Contests started: BASEL (5), CONSTANCE (9), FIERY (5), RELAYER (7), ANY CLUE WHERE EVERY WORD IS THE SAME LENGTH (?), STACKS (6), ANECHOIC (8), BIFURCATION (11), UNSWEETENED (11), EXTRACT (7), STARBOARD (9), BIVOUAC (7), PASSE-PARTOUT (5-7), DISINGENUOUS (12), PERIAPSIS (9), CAROUSEL (8), GRACIDEA (8), SOUPÇON OR SOUPCON (7), PHLOGISTON (10), THERIANTHROPE (13), CACCIATORE (10), ANY GEOGRAPHICAL PLACE (?)
Contests won: DELAY (5), VARIANCE (8), WOLFRAM (7), ECHO (4), ETERNITY (8), COLORADO (8), DEFENESTRATE (12), THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (3, 11, 5, 2, 3, 6), YAJISAN-KAZUSAN (7-7), SEA LION (3, 4)
| Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5052 | ECHO (4) | Some tech offering! (4) | &lit, the Amazon Echo is a tech product and hidden in tECH Offering | ev3commander | 8 |
| 5913 | DEFENESTRATE (12) | Bizarre defense: first tackle, then charge, leading to throw out of a window (12) | (DEFENSE)* + T_ + RATE | ev3commander | 6 |
| 5186 | ETERNITY (8) | Enter strange city--become topless forever (8) | (ENTER)*+_ITY = forever | ev3commander | 5 |
| 2716 | DELAY (5) | Denmark's lead university rejected check (5) | D_+ELAY< Check = def (as in the stoppage or slowing of progress) |
ev3commander | 3 |
| 3052 | DO NEW CLUE TOO FOR FOUR OR MORE RHYMING WORDS (?) | Engineer tier before rear seer seniors? (8) | (TIER)*+(SEER)< = RETIREES (seniors) |
ev3commander | 3 |
| 5238 | PAN (3) | Spanish stuffing!?? (3) | &lit, sPANish and stuffing as in bread you put in a turkey (pan being Spanish for bread) | ev3commander | 3 |
| 6166 | THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (3, 11, 5, 2, 3, 6) | "Oh, it hit, huh?" sketchily exaggerated fantasy book (3, 11, 5, 2, 3, 6) | book = <ohithithuhsketchilyexaggerated> | ev3commander | 3 |
| 6510 | YAJISAN-KAZUSAN (7-7) | Agile yakuza ninjas acquire primarily sly and deceptive logic puzzle (7-7) | (YAJISANKAZU(S_ A_)N)* = deceptive logic puzzle | ev3commander | 3 |
| 8589 | ONE (3), THEN TWO (3), THEN THREE (5), THEN FOUR (4), ETC. | A lossless single (3) | a = (-l)ONE | ev3commander | 3 |
| 9231 | SEA LION (3, 4) | Marine mammal near primarily icy ocean edges (3, 4) | SEAL+I_+O_N &lit | ev3commander | 3 |
| 2779 | LIGHT (5) | Pale signal (5) | ddef: pale (as in light blue), signal (as in traffic signals, also called traffic lights) | ev3commander | 2 |
| 2889 | VARIANCE (8) | Stormy rain during a terrible cave conflict (8) | CAVE* around RAIN* = conflict | ev3commander | 2 |
| 2891 | WOLFRAM (7) | German metal research company (7) | ddef - tungsten in german/wolfram research | ev3commander | 2 |
| 3061 | ANY CLUE WHERE EVERY WORD IS THE SAME LENGTH (?) | Lexeme length: letter before square number (3) | S (letter) + IX (square number) = SIX (length of these lexemes) Bonus: also 6 words long |
ev3commander | 2 |
| 3170 | STAN (4) | Excessive fan is one side of a stalemate (4) | STANdoff | ev3commander | 2 |
| 3199 | PARASITE (8) | Sucker bug Pokémon mineral? (8) | Sucker = PARAS (bug Pokémon) + -ITE (mineral?) | ev3commander | 2 |
| 3200 | UKRAINE (7) | Infamously damp country's percipitation leads European state (7) | UK RAIN + E_ = STATE | ev3commander | 2 |
| 3247 | QUINE (5) | Headless horse logician (5) | (-e)QUINE = logician | ev3commander | 2 |
| 3307 | ISTHMUS (7) | Must his engineer strip? (7) | musthis* / strip | ev3commander | 2 |
| 5205 | COLORADO (8) | Dye a braid red in Spain (8) | COLOR A DO (as in hairdo) -> red in Spain | ev3commander | 2 |
| 8882 | ANY CLUE FEATURING BOTH A SONG AND ITS ARTIST (?) | It's "In the Mirror", a song by Lena Raine from _Celeste_ (10) | REFLECTION ddef | ev3commander | 2 |
| 2880 | CONSTANCE (9) | Can't S bust into solid lake? (9) | CON(CANTS*)E = lake | ev3commander | 1 |
| 2971 | INFRACTION/INFRACTIONS (10/11) | Weird non-fiction with Argon in place of Nobelium is a crime (10) | ((NO->AR)NFICTION) = crime | ev3commander | 1 |
| 2994 | RELAYER (7) | Transferrer is to arrange things into strata (7) | ddef | ev3commander | 1 |
| 3290 | SEESAW (6) | Abnormal ease in directions to a rock (6) | S(EESA*)W / rock (v) | ev3commander | 1 |
| 3291 | OEDIPUS (7) | King's informal greeting to consulting firm backfires (7) | (OEDI+PUS)< / king | ev3commander | 1 |
| 4931 | INTEGRAL (8) | Essential for engineers to learn Git (8) | essential = (LEARNGIT)* (engineer being an anagram indicator) | ev3commander | 1 |
| 5055 | XERXES (6) | Kiss divorcees without Rome's first king (6) | X+E(R_)XES = king | ev3commander | 1 |
| 5111 | TURKEY (6) | Bird removes center of completed product (6) | TUR(-n)KEY = bird | ev3commander | 1 |
| 6393 | ANY CLUE THAT USES A CHESS ABBREVIATION (?) | Closed Catalan main-line road that ends in Barcelona traps goose egg (3) | The main line of the closed Catalan opening has the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code E09 Road that ends in Barcelona = E9 (e-route), goose egg=0 E(0)9 |
ev3commander | 1 |
| 6654 | ANY CLUE WHOSE ANSWER IS A PREVIOUS CONTEST WITH 0 ENTRIES (?) | Weirdly apt touch (3) | (APT)* = TAP/PAT (schrodinger) | ev3commander | 1 |
| 8789 | ANY GEOGRAPHICAL PLACE (?) | An astronaut, a proposition, harshly washed mohawks, a band in a MRT station, a mammoth, a human, a hawkmoth, a hat, a hat, a hat, a hat, a hat pickpocket, a triumphant humanitarian ptarmigan kahuna, tyranny, khaki print - weird name for a city (19 16 18 13 27 25 22 29) | (KRUNGTHEPMAHANAKHON AMONRATTANAKOSIN MAHINTHARAYUTTHAYA MAHADILOKPHOP NOPPHARATRATCHATHANIBURIROM UDOMRATCHANIWETMAHASATHAN AMONPHIMANAWATANSATHIT SAKKATHATTIYAWITSANUKAMPRASIT)* | ev3commander | 1 |
| 11136 | LET'S DO "YOUR USERNAME (?)" AGAIN THAT WAS FUN | I'm in the vicinity (2) | _EV_ | ev3commander | 1 |
| 2853 | BASEL (5) | Weasel-like animal destroyed a Swiss city! (5) | (sable)* | ev3commander | 0 |
| 2863 | SPOONER (7) | Nevada city's military campaigns retreat to form Wisconsin city (7) | (RENO OPS)< = Spooner, WI | ev3commander | 0 |
| 2920 | IT (2) | Before having source object, data processing group state "player action event" story (2) | Decuple definition. Before having: e.g. "It having snowed didn't help" Source: "It is said" Object: as a pronoun Data processing: IT Group: as in "The teacher told the class that it would have homework" State: as in "It isn't raining." Player: like in tag Action: as in "I like reading. It's fun." Concept: e.g "It started Story: by Stephen King |
ev3commander | 0 |
| 2947 | FIERY (5) | Even office bread hears signature dance move (5) | _F_I_E+"rye" = Signature dance move: (https://pokemondb.net/move/fiery-dance) Note: I know that "ry" in fiery is not pronounced like "rye" the bread. But by itself, Ry (like the name) is a homophone |
ev3commander | 0 |
| 3116 | CLUE SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN THE ANSWER (?) | Bar: a gear (11) | IMPEDIMENT (bar) + A = IMPEDIMENTA (gear) | ev3commander | 0 |
| 3245 | BOND (4) | Secure network (4) | ddef: verb and noun | ev3commander | 0 |
| 3251 | ARCEUS (6) | Spin petition about Pokemon (6) | ARC + SUE< / Pokemon | ev3commander | 0 |
| 5242 | TOMATO (6) | Red fruit plant's surface pores are initially removed but are ultimately replaced by oily opening (6) | red fruit = (-s)TOMAT(a->o_) | ev3commander | 0 |
| 5415 | STARBOARD (9) | Arbor Day's action: going from one side of Thunder Bay to the other (opposite to port) (9) | (ARBORDA(Y->T)S)* = opposite to port | ev3commander | 0 |
| 7863 | ENUM (4) | In short, count and abbreviate additive (4) | ddef: abbr of ENUMERATE and of E-NUMBER (code for food additive, phrase now used to refer to individual additives in general) | ev3commander | 0 |