| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1566 | Well, the Good News Is ... | Put a positive spin on a bad-news headline | H |
| 1021 | 'Gram theft | Come up with a term by scrambling any of the letters sets in the provided list, and define it. | H H H H H H |
| 1018 | Reologisms | Write a clever, funny definition for any of the Loser-concocted neologisms from Week 1014 as well as from Week 1000 that deserve better definitions than their creators offered at the time. | H H H |
| 1017 | Vowel play | Write a "univocalic" newspaper headline -- one that uses only one vowel throughout. | 2 |
| 1015 | Faux re mi | Give us some humorously false trivia about music or musicians. | H |
| 1012 | The news at 5 | Write a limerick about a recent news event. | H |
| 1011 | Top these! | Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. | H 4 |
| 1007 | Clue us in | Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. | H |
| 1005 | Send us the bill | Name a piece of legislation "cosponsored" by two or more of the 98 new House and Senate members provided. | H |
| 1004 | Dead letters | Write a humorous poem about anyone who died in 2012. | H |
| 1002 | Wring out the OED | Make up a false definition for any of the listed OED words. | H 2 |
| 999 | Drectrospective | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 946 through Week 995, except for Week 948. | H H |
| 998 | Set the law on us | Suggest an odd law for a particular place in the world. | H |
| 997 | Unworthy causes | Name a dubious charity and describe its mission. | 2 |
| 996 | A Life-Time opportunity | Combine two magazines or journals and describe the result, supply a marketing pitch, or suggest a story or two that it might publish. | H |
| 991 | Tour de Fours IX | Create a new word or two-word term containing the letter block V, O, T, and E and define it. | T |
| 988 | A faster break | Suggest ways to make sports and other leisure activities more time-efficient or exciting. | 2 |
| 986 | Hear here! | Give us a sentence or short dialogue that would be a lot funnier if a word in it were mistaken for a homophone of that word. | H |
| 983 | Limerixicon IX | Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters "eq-" through "ez-". | H |
| 982 | The parody line | Set your own, humorous words to the tune of a well-known song--except that you must preserve one of the original lines. | 2 |
| 978 | A reason to rhyme the news | Write a short verse about something that's been in the news recently. | H |
| 974 | Eat our dust! | Write a limerick humorously describing a book, play, movie, or TV show. | 2 |
| 969 | Colt following | Breed any two "foals" in today's results, and name the grandfoal. | H |
| 967 | Overlap dance II | Create a phrase that overlaps two terms, each of two words or more, and describe the result. | H |
| 963 | The overlap dance | Send us a Before & After "person" whose name combines two people's names, real or fictional (okay, you can use animals' names, too), and describe the person in a funny way. | H H |
| 962 | Questionable journalism | Take any sentence (or a major part of it) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through March 19 and supply a question it could answer. | H H |
| 958 | All's Weller | Write a "wellerism," a sentence that starts with a quote, often a short proverb, and goes on to include some sort of wordplay on something in the quote. | H |
| 956 | Give us some bad ideas | Finish any of the provided "You know" phrases. | H |
| 953 | Clue us in | Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the crossword puzzle that's already run in The Post. | H |
| 951 | Say that again | Double a word, or use a word and its homophone, to make a phrase, and define it. | H |
| 949 | Analogies | Give us an analogy using "a is to b as x is to y." | H H |
| 948 | Look back in Inker | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 891 through 945 (except for Week 896, which was the same contest for the previous year). | H |
| 944 | Uh, yeah, it's just you | Give us one or more "Is it just me" questions. | H |
| 943 | Ask backward XXIX | You are on "Jeopardy!" You supply the questions for as many of the provided answers as you like. | H |
| 940 | Our type o' headline | Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, or change spacing or punctuation, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Oct. 7 through Oct. 17, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead). | H H |
| 938 | Free and Lear | Write a limerick using the first two lines of any of Edward Lear's 115 limericks plus your own remaining three lines. | H |
| 937 | Staake it to him | Write a caption for any of the five pages or details pictured from some of Bob's more than 50 picture books. | H |
| 933 | Stories that count (to 56) | Write a humorous story in exactly 56 words. | L |
| 929 | Now sit right back ... | Write a funny song introducing a TV show, past or present. | H |
| 928 | Play feature | Use the title of a movie as the answer to a riddle or other question. | H |
| 927 | Drive-By Shoutings | Write a very short four-line “poem” promoting a product or company, or offering advice to drivers; the poem must rhyme, in ABAB or ABCB rhyme scheme. A fifth, non-rhyming line may state the product name or a conclusion. | H |
| 926 | Outrageous fortunes | Come up with a fortune cookie line that you'd like to see. | H |
| 925 | A remeaning task | Redefine a word in the dictionary beginning with I through O. | T H |
| 923 | Chemical Wordfare | Create a new chemical element or other chemical term. | H H |
| 919 | Good Luck With 13 | Alter a 13-letter word, phrase or name by one letter (add a letter, drop a letter, switch two letters somewhere in the word, or substitute one letter for another) and describe the result. | H |
| 918 | Colt Following | Breed any two "foals" in today's results, or one foal with one of the real horse names used in today's entries--and name the "grandfoal." The name may not exceed 18 characters, including spaces, and your entry shouldn't remotely duplicate any of today's results. | M H |
| 916 | Bank shots | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from April 22 through May 2 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | H |
| 911 | Help! | Create a short humorous dialogue -- or a monologue featuring one party -- of a phone call to 911, or a call for help to someone else. | H |
| 909 | Reprizing | Suggest humorous uses for one or more of the items above, alone or in combination. | H H |
| 905 | Anticdotes | Give us an untrue anecdote responding to one of these past Editor's Query topics. | H |
| 904 | We move on back | Move the first letter in a word or name to the end of that word and define the resulting word. | M |
| 903 | Bill us now | Combine the names of two or more members of Congress as co-sponsors of a bill. | H |
| 902 | What's the good news? | Take any sentence, or substantive part of a sentence, or a headline from an article or ad in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com from Jan. 7 to Jan. 18 and make it sound upbeat (or not so bad). | W |
| 901 | Dead Letters | Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2010. | H H |
| 899 | Clue us in | Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid. | H |
| 898 | Pre-current events | Predict some humorous news event that would happen in 2011. | H |
| 897 | Catch their drift | Take any sentence from an article or ad in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com from Dec. 3 to Dec. 13 and translate it into "plain English. | H H |
| 894 | Look Back in Inker | Enter any Style Invitational from Week 841 through Week 890 (except for Week 844). | H |
| 893 | Give us a hint | Write a humorously witty story in 25 words or fewer. | H H |
| 892 | Get a move on | Change the location of something for humorous effect. Provide an explanation if you wish. | H |
| 888 | It's the eponymy, stupid | Coin a word or expression based on the name of a well-known person, define it, and perhaps use it in a sentence | 4 |
| 887 | Plus-Fours | Write a limerick whose third or fourth line is one of those listed above. | H |