I have lots for post mortem about our clues. Though I'll likely have to post piecemeal.
Our words:
Rifle
Microscope
Cliff
Drawing
Trying to come up with an 8th clue for Cliff?? Man.
The one I missed Smithy made perfect sense after, and I'm sad I didn't even consider the Dominion aspect. I also really liked Tie.
Watno, questions on any of my clues?
Also some rules questions:
1) If on the last round say we hadn't already had a miscommunication, could we have just given a nonsense clue? Or, ias I assume, that's not quite in the spirit of the rules, but a very farfetched connection would be ok?
2) For a word like microscope, which is compound, could we have given clues to point to just one part of the word? Even if we used a meaning of the word that did not related to the whole? e.g. Mouthwash to refer to "Scope", which is a brand of mouthwash*
(*) I still might not have, because I don't know if Scope is well known outside the USA
3) What happens for accidental illegal clues? i.e. I almost gave Bar, for Cliff, because of the snack bar (again not sure how well known outside the USA, but looking now it turns out it's actually Clif with only one F