Joyce Mitchell
This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Thursday, January 8, 2026 (part of January 2026)
category: 
Crime
clue: Helping out some guy named Matt in a pinch? No sweat.
explanation: Mitchell was a correctional officer at Clinton Correctional Facility in update New York in 2015 when she helped inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat escape by smuggling tools inside ground meat. She was alleged to have had sexual relations with both men, but denied it in Sweat's case. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
trivia: Scott was inspired to write an old-fashioned clue that sounded like something from the early days of the game, by loosely combining key words with little explanatory context.
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