Contests started: CREEPER (7), MEME (4), ARCEUS (6), JACKBOX (7), DICTIONARY (10), ENTIRE (6), DUBIOUS (7), NEW YEAR (3,4), ANOTHER (7), INSTITUTE (9), ALL HAIL (3, 4), DEUSOVI/FUNGO (7 OR 5), WASTE (5)
Contests won: TENACIOUS (9), SUCCUBUS (8), HOMO SAPIENS (4, 7), SWEET HOME ALABAMA (5, 4, 7), HONK (4), ANY CLUE RELATED TO HALLOWEEN (?), NEON (4), VULPINE (7), ISOLATE (7), ENNUI (5), OREGON TRAIL (6, 5), TOMATO (6), POTATO (6), SPHINGES (8), QUIZZACIOUSLY (13), CALIFORNIA (10), PENZO (5), TUGENDHAT (9), PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45), J (1), MYSTIC (6)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3323 | HONK (4) | Almost perfect king makes horny noise? (4) | HON(-E)+K = the noise of a horn | summitwei | 6 |
| 4194 | ISOLATE (7) | Quarantine is ultimately too late (7) | IS+_O+LATE = quarantine | summitwei | 5 |
| 11802 | MYSTIC (6) | Person with magical powers: "My wand's back... it's gone!" (6) | MY+STIC(-k) | summitwei | 5 |
| 3159 | HOMO SAPIENS (4, 7) | Elements of water and moss surround a strange pine, forming a person (4, 7) | HO+MOS(A+PIEN*)S = a person | summitwei | 4 |
| 3660 | ANY CLUE RELATED TO HALLOWEEN (?) | Their extreme bareheaded physical attack is, on Halloween, a requested action (5) | schrodinger clue for T__R+(-K)ICK T__R+(-B)EAT = "on halloween, a requested action" |
summitwei | 4 |
| 5226 | POTATO (6) | Salad ingredient made out of peeled specks at one, initially (6) | (-s)POT(-s)+AT+O_=salad ingredient | summitwei | 4 |
| 2704 | TENACIOUS (9) | X-ray center is half suspicious of iron (9) | TEN+_A_+__CIOUS=iron | summitwei | 3 |
| 2790 | SUCCUBUS (8) | Demon lost medium yield to us (8) | SUCCU(-M)B+US=demon | summitwei | 3 |
| 3192 | SWEET HOME ALABAMA (5, 4, 7) | "Blame the emos, waaa" - weird song (5, 4, 7) | SWEET HOME ALABAMA* | summitwei | 3 |
| 5225 | TOMATO (6) | Salad ingredient made out of peeled specks at one, initially (6) | (-a)TOM(-s)+AT+O_=salad ingredient | summitwei | 3 |
| 9901 | TUGENDHAT (9) | Politician to pull off fedora, say (9) | TUG+END+HAT | summitwei | 3 |
| 10854 | PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45) | Breaking: Cops pummel iconic oil scion. Coronavirus is not a cool disease (45) | <COPSPUMMELICONICOILSCIONCORONAVIRUSISNOTACOOL> = disease | summitwei | 3 |
| 2591 | MEW (3) | 1000 plus 2.718 plus infinity (ordinally) = 151? (3) | M+E+W(omega) = 151 (Pokedex number) | summitwei | 2 |
| 2780 | BARTITSU (8) | Martial art is art in pieces with you (8) | B(ART)ITS+U=martial art | summitwei | 2 |
| 2792 | BASEL (5) | Shanghai twin hides database leaks (5) | __BASE L__ (basel is twin city of shanghai) |
summitwei | 2 |
| 3249 | BOND (4) | Start betting on Democrat's debt (4) | B_+ON+D=debt | summitwei | 2 |
| 3264 | OEDIPUS (7) | Anglo-Saxon, backwards, idiotic, timeless tragic hero (7) | OE+DIPU(-T)S< = tragic hero | summitwei | 2 |
| 3275 | SPHINX (6) | Riddler's Pokemon-themed hunt I reject heartlessly (6) | SPH+I+N(-I)X=riddler | summitwei | 2 |
| 3715 | LIBERTARIAN (11) | Me and Ernie's friend regularly afraid entering LAN party (11) | L(I+BERT+A_R_I_)AN=party | summitwei | 2 |
| 4943 | OREGON TRAIL (6, 5) | Regal trio on strange route (6, 5) | OREGONTRAIL* | summitwei | 2 |
| 5874 | ERA (3) | Partly erased time period (3) | ERA__ | summitwei | 2 |
| 6680 | QUIZZACIOUSLY (13) | Quail and couscous half-cooked and stuffed with pizza stuffing? "Yummy starter," in a mocking manner (13) | (-cous)QU(_IZZ_)ACIOUSL*+Y_ | summitwei | 2 |
| 7177 | CALIFORNIA (10) | State formed after caliph abandons a third of Iran in panic (10) | CALI(-ph)+FORNIA*=state | summitwei | 2 |
| 11470 | J (1) | Energy unit formed with 2/3 Uranium? (1) | J looks like 2/3 of a U | summitwei | 2 |
| 12160 | PAIN (4) | Two states bordering Ohio despair (4) | PA+IN = despair | summitwei | 2 |
| 2568 | OH NO (2, 2) | Restroom can't start final photo shoot (2, 2) | (-J)OHN+_O = "shoot" | summitwei | 1 |
| 2575 | HOMESTUCK (9) | Webcomic books swap starts with Tom's friend (9) | (T->H)OMES+(H->T)UCK=webcomic | summitwei | 1 |
| 2598 | FABLE (5) | Before, so clever but without a story (5) | FA+(-A)BLE=story (fa is before so in sofège) | summitwei | 1 |
| 2729 | ANY LIMERICK CLUE WITH AABBA RHYME SCHEME (?) | Me, and Alfonse, even, tour / beginning with Tesla, he glore / "the start, first cut: lame! / Just think, and then claim!" / The lengths were one four three and four (1, 4, 3, 4) | I+_L_O_S_+T_+T+HE+G_+_AME="just think and then claim" sorry not sorry |
summitwei | 1 |
| 3039 | CLUE WHERE WORDS ALTERNATE CONSONANTS & VOWELS (?) | Every lexeme here: before delete, ten are mixed (9) | ALT+ERNATE* = every lexeme here | summitwei | 1 |
| 3104 | CLUE SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN THE ANSWER (?) | Tighten, say, a large protein (189819) | i'm not typing this out go away | summitwei | 1 |
| 3279 | SEESAW (6) | Alternating lever between sons with expression of delight! (6) | S(_E_E_)S+AW | summitwei | 1 |
| 3401 | WEB (3) | Knot blew up--lift off (3) | WE(-L)B< = knot (down clue) | summitwei | 1 |
| 3515 | CRYPTIC CLUE (7, 4) | With critical rain, strange eucalyptus leaves in Australia can make this, for example (7, 4) | CRYPTICCLUE*(-INAUSTRALIA) = this, for example good meme |
summitwei | 1 |
| 3600 | INCUS (5) | Male demon removed backup anvil (5) | INCU(-BU)S = anvil | summitwei | 1 |
| 3730 | THE (3) | Issue: I lost __ game (3) | THE(-ME) game | summitwei | 1 |
| 3973 | NEON (4) | The first (nearly) element of nobility! (4) | N_ E_ O_ N_ is the second noble gas | summitwei | 1 |
| 3977 | SERENE (6) | Tranquil sierra, oddly, east near halfway point (6) | S_E_R_+E+NE__=tranquil | summitwei | 1 |
| 4042 | PI ( 2) | Constant unending hole (2) | PI(-t)=constant | summitwei | 1 |
| 4064 | VIRUS (5) | Disease sure to leave everyone in decline after six (5) | VI+(-e)RUS< | summitwei | 1 |
| 4199 | ENNUI (5) | Awful quarantine, suppressing Qatar, leads to boredom (5) | ENNUI(-qatar)* = boredom | summitwei | 1 |
| 6094 | LIT (3) | Started part of Slitherlink (3) | _LIT_=started (a fire) | summitwei | 1 |
| 6494 | SPHINGES (8) | Riddlers sing about puzzle hunts at first, then fringe encodings (8) | S(P_ H_)ING+E_S=riddlers | summitwei | 1 |
| 6662 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A PREVIOUS CONTEST WITH 0 ENTRIES (?) | Puzzler is stylish carrying about oddly one gun (7_3) | CH(A_O_T)IC+I+AK | summitwei | 1 |
| 6668 | FACTORIAL (9) | After *Alphanumeric 3!*, Actor Ian left without firstly narrating the worst joke (9) | (6->F)+ACTOR+IA(-n_)+L | summitwei | 1 |
| 6692 | HOT DOG (3, 3) | Goth confused over reception for show-off (3, 3) | HOT(DO)G*=show-off | summitwei | 1 |
| 6703 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A BOARD/CARD GAME (?) | Bride embraces groom at first on transit (6) | BRID(G_)E | summitwei | 1 |
| 7008 | ANY CHARACTER FROM NORSE MYTHOLOGY (?) | Interminable Norse character?! (4) | THOR(-n) [thorn is a character in the old nordic alphabet] | summitwei | 1 |
| 7144 | DIM SUM (3 3) | Idiotic summit cuts school for a Cantonese meal (3, 3) | DIM+SUM(-mit) haha self deprecation clue funny |
summitwei | 1 |
| 7729 | ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT (?) | Perhaps Jamie Hargrove sounds like an instrument (4) | LYRE "liar" | summitwei | 1 |
| 7997 | ANY BIRD WITH ENUM (3) | Bird lost without direction (enum 3) | (-n)EMU* | summitwei | 1 |
| 10113 | TAPE (4) | Something that's sticky and brown on the outside (4) | TA(-u)PE="something that's sticky" | summitwei | 1 |
| 12073 | MEOW (4) | Noise of GF's mythical Pokemon, consuming second sofa (4) | ME(_O__)W my gf is a cat(girl*) |
summitwei | 1 |
| 12201 | ANY CLUE THAT HAS TO END IN A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF QUESTION MARKS (?) | Cold spike formed with components of 日??? (6) | anagraph 日=E+l, ?=i+c, ?=i+c -> ICICLE then add another question mark because this is the worst cryptic clue ever written |
summitwei | 1 |
| 12269 | PUNCH IN (5 2) | Start working joke feature (now without 50 energy) (5 2) | PUNCH(-l)IN(-e) this is how i misparsed #12267 |
summitwei | 1 |
| 2637 | CITADEL (7) | Quote from the Spanish hedge fund? (7) | CITA+DEL=hedge fund | summitwei | 0 |
| 2774 | LIGHT (5) | Lost vision; don't start! (5) | L+(-S)IGHT &lit - light theme makes you lose your vision, so don't start using it |
summitwei | 0 |
| 2892 | WOLFRAM (7) | Spanish sea flows endlessly west Into tungsten (7) | (_WOLF+RAM)<=tungsten | summitwei | 0 |
| 3046 | DO NEW CLUE TOO FOR FOUR OR MORE RHYMING WORDS (?) | One lied, died: northside replied about all that, and some of this? (5) | R(HYM(-N))E = "some of this" feast your eyes on the worst clue to ever be written but i wrote a question mark so it's okay |
summitwei | 0 |
| 3048 | CLUE CONTAINING UR LAST WINNING CLUE’S ANSWER (?) | Half-concealed succubus comes before, Nazis in extraction of oil and sulfur are those that come after (10) | SUCC__+E(SS)OR+S="those that come after" | summitwei | 0 |
| 3129 | POUND CAKE (5, 4) | #DryDessert (5, 4) | POUND+CAKE | summitwei | 0 |
| 3146 | CLUE SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN THE ANSWER (?) | Wonderful musical song (34) | SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS ddef | summitwei | 0 |
| 3165 | STAN (4) | Stance kicks, ends Bruce Lee (4) | STAN(-CE) lee | summitwei | 0 |
| 3189 | STACKS (6) | Heaps of paper, slightly less than half stapled, next to odd cakes (6) | STA__+C_K_S=heaps of paper | summitwei | 0 |
| 3190 | UKRAINE (7) | Country verbally accused of reach (7) | "you crane" = country | summitwei | 0 |
| 3217 | CLUE CONTAINING A PIECE OR TERM FROM CHESS (?) | Troll beginning bold assault after swamp invaded by knight corps (9, 6) | BO(N)G+C+LOUD+ATTACK = troll beginning | summitwei | 0 |
| 3250 | WARHOL (6) | Return untreated third of cows to artist (6) | WAR<+HOL(-STEINS)=artist | summitwei | 0 |
| 3282 | PAPRIKA (7) | Manga killer left in pressure surrounding past anime alter-ego (7) | P(A(P)RIK<)A = anime alter-ego (paprika is the name of the character's alter-ego in the movie, kira is a killer in death note) |
summitwei | 0 |
| 3308 | ISTHMUS (7) | Panama, say, is summit's absurd mash? (7) | IST(M->H)MUS*=panama, say apologies in advance |
summitwei | 0 |
| 3391 | ANY COLOR WORD WITH DEF NOT "COLOR" (?) | 51 suddenly famous capturing new, odd gecko, specifically alive marine invertebrate (6 5) | LI+VI(N+G_C_O)RAL = specifically alive marine invertebrate | summitwei | 0 |
| 3443 | CRADLE (6) | Radix sort replaced losing episode (6) | CRADLE*(-EP) = radix | summitwei | 0 |
| 3512 | ERRATUM (7) | Human action by first god: something's wrong (7) | ERR ("to err is human")+ATUM = the meaning of an erratum | summitwei | 0 |
| 3821 | BUTTER (6) | Rebut terribly, hiding flattery (6) | __BUT TER__ = flattery | summitwei | 0 |
| 3978 | VULPINE (7) | Foxlike reverend, tug on grape plant (7) | "pull vine" spoonerism = foxlike | summitwei | 0 |
| 4642 | ANY PUNCTUATION MARK (?) | Monetary unit: an organ (5) | COLON 3def | summitwei | 0 |
| 4693 | BUNKUM (6) | Nonsensical talk in bed stutters endlessly (6) | BUNK+UM(-s) | summitwei | 0 |
| 7639 | RUSTY (5) | Decapitate reliable puzzler (5) | (-t)RUSTY press F to pay respects |
summitwei | 0 |
| 8072 | PENZO (5) | Puzzler's fraudulent scheme turns ones into zeroes and zeroes into 250s (5) | P(O->E)NZ(I->O) i don't actually know why 250 means E but it shows up on some list of cryptic abbreviations |
summitwei | 0 |
| 11678 | GUINEA PIG (6, 3) | Guanine (ping randomly to abandon unnamed animal) (6,3) | (-nn)GUINEAPIG* | summitwei | 0 |