| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Suyash Roongta | Chris Rock perhaps made icon mad (8) | 29 | 17 | {MADEICON}*. Anagrind - mad. Def - Chris Rock perhaps. Ref - Will Smith Oscars incident. | |
| 2 | N Anantakrishnan | Love stricken maiden following Charlie Chaplin perhaps | 25 | 13 | (love=) O (maiden) * after C (Charlie). Stricken - anagrind. Chaplin perhaps - Def BE |
- not convinced with stricken as anagram indicator |
| 3 | Ananth Srinivasan | Me? I can do funny! (8) | 22 | 15 | (meicando)* &lit | |
| 4 | CrypticBlah | Me? I can do funny | 22 | 14 | &lit anagram (funny) meicando* | |
| 5 | @qpheevr | Style icon Dame Edna Everage, for one (8) | 22 | 12 | (ICON DAME)* with “style” as anagrind and the whole clue as a DBE (referring to Barry Humphries’ stage persona) |
- The dame is the character, not the comedian? - Hello Possums! |
| 6 | Lily Geller (@lilygeller) | I come and joke around? (8) | 22 | 11 | Clue as definition; (I COME AND)* with plural verb indicator ("joke around") depending on treating I, COME, and AND as three separate pieces of anagram fodder |
- Very nice idea but not convinced with ''joke'' as anagram indicator |
| 7 | Ajeesh | Modi can be ultimately treated as a clown (8) | 20 | 12 | Anagram of Modi can e where e = be ultimately |
- “As” as connector seems to be off, Else a nice clue |
| 8 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Wit of Modi can ultimately irritate in assembly (8) | 19 | 10 | Def: Wit, MODICAN E*(ultimately irritatE), In Assembly - Anagrind | |
| 9 | Textrous | Me? I can do clowning (8) | 18 | 10 | &Lit; MEICANDO*, anagrind: "clowning" as an intransitive verb |
- Shortlisted. However the phrasing is not very idiomatic |
| 10 | Vinay Singad | Some welcome Diana the jester {8} | 17 | 12 | Some :hidden word indicator, welCOME DIANa, jester : Definition | |
| 11 | BINAY KUMAR PATRA | Clown cracked main code | 17 | 10 | *maincode, cracked = anagrind, Def: Clown | |
| 12 | Keep company with average guy who is funny (8) | 14 | 10 | Company - Co, Average - Median, Guy who is funny (Defn) |
- What is the role of ‘keep’ in the cryptic construction ? |
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| 13 | Study about channels for broadcasting Seinfeld, say | 14 | 9 | CON (study) around (about) MEDIA (channels for broadcasting) . Def. Seinfeld, say | ||
| 14 | Someone gagging press and broadcasters involved in scam | 14 | 8 | def="Someone gagging" (as a verb to deliver jokes); "press and broadcasters"=MEDIA; contained in "scam"=CON |
- Nice. ''and broadcasters'' could have been left out too |
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| 15 | Comic show, one leaving India in splits [8] | 14 | 7 | COME = show + (INDIA - I)*; Def = Comic | ||
| 16 | Income Diana Hides, perhaps | 14 | 6 | Hidden In (Come dian)a. Hides refers to Charlie Hides, British comedian. |
- construction gimmick that is often debatable; hides being capitalised doesn''t work for surface - Sadly Hides is on double duty - ‘Hides’ is doing double duty. - I don''t understand this surface. |
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| 17 | I can do farce about myself! (8) | 9 | 5 | &lit - I CAN DO* (anagrind "farce") about ME ("myself") | ||
| 18 | Medico dancing with a new entertainer (8) | 9 | 5 | Definition: Entertainer; Anno: (medico*)(a)(n); Anagrind: Dancing | ||
| 19 | Reporters entertained by party clown (8) | 9 | 5 | Defn: Clown, MEDIA (Reporters) entertained by CON: (Conservative Party), CO {MEDIA} N | ||
| 20 | Cinema operator's day starts, perhaps with The Joker? (8) | 9 | 5 | O + D inside cinema * |
- letter picking indication doesn''t work so well |
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| 21 | One getting snickers bar, hot & soft inside, from dodgy food machine | 9 | 4 | One getting snickers (def) -hof (bar Hot & sOFt inside) from foOD MAChINE* [dodgy] = COMEDIAN(-hof)* |
- How does the letter-selection work? Could you perhaps elaborate in the comments? |
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| 22 | Card's punched code: main(){}. (8) | 8 | 5 | Anagram of "code: main(){}." Anagram indicator: "punched" Definition: "Card" Surface reading: A long, long time ago, computer source code was often written using punched cards. main(){} is a complete — albeit comically trivial — C-language program one might find on such a punched card. |
- couldn''t follow the need for the brackets, and punched doesn''t work well as anagram indicator |
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| 23 | "Can I do mime outside school?"- Joker | 7 | 5 | Defn - Joker, can+i+do+me(mime outside(1st & last letter selector))- school (anagrind) = comedian |
- School as imperative verb ought to be before the fodder |
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| 24 | Entertainer complained about losing case in Portugal [8] | 6 | 5 | Complained* - PL. Anagram fodder = Complained. About = Anagrind. Case in Portugal = PL. Def = Entertainer | ||
| 25 | Press is entertained by kid jester (8) | 6 | 4 | Press is media/ entertained by is container indicator/ kid is con/ jester is fef | ||
| 26 | Journalists choking prisoner they’ve gagged (8) | 6 | 4 | CO{MEDIA}N / ‘they’ve gagged’ = def (remember - ‘they’ can be singular!) |
- Choking perhaps works as containment rather than insertion indicator |
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| 27 | Card firm in the middle | 6 | 3 | CO (firm) MEDIAN (in the middle). Card is the definition | ||
| 28 | Guy making jokes about mendacity? Oh no, thank you (8) | 6 | 3 | Guy making jokes = COMEDIAN; about = anagrind, (MENDACITY + oh=O) anagram fodder, "no thank you" = delete "TY" |
- To be logical, ‘about’ as an anagram indicator should follow the fodder. |
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| 29 | Con aimed to become gagman | 5 | 4 | Con aimed* to become - anagrind, Gagman - definition | ||
| 30 | He makes you laugh with his crazy dance at the beginning in my opinion | 5 | 3 | Def on Left. Crazy is anagram indicator for DANCE and IMO |
- the extraneous ''his'' makes this a bit weak - The letter selection indicator needs to include ‘of’. |
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| 31 | Stand-up fellow? He's found to be just the opposite when journalists dig in (8) | 4 | 4 | CO(MEDIA)N; "He's" refers to the definition of a "Stand-up fellow" in the sense of "A good guy"--the opposite of which is a CON, with MEDIA "digging in" | ||
| 32 | Jester to arrive with royal lady, not accompanied by a letter! | 4 | 4 | Jester = defn, arrive= come, royal lady not accompanied by a letter Dian(-a) | ||
| 33 | Firm situated in the middle of Chaplin, perhaps (8) | 4 | 3 | Chaplin perhaps is defn, Chaplin is also a village in Canada, firm is co, situated in the middle is median |
- good idea, just that wp of def doesn''t work well for the construction |
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| 34 | Approach to princess cut short by funny man | 4 | 3 | approach COME to princess - Diana - cut short DIAN by def: funny man | ||
| 35 | Comic is funny in cameo, entertaining dozens at premiere (8) | 4 | 3 | (IN CAMEO)* around D(-ozens); funny= anag ind, entertaining= cont ind, at premiere= 1st letter selection ind. | ||
| 36 | Jokester from "Malcolm in the Middle" extremely close to stealing TV and radio (8) | 4 | 1 | C (Malcolm in the middle) + ON (extremely close to) containing MEDIA (TV and radio) | ||
| 37 | Jester acting in cameo dress at the opening (8) | 3 | 3 | Anno: INCAMEOD* Acting is anagrind |
- cameo dress? not sure if that means anything in particular - To be logical, ‘acting’ as anagram indicator should follow the fodder. |
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| 38 | Up-front? Chris owns the middle rock (8) | 3 | 2 | C + O + MEDIAN | ||
| 39 | Chaplin plays firm with statistical value (8). | 2 | 2 | def: Chaplin ; firm is co, statistical value is median; i.e. co+median. |
- apart from surface issues, there seems to be no role for ''plays''? |
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| 40 | Spoof about TV could be droll [8] | 2 | 2 | CON (spoof) MEDIA (tv + dbei [could be]) CO[MEDIA]N def (droll) |
- nice find with droll in its nounal sense |
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| 41 | "Square dance? Moi? That's a laugh!" (8) | 2 | 1 | "Square" = anagrind, as in "sort out", DANCEMOI is fodder. "A laugh" is the straight def. | ||
| 42 | After couple at last left, Macedonian worried: they laughed at his ilk | 1 | 1 | MACEDONI* | ||
| 43 | Follow & fuss about a performer (8) | 0 | COME (follow) DI(A)N; DIN (fuss)// Definition: Performer |
- The & spoils it, could have just been ''and''? |
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| 44 | Brief Commanding Officer Made in avatar of Ukranian head (8) | 0 | CO (brief for commanding officer) Made In (anagram) avatar (anagram indicater) ukranian head (a comedian) |
- I can’t see how ‘avatar’ is an anagram indicator. |