Stella Zawistowski
@stellaphone
Personal records: Back squat, 265 lb. New York Times Sunday crossword, 4 minutes, 33 seconds. I tweet a #crypticclueaday.
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http://ToughAsNails.net 05-01-2010 17:22:08
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This is a bonus #crypticclueaday because it requires a bit of trivia knowledge:
Spoken rule Mr. Jackson propelled, creating course (7,4)
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Perhaps rust subsumes hydrogen, creating tough material (6)
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That’s it for #explanationfriday ! Here’s your #crypticclueaday :
A Spanish chicken god (6)
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In this double def, LIT is both “exciting” and an “art form” (short for LITERATURE). #explanationfriday
Hat tip to Mike Shenk for the wordplay: Take MUSIAL (“Baseball’s Stan) and insert (“catching”) the letter C (“catcher”) to get MUSICAL (“The Show?”). The question mark indicates the slightly non-literal nature of the wordplay. #explanationfriday
SHAM (“fake”) plus AN (an indefinite “article”) makes SHAMAN (“traditional healer”). #explanationfriday
Take MINE and anagram it (“ruined”) to MEIN. Then insert (“surrounds”) DELL (“valley”) to get MEDELLIN (“somewhere in Colombia”). #explanationfriday
TETRIS is the “game” that’s “hidden” in “iraTE, TRIStan” (ignoring punctuation). #explanationfriday
Take S, the first letter of SOME (“at first, some”). Add COURAGE (“heroism”). Then “expel” the letter A to get SCOURGE (“nemesis”). #explanationfriday
Phew, it’s #explanationfriday ! This one’s just a charade: PAT (“glib”) plus RIOT (a type of “protest”) makes PATRIOT, a “football player.”
Here are your denim-clad JORTS winners:
Byron Walden 🥇, 7 votes
Sam Brody 🥈, 5 votes
Ben Bass & Beyond 🥉, 4 votes
Thanks for playing! #crypticcluecontest #whoclueditbetter
Baseball’s Stan catching catcher in The Show? (7)
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