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Cluedle 2023 Wrapped

We published more than 280 clues in 2023. These are the 5 that most people solved, and the 5 that most people struggled with. Can you solve them all?

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Easier: Most players solved these...
Ignore rampaging Huns (4)
Clue Setter: Everyman
🟩🟩🟩 99.78% solved this clue
Hint 1: Anagram clue
Hint 2: Definition: ignore
Solution: SHUN
Explanation: SHUN is an anagram of Huns, ramapaging is the anagram indicator, definition: ignore
Stressed? Go back for some sweet things (8)
Clue Setter: Charles Machanik
🟩🟩🟩 98.45% solved this clue
Hint 1: Reversal of letters
Hint 2: Definition: some sweet things
Solution: DESSERTS
Explanation: Stressed backwards is 'desserts', go back is the reversal indicator, definition: some sweet things
Something for breakfast is made of rice? Really! (6)
Clue Setter: Bartland
🟩🟩🟩 97.81% solved this clue
Hint 1: Hidden word clue
Hint 2: Starts with C
Solution: CEREAL
Explanation: Cereal is hidden in 'riCE? REALlly!', 'is made of' is the hidden word indicator, definition: Something for breakfast
Windswept horse at the seaside (5)
Clue Setter: Alice in Wordland
🟩🟩🟩 97.05% solved this clue
Hint 1: anagram clue
Hint 2: Starts with S
Solution: SHORE
Explanation: Shore is an anagram of 'horse', windswept is the anagram indicator, definition: at the seaside
Old wine Sheeran sold abroad (8)
Clue Setter: Dr Crane
🟩🟩🟩 94.2% solved this clue
Hint 1: Charade / word sum
Hint 2: Definition: sold abroad
Solution: EXPORTED
Explanation: Ex (old) + port (wine) + ed (Sheeran) = EXPORTED, definition: sold abroad
Harder: Most people didn't solve these...
Just beginning to go bad (5)
Clue Setter: Simon T. Hill
🟥🟥🟥 28.15% solved this clue
Hint 1: Deletion clue
Hint 2: Starts with A
Solution: AWFUL
Explanation: Just' is lawful, delete l ('beginning to go' - ie without the beginning/first letter of lawful) = awful. Definition: bad
Happy students dropped ecstasy (3)
Clue Setter: Simon T. Hill
🟥🟥🟥 41.75% solved this clue
Hint 1: Deletion clue (dropped is the deletion indicator)
Hint 2: In crossword lingo student = L (learner) - students = LL
Solution: JOY
Explanation: JOY - Jolly (a synonym for happy) minus LL "dropped students" (student in crossword lingo is L for learner, so students = LL), definition: Ecstasy
Changes what happens at noon? (6)
Clue Setter: X
🟥🟥🟥 44.61% solved this clue
Hint 1: Think about what happens at noon
Hint 2: Definition: Changes
Solution: AMENDS
Explanation: A charade clue: At noon the morning (am) ends - AM ENDS. Definition - Changes
I cheat Mandela perhaps (4)
Clue Setter: Dr Crane
🟥🟥🟥 46.35% solved this clue
Hint 1: Word sum / charade clue
Hint 2: Definition: Mandela perhaps
Solution: ICON
Explanation: I + CON (cheat) - Mandela is an example of an icon
Pen couple of stories with happy ending (3)
Clue Setter: QryptOnYX
🟥🟥🟥 51.36% solved this clue
Hint 1: Charade clue
Hint 2: Starts with S
Solution: STY
Explanation: ST (couple - first two letters of 'STories') + y (ending of happY). Definition: Pen
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