) *CONSUMPTION - *COUPONS, duh.
It'll only get worse from here
Linus 0
4225 MINT (4) 1000 maximum? (4) Ddef, 1000 = M (int) and maximum = min't.
Happy fools
Linus 0
4228 TURNIP (6) Vegetable producing π? (6) Everyone loves rebus clues right? Linus 0
4237 CHRYSOBERYL (11) Gem character, yes, non-drunkenly swapping its last pair (11) CHR+Y+SOBER(L<->Y) Linus 0
4248 FAROE ISLANDS (5, 7) Collection of lists of numbers inside the boundary of Minecraft's volcanic archipelago (5, 7) FAR(OEIS)LANDS
Oops this overlaps on the root "land"
Linus 0
4355 INTERNET STALKING (8, 8) Detain aliens, speaking for e.g., relentlessly pursuing Ken M? (8, 8) shoutouts to the MUMS 2019 homies

(intern+ets+talking; 100% stolen from the MUMS puzzle "throwback thursday")
Linus 0
4842 BROWN (5) West-northwest orb of chocolate (5) (nw orb)< Linus 0
5185 ETERNITY (8) Everything in entirety! (8) ENTIRETY* Linus 0
6467 ANY INFINITE STRING (♾️) Pi is e, strangely (♾️) 3.141592653... = *2.718281828... Linus 0
6527 ZARF (4) One of many text adventures (alternate reality, in theory, lacking choice) (4) Z(AR)F
Def: Zarf is a person of many text adventures
math fact of the day: ZF is a theory lacking choice
Linus 0

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