| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Sparsh Sinha | Rule no.1 of dieting - you never add sugar to yogurt (7) | 53 | 25 | Def - Rule (Chambers). "no.1 of" - first letter indicator . (d)ieting (y)ou (n)ever (a)dd (s)ugar (t)o (y)ogurt. = Dynasty. |
- "no. 1 of" suggests the first letter of only dieting - I think "No. 1" is a stretch for /all/ of the first letters, but I love this surface enough to excuse it. - Ideally should have been No. 1''s to indicate picking multiple first letters - Very nice; surface obscures definition without being unfair |
| 2 | Gayathri Viswanath | Extremely dirty and obscene Song, perhaps (7) | 34 | 18 | Def - Song, perhaps ( Chinese Dynasty 960-1279 CE), D(-irt)Y , obscene = NASTY |
- (putting ''Song, perhaps'' at the start would have helpfully disgused the initial cap) - I wish the "Song" had started the clue to hide this a bit, but I like it. - Pity S needed to be capitalised |
| 3 | N Anantakrishnan | Democracy voided by malicious regime | 33 | 15 | D(emocrac)Y nasty(malicious). Def - regime |
- Crisp - There are quite a few D…Y+NASTY entries; I think this one is the tidiest |
| 4 | Satyen Nabar | Playing at Sydney, English lost in succession (7) | 32 | 18 | anag of AT SYDNEY less E; playing= anag ind, English= E, lost= deletion ind, defn= succession |
- Good use of succession |
| 5 | Adman_i | Dale Steyn bowls Lee out and gets a taste of young blood (7) | 30 | 16 | Anagram of (DALE STEYN - LEE) + Y, Blood (Definition) |
- Good attempt. Bowls = dismisses ! - Good job finding Dale Steyn and Lee fitting into the word. - Nice theme but ''bowls'' does not work as an anagrind |
| 6 | Myra Shah | Gutless democracy, deplorable government (7) | 23 | 12 | d(emocrac)y, deplorable = nasty. Def - government |
- government alone is a bit weak to indicate dynasty, ''way to govern'' may be a better def, still fitting the surface |
| 7 | Ananth Srinivasan | Extremely dirty and unpleasant regime (7) | 20 | 13 | Def: Regime D(-irt)Y+ NASTY | |
| 8 | Suyash Roongta | Family line in democracy? Borders on terrible (7) | 18 | 11 | DY (democacy borders) on NASTY (terrible). Def - family line. | |
| 9 | Ramki Krishnan | Poor guy may finally stand in line (7) | 13 | 10 | Anagram of (Y Y STAND), Poor = anagrind, line = def, guy may finally = Y Y | |
| 10 | Tejas Siddharth | Heard Princess may be antsy about succession (7) | 12 | 8 | Heard princess = DY (~DI), maybe = anagrind, ANTSY*, succession = def |
- "about" is not a good connector between wp and def. Rather it could have been used as the anagrind itself. - may be is not the same as maybe - What is the role of ''about''? |
| 11 | Do you not accord service to your first line of rulers? (7) | 11 | 9 | Acrostic/ first as across indicator/ line of rulers is ded | ||
| 12 | Soap, according to Spooner, is close at hand and covered in grime. | 10 | 7 | spooner NIGH DUSTY. def=soap as in the 1980s soap opera |
- It''s a vague (albeit accurate) definition that I totally buy for this surface. |
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| 13 | Ruling bloodline's DNA sustained through y-chromosome principally, encapsulating foundation of patriarchy (7) | 9 | 6 | Def: "Ruling bloodline" ~ Wordplay: D(Y)NA + STY; DNA + first letters ("principally") of "[S]ustained [T]hrough [Y]-chromosome," containing ("encapsulating") last letter ("foundation") of "patriarch[Y]" | ||
| 14 | Don't say yes without love perhaps for family(7) | 9 | 5 | def:family. wp: (dont +say+y-o)* , perhaps = anagrind | ||
| 15 | Chinese song? | 8 | 6 | CD. Song is a prominent dynasty in Chinese history |
- Lowercasing "song" feels like a cheat, but "Song in China?" would''ve been great. - Not a cryptic clue |
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| 16 | Rule by family ultimately in corrupt and filthy place (7) | 8 | 5 | Def: Rule (Chambers), Y (family, ultimately) >>AND* + STY | ||
| 17 | As a family, they follow the same rule! | 8 | 5 | CD. follow (come one after the other, rule (as in ruling a land) | ||
| 18 | Hollow, dreary, unpleasant Nehru-Gandhis, perhaps (7) | 8 | 4 | Hollow = remove central letters from, D(-rear)Y, unpleasant = NASTY, Nehru-Gandhis, perhaps = definition by example | ||
| 19 | Cynical Republican ousted by hateful regime (7) | 7 | 4 | Cynical Republican ousted = DRY minus R, by = connector, hateful=NASTY, def: regime |
- Excellent. |
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| 20 | Shackled by bloody nasty line of hereditary rulers (7) | 5 | 5 | Telescopic clue - blooDY NASTY; Tel.ind. - shackled by; Def - line of hereditary rulers |
- Preferably the clue should be completely contained within words, without using the first/ last letters - Telescopic fodders need to be padded at both ends |
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| 21 | Gupta, for one is completely heartless, dirty and offensive (7) | 5 | 4 | D(...)Y+NASTY (offensive). Def: Gupta for one. The famous Indian dynasty DBE |
- Role of completely? - Why completely |
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| 22 | Soap opera is sequel to "Duck & Dodge" (7) | 5 | 4 | Double def: Dynasty is an American soap opera from the 1980s; Duck Dynasty is a reality TV show from the 2010s; the Dodge Dynasty was a car made by Chrysler |
- Wouldn''t this be a triple definition? That said, "Duck" alone doesn''t work as an indicator of Duck Dynasty. "Type of Duck," maybe. |
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| 23 | Song was one only beginners used during yoga: "Namaste and Saying Thank You" (7) | 4 | 4 | definition: "Song was one" (the Song dynasty in China), acrostic indicator: "only beginners used" | ||
| 24 | Somebody nasty hidden by family? | 4 | 3 | Defn = family, Telescopic clue with hidden as indicator |
- A telescopic fodder should cover the answer with other characters on both sides. Here, no characters follow ''nasty''. Also ''hidden by'' doesn''t read rght with wordplay on the left and answer on the right. - In a telescopic clue, the solution must be completely hidden inside two or more words in the surface - Preferably the clue should be completely contained within words, without using the first/ last letters - Telescopic fodders need to be padded at both ends - Word is not completely hidden |
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| 25 | Diplomatically vacated misconceived stay checking new rule (7) | 4 | 3 | D….Y (N) STAY*. Misconceived: anagrind. Def: Rule. ‘Checking’ is ‘stopping’ in WP. It indicates inclusion of ‘n’ in cryptic. | ||
| 26 | Reverend's nearly dirty reign (7) | 3 | 2 | Spoonerism of nigh-dusty. Def: Reign | ||
| 27 | Vacillating stand with regular yo yo rule (7) | 3 | 2 | (STAND + YY (regular Yo Yo))*, anagrind being vacillating. Definition: Rule | ||
| 28 | This is an accommodation where Danny & I stay with son (7) | 2 | 2 | Composite Anagram [DYNASTYISAN ≡ DANNYISTAYS] ; accommodation as anagrind meaning arrangement in cryptic grammar / house in surface. |
- All wordplay, no def.? (A house is an accommodation and a dynasty is a house, but not the same kind of house) |
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| 29 | Day ends with Stanely performing after exit of the French regime (8) | 2 | 2 | Defn: Regime; Anno: 'Day ends' = DY; The French=LE; Fodder=Stanely-le; Anagrind=Performing |
- Some would say you you can''t delete le / la here as they don''t appear in that order in the original fodder. Also, it''s not clear whether one needs to remove le or la or les. |
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| 30 | Spooner said 'Close to the dirty house' (7) | 2 | 2 | Close to (NIGH); dirty (DUSTY) NIGH DUSTY [SPOONERISM] DYNASTY , Defn = House {Ref : https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=dynasty&title=thes} | ||
| 31 | Song perhaps in a melody, N.A. style | 2 | 1 | Def, song dynasty (T) |
- I don''t know what N.A. is supposed to mean in the surface |
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| 32 | Old soap designer's front yard: horrible! | 1 | 1 | def=old soap; designer's front=D; yard=Y, horrible=NASTY | ||
| 33 | Youth leaders involved in a stand-off for ascendancy | 1 | 1 | Youth leader = Y, Anagram of Y+Y+STAND; OFF as anagrind; Def = Ascendancy |
- I don''t think "Youth leaders" indicates the first letter, twice. - I''d say that ''youth leaders'' means YO here rather than two copies of the Y. - Youth leaders = YO, not YY |
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| 34 | House of, for example, salt? Filthy place! First of all, do it yourself! I quit! (7) | 1 | 1 | "House of, for example" is the definition (as in House of Saud, House of Windsor, etc.); NA for salt, STY for filthy place, DIY for "do it yourself" where the "I" quits, coming "first of all": D[-i]Y+NA+STY. |
- Na is not salt, table salt is NaCl. Sodium is a metal. |
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| 35 | 0 |
- Love this minimalist clue - You don''t say! |