| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1037 | Outrage us | Find something offensive about an inoffensive name of a product, organization, place, etc. | H |
| 869 | Clue us in | Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid. | H H |
| 854 | What's not to liken? | Produce one or more similes in any of the following categories. | H |
| 853 | It's easy as DEF | Create a brand-new word or phrase that contains a block of three successive letters in the alphabet; the series must go forward in the alphabet, not backward. | H |
| 849 | Homonymphomania | Create a new homonym (or homophone) for any existing word and define it. | H |
| 846 | Season's gratings | Write a brief (50 words or fewer) holiday letter from a personage from past or present, or from fiction. | 3 |
| 843 | Prefrains | Provide a sentence or two of lead-in to the first line of a well-known book, poem, or song. | H |
| 840 | Frittering away the neurons | Give us some more colorfully useful phrases; they don't have to be in the X'ing-the-Y form. | H |
| 839 | Overlap Dance | Overlap two words that share two or more consecutive letters -- anywhere in the word, not just at the beginning or end -- into a single longer word, and define it. AND your portmanteau word must begin with a letter from A through D. | H |
| 838 | Picture This | Provide a caption for any of these pictures. | H |
| 832 | Clue Us In | You supply one or more clues for the words in a filled-in grid. | H |
| 831 | A Big To-Do | Name a "bucket list" item for a well-known real or fictional character. | H H |
| 828 | Inhuman Puns | Make a pun on the name of a familiar group, organization or company, and describe it or provide a quote from it. | H |
| 827 | Caller Idiot | Name a real product or company and supply a stupid question or complaint for the consumer hotline person. | 2 |
| 826 | The Inside Word | Take any word -- this may include the name of a person or place -- put a portion of it in quotation marks, and redefine the word. | H |
| 631 | Picture This | What's going on in any of these cartoons? | H |
| 612 | Oh, and One More Thing | What was the thing that didn't make the cut on any list? | H |
| 608 | Comeback Next Week | Come up with original snide retorts to various rude questions or comments. | H |
| 599 | So What's the News? | Tell us what the illustrated events are. | H H |
| 441 | Spit the Difference | Take any two nouns that appear on the front page of today's Washington Post and explain how the nouns differ from each other. | H H |
| 440 | Picture This | What is going on in these cartoons? | H |
| 425 | Hyphen the Terrible | Take the first half of any hyphenated word from any story in today's newspaper and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word in the same story, and propose a definition of the new word you've created. | H |
| 421 | Picture This | These objects are not what they seem to be, at first glance. They are something else entirely. What are they? | H |