The Clue
Slipped a Mickey (5 letter answer)
The Answer
DOPED
Tags
Notes
The answer DOPED is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1200 puzzles.
Related Clues
Doctored
Drugged
Stupefied
Lubricated, as snowshoes
Not clean
___ out (solved)
Oversedated, maybe
Puzzled (out)
___ out (solved, in slanguage)
Like some rule-breaking Olympians
Definition
DOPE as a verb:
1. take drugs to improve one's athletic performance
2. add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties; "The resistors have been doped"
3. (dope, dope up) = give a narcotic to; "The athletes were dope by the coach before the race"
DOPED as an adjective:
1. treated or impregnated with a foreign substance
2. (doped, drugged, narcotized, narcotised) = under the influence of narcotics; "knocked out by doped wine"; "a drugged sleep"; "were under the effect of the drugged sweets"; "in a stuperous narcotized state"