I spent a good part of the past winter’s nights doing over three years worth of backlogged monthly puzzles once I found out about this. Enjoy.
Aboard is a nautical term, so it suffices. It is info-dense.
Famous Robin tells: Williams (Dual definition, the first straight but the second whimsical).
A three-year backlog of their puzzles would last me about three years.
I’m with gigi on this, don’t care for that clue.
I got nothing. Any hints or crossing letters?
Sadist slips backwards through gate leaving room for interpretation (10)
I am going to leave this in the unsolved file. Points to whoever gets it. I am stumped.
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New York school’s Hall of Fame pitching star (7)
Still working on the former (along with my own in post 48) but the latter is HOFSTRA (Hall Of Fame + STAR anag.).
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I, among extreme Assyrian foes, have found it! (10)
ARCHIMEDES
Arch + I + Medes
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New York Hall of Fame pitching star finally defeats Middle Tennessee State (6)
Maybe not, but enough cryptic solving guides mention “Aboard” as a signal for an SxS container that it’s certainly not an unfair clue.
SEAVER (s+e+aver). Nice twinnery there.
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Opposed to friend retreating from bloody field (8)
ANTIETAM (ANTI + MATE)
Lacks activity. (5)
SLACK
(anagram/definition)
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Has a bite to eat without the girls? (6)
NOSHES (no shes)
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Classic comedy from Philippine capital (6,8)
ANIMAL CRACKERS
(Animal as anagram from Manila)
Distressed Biblical character (6)
SAMSON
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First Ms. Paquin, then I leave pet food company where it is very very hard to make it to the top (9)
MERU
Mer+u
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Extremely strong pet aromas Tiffany concealed (7)
MASTIFF
concealed in aroMAS TIFFany
Player - to initiate thread: defrag, restart 3 (and a bit more) times. (6)
I sing of a drunk English sailor and a great one (5,5)
MILEY CYRUS ? (Miley anag of LIMEY, is Cyrus a great sailor?)
Cyrus the Great, King of Persia, did have an extensive navy.
Aha, so just Cyrus the Great. Thanks!
Something with a scramble of scurvy with five jumping overboard would work too. 