Clever Clue Nominees

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

Stuck in the sea........................HARPOONED 

Boxing ring?............................BLACKEYE
Lose density............................SMARTENUP

Site of a big pile on the floor.........SHAGRUG

Chair alternative.......................NOOSE

Something hard to get off your chest?...TATTOO

91-year-old woman fills out crossword that turns out to be $116k artwork in German museum

A 91-year-old woman reportedly used a ballpoint pen to fill in the blank spaces on a $116,000 crossword artwork on display in a German museum.

The work, by avant garde Danish artist Arthur Koepcke was on loan to the Nueus Museum in Nuremberg from a private collector, the BBC reported.
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Clever Clue of the Month

June 2016

Clue: Tender towards one's exes?..................ALIMONIES
Constructors: Byron Walden & Brad Wilbur, Editor: Will Shortz
NYT, Saturday, June 4, 2016

Clever Clue Nominees

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

Tender towards one's exes?..............ALIMONIES

Completely lost... unless you're a 

pirate, and if so, carry on.............ATSEA

Get the word out?.......................CENSOR

"I'm driving here!".....................FORE

Where many grunts may be heard?.........ARMYBASE

Dangerous activity with a safe goal?....BANKJOB

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.