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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)

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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"
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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
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1916 ALPHABET (8) Wicked Elphaba, time for some soup (8) ELPHABA* + T = ALPHABET
"Some soup" = ALPHABET (as in, some kinds of soup)
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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"
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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

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