| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Ganesh Raman | Spooner’s figuring out, standing next to sink, what to wear while at home | 25 | 12 | Spoonerism of “Guessing Drown”; ‘Figuring out’ = Guessing; ‘Sink’ = Drown; Def: What to wear while at home | |
| 2 | Samit kallianpur | A robe Gwen and Doris used repeatedly (8,4) | 24 | 11 | Letter bank : "Gwen + Doris" used repeatedly gives Dressing gown. Def = A robe | |
| 3 | Madhusudan H | Tailor designs wrong housecoat (8,4) | 23 | 14 | Tailor is Anagrind. Housecoat is definition. | |
| 4 | @inwitinwit | Tailor designs wrong house coat. (8,4) | 23 | 12 | Anagram of "designs wrong." Anagram indicator - "Tailor." Definition - "house coat." | |
| 5 | Satyen Nabar | Wrap diamond set engrossing wife (8,4) | 18 | 9 | D + (ENGROSSING W)*; diamond= D, set= anagrind, wife= W, defn= wrap | |
| 6 | Antonio Sarmiento | Tailor designs wrong robe (8, 4) | 17 | 12 | tailor = anagrind; designswrong* = dressing gown; robe = definition | |
| 7 | @qpheevr | Having played gigs, nerd owns piece of Sherlock Holmes costume (8, 4) | 17 | 10 | (GIGS NERD OWNS)*; having played = anagrind. Holmes is often described (in the books) and depicted (on stage and screen) wearing a dressing gown. | |
| 8 | Manish Jhaveri | Way to go undercover after clean-up operation {8, 4} | 16 | 7 | CD | |
| 9 | Suyash Roongta | Reprimanding girl for damaging top housecoat (8,4) | 15 | 10 | Reprimanding -> Dressing down. G (girl) replaces D (Destroying top). Def - housecoat. | |
| 10 | Raj Jayaram | Scolding girl for essentially dodgy bathrobe (8,4) | 15 | 10 | Scolding = Dressing down, girl = G, essentially dodgy = (do)D(gy), girl for essentially dodgy = G replaces D, bathrobe = definition |
- There are two Ds in ''dressing down''; how to we know which D to change into G? |
| 11 | Nate Cardin | Engineer designs wrong cover (8,4) | 15 | 9 | Anagram (Engineer) ‘designs wrong’ to get DRESSING GOWN (cover) | |
| 12 | Terribly wrong designs for negligee (8,4) | 14 | 10 | Anagram of wrong designs* | ||
| 13 | Relish golf now becoming a night-time habit (8,4) | 14 | 7 | Relish = Dressing (Chambers), Golf = G, (NOW)* def: a night time habit (habit - something you wear regularly) |
- The surface doesn''t quite work with relish; it would need to be relishing. |
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| 14 | Bathrobe's wrong designs altered(8,4) | 13 | 9 | Definition: Bathrobe; Anno: (wrong+designs)* | ||
| 15 | Doctor designs wrong robe (8,4) | 13 | 9 | Doctor : Anagram indicator, designs wrong : fodder, Robe : Definition | ||
| 16 | Wrong design ultimately causes malfunctioning of wardrobe | 12 | 7 | (Wrong design s)* Malfunctioning - anagrind Def - wardrobe |
- Not sure ‘wardrobe’ works as a def. |
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| 17 | Barbaric prigs send out Penny Wong misguidedly for 'un-Parliament-friendly apparel' | 12 | 6 | pRIGSSEND* [barbaric] -p [out Penny] WONG* [misguidedly] Def: un-Parliament-friendly apparel. (Penny Wong is an Australian politician.) | ||
| 18 | Being casually attired, not at the start of day but in the middle of the night in a robe (8,4) | 11 | 7 | Being casually attired = dressing down - D + G, ROBE= DEF |
- There are two Ds in ''dressing down''; how to we know which D to change into G? |
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| 19 | Relish Gucci’s original now trending as housecoat (8,4) | 10 | 7 | Defn is housecoat, relish means dressing, so dressing +g+now*(trending is anagrind) | ||
| 20 | Wrong designs undid robe | 9 | 6 | (wrong designs)*, undid as anagrind, robe as def |
- undone would work as anagrind but not undid |
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| 21 | Good to dance with singers in blue robe (8,4) | 9 | 6 | G+ SINGERS* inserted in BLUE (Down) |
- The cryptic construction doesn''t quite work; the fodder should be withsingers* rather than only singers* |
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| 22 | Indiscriminately growing spends giving away prince's loose habit (8,4) | 9 | 4 | GROWINGSPENDS* - P (short for prince), "indiscriminately" is the anagrind, def: loose habit |
- What does ''growing spends'' mean in the surface? - I don’t really get how to parse the surface, but ‘loose habit’ is a lovely definition |
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| 23 | Nightwear is going casual from $500 to $1000 | 8 | 5 | Nightwear = def. Going casual = DRESSING DOWN, with a D (500) changed to a G ($1000) |
- I''m unsure of the meaning of ''casual'' in the surface. |
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| 24 | Doctor Strange goes back on vacation to sing with Wong about a loose robe (8,4) | 8 | 4 | Defn - a loose robe, doctor -(Dr) + strange goes back -(egnarts) on vacation - 1st and last letter selection indicator -(es) + sing + Wong about(gown) = dressing gown | ||
| 25 | A severe reprimand as daughter gets lost for good in housecoat (7,4) | 6 | 5 | Dressing (d<>g)own def: housecoat |
- There are two Ds in ''dressing down''; how to we know which D to change into G? |
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| 26 | Chiding second daughter going out for a grand bathrobe (8,4) | 5 | 4 | Chiding - Dressing down, Going out - deletion indicator, Daughter - d, Grand - g, Bathrobe (Definition) |
- What is the role of second? - I would omit ''a''. |
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| 27 | Doctor to inform: proceed with all directions about what to wear when you're sick (8,4) | 5 | 4 | DR+(ES(SING+GO)WN) Def on right; Doctor = DR; to inform = SING, proceed = GO, both contained in ESWN ("with all directions about") | ||
| 28 | Wrong designs make a loose fitting robe (8, 4) | 4 | 3 | Def - loose fitting robe wrong designs* | ||
| 29 | Article about party put on before retirement (8,4) | 4 | 3 | Cryptic definition | ||
| 30 | Rebuking trade of last dinar for good loungewear (8,4) | 3 | 3 | DRESSING DOWN, swap G for final D | ||
| 31 | Robe Wong? | 2 | 1 | RA robe - definition (used in clue as verb) Wong* | ||
| 32 | Robe of wrong design initially selected, redesigned (8, | 1 | 1 | Anno: (wrong design s)*. Def: Robe | ||
| 33 | Italian perhaps completely mastered scoring (8,4) | 0 | DRESSING [Italian (dressing) perhaps] DOWN (completely mastered, ref. MW as in 'had her lines down'); Definition: Scoring (score as in to berate, ref. MW) |
- This clue is for DRESSING DOWN and not DRESSING GOWN - How do we get from DOWN to GOWN? |