Contests started: JAVASCRIPT (10), HOT AIR BALLOON (3, 3, 7), TRIVIAL (7), CLEMENCY (8), POSSUM (6), UNBEARABLE (10), MULTIMETER (10), LEAGUE (6), PLATITUDE (9), WHEAT (5), SUBSCRIBE (9), ARIA (4), FOUR (4), MR BRIGHTSIDE (2, 10), REMIX (5), SUNSHINE (8), NITROGEN (8), OH NO (2, 2), BUSHIDO (7), ZAMBIA (6), MICROSOFT (9), FOGGY (5), CLUE WHERE WORDS ALTERNATE CONSONANTS & VOWELS (?), CLUE WHERE 1ST WORD STARTS WITH A, 2ND B, ETC (?), KOMPROMAT (9), LEVEL FIFTY ONE (5, 5, 3), PRESIDENT (9), DASHING (7), NORMALCY (8), FORGERY (7), STRIPED (7), GENERAL (7), MASTIFF (7), TRICK (5), OREGON TRAIL (6, 5), BUCKET (6), TETCBN (6), SHARPIE (7), LAWYER (6), MIBNT (5), REGULAR (7), MALAPHOR (8), HENRY (5), RIZZ (4), VENEER (6), WOOF (4), FOREVER (7), VERMOUTH (8), ESCHEW (6), PAIN (4), QUAY (4), WILLIS (6), TRENCHANT (9), BASED (5), BLOKUS (6), REALISM (7), WISHING WELL (7, 4), STUN (4)
Contests won: PICKLE (6), HOT AIR BALLOON (3, 3, 7), MIND (4), ALPHABET (8), TRIVIAL (7), BELL (4), ARIA (4), RANGER (6), BUSHIDO (7), HANABI (6), HAND (4), DASHING (7), FORGERY (7), MOTORCYCLE (10), CANDY CORN (5, 4), TRICK (5), MALARKEY (8), BORAT (5), EXTRACT (7), WARNOCK (7), HIDE AND SEEK (4, 3, 4), III (3), BLURSED (7), TANG (4), ANY CLUE THAT IS A JOKE WITH A PUNCHLINE (?), HENRY (5), CRÈME BRÛLÉE (5, 6), MELANCHOLY (10), OFFSTAGE (8), MONGREL (7), ARCHAIC (7), IRAQI (5), WHAT (4), WASD (4), WEIR (4), REDSTONE (8), CHAPERONE (9), GARBLED (7), CRINGE (6), PASTE (5), WASTE (5), HASTE (5), BEVERAGE (8), INCORPORATED (12)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4953 | BORAT (5) | Sacha Baron Cohen movie: good or great time! (5) | B+OR+A+T | mstang107 | 7 |
| 4864 | CANDY CORN (5, 4) | Comestible at first glance; and initially yummy, approximately... or not! (5, 4) | C_+AND+Y_+C+OR+N &lit | mstang107 | 6 |
| 1908 | HOT AIR BALLOON (3, 3, 7) | Flying vehicle was initially hovering over there and in range before antiaircraft lasers locked on -- oh, no! (3,3,7) | Initial letters | mstang107 | 5 |
| 2002 | DIE/DICE (3/4) | Role-playing game component that is seen after dungeon's start (3) | DIE = IE (that is) after D (dungeon's start) | mstang107 | 5 |
| 12024 | CRÈME BRÛLÉE (5, 6) | Somehow rèmémber clûe without having medium dessert (5, 6) | (RÈMÉMBERCLÛE-M)* | mstang107 | 5 |
| 12060 | MELANCHOLY (10) | The Reverend @theduckmedic and Molly are sad (10) | Spoonerism of "Kell and Molly" | mstang107 | 5 |
| 12362 | CRINGE (6) | Flinch from phone call in modern age (6) | C(RING)E = "flinch"; RING = "phone call" as in the British nounal usage; CE = "modern age" as in Common Era | mstang107 | 5 |
| 1915 | MIND (4) | Benjamin Disraeli has a brain (4) | Hidden in "Benjamin Disraeli" | mstang107 | 4 |
| 2085 | BELL (4) | Be well without us, phone inventor | BEWELL without WE | mstang107 | 4 |
| 2658 | BUSHIDO (7) | President takes vow of honor (7) | BUSH + I DO = "honor" | mstang107 | 4 |
| 4908 | MALARKEY (8) | Massachusetts worker switched from center to right? That's bullshit! (8) | MA+LA(C->R)KEY = "That's bullshit!" | mstang107 | 4 |
| 5707 | III (3) | "Veni, vidi, vici" ends Roman figure (3) | _I + _I + _I = "Roman figure" | mstang107 | 4 |
| 1877 | PREDATOR (8) | Hunter of one that comes before? (8) | Hunter = predator One that comes before -> one that predates -> "predator" |
mstang107 | 3 |
| 1900 | PICKLE (6) | Dilemma? Choose the French (6) | PICK+LE | mstang107 | 3 |
| 1935 | TRIVIAL (7) | Weirdly viral, it is unimportant (7) | VIRALIT* | mstang107 | 3 |
| 2038 | DUPLICATE (9) | Double down and lie; act up strangely (9) | "Double" = D+LIEACTUP* | mstang107 | 3 |
| 2147 | RIGHT (5) | They say it's what authors do properly (5) | Homophone of WRITE | mstang107 | 3 |
| 2398 | RANGER (6) | Hunter in strange robes (6) | hidden in STRANGE ROBES | mstang107 | 3 |
| 2399 | PLUM (4) | Fruit with strange lump (4) | LUMP* | mstang107 | 3 |
| 2680 | HANABI (6) | Card game owned by Ghana bishop (6) | hidden in GHANA BISHOP | mstang107 | 3 |
| 2878 | NEWS (4) | Report: force units missing force unit (4) | NEWTONS-TON = "report" | mstang107 | 3 |
| 3038 | CLUE CONTAINING UR LAST WINNING CLUE’S ANSWER (?) | Playing Hanabi takes inner courage in an Asian country (7) | HANABI* + R = BAH(R)AIN | mstang107 | 3 |
| 4082 | DASHING (7) | Gandhi's weirdly attractive (7) | GANDHIS* = "attractive" | mstang107 | 3 |
| 4570 | FERRET (6) | Mustelid discovered in aquifer, returned | _FER RET_ | mstang107 | 3 |
| 4870 | TRICK (5) | Prank time, Mr. Astley! (5) | T+RICK | mstang107 | 3 |
| 4954 | BORAT (5) | He said my wife has a stench... scoundrel (5) | B.O.(="stench")+RAT(="scoundrel") = "He said 'my wife'" | mstang107 | 3 |
| 5191 | AFRO (4) | A loud, real orange hairstyle (4) | A+F+R+O="hairstyle" | mstang107 | 3 |
| 5513 | HIDE AND SEEK (4, 3, 4) | Writhing snake... he died for a children's game (4, 3, 4) | SNAKEHEDIED* = "A children's game" | mstang107 | 3 |
| 6681 | TANG (4) | Upside-down bug juice popular with spacemen (4) | GNAT< = "juice popular with spacemen" | mstang107 | 3 |
| 6765 | ANY CLUE THAT IS A JOKE WITH A PUNCHLINE (?) | "What's up?" "The sky... not!" "Oh." (5) | "What's up?" = HELL ("The sky... not!) + O ("Oh") | mstang107 | 3 |
| 11921 | HENRY (5) | Taking W's when mocking late Secretary Kissinger | (-W)HEN + (-W)RY | mstang107 | 3 |
| 12048 | SOFA (4) | Place to rest endlessly until now (4) | SO FA(-R) | mstang107 | 3 |
| 12068 | OFFSTAGE (8) | Behind the scenes of E.T., sofa GF reassembled (8) | *ETSOFAGF | mstang107 | 3 |
| 12095 | MONGREL (7) | Bond character working admissions test, left cross (7) | M+ON+GRE+L = "cross" | mstang107 | 3 |
| 12102 | IRAQI (5) | Radio host on panel game show from the Middle East (5) | IRA (Glass) + QI (Quite Interesting) | mstang107 | 3 |
| 12339 | REDSTONE (8) | Street surrounded by modified ore in Minecraft (8) | RED(ST)ONE = "ore in Minecraft". you thought 'modified' was an anagrind. haha i sure got you good | mstang107 | 3 |
| 12341 | CHAPERONE (9) | Protect a president captured by revolutionary in Argentina (9) | "Protect" = CH(A+PERON)E and it sorta fits chronologically! Juan Perón was president 1946-55 (and 1973-74) whereas Che lived 1928-67 :umbreoncheer: | mstang107 | 3 |
| 12371 | HASTE (5) | Detest having small velocity (5) | HA(S)TE = "velocity" | mstang107 | 3 |
| 12373 | PASTE (5) | Cut partner from tapas testing (5) | "Cut partner" = taPAS TEsting | mstang107 | 3 |
| 1879 | JAVASCRIPT (10) | Language heard in Indonesian tomb (10) | Indonesian tomb = JAVA'S CRYPT (homophone) Language = JAVASCRIPT |
mstang107 | 2 |
| 1916 | ALPHABET (8) | Wicked Elphaba, time for some soup (8) | ELPHABA* + T = ALPHABET "Some soup" = ALPHABET (as in, some kinds of soup) |
mstang107 | 2 |
| 2118 | ARIA (4) | Endless font of song (4) | ARIAL -L | mstang107 | 2 |
| 2422 | ERDOS (5) | Mathematician Paul counts to two in Chinese and Spanish? (5) | ER + DOS | mstang107 | 2 |
| 2667 | JOKER (5) | Wild card comedian (5) | ddef | mstang107 | 2 |
| 4071 | HEARTS (6) | That guy's fitting Garfunkel inside for a suit (6) | HE(ART)S = "a suit" | mstang107 | 2 |
| 4079 | HAND (4) | Give Hungary's premier back some codes? (4) | H_+(DNA="some codes" reversed) = "give" | mstang107 | 2 |
| 4571 | FORGERY (7) | Fake fossil has two reindeer heads in different places (7) | FO(R)GE(R)Y | mstang107 | 2 |
| 4910 | BIDEN (5) | "See ya, Trump!" says the President-elect (5) | BYE DON homo. | mstang107 | 2 |
| 5261 | EXTRA (5) | Over-the-top former skittish star (not short) (5) | EX+(STAR*-S) | mstang107 | 2 |
| 5262 | EXTRACT (7) | Passage from strange text arc (7) | TEXTARC* | mstang107 | 2 |
| 5455 | WARNOCK (7) | Los Angeles suburb, according to reverend candidate Raphael | Spoonerism of NORWALK = "candidate Raphael" | mstang107 | 2 |
| 5511 | KICKOFF (7) | Alright, 99 thousand? Strange to start (7) | K+IC+K+OFF = "start" | mstang107 | 2 |
| 5731 | BLURSED (7) | Ambiguous, obscure Spanish word meaning thirst (7) | "Ambiguous"=BLUR+SED | mstang107 | 2 |
| 12080 | WOOF (4) | Hooray, failure noise! (4) | WOO+F (the "!" is just for surface sorry grandma) | mstang107 | 2 |
| 12099 | ARCHAIC (7) | Old tea inside new car (7) | AR(CHAI)C* | mstang107 | 2 |
| 12112 | WHAT (4) | Second baseman with baseball cap? (4) | W+HAT = "Second baseman" (as in "Who's on First?") | mstang107 | 2 |
| 12255 | POKE (4) | Lincoln's leaving a tailor-made hat (4) | (-A BES)POKE = "hat" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poke_bonnet) | mstang107 | 2 |
| 12262 | MICHIGAN (8) | Avoid once more, with audible hiss giving way to quiet state? (8) | "MISS AGAIN", with /s/ sound ("hiss") replaced by /ʃ/ ("quiet," as in "shh"). And yeah the last vowel sound is maybe a little off but ʃ | mstang107 | 2 |
| 12282 | WASD (4) | Control scheme used to be poor (4) | WAS+D | mstang107 | 2 |
| 12319 | GRAPHIC (7) | Explicit image (7) | ddef | mstang107 | 2 |
| 12351 | GARBLED (7) | Confusing costume was on top (7) | GARB + LED | mstang107 | 2 |
| 12372 | WASTE (5) | Throw away a stew? Terrible! (5) | "Throw away" = ASTEW* | mstang107 | 2 |
| 12424 | INCORPORATED (12) | Included messy indoor carpet (12) | INDOORCARPET* | mstang107 | 2 |
| 1876 | PREY (4) | A game starts in Puerto Rico every year (4) | Initial letters of "Puerto Rico every year" -> PREY ("a game") | mstang107 | 1 |
| 1902 | HOT AIR BALLOON (3, 3, 7) | Boo, a thrill on a weird aircraft (3, 3, 7) | BOOATHRILLONA* | mstang107 | 1 |
| 1990 | LEVEL (5) | Even headless, endless, even headless? (5) | "Even" = L ("headless") + EVE(-N) + L ("headless") | mstang107 | 1 |
| 2461 | NITROGEN (8) | Gas made from mixing neon grit (8) | NEONGRIT* | mstang107 | 1 |
| 2657 | SHURIKEN (8) | They say that yes, I'm capable of throwing stars (8) | "Sure I can" homophone (and shuriken is its own plural, at least to some people) | mstang107 | 1 |
| 2681 | SENEGAL (7) | A thousand Japanese like Al in an African country (7) | SEN + EG ("like") + AL | mstang107 | 1 |
| 4833 | MOTORCYCLE (10) | Stooge owning model car, perhaps (owning, like, some model cars), and 150 speed bike (10) | MO(TO(RC)Y+CL)E = "Speed bike" MOE = "Stooge", TOY = "Model car, perhaps", RC = "Like some model cars", CL = "150" |
mstang107 | 1 |
| 4834 | BROWN (5) | Dude with no color (5) | BRO+W+N = "Color" | mstang107 | 1 |
| 4835 | WATERLOO (8) | Huh? Um, look endlessly at former war zone (8) | WAT+ER+LOO(-K)="Former war zone" | mstang107 | 1 |
| 5263 | BAOBAB (6) | Mysterious creature takes in oxygen by good tree (6) | BA(O)BA+B | mstang107 | 1 |
| 6685 | TANG (4) | Sing over derivative spice?? (4) | sin(g) has derivative cos(g) and sin(g)/cos(g) = tan(g) = "spice" | mstang107 | 1 |
| 12039 | ASTRAY (6) | "Lost" movie set in space not getting promotion? Yes! (6) | (-AD) ASTRA + Y | mstang107 | 1 |
| 12049 | IPHONE (6) | Creation of Steve Jobs (rest in piece; that man, working inside, was decapitated) (6) | (-R)IP+H(ON)E | mstang107 | 1 |
| 12059 | GF (2) | One thousand sofas to capture heart of significant other (2) | G+_F_ | mstang107 | 1 |
| 12212 | CLOVER (6) | 150/4 is its lucky number? (6) | CL+OVER = "4 is its lucky number" | mstang107 | 1 |
| 12299 | ASTERISK (8) | Star in hot seat on "Jeopardy!" (8) | "Star" = ASTE* + RISK | mstang107 | 1 |
| 12352 | CREMATE (7) | One who completes tasks: kill wife; burn body (7) | CRE(-W)MATE :sus: | mstang107 | 1 |
| 12360 | FUCK (4) | Screw @fire.truck, leaving Terri confused (4) | F(IRETR-)UCK | mstang107 | 1 |
| 12410 | SINGING (7) | Spitting straight fire? (7) | ddef - sing-ing and singe-ing | mstang107 | 1 |
| 12413 | BEVERAGE (8) | One buck for large Powerade? (8) | [L->B("one buck")]EVERAGE = "ade". Don't @ me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ade_(suffix) | mstang107 | 1 |
| 1901 | NAMETAG (7) | ID has a magnet, strangely (7) | AMAGNET* | mstang107 | 0 |
| 1943 | THE END (3, 3) | Strange endless Minecraft dimension down by a different Minecraft dimension (3,3) | NETHE* + D = THE END ("A different Minecraft dimension") | mstang107 | 0 |
| 2090 | LIKE (4) | Enjoy, for example (4) | ddef | mstang107 | 0 |
| 2661 | AMOK (4) | Mako energy is out of control (4) | MAKO* | mstang107 | 0 |
| 4072 | HEARTS (6) | Stalks, listens, taking time (6) | HEAR(T)S = "Stalks" (as in celery) | mstang107 | 0 |
| 4073 | HEARTS (6) | That man's eating chopped-up rat meats (6) | HE(RAT*)S = "meats" (as in, "the meat/heart of the issue") and also ew | mstang107 | 0 |
| 4836 | GENERAL (7) | Enlarge, make wide (7) | ENLARGE* = "Wide" | mstang107 | 0 |
| 4844 | BROWN (5) | College puzzle hunt involves quarrel (5) | B(ROW)N = "College" | mstang107 | 0 |
| 5730 | WORDPLAY (8) | Eccentric drowsy pal (not Southern) makes pun (8) | DROWSYPAL*-S | mstang107 | 0 |
| 5733 | DEFINITION (10) | Resolution: cool starting without one pair in attendance (10) | "Resolution"=DEF+INIT(-IAT)ION | mstang107 | 0 |
| 5743 | AIOLI (5) | Oddly, an iron-loin sauce (5) | AnIrOnLoIn | mstang107 | 0 |
| 9951 | JESUS (5) | Someone cheating at water polo trolled during the first quarter by, like, an impostor? (5) | JE(-BAITED) + SUS = "Someone cheating at water polo" | mstang107 | 0 |
| 12328 | WEIR (4) | Mostly strange dam (4) | WEIR(-D) | mstang107 | 0 |
| 12332 | SUPERSTITION (12) | Don't say "Macbeth," say "hello" once I precede heartless Shakespeare title character (12) | "Don't say 'Macbeth,' say" = SUP + ERST + I + TI(-M)ON | mstang107 | 0 |
| 12333 | SUPERPOSITION (13) | Being in many states, say "hello, um" at the cash register before I precede heartless Shakespeare title character (13) | "Being in many states" = SUP + ER + POS (point of sale) + I + TI(-M)ON | mstang107 | 0 |