Contests started: NEPOTISM (8), ZHUZH (5) (OR ZHOOSH (6)), GAUNTLET (8), PACHYDERM (9), FOREBEAR (8), PERTINACIOUS (12), HOMOLOGATE (10), ADDUCE (6), CANDY CORN (5, 4), PRECIPICE (9), MALARKEY (8), INTEGRAL (8), HOMOPHONE (9), POLYSEMOUS (10), LAME DUCK (4, 4), ALEATORIC (9), ANECDOTE (8), CALLIPYGIAN (11), MOGUL (5), RETRONYM (8), INTRINSIC (9), BOLLIX (6), ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE READS AS AN EQUATION (??), INSIDE BASEBALL (6, 8), ELEEMOSYNARY (12), BOXING DAY (6, 3), ✈️ (BE CREATIVE ON THE WORDPLAY) (1), DETAIL(S) (6 OR 7), MYST (4), NO-SEE-UM (2-3-2), BRIC-A-BRAC (4-1-4), POINTLESS (9), COIN (4), BOUGIE (6), OUT (3), WHINGE (6), PRAXIS (6), SCHMEAR (7), CRYPTID (7), GO BRRR (2, 4), WORDPLAY (8), AIOLI (5), GOOSE EGG (5, 3), ERA (3), DUPE (4), LIT (3), KVETCH (6), PAREIDOLIA (10), CARNAPTIOUS (11), LIMIT BREAK (5, 5), ARROYO (6), FRICASSEE (9), ⚠️(1), SPHINGES (8), FOURIER (7), DEWCLAW (7), KVELL (5), DECENT (6), DOGECOIN (8), MOIST (5), DIPLOPIA (8), I M PEI (1, 1, 3), PECCADILLO (10), WANT (4), WILLY-NILLY (5-5), ZOMBIES (7), SNOLLYGOSTER (12), DOGGONE (7), SCIOLISM OR SCIOLIST (8), SHIBBOLETH (10), OOMPH (5), SLOUGH (6), SHTUM (5), MUM (3), OPT OUT (3 3 OR 3-3), DOFF (4), PEKOE (5), ONDES MARTENOT (5, 8), SUBORN (6), SCRIVENER (9), HELIUM (6), PROSCRIBE (9), UNGUENT (7), FRACTAL (7), FAFF (4), BLACK SWAN (5, 4), DJANGO (6), META (4), SPOOKY (OR SPOOPY I GUESS) (6), OUTRÉ (5), NOIR (4), PETTIFOG (8), CRANBERRY (9), SILPH (5), SNICKERDOODLE (13), CALQUE (6), EXORDIUM (8), CAPTIOUS (8), FNORD (5), CALL IN (4, 2), VOTELESS (8), CAPYBARA (8), KLUTZ OR KLUTZY (5) OR (6), LOVERS (6), SCREE (5), COUGAR (6), DOUGH ZONE (5, 4), ELDEN (5), ANY CLUE BUT THE WHOLE THING HAS TO BE IN THE FORM OF A POEM - IT DOESN'T HAVE TO RHYME BUT IT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZABLE AS A POETIC TRADITION (ANY), CLERIHEW (8), RAREBIT (7), MATCHLESS (9), EARLY (5), TARNISHED (9), TORRENT (7), ROSE (4), CODSWALLOP (10), WOAH (4), CURRY (5), PATE (4), TREASURES, SCRUMP (6), GAP (3), OUTLIER ()7(), BJORK (5), ADZE (4), CAVALRY (7), VAT (3), TRIPTYCH (8), HAUNT (5), A KNEE CLUE (PATELLA, SHIN, ETC) (?), KRAKEN (6), VOIR DIRE (4, 4), THE TIME BEING (3, 4, 5), LEFTOVER OR LEFTOVERS (8) OR (9), OORT (4), CLAP (4), TROLL (5), PERI-PERI (4-4), NOBODY HERE (6, 4), BALLOON (7), TUCHUS (6), PETE'S SAKE (5, 4), FLAPS (5), POIOUMENA (9) OR POIOUMENON (10) , OTIOSE (6), ELI (3), CLUTCH (6), SNOOKER (7), BAEZ (4), GRUE (4), DYBBUK (6), SOLIPSISM (9), CONFAB (6), FULVOUS (7), CADRE (5), YONKS (5), SWAG (4), CEVICHE (7), SAOR (4), AUTHENTIC (9), KRAMPUS (7), SLOTH (5), ANTICIPATION (12)
Contests won: SLACKS (6), SHOWMAN (7), ABSTAIN (7), GAUNTLET (8), OCTOBER (7), MELIORISM (9), DERRIDA (7), FOREBEAR (8), ODDLY (5), GENERAL (7), PUMPKIN (7), TREAT (5), CHOBANI (7), DIPPY (5), ELECTORAL COLLEGE (9,7), REMEMBRANCE (11), SYNECDOCHE (10), OREO (4), EXISTENTIAL (11), ALEATORIC (9), CINNAMON (8), ZYDECO (6), ANECDOTE (8), AMADEUS (7), BELLY-SIDE UP (5-4, 2), ADVENT (6), AHEAD OF THE CURVE (5, 2, 3, 5), INTRINSIC (9), WETLANDS (8), BUCKET (6), PLASTIC (7), ROTATOR (7), BOLLIX (6), ANNOTATOR (9), TWELVE (6), MARKOV (6), BY-PRODUCT (2-7), VOTING (6), ELEEMOSYNARY (12), BOXING DAY (6, 3), CLICK (5), AULD LANG SYNE (4, 4, 4), ✈️ (BE CREATIVE ON THE WORDPLAY) (1), TWENTY-ONE (6-3), STARBOARD (9), DIAGONALISATION (15), CAMEMBERT (9), NO-SEE-UM (2-3-2), AD NAUSEAM (2, 7), SEDITION (8), HYDE (4), CONGRATULATIONS (15), ABRACADABRA (11), BOUGIE (6), MYSTERY (7), AEGILOPS (8), OUT (3), EVENING (7), WHINGE (6), FAKE (4), ARACHNOPHOBE (12), PASSE-PARTOUT (5-7), AAA (3), SIC (3), NEVER-ENDING (5-6), MISLED (6), DOLLOP (6), OOO (3), ERA (3), MONUMENT (8), DOZE (4), PRIX FIXE (4, 4), DAFT PUNK (4, 4), AULEAF (6), LAUREN (6), ANY CLUE THAT DOESN'T USE THE LETTER E (?), ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A STRING OF SEVEN OR MORE EMOJI (?), INDIVISIBILITY (14), KVETCH (6), SPLOOSHING (10), UNINTUITIVE (11), ZYZZYVA (7), PAREIDOLIA (10), ANY CLUE WHERE EVERY WORD CONTAINS THE LETTER Q (?), LUCILLE BALL (7, 4), SOLUBLE (7), ANAGRAM (7), FIREFLY (7), GRIMALKIN (9), DEWCLAW (7), BAT OUT OF HELL (3, 3, 2, 4), ZENZIZENZIC (11), I M PEI (1, 1, 3), PAUCITY (7), UNDERSTAND (10), THETA (5), FLASH FLOOD (5, 5), FLASH FOOD (5, 4), SOUSAPHONE (10), LEGEND (6), HYBRID CLASS (6, 5), RENAISSANCE (11), OPT OUT (3 3 OR 3-3), GARRULOUS (9), NEMESIS (7), TMESIS (6), IHNN (6), SINK (4), HOTEL (5), FABRICATION (11), LAVISH (6), SUNFLOWER (9), LAST NIGHT (4, 5), LUCID OR LUCID DREAM (5 OR 5, 5), CANDIDE (7), LADDER (6), BLOCKED (7), NADIR (5), TERMINAL (8), MAITREYA (8), SILENT (6), ELECTROMA (9), BIG TOP (3, 3), SCRAWL (6), UNGUENT (7), UNGULATE (8), FOUNDER (7), RELIQUARY (9), ALLAY (5), JAMIE HARGROVE (5, 8), MERLOT (6), DEMOMAN (7), CINNABAR (8), MACABRE (7), OLIVIA (6), META (4), SLASH (5), DAYLIGHT SAVINGS (8, 7), TRPCIC (6), FIREWORKS (9), ERSATZ (6), A-OK (1-2), FLUX (4), TIMBIEBS (8), GARBOLOGY (9), PETTIFOG (8), MORTGAGE (8), PHOOEY (6), SPLURGE (7), RUCK SACK (4, 4), CAVES (5), HOME FREE (4, 4), SOFTFRO (7), S-TIER (1-4), VAPE PEN (4. 3), FIGMENT (7), LMAO (4) OR (1, 1, 1, 1), BROAD (5), ASPIRE (6), STAUNCH (7), NEW YEAR'S EVE (3, 4'1, 3), URBANA (6), DISCORDANT ANT (10, 3 OR 13), DORD (4), ANY CLUE WHOSE WORDPLAY IS REVERSE LETTER BANK (?), NAIAD (5), BOUTIQUE (8), KIRBY (5), BOOKSPACE (9), PANCAKE (7), SCRAP (5), DONJON (6), KLUTZ OR KLUTZY (5) OR (6), ANY CLUE WITH TWO DEFINITIONS, TWO ANSWERS, AND A SHARED WORDPLAY (?) (?), ANY CLUE THAT USES &, @, /, OR ^ AS AN INDICATOR (?), C'MON (1'3), TWEED (5), UNIVERSE (8), ANY CLUE THAT STARTS WITH "MACHINE TO STEAL" (?), COUGAR (6), TE AMO (2, 3), OWL (3), EUNICE (6), MODEL (5), SPRAY (5), INDIANA (7), SIBELIUS (8), PONYSEW (7), TAWDRY (6), MAYBE (5), THEY (4), FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION (29), FOR ALL TIME (3,3,4), PLAUDIT (7), PLUNDER (7), ET TU (2,2), ANY TITLE OF A SONG, WHEREIN THE CLUE MUST CONTAIN LYRICS FROM THAT SONG (?), SEVERANCE (9), RESIGN (6), TARGET (6), CODSWALLOP (10), GROUNDBREAKING (14), DOUBLE BACK (6, 4), THE CAT IN THE HAT (3, 3, 2, 3, 3), FLOUNDER (8), H.G. WELLS, DOGMA (5), SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS (19), CRUDITÉ (7), VEGGIE TRAY (6, 4), CHARCUTERIE (11), PACER (5), VAGUE (5), ANY PHINEAS AND FERB CHARACTER (?), LOOKDOWN (8), FOR GOOD (3,4), MEMORY (6), ORACULAR (8), VUELIE (6), A KNEE CLUE (PATELLA, SHIN, ETC) (?), WHO (3), TRAGEDY (7), MEANDER (7), GRINCH (6), DOCENT (6), BUNNY (5), SUDAFED (7), BALLOON (7), TIME MACHINE (4, 7), OUAGADOUGOU (11), INDICATED (9), PINECONE (8), ELI (3), CLUTCH (6), BADGER (6), NEONATE (7), DEKKO (5), REDUX (5), BIAS (4), GRUE (4), BULLSHIT (8), RECOVER (7), MILLE-FEUILLE (5-7), PABLUM (6), TWANG (5), PAISLEY (7), HUBRIS (6), JEEPERS (7), ANY CLUE (3 4), KEEP GOING (4, 5)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4976 | OREO (4) | Creme center, mostly between two disks! (4) | O + cREme + O | Firetruck | 7 |
| 8637 | ANY CLUE THAT STARTS WITH "MACHINE TO STEAL" (?) | Machine to steal every vote (6) | BALLOT (B(ALL)OT) Vote=def BOT=machine Every=ALL |
Firetruck | 7 |
| 5630 | ARACHNOPHOBE (12) | Furiously abhor one chap who might not like _Charlotte's Web_ (12) | ABHORONECHAP* | Firetruck | 6 |
| 4911 | BIDEN (5) | Wait........new President! (5) | BIDE + N | Firetruck | 5 |
| 5093 | GALLIPOLI (9) | Turkey part (kind of bladder) - I politely had only the first half (9) | GALL + I + POLItely | Firetruck | 5 |
| 5183 | AFRO (4) | Cut sample of permafrost (4) | permAFROst | Firetruck | 5 |
| 5877 | ERA (3) | Time is, for many, running backwards (3) | ARE< | Firetruck | 5 |
| 6869 | STIR (4) | Gentleman takes time to mingle (4) | S(T)IR | Firetruck | 5 |
| 8415 | ANY CLUE THAT USES &, @, /, OR ^ AS AN INDICATOR (?) | cryptic.chamber.charlie@adderstongue.com:flower/brew (8) | CATACOMB def: cryptic chamber charlie=C (nato) + AT (@) + A (adder's tongue) + COM + BLOOM - LOOM (flower / (slash) brew (loom)) |
Firetruck | 5 |
| 8620 | TWEED (5) | Cute dress source? (5) | TWEE + D(ress) (source of dress) | Firetruck | 5 |
| 8729 | TE AMO (2, 3) | Something said in Madrid to companions with a ring? (2,3) | TEAM (companions) + O (a ring) Def: sort of the whole thing, but for you nitpicker people, "something said in Madrid" can be the definition |
Firetruck | 5 |
| 4825 | ODDLY (5) | Yvie won, did play regularly! (5) | Yvie Oddly is a winner of RuPaul's Drag Race. wOn DiD pLaY | Firetruck | 4 |
| 4887 | PENNSYLVANIA (12) | A source of sleepless nights for Pa (12) | PA=PENNSYLVANIA as wordplay | Firetruck | 4 |
| 4904 | DIPPY (5) | Ill-advised homemade drapes - extremely soft (5) | DI(PP)Y | Firetruck | 4 |
| 4913 | REMEMBRANCE (11) | Nostalgia about the speed of light breaking barrier (11) | RE + MEMBRAN(C)E | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5090 | HEAD (4) | Go face the boss (4) | Triple def | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5119 | AMADEUS (7) | Falco wants to be rocked by this Spanish love god (7) | AMA + DEUS | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5138 | VULTURE (7) | Bird's bacterial growth initially dropped 95% (7) | (C->V)ULTURE | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5144 | GO-SLOW (2-4) | The worst part of stone game: when almost nothing happens (2-4) | GO'S LOW | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5163 | AHEAD OF THE CURVE (5, 2, 3, 5) | Have cheated? Four deviations above normal (5, 2, 3, 5) | HAVECHEATEDFOUR* | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5173 | INTRINSIC (9) | His nature is alternatively primal instinct or innate (9) | alternativrs of hIsNaTuReIs + primes of instinct: NSIC | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5218 | PLASTIC (7) | "Credit card?!" *slap* *slap* *twitch* (7) | SLAP*+TIC | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5478 | SEDITION (8) | Senate issue?! (8) | S + EDITION, &lit...kinda | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5493 | CONGRATULATIONS (15) | Way to go about saturating colon (15) | SATURATINGCOLON*, "way to go"=def | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5824 | OOO (3) | Finn's home! *love* *hugs* (3) | (Adventure Time is set in Ooo, O= hug as in hugs and kisses xoxo, love=0 in tennis) | Firetruck | 4 |
| 5916 | DOZE (4) | Pass out unbaked breads to the audience (4) | "Doughs" (to the audience = homophone indicator) | Firetruck | 4 |
| 6400 | ANY "AMONG US" THEMED CLUE (?) | Tedium..."Red was ejected"...an explosion happened! (4) | BOREDOM - RED ans BOOM |
Firetruck | 4 |
| 6555 | ASTONISH (8) | Kinky - ass hit on floor (8) | ASSHITON* Floor=def |
Firetruck | 4 |
| 7663 | POP (3) | Dad's root beer, for one (3) | Ddef. Also Dad's Root Beer is a specific brand of root beer, so the whole clue is a &lit too. | Firetruck | 4 |
| 8089 | SPLURGE (7) | Vinyl albums return: want to treat yourself? (7) | LPS< + URGE | Firetruck | 4 |
| 8395 | ANY CLUE WITH TWO DEFINITIONS, TWO ANSWERS, AND A SHARED WORDPLAY (?) (?) | Glowing pan of strange, bizarre gems (7) (7) | STRANGE*=garnets BIZARRE*=brazier |
Firetruck | 4 |
| 8396 | PRESS F (5, 1) | Journalists fail to pay respects (5,1) | PRESS+F (f=fail) Def: "TL;Dr it was a quicktime event in a game that ended up being ridiculed by the internet for being ridiculous, and since then "pressing f" has been shorthand for like, a semi-serious expression of "that sucks, I'm sorry" |
Firetruck | 4 |
| 8972 | MAYBE (5) | Perhaps Queen's man, perhaps bishop with rave enhancer, perhaps (5) | Queen's man, perhaps=MAY (Brian May from Queen) Bishop=B Rave enhancer, perhaps = E (Ecstacy) |
Firetruck | 4 |
| 9850 | TARGET (6) | Return snitch and achieve goal (6) | RAT (=snitch) < = TAR GET = achieve goal = def |
Firetruck | 4 |
| 9888 | CODSWALLOP (10) | Chicken house consists of low grade, dilapitated walls and horse apples (10) | Chickrn house=COOP consists of : containment Low grade: D Dilapitated walls = WALLS* horse apples=def CO(D+WALLS*)OP |
Firetruck | 4 |
| 4749 | NEPOTISM (8) | Topless men dancing, reefer, a bit of innocent kink - politician’s virtue (8) | (MEN-M)* + POT + I + SM | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4768 | TWITTER (7) | Idiot threads start here endlessly! (7) | TWIT + T(hreads)+ h(ER)e | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4782 | GAUNTLET (8) | Throw gluten at speaker of “Wizard needs food, badly!” (8) | (GLUTENAT)*, quote is from the NES game Gauntlet | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4793 | OCTOBER (7) | Legendary “Robotech Hotel” is missing for part of the year (7) | (ROBOTECH)*-H | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4801 | MELIORISM (9) | Simmer oil - sautéed things always turn out better (9) | (SIMMEROIL)* | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4822 | BARNUM (6) | Animal holder usually maltreated extremely! (6) | BARN + U + M | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4862 | CANDY CORN (5, 4) | It appears with high frequen__ at Halloween, is divisive, and when people get it, they are win_ing (5, 4) | C and Y, C or N | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4883 | OUTCOME (7) | Leave closet - sentence commutted. What happens next? (7) | Commute (in the math sence) the sentence COME OUT | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4907 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE (9,7) | Undemocratic system from naked fight with Connecticut, Oregon, Alabama, and Colorado (alleged to be naked) (9,7) | mELEe + CT + OR + AL + CO + aLLEGEd | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4957 | BORAT (5) | Who says my wife starts to bother old Republicans at Thanksgiving? (5) | Initialism, possibly &lit | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4986 | PENULTIMATE (11) | Semifinal penitentiary frisbee game (11) | PEN + ULTIMATE | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4987 | NONARY GAME (6, 4) | Annoying Orange: many unfamilar cultural reference I am too lazy to look up (6, 4) | ORANGEMANY* | Firetruck | 3 |
| 4993 | EXISTENTIAL (11) | I let anti-sex constituents produce a kind of angst (11) | (ILETANTISEX)* | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5018 | BABEL (5) | Tower constructed by Bible murder victim (5) | B+ABEL | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5024 | ALEATORIC (9) | Random pervert: "La erotica" (9) | LAEROTICA* | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5025 | CINNAMON (8) | Non-manic Scary Spice (8) | NONMANIC* | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5048 | ZYDECO (6) | Lazy decor reveals Cajun style (6) | laZY DECOrations | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5056 | SKYSCRAPER (10) | Building of small Kentucky primary school terrible, bass-ackwards, concerning (10) | S+KY+S+CRAP+RE< | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5061 | ANECDOTE (8) | One cadet spun yarn (8) | ONECADET* | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5063 | BIFURCATION (11) | Split bill in half together with holiday to AnthroCon? (11) | BI + FURCATION | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5066 | CRAFT (5) | Make art (5) | ddef | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5084 | R'LYEH (5) | Transmission from Arctic base heard first by city deep in the South Pacific (5) | "AR TICK" + LYE + H | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5089 | CALLIPYGIAN (11) | Request a butcher, paying with junk in the trunk (11) | CALL + I + PAYING* | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5174 | WETLANDS (8) | Washes alt-left amid travels (8) | WE(ALT<)NDS | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5195 | BUCKET (6) | Charlie, one day you'll kick it (6) | ddef (Charlie Bucket) | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5227 | ANNOTATOR (9) | Marginal writer in the year of ink with gold (9) | ANNO + TAT + OR | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5294 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE READS AS AN EQUATION (??) | 10⁻¹ = Σ(3) | TEN<, Σ as in summing up something (def for NET) | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5307 | TWELVE (6) | Number of drummers? Two? Almost? Eleven? No...multiples of three...(6) | TW + ELeVEn | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5313 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE READS AS AN EQUATION (??) | Deep: 6=80 + 6 (3) | Deep-six def, ans:86 | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5326 | ANY CLUE/ANSWER REFERENCING A CHRISTMAS SONG (?) | Ladies dancing - they're found in rings (6) | LADIES*=IDEALS (certain subsets of rings in algebra) | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5379 | VOTING (6) | Deciding to recall governor with just one little problem (6) | DECIDING = def G(NIT)OV< |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 5380 | ANY CLUE WHICH INCORPORATES A CAESAR CIPHER (?) | Steeds jumping forward to grass clump (6) | TUFFET, def=grass clump, STEEDS Caesar shifts right | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5581 | AEGILOPS (8) | Grass emerges from rotten spoilage (8) | SPOILAGE* | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5650 | AAA (3) | They can get you a tow from a hot lava flow (3) | A+ AA | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5674 | LUCIFER (7) | Rich fuel combustion emits heat, and it brings light (7) | RICHFUEL* - H | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5688 | SIC (3) | Written back the same way! (3) | CIS< (cis- meaning the same, sic meaning to write a quote verbatim, including mistakes) | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5909 | MONUMENT (8) | Kind of metal found in minute statue (8) | MO(NU)MENT (moment=minute, Nü is ostensibly a kind of metal...but it's actually just kind of terrible) | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5928 | PRIX FIXE (4, 4) | Starter, so we hear, it's all included (4,4) | "PREFIX"=starter | Firetruck | 3 |
| 5943 | DAFT PUNK (4, 4) | Jordan's specialty: welcoming back past house experts (4,4) | Jordan's specialty=dunk (Michael Jordan) Back=AFT Past=P house experts=def D(AFTP)UNK |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 5948 | AULEAF (6) | Cryptician recalled Fair Folk language (6) | (FAE + LUA)<, LUA being a programming language | Firetruck | 3 |
| 6131 | ANY CLUE THAT DOESN'T USE THE LETTER E (?) | Apiarist's constant conduct: swimming in suds (9) | Ans BEEKEEPER (BE(E+KEEP)ER) E = constand, beer=suds, keep=conduct (keep the kitchen) |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 6177 | STOLID (6) | Ice, for one, has temperature = cold (6) | S(T)OLID | Firetruck | 3 |
| 6182 | INDIVISIBILITY (14) | Why you can't see concealed, regressive primal urges: the whole cannot be decomposed (14) | IN(ID<)VISIBILITY | Firetruck | 3 |
| 6205 | QUOTE UNQUOTE (5, 7) | Excitedly queen out to Queen "Breakthru"'s finale, repeating it verbatim (5,7) | (QUEENOUTTO + Q(=queen) + breakthrU)* | Firetruck | 3 |
| 6221 | PAREIDOLIA (10) | Trim pop star Sia lost her head, seeing Elvis in toast and Jesus in the mashed potatoes, perhaps (10) | PARE + IDOL + sIA | Firetruck | 3 |
| 6269 | ANY CLUE WHERE EVERY WORD CONTAINS THE LETTER Q (?) | Equitable faqir quashing queen (4) | FAIR (equitable = def) Queen = Q leaving faqir |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 6361 | SUS (3) | Fishy bits of sushi (3) | SUShi | Firetruck | 3 |
| 7493 | FLASH FLOOD (5, 5) | Maniac sold half of newly acquired lake (5,5) | soldhalfof* | Firetruck | 3 |
| 7600 | OWO (3) | Doggo: "woof!," showing a furry face (3) | doggO WOof | Firetruck | 3 |
| 7883 | ALLAY (5) | Calm a parting friend (5) | ALL(A)Y | Firetruck | 3 |
| 7940 | ERSATZ (6) | Imitation taser is broken, zapping only briefly (6) | TASER* + Z | Firetruck | 3 |
| 7992 | TRYST (5) | Bring to court and finally address lust?! (5) | TRY + addresS + lusT | Firetruck | 3 |
| 8032 | ANY CLUE WHERE ALL THE WORDS ARE THE SAME LENGTH AS THE ANSWER (?) | Ominous dancing session getting erratic - kickoff:foxtrot, mazurka halfway (7) | BAL(EFU)L ominous = def dancing session = BALL erratic kickoff = E foxtrot = F (NATO phonetic alphabet) mazurka halfway = U |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8240 | PRIMER (6) | Paint is less like a composite? (6) | Ddef (punny def for primer, like a number," woth fewer factors, and a base coat for paint) | Firetruck | 3 |
| 8282 | ANY CLUE WHOSE WORDPLAY IS REVERSE LETTER BANK (?) | Iconic bank need?! (4) | COIN is a letter bank of ICONIC | Firetruck | 3 |
| 8338 | BOOKSPACE (9) | Reserve relaxing getaway now where ||I might be able to hug Zappy|| (9) | BOOK (reserve) + SPA (relaxing getaway) + CE (now, common era) Def is related to MITMH 2022 |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8394 | KLUTZ OR KLUTZY (5) OR (6) | Dub was finale to sock hop (5) | Dub = def (an inept person) finale to sock = K hop = lutz (a jump in figure skating) |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8427 | C'MON (1'3) | Don't be like that prisoner of tragic monogamy (1'3) | Def: "don't be like that" Prisoner of: hidden word indicator tragiC MONogamy |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8625 | BOGART (6) | Simpson emodied the original bully (6) | B(OG)ART The original=OG Simpson=BART def=bully (v) |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8636 | MECHANICAL BULL (10, 4) | New cinema hall club that will keep you at the edge of your seat for a couple of bucks? (10, 4) | CINEMAHALLCLUB* Def=that will keep you on the edge of your seat for a couple of bucks |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8642 | COUGAR (6) | Maybe Stacy's mom and cousin threw out bad fish? (6) | Def: maybe Stacy's mom (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4) COUSIN - SIN (bad) + GAR (fish) |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8742 | OWL (3) | Knowledge embodiment?! (3) | &lit: knOWLedge, owls as a symbol of knowledge/wisdom | Firetruck | 3 |
| 8826 | MODEL (5) | Former Red Sox player Vaughn to strike out with Paris Hilton or Tyra Banks (5) | MO + DEL (to strike out in editing) Def: Tyra Banks or Paris Hilton |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8886 | SPRAY (5) | Neutralize swallowing red pepper (5) | Neutralize=SPAY, red=R, pepper=def SP(R)AY |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8929 | TAWDRY (6) | Try eating a wood dress (6) | T(A +WD (=abbv for wood))RY Def = dress (in the sense of frippery (TAWDRY(n) ) |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8931 | ANY CLUE BUT THE WHOLE THING HAS TO BE IN THE FORM OF A POEM - IT DOESN'T HAVE TO RHYME BUT IT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZABLE AS A POETIC TRADITION (ANY) | What listeners may hear as gas // Is who inherits when folks pass (4) | HEIR def: who inherits when folks pass "air" homophone: gas=air |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 8982 | FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION (29) | :notlikeduck: (29) | Ddef | Firetruck | 3 |
| 9025 | PLUNDER (7) | Booty's place: on the bottom (7) | PL (place abbreviation) + UNDER (on the bottom) Def=booty (plunder as a noun) |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 9768 | SEVERANCE (9) | Spiritual awakening taking over loveless divorce (9) | SE(VER)ANCE seance = spiritual awakening over loveless = OVER - O divorce = def |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 9838 | RESIGN (6) | Take back or take off (6) | ddef: re-sign (as in, to hire again by signing a contract), resign (leave a job) | Firetruck | 3 |
| 9984 | DOUBLE BACK (6, 4) | Loop knapsack with an extra loop (6,4) | Loop = def knapsack = BACKPACK Add an extra loop to the P in BACKPACK to get BACKBACK, a double BACK |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 10034 | THE CAT IN THE HAT (3, 3, 2, 3, 3) | He balances fishbowls // And cups and long rakes // And spreads out pink spots // With each tint that he breaks (3,3,2,3,3) | def: He balances fishbowls // And cups and long rakes // And spreads out pink spots (referring to events from The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back with = connector EACHTINTTHATHE* breaks: anagram indicator |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 10180 | CRUDITÉ (7) | It's found in low-brow and high-brow vegetarian options (7) | def: high-brow vegetarian options CRUD(IT)E low-brow=crude IT = IT |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 10212 | PACER (5) | It goes back and forth, go back over, going back (5) | def: it goes back and forth go back ovee: RECAP going back: reversal |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 10531 | WHO (3) | Doctor follower or something doctors follow? (3) | Ddef (Doctor Who, World Health Organization) | Firetruck | 3 |
| 10672 | GRINCH (6) | The one who hates Christmas, who Whos fear will tread / Step by step in pursuit of some green and some red (6) | tread step by step =INCH some green and some red = GR |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 11022 | FINNISH (7) | Huckleberry is harvested early for people in the north (7) | FINN+IS+Harvested | Firetruck | 3 |
| 11734 | SUP (3) | How's it going to eat? (3) | ddef | Firetruck | 3 |
| 11750 | HUBRIS (6) | "Center connects to radius" is ninth circle trait (6) | HUB+R (radius) + IS In the Divine Comedy, the ninth Circle of Hell contains giants representing hubris |
Firetruck | 3 |
| 4713 | DELVE (5) | Dig revealed era’s forgotten mayhem (5) | Dig=def, <REVEALED-ERA> (dig = (REVEALED, ERA’s forgotten) mayhem) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4727 | PRONUNCIATION (13) | “Thou (sense 1): the one addressed” or "thee: objective case of thou" : lost Old Testament diction (13) | PRONOUN CITATION - OT | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4733 | UNCHES (6) | Open-faced sandwiches perhaps are things Will Shortz can’t stand (6) | LUNCHES-L | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4743 | SHOWMAN (7) | Quiet lady flipped her lid at barker (7) | SH + (swap W,O in WOMAN) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4752 | ROLLER COASTER (6, 7) | Wild accelerator’s basic components used as many times as possible - it produces g’s (6 7) | Reuse unique letters of ACCELERATORS multiple times | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4754 | WHY (3) | Endless cry aloud is preschooler’s constant refrain (3) | “Whine” - “/n/“ | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4770 | ZHUZH (5) (OR ZHOOSH (6)) | Uranium splits twice per second - returning level up in energy (5) | (HZ + U + HZ)< (Hz = once per second) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4779 | ABSTAIN (7) | Blood-type discoloration on fabric? Give up. (7) | AB+STAIN | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4808 | DERRIDA (7) | I read & recommend cutting out the meat, deconstructing! (7) | (I + READ + (RECOMMEND-ECOMMEN))* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4861 | PUMPKIN (7) | Blow up family? It's great for Charlie Brown (7) | PUMP + KIN | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4871 | TREAT (5) | Consider nipple exposing restricted (5) | T(R)EAT | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4880 | FEASTED (7) | Ate a lot of food, eating a second ton (7) | FE(A + S + T)ED | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4942 | SYNECDOCHE (10) | Taking one for the team, our star romantically kissed a principal for the audience (10) | "SUN NECKED A KEY" | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5002 | LAME DUCK (4, 4) | Uncool zero who won't get anything done (4, 4) | LAME + DUCK | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5044 | YO MAMA (2, 4) | In Mexico, I was replaced by Massachusetts cellist who, when she sits around the house, sits *around* the house (2 4) | YO YO MA, replacing YO with MA | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5120 | OVERSATURATION (14) | "Sets of six balls at university?!", charged blabbermouth, "there are too many." (14) | OVERS (cricket term for sets of six balls bowled) + AT + U + RAT ION (a charged blabbermouth) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5124 | SALIERI (7) | Mozart's rival: salt that is with real iodine (7) | SAL + IE + R + I | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5125 | MOZART (6) | Scatology enthusiast with male fantasy: land fart (not loud) (6) | M + OZ + (FART - F) see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 5132 | MOGUL (5) | Synthesizer'll sound boss (5) | "MOOG'LL" | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5140 | BELLY-SIDE UP (5-4, 2) | Lead took over for Bono, it is rumored, in Egg Style To The Heavens (5-4,2) | "SONNY"->sunny, replace Lead Belly (blues guy) belly with sunny in sunny-side up | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5145 | WAIF (4) | Found unclaimed property: what if not vacant trash? (4) | WHATIF - TrasH | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5150 | ADVENT (6) | Spot chimney before Santa comes (6) | AD + VENT | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5162 | GOBBLE (6) | Have to confuse blues and greens in wonder (6) | BOGGLE, swap Bs and Gs | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5175 | YEW (3) | Yellow, disgusting tree (3) | Y + EW | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5184 | ETERNITY (8) | Fudge: inert, yet everlasting (8) | INERTYET* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5222 | ROTATOR (7) | One who spins a hill back and forth (7) | ATOR< palindrome | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5230 | PAN (3) | Piper's sleep over (3) | NAP< (Pan as in the satyr with famous pipes) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5250 | BAOBAB (6) | Pyramid of bao - it can be used for food (6) | BAO pyramid (3 B's, 2 A's, 1 O) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5255 | SYZYGY (6) | Showbiz vacated all audiences, taking year after year, finally, finally generated a line (6) | SZ + G (all audiences), taking Y, Y, finallY | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5304 | MARKOV (6) | Grade over 50%. Who studied, not knowing much history? (6) | MARK + OV | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5403 | BOXING DAY (6, 3) | Archibald shouted, "Releasing personal info about controversial film director right now!" (6,3) | spoonerism on "doxxing bay" | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5409 | CLICK (5) | What a mouse does with a bit of cheese: probe with tongue (5) | C+LICK | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5413 | ✈️ (BE CREATIVE ON THE WORDPLAY) (1) | It looks like a kiss with an ex was found around Mystery Hunt authors (1) | It looks like xX, def = found around ✈️✈️✈️Galactic Trendsetters✈️✈️✈️ | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5420 | STARBOARD (9) | Year's end, looking back: Rat? Pig? Dragon at the beginning? Right? (9) | S + RAT< + BOAR + D | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5423 | TWENTY-ONE (6-3) | Throw around two ten-yen at Blackjack (6-3) | TWOTENYEN* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5442 | DIAGONALISATION (15) | Decode cipher stashed snugly, enclosed within internal cubbyholes, progressively distinguishing alphabetical accoutrements, incomprehensible interconnection defragmentation, like this! (15) | Diagonalization of the words makes DIAGONALISATION, which is like "diagonalization" but spelled in a weird way (-; | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5496 | ABRACADABRA (11) | Jerk wearing great undergarmets that makes the magic happen (11) | A BRA(CAD)A BRA | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5497 | CHARMANDER (10) | Fetish with her headless Pokemon (10) | CHARM+AND+(HER-H) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5505 | SHARPIE (7) | Winged women putting end on top of marker (7) | HARPIES, putting the end (S) on top | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5509 | KICKOFF (7) | Start to cheer on? Just the opposite! (7) | Start=def "Cheer" is opposite of "kick", "on" is opposite of "off" Does this clue work? Do people feel vitriolic rage at "just the opposite" clues? Stay tuned! |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 5514 | POINTLESS (9) | Fuile eleubby on good erms like his clue (9) | Definition: FUTILE PO (Teletubby) + IN (on good terms) + TLESS (like this clue, which had all the Ts removed) |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 5531 | BONK (4) | Knock door - handle turned (4) | KNOB< | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5584 | EVENING (7) | Time of day for laying flat? | ddef: evening (time of day) and even-ing (making more level or flat) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5587 | OUT (3) | Released scream, killing silence (3) | SHOUT - SH | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5595 | WHINGE (6) | Grouse wing has hot sauce on the bottom (6) | W(H)ING+saucE | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5632 | PASSE-PARTOUT (5-7) | Phineas's companion is outmoded, average spy (12) | PASSÉ (=outmoded) + PAR (=average) + TOUT (=spy), from _Around the World in 80 Days_ | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5637 | SUDOKU (6) | Pigeon call imitation sounds like, "the numerals must remain single" in Japanese (6) | "PSEUDO-COO," Japanese sūdoku, short for sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru "the numerals must remain single" (according to Merriam-Webster) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5656 | REALIZE (7) | Recognize carry-out? (7) | ddef | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5671 | MIBNT (5) | Bit into fresh taste of garbage (5) | MI(B)NT | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5759 | NEVER-ENDING (5-6) | Ou o contro ner evenin wit crypti lik thi (5-6) | (Out of control evening with a cryptic like this), each word is "never ending", NERDEVENING* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5772 | MISLED (6) | Mistaken doctor travelled about island (6) | M(ISLE)D | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5830 | DOLLOP (6) | Overheard, "Put on something elegant, just a little bit" (6) | "DOLL UP" homophone | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5892 | FLYSWATTER (10) | Newspaper beginning to fail? Power through decline with 17+ content (10) | def: newspaper Fail + LY(WATT)SE + R (restricted movie content) Lyse meaning "to decline, as a cell" |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 5911 | DEFENESTRATE (12) | Drain the swamp about judge: throw out a window (12) | DE-FEN (drain the swamp) + EST (about, as in estimated) + RATE (judge) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5925 | FIDDLEDEEDEE (12) | Fidel recycled and reused rubbish (12) | Bank of FIDEL | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5927 | NONSENSE (8) | Tripe with applesauce (8) | ddef | Firetruck | 2 |
| 5952 | GRAVITAS (8) | Thick, fatty sauces exhaust energy, gaining back in weight (8) | GRAVIES-E, gaining in AT< (in=at) Weight=def |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 5979 | ASSASSIN (8) | Two jerks present offer (8) | two jerks = ASS + ASS present = IN (eg the doctor is in) Offer: punny "one who offs=kills" |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 6099 | LIT (3) | Books are burned (3) | Ddef: literature abbreviation, light past tense | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6115 | ANY CLUE WHOSE SURFACE IS A STRING OF SEVEN OR MORE EMOJI (?) | 😱🤡📥🎪➡️⭕️⭕️(8️⃣) | Scary clown in circus makes loops (8) Ans CIRCUITS (IT =clown in CIRCUS) |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 6191 | SPLOOSHING (10) | Shore Patrolman John's at the end of lunch in Germany, really, really enjoying food (10) | SP + LOOS (john's) + luncH + IN + G(ermany) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6196 | 漫畫 (2) | Chinese comics have an 8 over three panels, a table with some exasperation marks on the left, a Towers of Hanoi step with two pieces fused together, four panels, and a long horizontal line, from the looks of it (2) | I calls them like I sees them | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6206 | ZYZZYVA (7) | You're beginning to interrupt sleep with reading back mostly blue magazine (7) | ZZZ= sleep You're beginning = Y Reading back mostly blue = NAVY< - first letter Google tells me Zyzzyva is a magazine |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 6271 | LUCILLE BALL (7, 4) | Free fish party announcement?! Who has some 'splainin' to do? (7, 4) | "LOOSE (free) EEL (fish)" + BALL (=party) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6363 | ANAGRAM (7) | Drunk man wandering around Indian city's resort (7) | MAN* around AGRA, def=resort | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6378 | ANY CLUE THAT USES A CHESS ABBREVIATION (?) | Trick regular opening with castling king (4) | ROOK=trick=def Regular + O-O + K |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 6422 | REFRIGERATOR (12) | Bikini feature: crest with a peg? Er...as I hear, it can make you cool (12) | "REEF + RIDGE + A + RATE (=peg) + ER" | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6461 | ⚠️(1) | Take care - it looks like a tortilla chip packs a "bang!" (1) | It looks like a tortilla chip with a bang=! | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6493 | TENSE (5) | Excited? Yurts and Such is announced (5) | "TENTS" homophone, excited = def | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6536 | GRIMALKIN (9) | Cat developed a milk grin (9) | AMILKGRIN* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6540 | DEWCLAW (7) | Noble rule proclaimed something useless to many (7) | "DUKE LAW" | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6551 | BETTER (6) | Tall boy maybe double-crossed by someone more attractive (6) | BE(TT)ER | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6634 | ZENZIZENZIC (11) | Kind of garden with two rows of zinnias repeated twice followed by a layer of carnations forming two squares (11) | (ZEN +ZInnias)*2 + Carnations | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6635 | BAT OUT OF HELL (3, 3, 2, 4) | Meatloaf product, when thrown about, fell - hot mess (3,3,2,4) | ABOUT* + FELLHOT* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6657 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A PREVIOUS CONTEST WITH 0 ENTRIES (?) | Time for cookouts? Y (6 2 4) | FOURTH OF JULY | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6786 | I M PEI (1, 1, 3) | Bratty kid that is coming back for planner (1,1,3) | IMP + IE< | Firetruck | 2 |
| 6818 | PAUCITY (7) | Famine is heading to plentiful, gold city (7) | P + AU + CITY | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7106 | I DON’T KNOW (1, 3’1, 4) | Boiled wonton kid beats me (1 3'1 4) | WONTONKID* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7364 | UNDERSTAND (10) | Get below, get up (10) | UNDER + STAND, def = "get" | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7489 | ACE (3) | Without physical attraction, how hard it is to hit someone's butt? (3) | AC (armor class in DnD - how hard it is to hit) + someonE | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7524 | DEEP-SIX (4-3) | Greek characters marked their territory from the East end (4-3) | (XIS PEED)< end = def |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 7542 | SLOUGH (6) | Shed near muddy waters (6) | ddef | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7584 | SOUSAPHONE (10) | Listen, oh listen, and maybe you'll hear // Something sounding like who this poem apes, at his ear // Is a wonderful, blunderful, Talk-So-Far-Ringer // (It's sort of like string on two cup - some humdinger) // So while one's alone, he need not be forlorn // With evocative, talkative, pick-me-up horn (10) | Horn: def Everything else: homophone for "Seuss-a-phone" |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 7593 | MONDEGREEN (10) | Modern gene recombination brought four-legged woman to me, for example (10) | MODERNGENE* More Than a Woman by the Bee Gees mondegreen |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 7602 | HYBRID CLASS (6, 5) | Revolutionary, brassy child that's hardly just one thing (6,5) | BRASSYCHILD* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7603 | LEGEND (6) | Very famous person's foot or hip? (6) | LEG END = foot or hip :notlikeduck: :pikashock: | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7614 | OPT OUT (3 3 OR 3-3) | Extremely strong king swallowed goose egg to toss cookies, maybe (3 3) | extremely strong = OP (overpowered in gamerese) King = TUT goose egg = O toss cookies maybe: opt out (of tracking) |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 7628 | TMESIS (6) | Something, like, abso-friggin'-lutely smites to smithereens (6) | Something like abso-friggin'-lutely: def SMITES* |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 7657 | FISH FRY (4, 3) | Loud is hot for shallow youth (one result of too much bass) (4,3) | F + IS + H + FoR + Y | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7672 | FABRICATION (11) | Lie cloth in operation after one botched it (11) | Lie = def cloth = fabric in operation = on one = a botched it = it* FABRIC + A + IT* + ON (after A+TI*) |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 7710 | LAVISH (6) | Posh, like the bathroom? (6) | LAV-ISH punny def (like the lavatoey) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7739 | LUCID OR LUCID DREAM (5 OR 5, 5) | Sober auditor's unleashed libido (5) | "LOOSE ID" (unleashed=loose, libido=id) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7798 | BLOCKED (7) | Cuddle in bed made of Lego? (7) | cuddle=lock (as in to wrap or fold) B(LOCK)ED made of Lego = punny definition |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 7809 | NADIR (5) | Darn, I screwed up, reaching rock bottom (5) | DARNI* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7823 | SILENT (6) | Mum is back - time to give up (6) | IS< + LENT | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7826 | ELECTROMA (9) | Vote "one tomato" for movie (9) | ELECT + ROMA | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7828 | UFO (3) | It might be seen in a grainy picture of you doing a backflip (3) | OF + U< | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7843 | UNGULATE (8) | Hoofed animal dead after mushroom or toadstool stuffing (8) | fUNGUs + LATE (dead) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7887 | JAMIE HARGROVE (5, 8) | Puzzle that is difficult doesn't get finished and stumps (eventually) puzzler (5, 8) | Puzzle (JAM) + that is (IE) + difficult doesn't get finished (HARD - D) + stumps, eventually (GROVE) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7927 | MACABRE (7) | Gruesome man with skinned leg takes a taxi (7) | M(A + CAB)R + E (skinned leg) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 7966 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS THE NUMBER OF LETTERS IT CONTAINS (?) | |{}| = 1 - 1 (4) | ZERO (there are no letters) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8087 | CAVES (5) | Throws the towel in holes (5) | ddef (throws in the towel=to give up or to cave) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8093 | RUCK SACK (4, 4) | Spooner's way to store vacuum cleaners or way to carry vacuum cleaners around, if they are small enough? (8) | rucksack SUCK RACK |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8122 | SOFTFRO (7) | Math balladist voiced away (7) | https://sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/songs.html SOFT (voiced as in a consonant) + FRO (as in to and fro=away) |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8124 | S-TIER (1-4) | Top tries to spin (1-4) | TRIES* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8126 | BURNOUT (7) | Write music to a CD, eject, and lose your drive (7) | BURN + OUT | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8138 | FIGMENT (7) | Fancy tailor hoards suits (7) | Fancy = def (flight of fancy eg) Suits = GMEN tailor = FIT FI(GMEN)T |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8145 | BROAD (5) | Back street leads to the only side of the barn I can hit (5) | B + ROAD | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8162 | ASPIRE (6) | Reach for a mountain's peak (6) | A + SPIRE (almost &lit) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8193 | NEW YEAR'S EVE (3, 4'1, 3) | At sixes and sevens - seven drinks! Were ya drinking too much on a night of revelry? (3 4'1 3) | SEVEN* around WEREYA* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8220 | DISCORDANT ANT (10, 3 OR 13) | Way two workers met? After dance with puzzler (10,3) | ANT + ANT (workers) after DISCO (dance) + RD (way=road) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8228 | DORD (4) | New role playing system based on exclusive choices? That's not a thing (4) | D OR D (vs D&D) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8235 | DOCTOR (6) | Sci-fi legend with the cord to annihilation (6) | CORD TO* Sci-fi legend, with "the"=def |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8349 | PANCAKE (7) | Plains crackle oddly with breakfast on a griddle (7) | oddly=every other letter PlAiNsCrAcKlE |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8360 | DONJON (6) | Knight enrolled in fighting academy with new building (6) | Knight=N in chess Enrolled in=containment Fighting academy =dojo DO(N)JO + new=N |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8361 | SCRAP (5) | Junk is garbage (5) | Junk = def Is = S ('S) Garbage = CRAP |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8377 | CUTE MAGE (4, 4) | Math teacher to see you texting, "get me a permutation" (4,4) | Def: math teacher see you texting=CU getmea*=TEMAGE |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8439 | ANY ONE-WORD BAND NAME (?) | Band used Aeolian mode, Mixolydian mode, and major fifth (3) | AIR Def: band Mode used in the statistics sense - most frequent letter Major fifth=R |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8513 | REVEAL (6) | The end of a magician's act is to make an old cow young again? (6) | Ddef: reveal and re-veal | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8671 | WATER (5) | What are said to be chief among the leading causes of drowning? (5) | "WHAT'RE" homophone Def: chief among the leading causes of drowning |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8877 | NUMBER ONE (6, 3) | Nothing contained color at first (6 3) | N(UMBER=color)ONE Def=first |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 8922 | SIBELIUS (8) | Composer, when decomposing is...is...blue! (8) | ISISBLUE* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8974 | THEY (4) | People at place where it's said to be fun to be (4) | Ddef (people, THE Y (ymca)) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 8978 | OISEAU | Messiaen's inspiration and love is the Loire's flower (6) | Def: [Olivier] Messiaen was a French composer and amateur ornithologist obsessed with birds Love=O Is=IS The Loire's flower = EAU (the water is what flows in this French river) |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 9013 | FOR ALL TIME (3,3,4) | Mortal life? Incorrect! (3 3 4) | &lit MORTALLIFE* |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 9014 | PLAUDIT (7) | Applause! Applause from within the section in front of the stage (7) | P(LAUD)IT Applause meaning laud and also plaudit, the pit is the place where the pit orchestra plays Weirdly LAUD and PLAUDIT seem to not have the same etymology at all! |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 9021 | ANY CLUE OF THE FORM "IN WHICH [STH HAPPENS]" (?) | In which Peter sautéed fish (5 5) | WHITE PERCH def:fish In=containment (in WHICH, PETER*) WHI(PETER*)CH |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 9024 | RAREBIT (7) | Gently cooked morsel! (7) | &lit Gently cooked=RARE morsel=BIT |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 9035 | RATIO (5) | A riot got blown out of proportion (5) | ARIOT* blown=anagrind Out of=connector Proportion=def |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 9044 | LANCE (5) | Armstrong's zero-gravity bounce (5) | Def:Armstrong (the cyclist) Zero-gravity: remove G Bounce: GLANCE (like a glancing blow) GLANCE-G |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 9080 | ANY TITLE OF A SONG, WHEREIN THE CLUE MUST CONTAIN LYRICS FROM THAT SONG (?) | A little bit of Monica, a little bit of Monica, boys, a little bit of Monica, a little bit of Sandra, a little bit of you, front, one, five, a little bit of Erica, dance (5 2. 1) | MAMBO NO. 5 Monica + monicA + Monica + Boys (B) + mOnica + saNdra + mOnica + Front + I (one) + V (five) + Erica All words from the song |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 9983 | GROUNDBREAKING (14) | When solving a cryptic on drugs, didn't quite finish (14) | Reverse cryptic clue: "when solving a cryptic" = indicator for reverse cryptic clue. ON DRUGS didn't quite finish = ON DRUG Reverse cryptic "GROUND BREAKING" = ONDRUG* with "breaking" as anagram indicator. |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 9990 | WOAH (4) | How a confused Millennial horse is told to slow down? (4) | HOWA* def: Millennial horse is told to slow down? Seriously WHOA is the only way that looks right to me what is wrong with you people |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10042 | TENTS (5) | Treetop: tree people's shelter (5) | shelter:def Treetop = T tree people: ENTS |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10078 | DINT (4) | Loud chaos with toddlers at recess (4) | DIN (loud chaos) + T (toddlers, as in clothing sizes 2T, 3T, etc) def:recess |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10088 | HAIR TIE (4, 3) | That feeling Spooner gets when he knows his scale is properly zeroed, which holds one's locks tight (4, 3) | Def which holds one's locks tight Spoonerism TARE HIGH |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10168 | SIXTEEN (7) | (7 - 5) / (9 + 10) = 16 (7) | 16=def 7-5=SEVEN-V=SEEN / = divided by (containment) 9=IX, T=10 (card game abbreviation) |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10266 | VAGUE (5) | Slight internal fever or illness (5) | slight = def internal fever = feVer illness = AGUE |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10392 | FOR GOOD (3,4) | Permanently lost memory - time to take a lot of drugs (3,4) | Permantently = def FORGOT = lost memory, T->OF |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10448 | GROK (4) | Get good, real good (4) | Get=def (as in to get something is to understand it) Good=G as in baseball R=real (as in math) Good=OK |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10527 | WHO (3) | First baseman's win with hit leading to out (3) | Def: first baseman (from Abbot and Costello's skit) W+H+O |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10548 | TRAGEDY (7) | Attempt to consume old stuff, like _Romeo and Juliet_ (7) | TR(AGED)Y | Firetruck | 2 |
| 10586 | ANY CLUE WHERE A PUNCTUATION MARK IS INCLUDED IN THE PARSE | ./io/drive (6) | PERIOD=. /=per Io=IO Drive=D |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10607 | MEANDER (7) | Surly? Upset? Angry? Take a walk (7) | MEAN (=surly) + RED< (upset angry) Take a walk=def |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10652 | INDITE (6) | Rock type, ice type, starter type (6) | Rock type=INDIE ice=containment (as in icing a ake) Type starter =T Type = def (sort of) |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 10753 | BUNNY (5) | Bugs, etc like brioche (5) | Ddef (Bugs Bunny, "like brioche") | Firetruck | 2 |
| 10788 | SUDAFED (7) | Illegally, FDA used drug (7) | FDAUSED* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 10815 | BALLOON (7) | Lab made up crazy device for espionage (7) | LAB< + LOON | Firetruck | 2 |
| 10837 | MEASURE (7) | I...I...I agree in part (7) | ME (= I) + A (= I) + SURE (=I agree) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 10841 | OUAGADOUGOU (11) | Capital city loves gouda every which way (11) | letter bank of GOUDA | Firetruck | 2 |
| 10862 | HOLST (5) | Army admitted lady composer (5) | HO(L)ST | Firetruck | 2 |
| 11010 | INDICATED (9) | Referred to be charged with one count: breaking and entering (9) | INDIC(A)TED |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 11667 | ELI (3) | Elvis has no competition with Whitney (3) | ELVIS - VS (versus=competition) Def: eli whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, a terrible cocktail if you ask me |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 11674 | NONAGON (7) | They Might Be Giants production of Stravinsky's ballets, like The Rite of Spring, L'Histoire du Soldat, Pulcinella, etc | Wordplay: Non-Agon (Agon is a ballet by Stravinsky that is pretty great https://spotify.link/Z0g79co75Cb Def: https://spotify.link/DSD1cNi75Cb |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 11675 | CLUTCH (6) | On the other hand, it can help to walk with a purse (6) | CRUTCH changing R To L (on the other hand) | Firetruck | 2 |
| 11684 | BADGER (6) | Pester the guy giving out nametags (6) | ddef (badger (v) and one who badges) 🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🍄🍄 🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🍄🍄 🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🍄🍄 🐍🐍🐍 |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 11728 | PAISLEY (7) | Extremely short pants easily ruined, full of tears (7) | P_ + EASILY* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 11755 | FLOTSAM (7) | Eel floats menacingly in front of Mike (7) | Def: one of the two eels in The Little Mermaid FLOATS*+M |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 11818 | JEEPERS (7) | Oh, my kids swallowed up a sword (7) | J(EPEE<)RS oh my= def Kids = jrs Sword = epee |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 11834 | ANY CLUE (3 4) | "Shin, for one", for one! (3 4) | "A KNEE CLUE" homophone | Firetruck | 2 |
| 11929 | KEEP GOING (4, 5) | Look back over, enter something for the finale! (4,5) | PEEK< (look=PEEK, back over = reversal) GO IN = enter somethinG (something, for the finale=G) |
Firetruck | 2 |
| 12020 | FELICITATIONS (13) | Best wishes from correctional facilities - not! (13) | FACILITIESNOT* | Firetruck | 2 |
| 4706 | OMEGA (5) | Hans’s granny eats, for example, at the end (5) | OM(EG)A, for example=EG, Hans’s granny=OMA | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4710 | SLACKS (6) | Old person pants from scarcity in Social Security (6) | S(LACK)S: Old person pants=def, Social Security =SS, scarcity = LACK | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4718 | PORRIDGE (8) | “Paperlate”’s intro (or high crest) showcases Genesis (8) | P+OR+RIDGE, Genesis (P-Orridge) def | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4724 | JUNCTURE (8) | Dog caught temperature in start of summer occasion (8) | JUN(C(T)UR)E | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4785 | COFFEE (6) | Joe is 12648430 to a hacker (6) | C0FFEE in hexadecimal | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4790 | COMMENSURATE (12) | Equal signs take a minute to be absorbed by priest (12) | C(OM(M)ENS)URATE | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4795 | FULL MOON (4, 4) | Loudly, eight ducks denounce “oof” - start for a phase (4, 4) | Phonetically, FULMINATE - EIGHT, replacing /ə/ (= a) with /u/ (start of “oof”). “Oof” indeed! | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4807 | GRAVITY (7) | Naked Evita engaged in morally ambiguous source of attraction (7) | GRA(EVITA - E,A)Y | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4809 | FOREBEAR (8) | Support nude, outspoken ancestor (8) | “For” + “bare” | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4811 | GYMNASTIC(S) (9 OR 10) | “It involves bars,” drunk mystic sang (10) | (MYSTICSANG)* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4823 | DOOMSCROLL (10) | Note calming words in the middle of lucky streak? Just the opposite (10) | DO + OMS + C + ROLL | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4837 | GENERAL (7) | Officer in Eugene rally (7) | euGENE RALly | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4838 | BROWN (5) | Encyclopedia color (5) | Ddef (Encylopedia Brown) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4839 | WATERLOO (8) | Final defeat after court: mixing up lady and woman (8) | LATER WOO, swap W and L | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4840 | MOTORCYCLE (10) | Chopper chopped a bit of rectum with colectomy (10) | (R + COLECTOMY)* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4868 | TRICK (5) | Hoodwink three hundred thousand (5) | TRI + C + K | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4869 | NOR (3) | Candy? Corn? Start off taking neither (3) | (CORN-C)* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4877 | CHOBANI (7) | Yogurt and aldehyde inhibit me (7) | CHO + BAN + I | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4885 | PRECIPICE (9) | Express drink waste loudly: what a sudden relief! (9) | "PRESS" + "SIP" + "PISS" | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4894 | REPLY (5) | Answer: collect fiction on audiobook (5) | "REAP LIE" | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4905 | MALARKEY (8) | Mother bird even sexy with applesauce (8) | MA+LARK+sExY | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4932 | REPROVE (7) | Gently correct Scooby Doo's deep move (7) | "deep move" replacing first sounds with /r/ | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4945 | OREGON TRAIL (6, 5) | Alternative Ghostbuster first to fence where all my oxen drowned (6, 5) | OR+EGON+T+RAIL | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4969 | HOMOPHONE (9) | Halfway house cleaning tool practice made maid relationship (9) | HOME - ME + MOP + HONE | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4995 | ARAPAIMA (8) | Reuse and remix bits of prima bony fish (8) | PRIMA bank | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5012 | RARE CANDY (4, 5) | Unique, first canvas by Warhol is like the one with the golden ticket (4, 5) | RARE + C + ANDY | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5023 | BUTTERSCOTCH (12) | One who hits his head on booze candy (12) | BUTTER + SCOTCH | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5046 | ECHO (4) | Ghost is after Delta (4) | ddef | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5047 | DONUT (5) | Requirement for tossing salad: pastry (5) | ddef (don't @ me) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5058 | XERXES (6) | King recalling sex king (6) | (SEX+REX)< | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5067 | DIAERESIS (9) | Naive mark died halfway through Final Fantasy VII: character expressed final goodbye and last farewells (9) | DIed + AER(goodbyE + farewellS)IS | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5073 | ANY CLUE THAT'S &LIT AND A QUESTIONABLE DEF?! (?) | Shit kicker ass? (5) | shiT + RUMP | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5121 | WOLFGANG (8) | Puck for Chicago hockey player's team (8) | WOLF + GANG | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5169 | RETRONYM (8) | Like a physical video about Disney's first CGI attempt (revolutionary!) that I own? (8) | RE+TRON+MY< | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5220 | DECEMBER (8) | At year's end, loud musical opener is no longer "in": remove drumsticks, maybe (8) | "M" leaves "DISMEMBER" | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5224 | TOMATO (6) | Dog ate thrown up morning fruit (6) | TO(AM<)TO | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5228 | BOLLIX (6) | Err, the head of @Level51 is stuck in box (6) | BO(L + LI)X | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5264 | EXTRA (5) | Supplemental tax re: recreation (5) | TAXRE* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5335 | DEFLATE (7) | Patriot's preparation for a big event: government worker going back after hours (7) | FED< + LATE | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5351 | BY-PRODUCT (2-7) | Side effect of chanting, "PURCHASE...GOOD...." (2-7) | "Buy"+PRODUCT | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5352 | COW (3) | Like, just the head of a minotaur to destroy my courage (3) | ddef | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5371 | GO (2) | Game one can't play under 32 (2) | ddef: Go (stone game), go (term in Cribbage where you can't play a card without exceeding 31) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5376 | CARP | One hundred old folks group without a complaint (4) | C + AARP-A=complaint (def) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5389 | KRAMPUS (7) | Spirit of Christmas recalling greeting Gospel (8) | SUP + MARK< | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5393 | ELEEMOSYNARY (12) | Gratuitous, brutal melee unfortunate? Nay, rosy (12) | MELEE* + NAYROSY* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5395 | KABOOM (6) | Makes fall over backward and lose shoes with surprising sound of explosion (6) | (MAKES -ES<) around BOO | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5408 | AULD LANG SYNE (4, 4, 4) | Yule slang (and translation!) that's heard at year's end (4,4,4) | YULESLANGAND* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5428 | DETAIL(S) (6 OR 7) | Prepares shrimp for eating where the Devil is in (7) | ddef (de-tails, the devil is in the details) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5459 | CAMEMBERT (9) | Cat caught first mouse with small, glowing piece of cheese (9) | CA(M+EMBER)T | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5469 | MUSEUM (6) | Milk breaks silent salon (6) | M(USE)UM (mum=silent, milk = use (milk it for all it's worth, eg) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5470 | TETCBN (6) | New year - acrostic cryptogram Braille - new puzzle sin (6) | TET + CB + N | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5474 | AD NAUSEAM (2, 7) | One doctor, unamused, went on and on (2, 7) | A + UNAMUSED* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5479 | HYDE (4) | Park near half-demolished fragrant compound (4) | ALDEHYDE - ALDE, Hyde Park being the park | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5480 | SIKH (4) | Firetruck with klaxon's beginning to interrupt quiet Punjabi religious adherant (4) | I (=Firetruck) + K inside SH | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5488 | ANY CLUE WHICH CONTAINS EXACTLY ONE LETTER (?) | "My Jared, We are through. I found a new man. Sincerely, Me." Distressed not, Jared let her (4 4 6) | NOTJAREDLETHER* = dear John letter | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5508 | BRIC-A-BRAC (4-1-4) | Collection of articles repeatedly using bits of Arabic (4-1-4) | Letter bank using ARABIC | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5550 | BIVOUAC (7) | But I'm vexed over unending, annoying cliches. For starters, "yurt" alternative (7) | First letters | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5567 | PROJECTION (10) | Volume control for Juliet's leading part (10) | Volume control = def PRO (for) + (J (Juliet) is leading in SECTION (=part)) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 5568 | PERPENDICULAR (13) | Normal for each writer (sane) to reflect upon unfinished creative work (13) | Normal = def For each = PER writer = PEN sane = LUCID (< to reflect) Unfinished creative work = ARt |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 5592 | ENVOY (5) | Attorney's love infected green-eyed monster (5) | ENV(O)Y | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5594 | FAKE (4) | Gender-swapped fashion fantasy (4) | swap M->F in MAKE (=fashion) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5601 | CRAB RAVE (4, 4) | Want to hold retro pub dance? (4,4) | C(BAR<)RAVE | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5622 | CHECK (5) | Announced from Brno: "The King is in danger!" (5) | "CZECH" | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5644 | ETUI (4) | Sewer item held in perpetuity (4) | perpETUIty | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5662 | LWOJLA (6) | Take back everything broken by half-word junk started by cat jumping on the keyboard, maybe (6) | cat jumping on keyboard, maybe = def L(WOrd + Junk)LA< |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 5686 | QAZVIN (6) | First, question everything. Second, avoid popular city (6) | Q + AZ (everything = A-Z) + aVoid + IN (=popular) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5691 | SPIRAL GALAXY (6, 6) | Tears held back, a lady with party male that's extremely massive and spins (6,6) | RIPS< + A + L (lady)+ GALA(party) + XY (=male) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5757 | HOMEOWNER (9) | "🎅" "😺" "✈️" whose pad it is (9) | HO + MEOW + NER (Galactic Trendsetter sound) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5779 | ELBOW (5) | The Spanish submit to force (5) | EL (the Spanish) + BOW (submit), def elbow (v) = force | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5812 | GOOSE EGG (5, 3) | Zilch! Finished! Nothing! Zip! Nada! Understand? Good game (5,3) | nothinG + O + O + SEE + GG | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5873 | PERSEVERANCE (12) | A package for getting rid of virtue (12) | PER + SEVERANCE | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5890 | ACCIACCATURA (12) | Small note: I was stuck between Georgia Tech conferences - a rut, I recalled (12) | ACC = Georgia Tech's collegiate athletic division ACC(I)ACC + (A RUT A=I)< |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 5968 | VACCINE (7) | Shot former Tik Tok fencing all-star at first, then Celtic fringe (7) | V(Allstar + CeltiC)INE (Vine being the former Tik Tok) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5969 | AESTHETICS (10) | Ocean receeding, the twists produce beauty (10) | SEA< + THE + TICS (twists) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 5998 | EGGCORN (7) | Person with cure, please excuse me while I kiss... this guy, for example (7) | person = EGG (like "a good egg") cure = CORN (like corned beef) The eggcorn is from Purple Haze |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 6037 | NEXT-LEVEL (4-5) | Reward for getting enough experience following Bulgarian currency going up and down (4-5) | reward for getting experience = def Following=next Bulgarian currency going up and down = LEV (palindrome) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 6063 | NASDAQ (6) | Index number (like one) into DAIRYQUEEN (6) | Index=def N=number Like=as One=A dairyqueen = DQ (common acronym) N+AS+D(A)Q |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 6064 | LAUREN (6) | Ralph's unreal fantasy (6) | Ralph (Lauren) = def UNREAL* |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 6100 | AGED RUM (4, 3) | Caged prisoners solicit what can provide proof (4,3) | cAGEd + DRUM (solicit, like drum up support) AGED RUM is source of alcohol (high proof) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 6118 | ANY CLUE (?) | GZMK Y RYR KQ KZYL PNQUPK, ML AQJTR IC YTLPESKYTD KZE SNCPKQDNMU JLER (7) | Following the directions, MISREAD | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6180 | MOON MOON (4, 4) | Wolf to show butt to Luna (4 4) | moon + moon | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6187 | KVETCH (6) | A bit of kimchi and vanilla and so on: beginning to have bellyache (6) | Kimchi + Vanilla + ETC + Have | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6204 | JETTISON (8) | Evict high-rise family, garnishing taxable income at first (8) | JET(Taxable Income)SON | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6217 | UNINTUITIVE (11) | H&R Block, but not TurboTax, like the tax code, maybe (11) | Ddef (TurboTax being produced by the company Intuit) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6262 | GREEBLE (7) | Some disagree, bleeding guts on the outside (7) | disaGREE BLEeding, guts on the outside = def | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6273 | MONDRIAN (8) | Sun follower Dr. Fleming who loved colorful boxes (8) | MON (Sun. follower) + DR + IAN (=Fleming) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6362 | SOLUBLE (7) | Star, blue-shifted, might disappear to the eye (7) | star=SOL, BLUE* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6376 | DREAMT (6) | Had an unauthentic experience and read godawful manuscript's outline (6) | READ* + ManuscripT | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6381 | LEMUR (5) | Yellow-eyed creature from unending, restless dead (5) | LEMURE-E | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6392 | FIREFLY (7) | Glower at attack on zipper (7) | attack= FIRE, zipper=FLY | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6420 | MAJOR (5) | Ionian columns from Macedonia covering half of Jordan (5) | Ionian = def (Ionian mode=major scale) MacedoniA + JORdan |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 6522 | CAROUSEL (8) | Class is distrupted by spark from spinner (8) | C(AROUSE=spark)L | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6535 | CROSSWORD (9) | Blocked or barred entertainment from murder with a twist to the left (9) | CROWS' WORD=murder, a twist to the left: turn W to S | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6569 | SHAKASHAKA (10) | Puzzle quoted "Khan!!! Khan!!!!" (10) | "CHAKA [Khan]" * 2 | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6620 | INFEST (6) | Infiltrate party, following elected official (6) | IN (elected official) + FEST (party) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6658 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A PREVIOUS CONTEST WITH 0 ENTRIES (?) | Lady in cuspidor water, get out of there! (5) | SP(L)IT | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6676 | HOT DOG (3, 3) | Frank is great (3, 3) | ddef (see https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pY7hFRg2jvw) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6733 | BAGS (4) | Mad Gab: "utters" (finally!) = "udders" (4) | GAB* + utterS udders = def (per Merriam-Webster) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 6755 | STAR WARS (4 4) | Overrated series to feature Western caboose without the caboose (4 4) | STAR (=feature) + W + (ARSe-e) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6809 | BASH (4) | Slug's shell (4) | Ddef BASH (Linux shell) + BASH (to hit) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6870 | FALSETTO (8) | Toast elf on drugs that gets extremely high (8) | <TOASTELF> | Firetruck | 1 |
| 6969 | BRUH (4) | Lead of _Ben-Hur_ returned with my man (4) | B + HUR< | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7041 | DOGGONE (7) | Almost new heeling pupper is freaking (7) | NE(w) after DOGGO | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7117 | YAJILIN (7) | → O ← Oᵢⱼ (7) | Arrow ring = def (→ O) (NIL + I + JAY) < = ←(reverse) Oᵢⱼ |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7362 | MUFFIN (6) | Failure to catch trendy pastry (6) | MUFF + IN | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7418 | THETA (5) | Who to ask for help with a topic in Greek 101? (5) | THE TA | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7494 | FLASH FOOD (5, 4) | Certain Grandmaster's yum-yum failure - hair found on dum-dum that was picked up (5,4) | F (failure) + LASH (hair) + DOOF< (dum-dum) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7525 | CACCIATORE (10) | As I said, trap James, Duke of York or William Pitt the Younger with tomatoes and herbs and sometimes wine (10) | "CATCH A TORY" | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7528 | EN GARDE (2, 5) | "The most popular of teen bops: Savage Garden." Fight me (2, 5) | "The most popular of TEEN BOPS": E is the most frequent letter in TEENBOPS E+GARDEN* |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7552 | SLOWPOKE (8) | Snail, a bit of soy, and minced owl with rice bowl (8) | S + OWL* + POKÉ | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7604 | RENAISSANCE (11) | Reconstituted arsenic rebirth (11) | ARSENIC bank | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7608 | CASE (4) | It's an example of one way you and I are different (4) | Ddef (you and I have upper/lowercase, and a case is an example of something) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7626 | NEMESIS (7) | Uprooted seed symbolizes Greek goddess (7) | SEMEN< + IS (symbolizes) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7627 | IHNN (6) | "Hello back!" notes puzzler (6) | HI< + NN (notes) Def: a username of a 🎂puzzler🎂 |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7629 | GARRULOUS (9) | Like a ray-finned fish that won't shut up? (9) | GAR = ray-finned fish, so like it is GAR-RULOUS The whole thing is a cryptic definition. Cryptic clues need to be split intl wordplay and definition? Bah! Your conventions needlessly hamstring the author. Freedom! |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7630 | GARRULOUS (9) | Talkative as a ray-finned fish? (9) | GAR+RULOUS Okay, okay, I understand the need for conventions. It makes it more fair and fun for solvers, it gives a framework under which authors can function, and it preserves the elegance of the form. I get it, I get it. Sheesh. |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7660 | RESOLVE (7) | Will leaping lovers ultimately die? (7) | LOVERS* + diE will=def |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7667 | TAPA (4) | Pounded bark with a pat on the back (4) | A PAT< def: a decorative cloth made from pounded bark of a mulberry or other tree |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7676 | PLOSIVE (7) | Stop! Volatile former lover has escaped! (7) | EXPLOSIVE - EX | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7680 | ANY ROMAN EMPEROR (?) | Overheard: "Seize her salad!" (6) | "SEIZE HER" - Caeser | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7735 | BRIEF (5) | Cut cheese, loudly (5) | BRIE + F | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7746 | PEASANT (7) | Common bed woe for a princess: small bug (7) | PEA (bed woe for a princess, per the fairy tale) + S (small) + ANT (bug) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7751 | CANDIDE (7) | Toilet did start to (eventually) work with a woman with one buttock (7) | CAN (toilet) + DID + E (start to eventually) And Candide has a woman with a single buttock |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7763 | HEADS OR TAILS (5) | Ends to the beginning, and beginning dovetails southern ends (5x2) | HEADS (ends to "the"= HE, "and" beginning = A, beginning "dovetails"=D, southern=S, ends=def) TAILS (ends=def, "the" beginning =T, "and" beginning=A, "dovetails southern ends" = ILS (take from the "southern" ends of "dovetails") |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7792 | LADDER (6) | Starting to lick snake - it gets you high (6) | L(ick) + ADDER (=snake) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7797 | DOHA (4) | Capital of Colorado has prisoners (4) | coloraDO HAs | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7802 | MR ROBOTO (2, 6) | Hockey player fell back, breaking bottom. That got fixed while rubbing out - touch of therapist, who does the jobs nobody else wants to (2 6) | ORR< (hockey player), breaking BOTTOM* (bottom that got fixed), rubbing out [erasing] touch of "therapist" = T Def is from the song |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7818 | TERMINAL (8) | The last tramline got decommissioned (8) | TRAMLINE*, def = the last | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7824 | BIG TOP (3, 3) | B (3, 3) | Reverse wordplay for BIG TOP (top letter of Big) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7837 | SCRAWL (6) | Write quickly with short stroke (6) | S (short) + CRAWL (stroke, like swimming) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7839 | UNGUENT (7) | Ointment is fragrant after removing lid, embodying essence of skunk (7) | PUNGENT - P inserting skUnk | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7846 | FOUNDER (7) | Fish expelled liquid to go down (7) | FLOUNDER - L (liquid) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7859 | RELIQUARY (9) | Squirrel with a yellow head, nuts, and display case for the bones of saints, maybe (9) | (SQUIRREL - S + AY (a yellow))* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7895 | YOUR MOST RECENT LUNCH/DINNER (?) | Fried fin hash + dip, with a bit of calamari?! (4 3 5) | (FINHASHDIP+C)* Fish and chips (it was a captain's platter that also had squid and oysters as well as cod and shrimp and fries with cocktail and tartar sauce) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7921 | HEAT (4) | Some guy with a Tesla gun (4) | HE + A + T | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7930 | OLIVIA (6) | Crude oil by means of pig (6) | OIL* + VIA (Olivia is a children's book pig by Ian Falconer) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7935 | SLASH (5) | Attack with small whip (5) | S+LASH | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7936 | META (4) | Minced meat that might be pure or have a shell (4) | MEAT* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7937 | CASTLE (6) | Mystery novelist's crime investigation is taking too long (6) | CAS(TL (like tl/dr))E - see the TV show of the same name | Firetruck | 1 |
| 7978 | A-OK (1-2) | Karaoke bar is kosher (1-2) | karAOKe "Bar" as in a segment, like a bar in music |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 7983 | FLUX (4) | Times, after virus, change (4) | FLU + X (x=times like multiplication) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8016 | GARBOLOGY (9) | By actress Greta's account, youth is one reason folks may be down in the dumps (9) | GARBO (Greta Garbo) + LOG (account; by GARBO (is) LOG) + Y (youth) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8052 | FIVE (4) | Loud firetruck has loud greeting (4) | F (forte=loud) + IVE (I have / firetruck=me), loud greeting = to give five, slapping hands | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8062 | ASPHALT (7) | Butt crack's musical pitch (7) | "ASS FAULT" = butt crack Asphalt is a form of pitch |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8065 | PHOOEY (6) | Soup order: eye, head, and neck of rats (6) | PHO (soup) + O (order in taxonomy) + EY (head and neck of EYE) Rats = def |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8088 | PROGRAM (7) | Genesis-style animal that may be executed (7) | PROG + RAM (Genesis-style = prog like tha band, animal=ram) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8096 | OH NO (2 2) | Hotel overrun with fish and rats (2 2) | O(H=Hotel in NATO alphabet)NO, ONO is a Hawaiian fish. Rats=def | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8113 | EMBARK (6) | "Go, dash!" is what the dog says (6) | EM + BARK | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8134 | VAPE PEN (4. 3) | Skunk entered vehicle, and you can hardly smell it (4 3) | VA(PEPE)N (Pepe le Pew) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8139 | LMAO (4) OR (1, 1, 1, 1) | Lady meets chairman that's rich (4) | L + MAO (that's rich = def) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8163 | STAUNCH (7) | Station didn't have a crossing or stop (7) | STA (station) + UNCH (unchecked in crossword construction parlance), stop as to staunch a flow | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8194 | URBANA (6) | City's original banana had 50% less sodium (6) | UR + BANANA - NA | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8204 | JANUARY (7) | I told Marcia's sister, "You empty-head!" of like a dozen times (7) | "JAN (Brady) + YOU + AIRY (empty)" Head of a dozen times = def (the first of a dozen units of time) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8211 | TWO (3) | Network's core coupler (3) | neTWOrk, 2=coupler in the sense that it produces couples | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8234 | SIX (3) | Prisoner number 3! (3) | The Prisoner show:6 3!=6 |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8251 | CIRCUMNAVIGATE (14) | ||Circus with S&M juggling rebooted by terrible leader, producing scandal around the world||(14) | CIRCUS switching S and M = CIRCUM "Terrible" leader = IVAN (the terrible) < Producing scandal =-GATE |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8254 | ANY CLUE WHICH INCORPORATES THE NUMBER 100, 101, OR 102 (?) | :pizza: 101-course (1 + 100) pizza party :pizza: (12) | Lollapalooza: LOL=101 (l33t), course=LAP, one=A, 100=LOO, pizza=ZA - thanks @calica for pointing out the typo |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8258 | CAPTIOUS (8) | Captain with promises of future returns in carping (8) | CAPT + IOUS | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8278 | ANY CLUE USING PALINDROME WORDPLAY (?) | Cool - it bounces back and forth! (5) | RADAR (rad=cool palindrome) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8281 | PIRATE (6) | Rover's at constant speed (6) | PI + RATE | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8314 | KIRBY (5) | Gourmand with white wine drink at hand (5) | Gourmand = def (Kirby believes that to have discriminating taste, one must taste indiscriminately) white wine drink = KIR https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kir At hand = BY |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8316 | BOUTIQUE (8) | Shop for rumoured raspberry tree (8) | Shop=def Rumoured= homophone indicator Raspberry="BOO" Tree="TEAK" Dollar sign intentionally omitted |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8320 | CALL IN (4, 2) | Guy from Genesis who stole lines for answer (4 2) | CAIN=guy from Genesis LL=lines (abbreviation) CA(LL)IN |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8329 | DOPE (4) | Drip drape's drapes drape drop dropping drop drop dropping drop dropping drop drop drop (4) | DRAPE'S DRAPES = DE (the "drapes" of "drape") DRAPE ( DROP, DROPPING DROP DROP=DROP - D (a drop of DROP) = ROP) ROP dropping drop drop dropping drop drop drop = drop the R frok ROP Now the DE from earlier "drapes" OP=DOPE def = DRIP (a stupid person in slang) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8341 | VOTELESS (8) | Incredible: solve set without any props (8) | Incredible: anagram indicator SOLVESET* def: without any props (props in the sense of kudos) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8343 | VORPAL (6) | Almost prove, galumphing back // a line may slay the Jabberwock (6) | Almost prove = PROV Galumphing back I assert is a reversal indicator, so VORP a line = A + L (l abbreviation for line) Def: "may slay the Jabberwock" which is as good a def for vorpal as one may hope |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8370 | FREE (4) | Liberate! Charge about! Resistance! (4) | Def: liberate Charge=FEE resistance=R (electricity) About:containment F(R)EE |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8390 | NOSH (4) | A bit of nuts, some Oreos, a slice of salami, and a drop of horchata?! (4) | Def = same as wordplay a bit of = take first letter of nuts=N some =take the first letter of Oreos = O a slice of = take first letter of salami = S a drop of = take first letter of horchata = H |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8492 | OUROBOROS (9) | Burr's off his rocker and full of four holes, becoming a self-cannibal (9) | (BURRS+OOOO)* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8501 | BUFFALO (7) | Fox in sauce (7) | Ddef (fox (v) means to bewilder, and sauce as in Buffalo sauce) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8609 | SCREE (5) | Talus Principle starts small and doesn't have much of an ending (5) | Talus = def Principle=CREED, starts small=S (shirt size), doesn't end =-D S+CREED-D |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8617 | DR. NO (2. 2) | It clears out a bionic man (2. 2) | DRANO-A | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8635 | UNIVERSE (8) | All like a poem that's not epic? (8) | Ddef: all=universe, like a poem that's not wpi=uni-verse, it's only got one verse. | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8650 | MINISTER (8) | Tiny saint, rabbi, and priest (8) | MINI = tiny Saint = STE Rabbi = R Priest = def MINI + STE + R |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8651 | WET (3) | Splashing water lacks one secondary property?! (3) | &lit Water isn't wet - wetness is defined by something having water on/in it. Splashing water = WATER* lacks = deletion indicator One =A Secondary property = pRoperty WATER*-A-R |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8664 | WATER (5) | Melted ice cream - heat in reverse to melt again (5) | melted ice= def Cream heat (H) in reverse to melt again (RETHAW<) So RETHAW< - H |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8687 | ANY CLUE WITH A WORD USED MULTIPLE TIMES (?) | Element element element element (4 or 5) | FIRE or WATER F+I+Re or W + At + Er (chemical elements) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8836 | EUNICE (6) | Bond pairs with this chick'n cordon bleu nicely (6) | Def: Bond pairs with this chick (Eunice Gaylord is a Bond girl) 'N: connector Cordon (v, inperative): instruct the reader to "cordon" or "rope off" a segment of blEU NICEly |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8841 | SURNAME OF ANY U.S. PRESIDENT - NO REPEATED ANSWERS (?) | Cleaning a lot in general (10) | WASHINGTON (WASHING (cleaning)+ TON (a lot)) Washington was a general |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8851 | SURNAME OF ANY U.S. PRESIDENT - NO REPEATED ANSWERS (?) | Programmer masters first vice (5) | ADAMS (ADA (lovelace) + MS (master of science)) Def: first vice (president) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8907 | INDIANA (7) | Trendy princess is "in" (7) | IN(trendy)+DIANA(princess) Def=IN (state postal code) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8930 | PONYSEW (7) | Said, "Little equines? Gross?"! (7) | &lit "PONIES? EW" homophone Def: "To be honest, I have no interest in any kind of pony, not even the anime one." |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8941 | REPORT (6) | Announcement of violation of terms of service - move to yet another platform (6) | Ddef: report (a TOS violation), re-port (as in porting software to another platform) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 8960 | SLEW (4) | A lot of ice yesterday (4) | Ddef: a lot of (as in "many", like, "there are a whole slew of tin cans with the labels torn off in my pantry") ice, yesterday: past tense of ice(v), slang for "to kill" or "to slay" |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8962 | TRAMP (5) | Hike for miles through quagmire (5) | Def:hike (tramp (v) ) M=miles (Miles per hour MPH, etc) Quagmire = TRAP (something that holds something) TRA(M)P |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 8994 | STERN (5) | Howard's End (5) | Ddef (howard stern is a shock jock, the stern is one end of a boat). Yes I know it's Howards End, but w/e, ya freakin' purists |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 9043 | ET TU (2,2) | Brutal remark from pet turtle (2 2) | pET TUrtle | Firetruck | 1 |
| 9047 | ET TU (2,2) | Nude knife enthusiast returning cutting remark? (2 2) | (CUTTER - CR)< (nude knife enthusiast returning) Def: cutting remark |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 9062 | TARNISHED (9) | Fantasy hero threw away a broken shield - without a lady, they may be maidenless | Fantasy hero = TARAN (from the Prydain chronicles) Threw away A = remove A broken shield = SHIELD*, without a lady = remove L they may be maidenless = def (see Elden Ring) TARAN - A + SHIELD* - L |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 9111 | MOTHER (6) | Danzig hit me first before someone else (6) | def: Danzig hit (it's a great song) Me first: M Someone else: OTHER M+OTHER |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 9127 | INDICATOR (9) | Needle on grass hill (9) | Needle=def grass=INDICA (as in marijuana variety) hill=TOR |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 9140 | SOAP (4) | Chump drinking round of suds from a bar? (4) | S(O)AP round=O Suds from a bar = def Chump=sap |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 9162 | CLOUDS (6) | Things that float in the air when passing noisy gas from behind (6) | Things that float in the air=def Passing=C Noisy=LOUD gas from behind = S |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 9862 | CRISIS (6) | Sibling follows loud scream and meets trouble (6) | "CRY SIS" homophone trouble = def |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 9961 | SMACK-DAB (5-3) | Square dam backs up in a flood (5-3) | DAMBACKS* def:square up in a flood: anagram indicator |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 9987 | ANY CURRENT WORLD LEADER (?) | DC hero is least violent (5) | ans: TESLA (he was a world leader in current events) def: DC hero LEAST* |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10086 | SCHOOL TRIP (6, 4) | Scandium + H2O + light -> whoops, dropping acid in chemistry class? (6, 4) | Def: dropping acid in chemistry class? SC=scandium H,2O: H+O+O LT=light Whoops=RIP, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rip |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10087 | BARNS (5) | Scottish kids and yours truly lost in farm structures (5) | BAIRNS-I | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10096 | ISLANDS (7) | Dials in audio remix reflecting keys (7) | Def: keys "DIALS IN" phonetic anagram (aɪlɪndz)* -> daɪlz ɪn |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10116 | FLOUNDER (8) | Erector Set around large fish (8) | erector:FOUNDER Set around: containment Large:L as in T shirt size fish:def |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10127 | OK (2) | Knocked out? Flat on back? This is fine (2) | KO< | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10173 | H.G. WELLS | He wrote fantastical stories, whilst Ian oddly ran away from wishing wells (1.1. 5) | Def: he wrote fantastical stories whilst ian oddly = WhILStIaN WISHINGWELLS - WISIN |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10179 | CHARCUTERIE (11) | Great body after burn or scrape: whatever it is, it might be cured (11) | def: whatever it is, it might be cured [as a meat] burn: CHAR scrape: CUT Great body: ERIE |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10193 | DUBLIN (6) | Irish city to translate the dialogue of Hamilton? (6) | DUB LIN (Manuel-Miranda) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10297 | ANY PHINEAS AND FERB CHARACTER (?) | Guy wearing a photogenic hat! (5 1) | ans: AGENT P GENT (=guy) wearing A And literally so |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10353 | DIG IN (3, 2) | Chew it up? Time for new replacement finger (3,2) | DIGI(T->N) Digit = finger, chew it up=def |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10370 | PIPIS (5) | 360° setting initially for Spam pellets (5) | PIPI=360° (2 pi radians) Setting initially = S Spam pellets = def, I think... |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10372 | LOOKDOWN (8) | See feathers on fish? (8) | Look+down | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10419 | MEMORY (6) | Retrospective "I, Eel" didn't get an A (6) | ME MORAY - A | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10478 | BOOST (5) | Raise ghosts with grave marker (5) | Raise=def BOOS=ghosts in Mario franchise Grave marker = cross= t |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10519 | A KNEE CLUE (PATELLA, SHIN, ETC) (?) | Skinned knee around 1:30 (2) | KNEE-KE | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10526 | WHO (3) | How alternative! (3) | HOW*, and literally so | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10537 | CORAL (5) | Reef starting to grow in black rock?! (5) | CO(R)AL black rock=coal Reef starting = r &lit if you squint |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10612 | OORT (4) | Jumper jumping up to top of cloud (4) | ROO< (jumper) + T ("to"'s top = T) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10677 | DASHER (6) | Who runs to the German girl? (6) | The German = DAS Girl = HER |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10714 | B-SIDE (1-4) | Eclipse of the other half (1-4) | Eclipse is a terrible BS IDE (seriously, why do people still use it?) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10727 | DOCENT (6) | Speaker's money transferred to the audience (6) | "DOUGH SENT" | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10763 | SEXTANT (7) | Message the queen that you want her instrument? (7) | ddef (SEXT ANT (tell the queen that you want her), instrument) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10835 | TIME MACHINE (4, 7) | This odd meme involves reform of China that could lead to a new era (4, 7) | ThIs + MEM(CHINA*)E def: that could lead to a new era |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 10892 | MIGHT (5) | Sounds like time to go back to brawn (5) | TIME phonetic reversal | Firetruck | 1 |
| 10923 | YOUR (4) | The solver had it before answering (4) | "YORE" homophone ("before"="yore"), answering = homophone indicator | Firetruck | 1 |
| 11029 | LITERALLY (9) | Friend of Henry and Newton is not pulling your leg (9) | LITER+ALLY (Henry and Newton are SI derived units) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 11044 | MAKEMAKE (8) | Cool! Far out! Rock on! Swell! Score! (8) | def: cool far out rock wp: swell (make as in "the tide is making now") score (make as in "make the goal") |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11059 | BATHTUB (7) | That's for splashing surrounded by bubbles, mostly! (7) | B(THAT)*UB | Firetruck | 1 |
| 11081 | CIVIL (5) | Grunting one, straining, will be polite (5) | Grunting one straining will be polite (5) "SIEVE'LL" One straining = sieve Will='LL Grunting = homophone indicator |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11258 | KOROK (5) | "Krook" kan katapult krazily!? (5) | KOROK* &lit if you play Link as an absolute sociopath | Firetruck | 1 |
| 11628 | PINECONE (8) | Subject from a branch of economics: inflating the yen (8) | Subject from a branch: def Economics=ECON inflating: containment indicator yen = PINE (synonym) PIN(ECON)E |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11659 | ANACONDA (8) | Prosecutor followed an irrelevant convention member (8) | Prosecutor=DA Irrelevant =N/A Convention=con Member = def a la sor mix a lot |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11668 | GUTS (4) | Virgule, inner bracket, tilde symbol, right parenthesis, colon, etc (4) | Virgule inner bracket = GU tilde symbol = T Right parenthesis = S Colon, etc = def /[~):... as an alternative presentation |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11685 | AUTUMNAL (8) | Fall for naked guy with potbelly into cheeky fun (8) | A(gUy + TUM (potbelly))NAL cheeky fun =, well, you know |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11697 | BIAS (4) | Without gender preference: like gender preference, perhaps (4) | Without gender preference: BI like: AS with gender preference, perhaps: def |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11701 | BULLISH (7) | Like positive thinking? There's no truth in idiotic bullshit (7) | BULLSHIT* - T (=truth as in true/false) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 11703 | GRUE (4) | One who never has a light meal's first gluttonous regret (4) | Def: one who never has a light meal, since a grue eats in darkness First gluttonous: G Regret: RUE |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11710 | RECOVER (7) | Recording complete. Save? (7) | REC + OVER | Firetruck | 1 |
| 11712 | MILLE-FEUILLE (5-7) | Napoleon's mule: "I feel ill, terrible" (5-7) | MULEIFEELILL* | Firetruck | 1 |
| 11722 | REGRESSION (10) | How to make the best line: get ready in place that follows the one in front (10) | REG(dRESS)ION Get ready=dress Place=region How to make the best line=regression |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11823 | FACE CARD (4 4) | Member of family including a backward-looking noble! (4 4) | F_+A(=ace) + DRAC< (Count Dracula) Several face cards look to the left |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11826 | MALEFIC (7) | ♂ stories?! (7) | ♂=MALE, STORIES=fic (like fanfic) Apparently in astrology, malefic means "relating to the planets Saturn and Mars, traditionally considered to have an unfavorable influence." So in a sense this a 'story' about Mars (yeah, it's a stretch, but that's what you get when you post cryptic prompts before I've had my first coffee; that is, before my mug shots) |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11832 | SWAG (4) | Something for free? That's almost assuredly wrong (4) | ddef (Scientific Wild-Assed Guess, free crap from e.g. a convention) | Firetruck | 1 |
| 11854 | MUST (4) | M&M: tasty snack that's found in the gym (4) | M&M =MUS (two mus, Greek letter) Tasty snack = T_ def: that's found in the gym |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11861 | HYDROGEN (8) | H = Henry? God...screwed that one up (8) | H=def HENRYGOD* |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11906 | SLIM (4) | Slender love interest getting into kink (4) | S(LI)M LI=love interest (eg https://www.romancemfa.com/romancelandia-glossary-a-guide-to-romance-abbreviations-and-terms/) Kink = S&M def: slender |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 11908 | CLEAT (5) | Tackle tossed, losing king sole container (5) | TACKLE* - K (=king) Sole container = def I have no idea if a king sole is a reel fish |
Firetruck | 1 |
| 12066 | GF (2) | Girlfriend's picture doesn't have me in it (2) | GIF - I | Firetruck | 1 |
| 4775 | INCINERATE (10) | Adultless, unfixed canine in raging heat, to an intense degree (10) | I(CANINE-A)*RATE | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4797 | PACHYDERM (9) | Petite, painful back-talking TV animal is like Babar (9) | P+ACHY+MRED< | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4817 | ALARM (5) | Like a French man on his back? It may cause sirens to sing (5) | ALA (MR)< | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4848 | ELECTION (8) | Building switched sides in political process (8) | ERECTION (like a thing that was built), swap R[ight] with L[eft] |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 4853 | ADDUCE (6) | Tot's up during our time to illustrate (6) | ADD+U+CE | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4855 | MASTIFF (7) | One thick, having first place mass, like Zorba (7) | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_(dog) Fattest dog in Guiness Book of World Records is a mastiff A+STIFF having M at the first Almost &lit |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 4859 | UNIBROW (7) | College (western) holds regressive ball for, like, caterpillars (7) | UNI (ORB<) W | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4925 | INTEGRAL (8) | Popular, creative, great line is anti-derivative (8) | IN + GREAT* + L | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4958 | THOUSAND (8) | K G (8) | ddef | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4960 | FILLER (6) | Family was more cool in the 80s, like great stuff (6) | F + ILLER, def https://www.greatstuff.dupont.com/ | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4970 | ANECHOIC (8) | A candy wafer? Yuck! Sounds like bad news for a bat (8) | "A NECCO ICK" | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4984 | POLYSEMOUS (10) | Initial putrification and odor beginning experience: cellular decline near rodent with its tail cut off, with multiple senses | P+O+LYSE+(MOUSE-E) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4985 | ANTEPENULTIMATE (15) | Reclining Homestuck cat holds new, confused guilt with its top off (final move just before the end) (15) | NEPET(N)A< + (GUILT-G)* + MATE | Firetruck | 0 |
| 4991 | CHTHONIC (8) | Infernal plane algebraic curve of degree two devours - hope this helps! (8) | C(HTH)ONIC | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5117 | YURT (4) | Attempt to return with umbrella top for shelter (4) | TR(U)Y< | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5123 | TURKEY (6) | Idiot, annoying accordian player almost got into extremal topology (6) | T(URKEL - L)Y Idiot = def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 5137 | WHATEVER (8) | The waver in motion who cares (8) | THEWAVER* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5151 | BIG BROTHER (3, 7) | German ale contains high gravity stock which was everywhere in 1984 (3, 7) | BI(G + BROTH)ER | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5203 | LIST (4) | Catatog or rott (4) | Catalog or roll, L IS T | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5223 | POTATO (6) | Vegetable ink breaks crap (6) | PO(TAT)O | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5281 | TORTE (5) | Take Black Forest for one's route following scenic loop (5) | RTE following "scenic" loop=O (looks like a loop) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5283 | BOO-BOO (3-3) | Owie! Blood (blood!)'s leaking out left and right (left and right!) (3-3) | BLOODBLOOD - LDLD (L and D are designations for the chirality of carbohydrates) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5333 | BLIZZARD (8) | Shakespeare takes good as hell singer without a ring to treat at Dairy Queen (8) | B(LIZZO-O)ARD | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5363 | IS (2) | Am I strange? (2) | Am=def I + S (Strange quark abbreviation) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 5377 | INSIDE BASEBALL (6, 8) | Care alot about the trees? Say, "Connections to power line ground peeling off all but the top layer of bark, so much!" (6 8) | Care alot about the trees, say: inside baseball def ("missing forest for the trees") Connections to power: ins Line: side Ground: base bark - ark So much: all |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 5388 | FESTIVE (7) | Decay, rotting stumps? I have chipper (7) | FESTER - ER = chipper | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5392 | PANICKING (9) | Gross new trade in washing, having kittens (9) | Trade ICK for N(ew) in PANNING | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5398 | SANITY (6) | It's not being crazy to speak while holding egg (6) | SA(NIT)Y | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5419 | PORT (4) | What goes on top of rice that's not right? (4) | P or T can go before "rice" (and make a word). Technically grice can work too, but what the heck is a grice? No one knows. Apparently it's Scots for pig maybe? | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5422 | BEGINNING (9) | Starting to fill with juniper liquor? (9) | Be-gin-ning, ddef | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5438 | DENTAL FLOSS (6, 5) | Nick 3/7 of alfalfa: take away crop Frank Zappa wants to grow in Montana (6 5) | DENT = NICK + 3/7 of ALFalfa, take away= LOSS, and the song is https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=smZA9Jv3qH0 | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5448 | MYST (4) | The author's street near puzzle world (4) | MY = the author's + ST(reet) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5475 | NO-SEE-UM (2-3-2) | Said, "no replacing Mew in Museum of Insect" (2-3-2) | "MUSEUM" replacing "mew" with "no" | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5519 | FERROUS (7) | Ironic fail: you, topless, after malfunction with upper strap? (7) | F + ERR (malfunction) + (YOU - Y) + S(trap) IRON-IC = FERROUS |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 5530 | COMMENCED (9) | Launched fish to eat male humans around half-past ten (9) | CO(M+MEN+C(circa)+tEn)D | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5532 | MIT (3) | Strike insiders near glorified trade school (3) | sMITe | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5534 | LAWYER (6) | Legal expert said to stand around too long without final permit (6) | "LOITER" -"T" | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5555 | COIN (4) | Name Pence, for example (4) | Ddef | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5569 | BE NOISY (2, 5) | Famously wrong answer is by one mistake (2,5) | ISBYONE* Def: https://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/2002/endgame/benoisy.html |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 5570 | CELLAR DOOR (6, 4) | Our time-lines love to have love that lets you down (6,4) | CE + LL + ARDO(O)R def: that lets you down |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 5578 | MYSTERY (7) | Why the author's sidelines shout was "yer out!" (7) | MY + ShouT + YER* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5579 | BOUGIE (6) | Fancy-pants up in unidentified aircraft (6) | BO(U)GIE | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5611 | GREEN PAINT (5, 5) | Acknowledge gobbling starter not smart, it's bad to fill with (5,5) | Acknowledge=GREET, gobbling = containment indicator, starter not = N, smart=PAIN, so GREE(N+PAIN)T | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5621 | PRAXIS (6) | Practice yields par six, sorta (6) | PARSIX* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5668 | NOPE (4) | Angry, open response to "LWOJLA?" (4) | OPEN* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5680 | NORSEMEN (8) | Sermon bits resampled by black metal enthusiasts, often (8) | bank of SERMON, and Norway is famous for its black metal scene | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5708 | III (3) | Me, myself, and I like Desi Arnaz (3) | (Desi Arnaz was born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5737 | SALAMI (6) | Like comeuppance? Hit a sausage (6) | AS< + LAM + I (=a) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5750 | HEMLOCK (7) | Confine hair with carrot (7) | HEM + LOCK (hemlock is in the carrot family) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5754 | AIOLI (5) | Speaking mode lost in mayonnaise (5) | "AEOLIAN" - "IN" | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5761 | KETCHUP (7) | Executioner Jack cutting head off of tup, yielding red substance that looks like blood (7) | KETCH + tUP | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5791 | CELLIST (7) | She takes a bow (part of a cartoon strip) (7) | CEL (=part of a cartoon) + LIST (=strip) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5796 | WILDCARD (8) | Child shuffling, cutting - not Hearts; Reverse/Draw Four are something played in Uno) (8) | DRAW< around (CHILD - H(hearts))* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5947 | IXPOWHXQELZTBUMXDS (18) | Mister Mxyzptlk’s child perhaps bashing on a keyboard (18) | Ddef, resubmitted largely because Cheshire likes it | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5956 | DUPE (4) | trick.edu: Pedreaux insiders (4) | eDU PEdreaux | Firetruck | 0 |
| 5976 | CLINOMANIA (10) | Cliff (not very loudly): "I don't agree, dude. I am almost wanting to lie" (10) | CLIFF-FF (very loud) "I don't agree, dude" = NO, MAN I AM almost = A wanting to lie = definition |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 5977 | DIME | Turn down Ecstacy and $10 of pot (4) | DIM + E (Ecstacy) $10 of pot = def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 5999 | FIFTY-FIFTY (5-5) | 2 x (1 and 49): even odds (5-5) | 2* FIFTY (=1 and 49)= FIFTYFIFTY even odds = def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6012 | 867-5309 (3-4) | What to call for a good time-4442 (3-4) | 867-5309=-4442 | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6021 | BAD (3) | Good and evil (3) | Ddef (bad in slang = good, abd bad=evil) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6032 | LOBSTER BUCKS (7, 5) | Disheveled slob bestruck by sand dollars? (7,5) | SLOBBESTRUCK* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6040 | TITTLE (6) | Doctor or Professor before one's name takes a bit of time (the smallest bit) (6) | TIT(Time)LE | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6169 | RUBIK'S CUBE (6, 4) | Drag queen's ride taking Tampa Bay football players back? I'll never figure it out (6, 4) | RU (RuPaul) + BIK(BUCS<)E (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, ride=bike). And the only way I have ever solved one of those goddamn things is by taking it apart physically and putting it back together. | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6170 | PARSIMONY (9) | Parts with his unlimited money? Not true - not even a little bit! (9) | PARTS+(HIS-H-S)+MONEY - T - E (even, a little bit) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6179 | HYACINTH (8) | What's up with a Moog cousin on the soundtrack of _Perennial Flower_? (8) | On the soundtrack = homophones "What's up" = "HI" "moog cousin" = "SYNTH" |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6186 | SWIMS (5) | She, while inviting maltworms at first, then dateless at last, does the crawl for one (5) | She While Inviting Maltworms + datelesS does the crawl, for one = def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6192 | REPRESENTATIVE (14) | Elected offical: "It's like I've seen this Powerpoint slide deck before, maybe" (14) | ddef sort of (re-present atitve like "like seeing a presentation again) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6193 | SENATOR (7) | Odds she'd join NATO run 1 in 100 (7) | ShEd + NATO + R | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6223 | BANK (4) | Dealer of elevators (4) | Ddef (a person conducting a gambling house or game, a set of elevators) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6230 | SONDER (6) | Small wonder doesn't start to think solipsism is wrong (6) | S+(WONDER - W) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6236 | BUG (3) | Phantom moth or centipede (3) | Bug (bogey) and bug (insect) ddef, not etymologically related this time | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6254 | PADDYWHACK (10) | Duck with rice portion (10) | PADDY (rice) + WHACK (portion) Duck = def (a paddywhack is a Oxyura jamaicensis) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6272 | THANK YOU OR THANK-YOU (5, 3 OR 5-3) | You old, hugging Yank - all over the place...it's before you're welcome (5, 3) | TH(YANK*)OU (you old = thou, all over the place = anagram, it's before you're welcome = def | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6405 | ARROYO (6) | You briefly followed arrow: with no end in sight, it's a wash (6) | YOU-U after ARROW-W it's a wash = def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6417 | NAN (3) | Bread without any failure (3) | NAAN (bread) - A (any) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6444 | LIL NAS X (3, 3, 1) | Hill snail was swimming in luxury (3,3,1) | Hill=def (it's his last name) LX=luxury L(SNAIL*)X |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6451 | JACKKNIFE (9) | King (wearing Calvin Klein) in a fine mess after the start of Jello dive (9) | Jello + AFINE* containing CK+K A jackknife is a kind of dive |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6457 | STATE OF THE ART (5, 2, 3, 3) | Very fresh pickle, hot aftertaste (5,2,3,3) | HOTAFTERTASTE* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6458 | MARROWSKY (9) | Something Spooner might say, "Run away hastily and owe me per the Reverend!" (9) | "SKIRR OWE ME" Spoonerism | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6476 | ANY CLUE THAT IS ALSO A COMPILABLE PROGRAM (?) | // TODO: refactoring debris: ones and fours (5 2 8) | DEBRISONESFOURS* TODO=def (order of business) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6477 | ANY INFINITE STRING (♾️) | Lambchops song lyrics undergoes self-reflection? (#overflow) | This Is The Song That Doesn't End | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6495 | SPHINGES (8) | Special based on a couple of catty women (8) | SP + HINGES (based on) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6514 | FOURIER (7) | Frenchman's chicken floating around soup without any wings (7) | FRIER (young chicken) around sOUp | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6520 | NIN (3) | Glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta-interacting protein seen in extract (3) | seeN IN | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6596 | TITS UP (4, 2) | Make a lamb sandwich containing bits of inferior tapenade and salsa? Doesn't work (4 2) | T(Inferior + Tapenade + Salsa)UP (Tup means to procreate with an ewe) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6598 | DECENT (6) | Sam's beginning to leave dive, wearing clothes (6) | DESCENT - Sam Wearing clothes = def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6602 | TITS UP (4, 2) | Group finished falling apart (4,2) | group (=Tits group) + finished (=up) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6621 | WEED (4) | Tweedledum held what the Caterpillar might have given (4) | tWEEDledum | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6690 | OBJECT (6) | Something is <:notlikeduck:610368846712537109> (6) | ddef (an object, to object) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6700 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A BOARD/CARD GAME (?) | ⫟╭╰ (something co-written by Garfield) (4 5) | HALF TRUTH | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6813 | PECCADILLO (10) | "Kiss armadillo" gets a "C" for karma - it's just a little bad (10) | PECK + ARMADILLO, replacing KARMA with C | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6888 | GRENADINE (9) | Power connector covered by explosive syrup (9) | GRENAD(IN)E In = "power connector" in the sense of "a person with connections to people in power" |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6982 | ANY CHARACTER FROM NORSE MYTHOLOGY (?) | Salmon, mare, or fly at times produced subtle murmur (4) | "low-key" = subtle homophone Loki shapeshifter into various forms |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 6985 | GATEKEEP (8) | Punched tape geek to curate (8) | TAPEGEEK* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 6992 | PRIDE (5) | Parade time meets park and ride (5) | P + RIDE | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7033 | DIVINE (6) | Creeper, following princess, meets queen (6) | Queen = def (Divine the drag queen from several John Waters films) Princess = DI, creeper = VINE |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7034 | REPENTANCE (10) | Agitated preteen can near sequel to _The Crying Game_ (10) | PRETEENCAN* def: see The Binding of Isaac: Repentance |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7075 | EXODUS (6) | Toddler escapes tuxedos in a frenzy, getting out of Dodge (6) | (TUXEDOS-T)* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7115 | SOUPÇON OR SOUPCON (7) | A bit of a bad situation: tuberculosis (7) | A bit: def A bad situation: SOUP Tuberculosis: CON |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7133 | METROID (7) | Alien language found in dim reflection of H. R. Giger-inspired work (7) | DIM< containing ET + RO (conlang) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7145 | DIM SUM (3 3) | Dish Spooner's virtual knucklehead game? (3 3) | Spoonerism on "SimDumb" | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7146 | AND-LIT (3-3) | The most favorite of bags landed around North Dakota (3-3) | A(ND)LIT def: bags has expressed that &lit is totally lit |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7477 | NAVEM (5) | Fire truck (large vehicle) in reverse colliding with Latin ships (5) | (ME + VAN)< | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7491 | REMEDY (6) | Right, I'm in color, yes (6) | RE(ME)D + Y | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7512 | ERRANT (6) | Who Made My Brilliant Friend Who Was Naked Stray? (6) | FERRANTE -F -E | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7514 | SCRAM (5) | Get out of snow pack (5) | S (snow) + CRAM (=pack) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7517 | WATERLOG (8) | Two large freaks wash (8) | TWOLARGE* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7518 | OOMPH (5) | Zip past the starting line at 100 miles per hour (5) | 100 - 1=OO MPH = miles per hour Zip = def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7574 | SHTUM (5) | Quiet, almost silent reverberation...(5) | SH + MUT(e)< def = ... |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7576 | RECURSION (9) | "Returning with stink? Avoid following skunk," I said (9) | "REEK" + "SHUN" following "CUR" (homophone) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7592 | TYSM (4) OR (1, 1, 1, 1) | What comes before you're welcome in Myst: running around all over the place (1,1,1,1) | MYST* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7596 | MUM (3) | Quiet, Momma (3) | ddef | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7597 | SADGE (5) | Sargeant has downright consternation with flattened frog (5) | SARGE, replacing D (down) fot R (right) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7632 | SINK (4) | Fall is returning, and Naira's at kindergarten (4) | IS< + N + K | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7633 | HOTEL (5) | Finally putt in the cursed hole that follows golf (5) | putT in HOLE* that follows golf = def (NATO phonetic alphabet) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7641 | RUSTY (5) | Out-of-practice musician Springfield changed parties (5) | RUSTY, changing D(usty springfield) to R(usty). Which only makes sense in the two-party US. I am disregarding the Libertarian, Green, Liberty, Constitution, Socialist, Reform, Whig, Bull Moose, and other parties) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7658 | VITUPERATE (10) | Six ram and ewes primarily deserve trash (10) | VI + TUP (ram) + Ewes + RATE (as in "it rated a second chance") | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7674 | DELTA (5) | Echo's predecessor is wet mouth (5) | ddef | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7706 | NETWORK (7) | 1-0+2 -> 1000 (net) (7) | ONE - O + TWO + R (right) + K (1000) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7716 | ANY DWARF FROM THE HOBBIT (?) | Explosive OG company member (6) | BOMB (explosive) + UR (OG, original) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7720 | SUNFLOWER (9) | Returned to canine again, maybe, with 2ν-Δ-system (9) | (RE-WOLF + NUS)< Def: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_(mathematics) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7723 | LAST NIGHT (4, 5) | When I most recently saw my neighbor's botched slight tan (4,5) | SLIGHTTAN* def: she brought over some kind of fancy popcorn to share. I forget what was special about thid particular kind of popcorn, and to be fair, I didn't have any of it either since the kids and my wife got to it first, and realistically I am not that huge of a fan of popcorn on its own, particularly unflavored, unsalted popcorn of the variety my neighbor brought over, though I am partial to the taste of hot, salted butter, which explains why I still enjoy this treat under special circumstances, to include caramel corn, I suppose, but really only on a chilly autumnal day at a festival or pumpkin farm or some such thing, not really a snack I would seek out by my lonesome. |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7730 | ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT (?) | Something to hit, hit back, hitting about (4) | MURDER< - RE ans: DRUM (something to hit) hit back: hit = MURDER, reversed = REDRUM hitting about = delete ("hitting") RE (about, as in _re: your recent posting to the company-wide mailing list of your toenail clipping collection_ (from the HR dept.)) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7737 | COUNTER (7) | Shuffled, cut with a Rabbi as opponent (7) | Shuffled CUT with ONE (=a), interleaved (making COUNTE) + R (Rabbi abbv) Def = opponent |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7755 | GIF (3) | Image of ghost in the mirror (3) | FIG< (as in fig=the smallest bit or trifle) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7783 | TALK SHOP (4, 4) | Follow the leader, springing ahead, and jump to get down to business (4 4) | STALK, the leader (s) springing ahead (TALKS) jump = HOP |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7785 | ON THE EDGE (2, 3, 4) | Where you'll be in your seat during a performance of _Disgruntled Teen Dog_, eh? (2,3,4) | TEENDOGEH* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7806 | HELIUM (6) | He said, "Follow Gallagher" (6) | "HEEL LIAM" | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7819 | MAITREYA (8) | Host dropped its last young adult actress (8) | MAITRE D' - D + YA (book classification) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7838 | KIBITZ (6) | Chew the fat found around pet food (6) | KIBbles 'N bITZ | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7860 | ENUM (4) | Type type menu (4) | MENU* To the tune of "Ice Ice Baby" |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7867 | SORBET (6) | Steam best, or water/ice? (6) | BESTOR* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7872 | DORK (4) | Weirdo's lifted scepter near king (4) | ROD< + K | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7879 | GLARE (5) | Stare: glair pair (spare, pare pair there) (5) | GLair (glair pair) + ARE (spare - sp) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7896 | MERLOT (6) | The sound of molar cracking accompanied by red liquid (6) | "MOLAR"* (phonetic anagram: m oh l ur -> m ur l oh) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7903 | DEMOMAN (7) | Cyclops monster embraced rising in the morning (7) | DEMO(AM<)N | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7915 | ECSTASY (7) | Molly's joy (7) | ddef | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7925 | CINNABAR (8) | Red restaurant with open air bar not in operation (8) | Cinnabon + (bar-b) - on (in operation) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7928 | ARMADILLIDIIDAE (15) | Give heat to 1500150501500115001 naked, wet pillbugs (15) | ARM + A =1 + a bunch of Roman numerals + A=1 + wEt | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7929 | OTHER (5) | Books for a woman are different (5) | OT (books, Old Testament) + HER (for a woman) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7938 | DAYLIGHT SAVINGS (8, 7) | Advising ghastly freaks of a bad idea (8 7) | GHASTLYADVISING* and it's a terrible idea |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7941 | TRPCIC (6) | Dollhouse designer's tarp ripped out - one milliliter inundated its roof (6) | Def: apparently the costume designer for the show Dollhouse? TARP - A + C(I)C (milliliter around "its" roof =I) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7942 | FOX (3) | Animal coughs incredibly loudly (3) | COUGHS phonetic anagram /kɑfs/* -> /fɑks/ | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7945 | FIREWORKS (9) | Utensils made of thin strands of metal are converting Watts into Farads, a producer of light and sound (9) | WIRE FORKS switching W and F | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7946 | ANY CLUE WITH THE CLEAVE MECHANIC FROM MTG | Split [and] join (6) | CLEAVE ddef | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7953 | GUY (3) | Dude drew a hand of Yu-Gi-Oh! on backorder (3) | YU-Gi-oh< | Firetruck | 0 |
| 7973 | FLASK (5) | Snuggle a little bit in a kind of heavy jacket that can hold liquor (5) | FLA(S = snuggle a little bit)K Flak jacket is a heavy jacket |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 7984 | CHAOTIC (7) | A love triangle's beginning in style, going every which way (7) | CH(A+O+Triangle)IC | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8004 | TIMBIEBS (8) | Queer confession interrupts best novel of horrors from Canada (8) | BEST* (BEST novel) around I'M BI (queer confession) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8011 | MST (3) | It looks like peaks and a winding road cross at a zone in Denver (3) | Rebus clue: M=peaks, S =winding road, T=cross MST-mountain standard time |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8021 | JOHNSON (7) | Peter, The Rock (7) | Surface is a New Testament reference. Peter = slang for junk The Rock= dwayne JOHNSON |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8026 | BIG TIME (3, 4) | Let out neutered cat that flipped around much (3 4) | (EMIT+GIB)< ded=much |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8043 | ROMANIA (7) | Love fever begins with the first of, "ruh-ro" (7) | Ruh + O (love) + MANIA (fever) Def=RO (country code) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8053 | PETTIFOG (8) | Carp and frog that isn't right jumping over household animal...it's all coming back (8) | Carp=def FROG - R (isn't right) after PET + IT< |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8056 | MORTGAGE (8) | Nice death interrupted by joke that feels like it takes a lifetime (8) | MORT(GAG)E | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8057 | HAND TURKEY (4, 6) | Hit and knocked them all down three times in a row with five fingered form (4 6) | H + AND + TURKEY (three strikes in bowling) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8091 | CLIFFS (6) | Linn's beginning to close books, the contents of which are totally belied by their covers (6) | C+LIFFS (see Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8114 | HOME FREE (4, 4) | A clear path to a realtor's nightmare? (4 4) | HOME FREE def and sorta cryptic def kinda (realtors hate it when you use this one weird trick - giving your home away for free!) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8143 | LE FISHE (2,5) | Tubby buddy - feel his pain (2 5) | FEELHIS* It's some meme about a fish in a bathtub apparently? |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8183 | FEAR (4) | Feral feral with loss loss with heebie-jeebies (4) | FERAL* - L | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8187 | ZZXJOANW (8) | Throwback Z-Rock 103 in Georgetown, KY featured Baez's alleged drum (8) | WXZZ< with JOAN (=BAEZ) inside | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8217 | HI (2) | North Hilo, Hawaii (2) | HIlo | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8241 | BICKER (6) | Calvin Klein goes in; German, beer fall out (6) | BI(CK)ER, fall out = def | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8256 | :NOTLIKEDUCK: (11) | 🐱🔓💥😭(11) | KIT UNLOCKED* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8273 | WALTZ (5) | Track star Nikki changed mailing address to dance (5) | HILTZ changing HI to WA | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8283 | WORDLE (6) | Two elves, one without shoes and one this is evil, both return to mastermind spinoff (6) | DROW< + (ELF-F)< | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8286 | PIRATE (6) | Press and change hands in single exercise (6) | PILATES = exercise, change hands= switch L and R, single: take the singular. Press = to pirate in the sense of copying a CD or disk with pirated content |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8291 | COPPER (6) | Officer: "Bear-hugging police rare" (6) | COP(P=police)E+R(rare) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8295 | NORTH (5) | West is the opposite of South (5) | ddef (North West, notth direction) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8304 | NAIAD (5) | Streamer Ian played back advertisement (5) | Streamer=def (a naiad would live in a stream) IAN< (played back) + AD |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8306 | THE ABC'S (3, 3'1) | Chaste bishop struggled with basics (3 3'1) | (CHASTE + B(=bishop in chess notation))* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8340 | ESPERANTO (9) | Not many people can understand this vesper Antoinette internalized (9) | Hidden word (indicator = internalized) vESPER ANTOinette Def "Not many people can understand this" |
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| 8344 | DRAGON (6) | Bruce Lee to wear engrossing newspaper (6) | Def: Bruce Lee (nicknamed The Dragon) DON=wear, engrossing = containment indicator, newspaper=RAG D(RAG)ON |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8369 | RUM (3) | Rumor has it zombies have it (3) | Hidden word: RUMor has it Def: zombies have it (zombies the cocktail) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8384 | CAPUT (5) | Top Latin catapult fires a long time (5) | Top Latin = def CATAPULT - ALT (fires = deletion, A + L=long + T=time) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8393 | KLUTZ OR KLUTZY (5) OR (6) | \`||This is a test clue\`|| (6) | It's only a test | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8406 | ANIMOSITY (9) | As I heard, one town that Mrs. Frisby started amid non-vascular plants yielded bad blood (9) | Homophone "a Nimh moss city," see Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8433 | FETCH (5) | Draw with loud scratch (5) | F (forte) + ETCH (scratch) Draw=def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8450 | SCARLET (7) | It looks like blood to the one in the back, left in a fright (7) | It looks like blood: def The one : T Left (L) in a fright (scare) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8505 | LOVERS (6) | There isn't any naked tryst without your first romantic partners (6) | There isn't any=LOVE (as in tennis) Naked tryst = RYS, without "your first=Y"= RYS-Y=RS romantic partners =lovers |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8686 | ANY CLUE WITH A WORD USED MULTIPLE TIMES (?) | State state state state you want (6) | DEMAND (DE + MA + ND are US state abbreviations, state you want=def) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8693 | CUPID (5) | The Reverend's stinky child who takes a bow (5) | Spoonerism on "Pew, kid" Def:who takes a bow (and arrow) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8700 | SOULMATE (8) | The Reverend proclaimed, "Plants had the best to grow with" (8) | Spoonerism: "moles ate" (mole as in a spy or 'plant', ate as in 'had' like 'had dinner') def: the best to grow with |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8721 | COBALT (6) | What's stuck inside your ear? A light metal (6) | Def:metal What's stuck inside your ear [of corn]=COB COB + A + LT (light) delete Back |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8821 | ANY GEOGRAPHICAL PLACE (?) | Cape cape cape that's near Oslo (12) | Nesoddtangen Is a tripley redunant place name for cape/cape/cape | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8837 | SURNAME OF ANY U.S. PRESIDENT - NO REPEATED ANSWERS (?) | Eastwood's under the influence, but he didn't inhale (7) | CLINTON CLINT (eastwood) +ON (as in on drugs) def: Bill Clinton testified that he smoked pot "but didn't inhale" |
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| 8847 | SURNAME OF ANY U.S. PRESIDENT - NO REPEATED ANSWERS (?) | Shakespeare Jr. in a monologue with muttonhead (6) | WILSON Def: muttonhead (Woodrow Wilson was an incompetent delusional butt) Homophone "WILL'S SON" |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8884 | DOUGH ZONE (5, 4) | Skeeter's friend meeting a second person at restaurant (5,4) | DOUG (Skeeter's friend, from Nickelodeon's Doug) + HZ (Hertz, "a second" as "per second") + ONE (=person, as in one (pronound)), def=restaurant | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8901 | INDIRECT ANAGRAM (8,7) | Lost credit in collateral (8) | INDIRECT =ans CREDITIN* Def=collateral |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 8937 | MONGOOSE (8) | My French bird is one who eats snakes (8) | MON ("my" in French) + GOOSE (no etymological relation to mongooses, who curiously do not pluralize as "mongeese" due to the etymological curiosity mentioned previously) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 8995 | ANY CLUE THAT USES A MATHEMATICAL SEQUENCE OTHER THAN EVENS/ODDS TO INDEX (?) | Busy beaver was on one's mind....scrumptious log source (5) | WOODS Busy beaver:https://oeis.org/A028444 WasOfOnesminD (...and skip a few...)Scrumptious Def=log source |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9009 | MAESTRO (7) | Conductor for stripped Tesla connection is recharging (7) | Def: conductor For stripped = or Tesla = T (SI unit) Connection=SEAM recharging: reversal |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9011 | EMACS (5) | vi | type | tee tail < con (5) | Vi-type = def Tee tail=E < con = SCAM< E(SCAM)< |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9061 | ROTOM (5) | Pocket monster books held in long-term memory (5) | R(OT)OM ROM - long term memory OT - books, as in Old Testament, per the site host Pocket monster = def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9089 | TORRENT (7) | Ripped ripped ripped seam stream (7) | TORE-E + RENT (Tore=ripped, ripped TORE: rip the E off of TORE, ripped seam=RENT (n), stream = def) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9119 | VOW (3) | Who's heartlessly ripping DVD's being returned? I do, for one (3) | I do, for one=def Who is heartlessless:WHO-H Ripping DVD: DVD-DD Being returned: reversal (WHO-H+DVD-DD)< |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9126 | FINALE (6) | End of life, and perhaps not even looking back (6) | End=def Life=ELAN perhaps not even=IF looking back: reversal (ELAN + IF)< |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9164 | RABBIT (6) | Two pets had left a pellet (6) | Def: pet Pet (RAT) had (containment) left (reversal) a (I) pellet (BB) RA(IBB<)T |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9769 | KEY CHANGE (3, 6) | Reason to take an island hopper that might get a flat? (3,6) | ddef, key change = go to a different island, that might get a flat = a key change might give you another flat | Firetruck | 0 |
| 9773 | BOWSER (6) | Princess enthusiast to express obeisance with service (6) | def=princess enthusiast express obeisance = bow service = ser (abbr) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9787 | POLITICAL (9) | Kind of football played around Illinois capitol (9) | def: kind of football (ie political football played around: anagram Illinois: IL (IL + CAPITOL)* |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9872 | TENNIS (6) | X(n)=where one might announce love (6) | TEN + N + IS (X = 10, n=N, ==IS) love = score of 0 in tennis |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9875 | ANY CLUE CONSISTING OF LETTERS FROM A SINGLE ROW OF YOUR KEYBOARD (?) | Mad Gab? Sure (3) | def: sure =BAG (as in, in the bag) GAB* The keyboard is a piano keyboard |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 9959 | JESUS (5) | Demigod throwing up from Pegasus ejector seat (5) | demigod: def throwing up from: reversal seat: hidden word indicator pegaSUS EJector < |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10016 | AIR (3) | Child listened to broadcast (3) | "HEIR" homophone broadcast = def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10017 | EARTH (5) | It's used to hear the unending dirt (5) | dirt = def it's used to hear = EAR the unending = TH |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10018 | MINESWEEPER (11) | Puzzle by yours truly has depressed someone (maybe) (11) | puzzle = def by yours truly = MINE has = 'S depressed someone, maybe = WEEPER |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10033 | SATURN (6) | Make a turn on what looks like a winding road (6) | make = def (make of car) S = what looks like a winding road |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10038 | FIRE (4) | Tree's ending in flame! (4) | &lit FIR (tree) + flamE (ending in flame) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10047 | ANY CLUE MENTIONING "A GIRL ON EACH SIDE" (?) | A girl on each side of extremely complicated situation (4) | ans: FAFF def: complicated situation extremely: A.F. (as *%$!) A girl on each side: F...F F(AF)F |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10063 | OUT OF TUNE (3, 2, 4) | u often resampled and remixed, like rupaul (3,2,4) | def: like RuPaul (allegedly, at least w/o autotune) UOFTEN letter bank |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10102 | MYOPIA (6) | You _almost_ perceive point, resulting in out of focus aim?! (6) | Kind of &lit YOU almost = YO PERCEIVE POINT = P (the "point" of PERCEIVE) resulting in: containment Out of focus AIM=AIM* |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10112 | TAPE (4) | Copy top top copy (4) | Copy=tape (as in record) Top top=T Copy = APE (as in to ape someone's behavior) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10114 | PATE (4) | Head pat ecstacy (4) | head:def PAT + E |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10118 | PEAT (4) | Rotten pate consists of partially decayed material (4) | PATE* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10119 | PATE (4) | "Eat It" on mix tape (4) | def: eat it (yeah this definition is not particularly good but there are also not that many songs that evoke goose liver paste) TAPE* |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10120 | TAPE (4) | Seal in peat swamp (4) | PEAT* def=seal |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10134 | UNTIDY (6) | Dirty, naked auntie (dirty=donating tops and bottoms) (6) | Dirty = def Naked auntie = UNTI Dirty donating tops and bottoms=DY |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10135 | MUTINY (6) | Tiny problem causes setback in extremely Spanish campaign (6) | def: campaign tiny problem = NIT, causes set back<=TIN extremely Spanish = MUY MU(NIT<)Y |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10136 | BOUNTY (6) | Love is not in treasures (6) | treasure=def treasure=BOOTY Love=O not=UN BO(O->UN)TY |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10171 | DOGMA (5) | Returned _ The Godfather Companion_ for screwball comedy (5) | returned the god: DOG father companion: MA screwball comedy: def Folks who follow the dogma of Derrick Somerset Macnutt will :notlikeduck: |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10181 | SCRUMP (6) | Borrow mostly scrumptious items?! (6) | SCRUMPtious, and literally so | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10182 | VEGGIE TRAY (6, 4) | At every gig, it's prepared?! (6,4) | ATEVERYGIG* There always seems to be a veggie tray to feed the performers, in this explanation anyways. |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10184 | SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS (19) | Silty cuspidor Dum Dum strangely tasting pretty good (19) | SILTYCUSPIDORDUMDUM* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10202 | EXCISE (6) | Get rid of or ignore confusing UI (6) | def: get rid of ignore: EXCUSE confusing UI: EXC(U->I)SE |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10284 | FLOAT (5) | Cereal covered by liquid ice cream and soda (5) | FL (liquid=fluid) + OAT (cereal) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10346 | CROP TOP (4, 3) | C is for shirt (4,3) | Reverse wordplay: CROP TOP ("top" of CROP) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10405 | STAND (6) | Endure yandere date (6) | Endure = def Yandere = stan Date = d |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10407 | CORNCOB (7) | Crazy with love for nurse and love for bishop and part of Frosty the Snowman (7) | Crazy=COOCOO one o is RN (nurse) and one is B (bishop) Frosty has a corncob pipe |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10410 | SONG 2 (4, 1) | 392 Hz initially, now 98 Hz since release <t:860429340:R> (4,1) | 392 Hz = G4 (SO in solfege) Initially now = N 98 Hz = G2 Release date of Song 2 by Blur is 7 April 1997 |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10416 | BOO (3) | Blanket head, two holes that look like eyes, spooky sound (3) | B+👀 | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10434 | ORACULAR (8) | Vampire got beheaded in Oregon, just like Hen-Wen (8) | O(DRACULA-D)R Hen-Wen is the white oracular pig from The Prydain Chronicles |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10445 | BJORK (5) | Bug bug sung singer (5) | "BEE IRK" apparently | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10493 | LIMITED (7) | Snug bug tucked in cover (7) | def=snug Bug=MITE Cover=LID LI(MITE)D |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10510 | HYGGE (5) | Hug a loud Norwegian for comfort (5) | "Hug a" homophone Norwegian for comfort = def Hey hey why'd they put bar codes on the Norwegian armada? So they can scan the navy in. Why is Norwegian music all largo? Because you play it Oslo as possible. Why didn't Miss Muffet like the vikings? Because they hadn't occurred Norway. We value your feedback. Please rate your satisfaction during this experience on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best. Be aware that my manager feels that anything less than a ten is a failure, and I will be reprimanded. Thank you for shopping with us! |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10511 | VUELIE (6) | Frozen track elusive, lost with falling snow (6) | ELUSIVE* - S (elusive lost, S=snow) Vuelie is apparently a theme from Frozen |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10518 | NE (2) | Skinned knee around 1:30 (2) | KNEE-KE | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10559 | MULE (4) | Smuggler dealt in amulets (4) | aMULEts | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10563 | KRAKEN (6) | Hockey player hears crackin' (6) | "crackin'" homophone Seattle's NHL team is the Kraken |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10573 | TSUNAMI (7) | Fish ate what looks like an eel on middle of a wave (7) | T(S)UNA (fish=TUNA, what looks like an eel=S), middle=M, a=I (roman numeral), wave=def | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10583 | NORI (4) | Refusal that covers sushi (4) | Ddef: NOR I, NORI | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10584 | RESTRAINT (9) | Holding back-space is not following recordkeeping principal (9) | Holding back=def Space=rest Is not =ain't, after R(ecordkeeping) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10685 | AULD (4) | Old, old gold half gold (4) | Old old=def Gold = AU half gold = LD |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10687 | TAKOYAKI (8) | Warner's spicy tortilla chips served via spoon with flavorful balls (8) | Spoonerism on Yakko Taki (Yakko Warner from Animaniacs and Takis (R), a spicy tortilla chip made by Barcel, a subsidiary of Grupo Bimbo) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10742 | 爱 (1) | Owl with a walking stick looks for love (1) | I am just calling 'em as I see 'em | Firetruck | 0 |
| 10745 | CASHIER (7) | He checks you out more tenderly? (7) | Punny def of "cashier" as in "more cash-y" "cashy-er" (tender=cash) Reg def: he checks you out |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10822 | SWANS (5) | Some down stock exchanges to reverse charges (5) | Def: some down stock (like feathers) Exchanges=SWAPS reverse charges: P -> N |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10866 | TÁR (3) | Humiliate by removing feather from musical bird (3) | Musical bird: def (bird as in a woman) Humiliate: tar and feather, minus feather |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 10930 | STICKS AND STONES (6, 3, 6) | Animals with mighty kicks / Are met with perfect number six / Sticks and stones / Applied to bones (7) | BO(VI)NES assuming "sticks and stones" may "break" my "bones" |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11020 | GOOSE (5) | Sticky stuff on the rear end? That might get you down (5) | GOOS+thE def: that might get you down (like feathers) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11083 | BARRIER (7) | Full moon producing speech impediment (7) | def: impediment producing speech: homophone indicator full moon: "BARE REAR" (yeah it's a stretch whatever man get off my back) |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11629 | LIMESTONE (9) | Liam spent a time in New York on electronic rock (9) | LIAM-A + EST (time during fall in NY) + ON + E (electronic) Rock=def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11630 | MINESTRONE (10) | Soup with the least amount of estrogen mixed in: not good (10) | Soup: def The least amount: min Estrogen mixed: ESTROGEN* Not good: -G MIN + ESTROGEN* - G |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11653 | BANNER (6) | Flag: double chevron surmounting a bear charged (6) | double chevron = n + n (like inverted v's) bear charged: bear* BA(NN)ER with the baer* |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11691 | NEONATE (7) | Baby had gas, got changed (7) | Had=ate, bas=neon, got changes: swap 'em | Firetruck | 0 |
| 11692 | DEKKO (5) | Peep, at distance, to echo loudly (5) | d + "echo" | Firetruck | 0 |
| 11695 | REDUX (5) | Loud mallards in the tall grass again (5) | "REED DUCKS" | Firetruck | 0 |
| 11709 | BULLSHIT (8) | Applesauce is a country pie filling (8) | Ddef (applesauce meaning "moonshine", and cowpies) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 11713 | PABLUM (6) | "Plumbum" translated....um.....to "a (sorta) leaden work" (6) | PLUMBUM is lead in Latin (hence 'Pb') PL(UM->A)BUM* leaden work = def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11715 | TWANG (5) | Fly returns to drink Whiskey and Tang (5) | GNAT< =fly returns Drink: containment Whiskey=W (NATO) Tang= def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11718 | PARSE (5) | Cut up, putting in whitespace, as in a regular expression! (5) | PAR(S)E | Firetruck | 0 |
| 11725 | CONFAB (6) | Spill the tea, ruining bacon with falling drop (6) | (F_ + BACON)* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 11740 | DIVEST (6) | Strip at the most sketchy bar? (6) | DIVEST as a punny def for most dive-y | Firetruck | 0 |
| 11753 | FULVOUS (7) | _Shade_'s almost completed... you and I are after 50 (7) | almost completed=FULL-L you and I=US 50 = V, O |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11777 | SEAT (4) | It's simple idea: assist bottoms! (4) | _S _E _A _T, and literally so | Firetruck | 0 |
| 11804 | INSTINCT (8) | Goblin's tincture extract? Don't think about it too much (8) | _INS TINCT_ | Firetruck | 0 |
| 11849 | CIDER (5) | King Landon found regicide repugnant (5) | King Landon=Landon Cider, the drag king (def) regiCIDE Repugnant |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11872 | SHOUT (5) | Be quiet outside - it's loud (5) | SH (be quiet) + OUT (=outside) def: it's loud |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 11888 | LOOPS (5) | Toilet, after finished, spins around in a circle (5) | LOO (toilet) + PS (postscript, after finished) | Firetruck | 0 |
| 12007 | SLOTH (5) | The sol (transdeletion) is pretty lazy (5) | THESOL*-E Partially &lit |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 12019 | RETURNED (8) | About time those who got cremated came back (8) | About=RE Time=T Those who got cremated: URNED came back: def |
Firetruck | 0 |
| 12021 | KARAOKE (7) | Korea kindergarten: a weird place to practice singing (7) | KOREAKA* | Firetruck | 0 |
| 12023 | FOIE GRAS (4, 4) | Delivery or takeout order from debaucherous goose fair? (4, 4) | (GOOSEFAIR-O)* (order=O, as in taxonomy) Delivery = punny def Is it &lit? Not quite I think? It's not a down clue. |
Firetruck | 0 |