| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | @LowdownCryptic | Quiet morning? Relieve yourself – it's what almost everyone does in the shower (7) | 39 | 19 | SH ("Quiet") + AM ("morning") + POO ("Relieve yourself") = SHAMPOO! | |
| 2 | Debasmita Basu | Hair product made from two parts of shikakai, two parts of amla, seed of soapnut, and hints of orange oil (7) | 25 | 15 | Def: Hair product; two parts of shikakai=sh, two parts of amla=am, seed of soapnut=p (central letter), hints of orange oil=o(range) o(il) |
- Too complicated for me, but I appreciate the effort! |
| 3 | Myra Shah | “First signs of shedding hair after menopause? Presenting… Organic Oatmeal hair cleanser!” (7) | 24 | 13 | Acrostic indicator - first signs of, definition - hair cleanser | |
| 4 | Ananth Srinivasan | Bath soap: Home-made and drug-free (7) | 23 | 12 | Def: Bath SOAPHOME* - E Drug = E |
- Definition a little weak perhaps? Wordplay excellent! |
| 5 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Oops! Terrible actor’s boring soap (7) | 21 | 11 | Def: Soap. Actor - Ham, Inserted in (boring), OOPS* (Terrible - Anagrind) |
- An actor is not a ham IMO - a terrible actor could be a ham, but terrible cannot do double duty - I feel like shampoo and soap are different, but I still like this (the "boring" especially). - Love how you''ve used actor and soap. Not so sure about oops. |
| 6 | VENKATESAN P | Cleaner to drive away escorting a politician(7) | 21 | 11 | To drive away=Shoo; a=A; Politician=MP; Escorting=Container indicator. Defn: Cleaner |
- def TO wordplay is not correct IMO |
| 7 | CrypticBlah | Homeopaths not the doctor, for treating dandruff? | 21 | 9 | Subtractive anagram (doctor) *homeopaths minus *the. Definition 'for treating dandruff?' |
- ''doctor'' is verbal anagrind placed in front of fodder. - Doctor as an imperative verb when used as anagrind should come before the fodder. Also Part of speech is incorrect for defintion - Doctor as verbal anagrind should come before the fodder - for the surface to scan, it would have to be: Homeopaths not the doctors |
| 8 | Avtaar | Shopwoman gives out case of new liquid cleaner (7) | 20 | 11 | Anagram (liquid) of {SHOPWOMAN - (N(-e)W)}*. Def: Cleaner |
- Nice construction |
| 9 | Textrous | Shock treatment? | 18 | 8 | Cryptic definition |
- Good one - LOL - Nice, but another surface uses this and goes further. |
| 10 | Satyen Nabar | Massage by maiden in spa - ooh, relaxing! (7) | 17 | 10 | M in (SPA OOH)*, relaxing= anag ind, maiden= M (abbrev), defn= massage (see Chambers, Collins) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shampoo_(massage) | |
| 11 | Some electricity passed through footwear, say, for shock treatment (7) | 16 | 10 | Some electricity = AMP (as in ampere) passed through SHOO (footwear say = hp of shoe). Cryptic Def = Shock Treatment (shock as in hair) |
- Enjoyable clue, would have preferred some indication that the definition was cryptic like a "?" at the end. - Partial homophone and a cryptic definition? Lovely! |
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| 12 | Oops, turned back and caught the queen taking a bath! | 15 | 9 | Def = Bath; HM (the queen) taking A = HAM inside SPOO (OOPS reversed); ‘Turned back’ as reversal indicator and ‘Caught’ as container indicator |
- shampoo is not bath? |
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| 13 | Stringy hair, angry matted plaits, overgrown oily heads need this cleanser? | 12 | 5 | Fodder: Stringy Hair, Angry Matted Plaits, Overgrown Oily; Acrostic Indicator: heads ; def: need this cleanser (? for unclear def) | ||
| 14 | Clean heads and shoulders, perhaps (7) | 11 | 7 | DD |
- I think it''s technically "Head & Shoulders" (and probably a shared root) but I like what you were going for here! - If the reference is to the Head and Shoulders brand of shampoo, it should be capitalised. |
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| 15 | Clean fake, soft glasses (7) | 11 | 6 | Clean (Defn), Fake - sham, Soft - p, Glasses - oo | ||
| 16 | Shame poor endlessly: "Wash your hair!" (7) | 11 | 6 | Def: "Wash your hair!" Wordplay: SHAM[e] + POO[r] losing last letters ("endlessly") |
- Very nice |
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| 17 | Oops! Upset about bits of hay and mud used to make hair cleaner (7) | 10 | 5 | OOPS reversed (indicator - "upset"), containing (indicator - "about") HAM (acrostic). Connector - "used to make", Definition - "hair cleaner". | ||
| 18 | Do this to primarily stop hairloss and mainly prevent oil oversecretion (7) | 9 | 7 | Acrostic: First letters (primarily) of Stop hairloss and mainly prevent oil oversecretion; Definition: Do this (semi &lit) |
- Nice try but hairloss is not a single word? |
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| 19 | Damaged mop has essential job as a bathroom cleaner (7) | 9 | 6 | (mop has o (essential jOb) )*; Definition: a bathroom cleaner | ||
| 20 | Carrie Fisher's film debut is mostly a parody about an overactor (7) | 8 | 6 | S(HAM)POO[-f]: Carrie Fisher's first role was in the 1975 film SHAMPOO, "mostly a parody" is SPOO[-f], "overactor" is a HAM, and "about" indicates it is a container. |
- "mostly a parody" would be ASPOO not SPOO? - Mostly a spoof - “a” spoils the cryptic wordplay - Original! |
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| 21 | Clean fraud by Winnie, say (7) | 7 | 5 | Def: CLEAN SHAM fraud + POO (hp of Pooh - Winnie the pooh) | ||
| 22 | Clean butcher shop around morning before start of operation (7) | 6 | 5 | Def - Clean. (butcher - anagrind) {SHOP}* around AM (morning) before O (start of operation). | ||
| 23 | MASH: Doctor #2 is cleaner. | 6 | 4 | (MASH)* POO |
- Doctor as verbal anagrind should come before the fodder |
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| 24 | Perhaps, shopwoman without directions, will find the cleaning solution. (7) | 6 | 4 | Cleaning Solution=Def; SHOPWOMAN - N - W = SHAMPOO; Perhaps=Anagrind; N, W=Directions; |
- Without directions could lose S as well. |
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| 25 | Maverick Osho inspired Vinod Khanna, perhaps, for a hair-care treatment | 6 | 3 | *OSHO includes A MP, Definition: hair-care treatment |
- Vinod Khanna for MP is a bit obscure, imo |
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| 26 | Clean way to avoid deadlocks? (7) | 5 | 4 | CD | ||
| 27 | Hair dresser's best friend Pam, roamed around in bustling Soho (7) | 5 | 2 | PAM * inside SOHO * | ||
| 28 | Clean fake shit (7) | 5 | 2 | Def: clean. SHAM (fake) POO (shit) | ||
| 29 | Cleanse bogus poor by withdrawing right. | 4 | 3 | def : Cleanse, wp: bogus = sham + (poor -r) | ||
| 30 | Hair wash from artificial excrement (7) | 4 | 3 | Def - Hair wash; artificial = sham, excrement = poo | ||
| 31 | Fake, unending crap that gets one in a bit of lather (7) | 4 | 3 | Def: that get's one in a bit of lather; SHAM POO(-p) Reference to WhatsApp messages in some groups :) | ||
| 32 | I made a mistake, returning and devouring meat in a lather (7) | 4 | 2 | "OOPS" reversed, contains HAM | ||
| 33 | Cleaner branch shortly to be occupied by a politician (7) | 3 | 2 | Def- cleaner, branch shortly- SHOO t, c/c Indic- to be occupied by , a-A, politician-MP, SH A MP OO | ||
| 34 | Leading star loves to hug amateur actor, preferring initially to wash (7) | 2 | 1 | Anno: S OO about HAM P. Def: To wash | ||
| 35 | Pams mixing little henna in with eggs to rinse hair | 1 | 1 | Defn = to rinse hair, Pams is a person, P(h)ams* + | ||
| 36 | Under/over on ham soup repackaged as a hair product? (7) | 1 | 1 | Under/over on = change the u to an o in the fodder ham soup->HAMSOOP. Anagram indicator = repackaged. Definition “a hair product”. |
- Under/over didn''t quite work for me, but the surface made me laugh a lot. |
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| 37 | Heads of silky hair, a marvelous picture of only Halo, perhaps (7) | 0 | Acrostic, with Halo as def by example |