Clever Clue of the Month

May 2016

Clue: Support for a movement?......................TOILETSEAT
Constructor/Editor: Peter Gordon
Fireball Crossword, Thursday, May 12, 2016

Clever Clue Nominees

Please vote for the best clue from May (either by email or comments below). The Clever Clue of the Month will be announced on Friday.

Labor pain..............................UNIONSTRIKE

Rectangle that may have more than four
sides?..................................MENU
Support for a movement?.................TOILETSEAT
What separates the gulls from the
buoys?..................................WEBBEDFEET

Front runner?...........................DESERTER

Kent state?.............................SUPERMAN

USA Today Drops Timothy Parker

According to the New York Times, Timothy Parker, a crossword puzzle editor who was investigated over accusations of plagiarism will no longer have his work appear in USA Today, the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett, and a crossword puzzle vendor, Universal Uclick, said on Tuesday.

The web-site Five-Thirty-Eight added, USA Today will still get its crossword puzzles from Universal, as it has for years, but neither it nor Gannett will publish any that are edited by Parker.

Clever Clue of the Month

April 2016
Clue: Earthling who grew up near Venus?.....SERENA
Constructor/Editor: Evan Birnholz
Evan Birnholz's Washington Post Crossword, Sunday, April 10, 2016

Clever Clue Nominees

Please vote for the best clue from April (either by email or comments below). The Clever Clue of the Month will be announced on Tuesday.

You might put stock in it...............SOUP

Remote possibilities....................CHANNELS
Lousy sausages?.........................WURSTS

Earthling who grew up near Venus?.......SERENA

Major scale figure?.....................FAHRENHEIT

Hillary aides...........................SHERPAS

Clever Clue of the Month

March 2016

Clue: Lures for anglers...................................LAKES
Constructor: CC Burnikel, Editor: Rich Norris
LA Times, Thursday, March 10, 2016

Clever Clue Nominees

Please vote for the best clue from March (either by email or comments below). The Clever Clue of the Month will be announced on Sunday.

Lures for anglers?......................LAKES

Denoting the style in which one might 
consider this clue to be written........VERBOSE

Trying to avert a strike, perhaps.......ATBAT

"V.I.A.G.R.a 4 FR33!", perhaps..........SPAM
Dead centers?...........................CRYPTS

Mass distribution?......................WAFERS