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Contests started: CIVIL WAR (5, 3), SOURDOUGH (9), PULL REQUEST (4, 7), FEEDBACK (8), UNFORTUNATE (11), COMPATIBLE (10), ENTRENCH (8), SKYSCRAPER (10), CARP, INTERESTING (11), REALIZE (7), BLURSED (7), ELBOW (5), PERSEVERANCE (12), NASDAQ (6), ZOUNDS (6), UNINTUITIVE (11), POLYCULE (8), SUSCEPTIBLE (11), INSOUCIANT (10)

Contests won: TURNIP (6), FAROE ISLANDS (5, 7), EMBER (5), ANTIDOTE (8), BANGER (6), TORTE (5), BEGINNING (9), SIKH (4), CHIVALRY (8), GAME CHANGER (4, 7), LOGGING (7), ETUI (4), REGULAR (7), LOBSTER BUCKS (7, 5), JUMENTOUS (9), ANY CLUE (?), LEMUR (5)

All Submissions

Clue ID Contest Clue Explanation (hover) Submitted By Likes
4253 EMBER (5) Fire dwells in mayhem; be ready (5) Hidden word: _EM BE R_ Kit 5
5645 ETUI (4) Elegant container with useful items, primarily! (4) &lit ET + U_ + I_ Kit 5
6382 LEMUR (5) Mammal or bird interrupting left and right (5) mammal = L(EMU)R Kit 4
4229 TURNIP (6) Redirect host address to acquire root (6) Redirect->TURN, host address->IP, root being a play on root vegetable or superuser
Kit 3
4413 ANTIDOTE (8) Fool loses eye in bet for cure (8) ANT(ID(-i)OT)E = cure
fool loses eye = ID(-i)OT (eye meaning center)
bet = ANTE

Kit 3
5054 XERXES (6) Eradicate band of copiers for the King of Kings (6) copiers = xeroxes
XER(-o)XES
Kit 3
5481 SIKH (4) Religious follower? Just kidding, no end to a bit of heresy (4) religious follower = SIK(-e) + H Kit 3
5501 CHIVALRY (8) No one horse has this bare group of knights (8) group of knights = C(-a)(_HI_)VALRY
cavalry = horse (military definition)
Kit 3
5699 GO BRRR (2, 4) Shivering when the fed prints money? (2, 4) ddef shivering / when the fed prints money Kit 3
5854 REGULAR (7) Soldier backfires pistol and assault rifle (7) Soldier = REGUL< + AR
luger is a pistol
Kit 3
6020 DAFT PUNK (4, 4) Hash containing way to send data and utility to musician duo (4, 4) musician duo = DA(FTP + U)NK
hash = dank (meaning weed)
way to send data = FTP
utility = U
Kit 3
4246 FAROE ISLANDS (5, 7) Adrift, sail for Dane's island territory (5, 7) SAILFORDANES* Kit 2
4254 SIDEREAL (8) Deer sail at sea using stars (8) DEERSAIL* Kit 2
4428 BANGER (6) Initially, bloody rage creates good music (6) B_ + ANGER = good music Kit 2
4705 OMEGA (5) Some garbage components for a watch (5) _OME GA_ = a watch Kit 2
5434 BEGINNING (9) Start turn after request (9) start = BEG + INNING Kit 2
5482 SEDITION (8) Lebanese city has no defense, containing up stream rebellion (8) rebellion = S(EDIT<)I(-d)ON Kit 2
5639 LOGGING (7) Reporting great gains increasing principals in $GME position, perhaps (7) reporting = LO(G_G_I_)NG Kit 2
5661 LWOJLA (6) Allow mibnt about jack shit (6) def shit = ALLOW* -> LWO(J)LA Kit 2
5995 LOBSTER BUCKS (7, 5) Toss coffee with energy, exchanging for a crustacean currency? (7, 5) crustacean currency = LOB + ST(a->E)RBUCKS Kit 2
6117 ANY CLUE (?) Scraps of round steak stewed with potato! (3 5) (3) &lit (R_S_+POTATO)* = POT ROAST

ddef pan credit to skaldskaparmal
https://cryptics.jackbrounstein.com/contest/1066-pan-3?highlight=5231#clue5231
Kit 2
4231 MINT (4) Herb of India found in Mountain (4) M(IN)T Kit 1
4244 PERSIAN (7) Middle-Eastern person removes son; Asian leader ousted (7) PERSIAN = PER(-son)+(-a)SIAN Kit 1
4245 EXONERATION (11) Crude xeon fails to start aeration release (11) XEON* + (-a)ERATION = EXONERATION (release) Kit 1
4269 BESIDE (6) Close to everything initially contained in secondary track (6) Close to = B(E)SIDE
secondary track = B-Side
Kit 1
4285 STOP SIGN (4, 4) Site of post is, oddly, end of driving on! (4, 4) &lit S_T_O_P_S_I_ + _G + _N Kit 1
4632 STRIPED (7) Made online payment from secured banks hosting first of purchases in data structure? (7) S_(TRI(P_)E)_D = Made online payment
TRIE = a data structure

punny definition based on Stripe, an online payment platform
Kit 1
5259 EXTRACT (7) Passage of former digestive system, maybe? (7) passage = EX + TRACT Kit 1
5273 TORTE (5) Cake with some biscuit or tea (5) biscuiT OR TEa Kit 1
5443 DETAIL(S) (6 OR 7) Obstruct time for resistance task force (6) obstruct = DERAIL
task force = DE(r->T)AIL
Kit 1
5517 GAME CHANGER (4, 7) Foreman obtains robot suit, it's revolutionary (4, 7) it's revolutionary = GA(MECHA)NGER Kit 1
5520 FERROUS (7) Irony is confusing, for sure? (7) Iron-y = anagram FORSURE Kit 1
5667 NOPE (4) Nah, gym class is cancelled? (4) nah = NO PE (physical education) Kit 1
5679 NORSEMEN (8) Headless riders after north vikings (8) vikings = N+(-h)ORSEMEN Kit 1
5700 SIC (3) Literally rad, almost (3) literally = SIC(-k) (rad) Kit 1
5723 VOTE (4) Referendum in university almost reversed after victory (4) def referendum = V+(-n)OTE
university almost= ETO(-n)
Kit 1
5823 OOO (3) Hugs unavailable (3) ddef o meaning hug and OoO = out of office Kit 1
5828 TRAINGLE ( 8) Zelda character's vehicle for god is Tubelrone? ( 8) Tubelrone = T(RA)INGLE

end me now
Kit 1
6033 QUINQUAGENARIAN (15) Naked horse-half pokemon represented in an era of older age (15) of older age = (-e)QUIN(-e)+QUAG(-sire)+ENARIAN*
represented anag. *(IN AN ERA)
Kit 1
6066 JUMENTOUS (9) Beast, smelling mints around you, follows initially just you (9) beast smelling = J_+U+MENTO(U)S
mint around you = MENTOS containing U
follows initially just you = after J(-ust)U
Kit 1
6069 AGED RUM (4, 3) Ripen by barrel! (4, 3) &lit AGE DRUM Kit 1
6607 DOGECOIN (8) Cryptocurrency doing destruction around environment (8) cryptocurrency = DOING* around ECO = DOG(ECO)IN Kit 1
4418 HAIR (4) Hydrogen gas fell (4) H+AIR = fell (meaning animal fur) Kit 0
4500 WEALTH (6) Endless forest, though empty, brings riches (6) WEAL(-d) + T(-houg)H = riches Kit 0
5286 TORTE (5) Cake has wrong energy (5) TORT + E (as in tort law) Kit 0
5647 AAA (3) High budget battery (3) ddef Kit 0
6014 BAD (3) Do a meme dance in reverse, poorly (3) poorly = bad (can be an adverb)
do a meme dance = dab
Kit 0
6048 DISINGENUOUS (12) Deceptive, crazy design keeping me and you in mind (12) deceptive = D(I)SINGE*+N(U)OUS
crazy design -> DSINGE*
keeping me -> containment, D(I)SINGE
you in mind -> containment, U in NOUS
Kit 0
6070 AGED RUM (4, 3) Liquor made with headless fish sauce, welcoming test (4, 3) liquor = (-g)A(GED)RUM
fish sauce = GARUM, headless removes 1st
welcoming test = containing GED

try it I swear it's not as bad as it smells
Kit 0
6126 DAM (3) Levee breaks, killing lives (3) Levee = DAM(-ages)
breaks = damages
lives = ages
Kit 0
11955 CONSOLE (7) Downsides to giving up a bit of creature comfort (7) downsides -> CONS
giving up a bit of creature -> (-m)OLE
comfort -> def
Kit 0

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