| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Lily Geller (@lilygeller) | Arcane stamp with runic handwriting (10) | 31 | 15 | Def: “handwriting” Wordplay: (STAMP + RUNIC)*; anagrind is “arcane” |
- Nice alternative anagram to "Camus print." I like the fantasy evocation. |
| 2 | Debasmita Basu | Ancient Indian's tomb is gutted, including one hand written document (10) | 30 | 15 | Def: Hand written document; Ancient Indian's: MANUS, tomb: CRYPT, gutted: removal of central letter, including: containment indicator, one:I; MANU S CR(-Y)IPT | |
| 3 | Gayathri Viswanath | Text made Putin scram | 24 | 13 | Def - Text, Putin scram*, Made- anagrind |
- Would that it could! |
| 4 | Madhusudan H | Original text of super-romantic novel isn't semi-erotic (10) | 23 | 11 | Original text: Defn; super-romantic (delete) ero == manuscript; novel is anagrind |
- I love the idea, but something in "isn''t semi-erotic" feels off. |
| 5 | Myra Shah | Handwritten notebook from Camus? Print ordered! (10) | 18 | 14 | (camus print)* , anagrind - ordered, def - handwritten notebook (I used ‘notebook’ instead of ‘book’ in the definition as a reference to Camus’s non-fiction works titled Notebooks 1935-1942, 1942-1951, and 1951-1959) |
- Love the "ordered" indicator. |
| 6 | Dave Williams | Author sends publisher this mark-up: “Isn’t ‘k’ changed to ‘c’? Revise.” | 17 | 11 | def: "Author sends publisher this". *(MARKUPISNT) –K +C |
- I really like this angle, but I want an anagrind - The note every editor fears; nice! |
| 7 | Veera Raghavan | Part in music played without essentially using notes (10) | 16 | 7 | Anno:(PARTINMUSIC-I)* Def: Notes | |
| 8 | Textrous | Print Camus' novel written in the author's hand (10) | 14 | 10 | (PRINTCAMUS)*, anagrind: novel, def: written in the author's hand (adj.) | |
| 9 | @qpheevr | Draft can stir up whirlwind around beginning of March (10) | 14 | 9 | def = draft; anagram ("whirlwind") of CAN STIR UP incorporating M ("beginning of March") |
- Fantastic; only nit is I''d have gone with "Madness" instead of "whirlwind" to complete the reference. - noun anagrind? - Should have said *after* beginning of March |
| 10 | Manish Jhaveri | Document a star getting up to interrupt Master of Ceremonies with savage hit finally (10) | 14 | 7 | MC interrupted by A NUS << (a star getting up) with RIP ( = savage [in verb usage]) T (hit finally). Def = Document. Topical clue that riffs on Will Smith incident. |
- Timely, though Chris Rock wasn''t the Master of Ceremonies. |
| 11 | Mad Putin's crime -- ignoring Eastern book | 13 | 8 | (Putins crime - e)*, anagrind: mad, def: book |
- minuscript? |
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| 12 | Unorthodox camp ruins first letter in Torah scroll | 12 | 7 | Anagram of CAMPRUINS + T | ||
| 13 | Scroll up initially in Macs and print off (10) | 12 | 5 | Def: Scroll, u (up Initially) inserted in MACSPRINT* |
- I don''t know what "Macs" is, and "up" doesn''t need "initially" to get "U," but I like this surface sense. |
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| 14 | Guy at American Mausoleum replaces Yankee with Indian in transcript | 11 | 7 | Guy MAN; at American US; Mausoleum - crypt - replaces Yankee (-y) with Indian (+I) - CRIPT; in (connector); def: transcript |
- Too many letters shared between "transcript" and "manuscript" for me, but nice idea. |
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| 15 | Endless Pune smart city modified to a document(10) | 11 | 5 | def: a document, wp: ((Pune-e)+(smart-t)+(city-y))* anagrind : modified | ||
| 16 | Text bloke, "You copy?" | 10 | 5 | Def = Text, MAN + U + SCRIPT |
- Neat and concise |
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| 17 | Print Camus novel to paper (10) | 8 | 7 | printcamus* anagrind: novel def: paper (Chambers) | ||
| 18 | Scroll up screen ! It may be without eye strain (10) | 8 | 5 | Scroll (Def), Strain (Anagrind), Anagram (Screen it may - eye), Be without - deletion indicator |
- I like the surface sense of "scroll" but I''m not seeing how "up" works? |
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| 19 | The Red Devils' score - that's an original record (10) | 7 | 6 | MAN U (The Football Team is known as the Red Devils) SCRIPT (score as in written text) | ||
| 20 | Print Camus's original handwritten document (10) | 6 | 5 | (PRINT CAMUS)*; original= anag ind, handwritten document= defn | ||
| 21 | Compose rap music about new model for album (10) | 6 | 4 | Definition: Album; Compose=Anagrind; Rap music=Anagram fodder: New=N; Model=T | ||
| 22 | Camus' print, perhaps? | 6 | 3 | &lit clue. Wordplay - {CAMUSPRINT}* with perhaps as anagram. Slightly cryptic definition by example - print (as in lettering) of Albert Camus (French author). |
- Definition is weak |
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| 23 | Written story of Football club's commendable records inspired premier team leaders | 5 | 5 | Football club's = MANUS + first letters of the rest of the words indicated by "leaders " | ||
| 24 | Camus print typeset from this? | 5 | 4 | Anagram (typeset) *camusprint. Print as in edition. Typeset to process data for printing. Ref. Albert Camus French philosopher | ||
| 25 | Manchester football team pen calligraphy (10) | 5 | 4 | Manchester football team : MANU, Pen: SCRIPT, Definition : CALLIGRAPHY | ||
| 26 | Draft of "Serious Men"? | 5 | 3 | Serious Men is written by Manu Joseph &lit | ||
| 27 | Oh boy! You heard? Supreme Court cut the basic handwritten document (10) | 4 | 3 | Oh boy!= Man, you heard is U / SC/ rip/ t | ||
| 28 | Document produced by Old Trafford's sporting story line? | 4 | 3 | Old Trafford sporting ( Man U) / story line is Script | ||
| 29 | Camus absurdly made print before the book was published (10) | 4 | 1 | Def: on Right - Clue: Anagrams of Camus and Print, indicated by Absurdly and Made |
- seems like "print" is pulling double duty here; and the two separate anagrinds do not indicate that CAMUS and PRINT should be anagrammed all together |
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| 30 | Short (quietly contained) critique following master of arts and Greek letters results in an as-yet-unpublished text (10) | 3 | 3 | MA+NUS+CRI(P)T; MA ("Master of arts") + NUS ("Greek letters") + ("following") Short critique ("P") contained by CRIT ("Short critique") | ||
| 31 | N. Eng. football team play lines composed by hand. (10) | 2 | 2 | Charade: N. Eng. football team = MAN U , play lines = SCRIPT definition = lines composed by hand |
- Terrific use of "play" in this sense, though I''m not sure "composed by hand" works in the surface. |
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| 32 | Scholar at Nalanda University writing mechanically? Just the opposite! (10) | 1 | 1 | Scholar_ MA, at _ is indicator for NU(Nalanda University) (writing (script) mechanically is indicator to 'just the opposite' ie defn for manuscript | ||
| 33 | Number of cripples, half stuck in a receding eyeless tsunami. | 1 | 1 | Cripples half - (crip)- stuck in- receding (eye=i) less Tsunami - manus(crip)t. |
- Didn''t really like the use of "cripple" here. - do tsunamis have eyes? |