| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Feeling smitten, one nervously expresses love (9) | 39 | 20 | (SMITTEN ONE)*- O; nervously= anag ind, expresses= deletion ind, love= O, defn= feeling |
- Similar idea used by others, but good attempt! Simple and works well - Nice, expressed would have fit better - Nice surface reading. |
| 2 | Suyash Roongta | Feeling conscious about my top (9) | 33 | 18 | Sentient (conscious) about m (my top). Def - feeling. |
- Reads as very smooth ! Very well-constructed! - Sentient and sentiment are derived from the same root word - sentient and sentiment have the same root which makes this a bit weak IMO - Sentient and sentiment share a root - Root issue..sentient and sentiment share the same root. - The better of the two "sentient" clues. |
| 3 | Ganesh Raman | Feeling of love leaving one smitten badly | 31 | 21 | Def: FEELING; Anagram of (ONE SMITTEN minus O); LEAVING as deletion indicator; BADLY as Anagrind |
- Nice surface reading. |
| 4 | amrita majumdar | Perhaps Einstein, bored by regular Math lost interest and perspective (9) | 27 | 16 | EINSTEIN * - I + MT ( REGULAR MATH) |
- Ooh clever! The cryptic grammar just seem a tiny little off (the word ''bored'' since it''s not simple containment) I''m not sure, but otherwise a very clever attempt! - 🤔 “bored” is subtraction rather than inclusion? - "bored by" is superfluous for the word play. |
| 5 | Saurabh Upadhyay | I am admitted by specialists after second opinion (9) | 24 | 17 | S ENT(IM)ENT. I am = I’M, specialist = ENT, second=S. def: Opinion |
- Similar idea has been used by others, but it''s good nonetheless! ''After second opinion'' is a smooth way to tie up the clue |
| 6 | Ramesh Swaminathan | Feeling a bit sick I am taken in by specialists (9) | 21 | 14 | Def: Feeling. S... ENT (IM) ENT | |
| 7 | Arjun Mukerjee | Feeling alive, after getting a bit of money (9) | 20 | 11 | def: feeling, "alive" = sentient, "a bit of money" =m, "after getting" is the container indicator |
- SENTIENT and SENTIMENT are both derived from the same root - Alive = Sentient is a good connection you''ve made there! - Root issue.. sentient has the same root word as sentiment - Root issue..sentient and sentiment share the same root - Sentient and sentiment share a root |
| 8 | N Anantakrishnan | Very less investment - fantastic idea! | 20 | 11 | (investment - v)* Def - idea | |
| 9 | @inwitinwit | Feeling of dissent I'm entertaining (9) | 20 | 10 | Hidden word: "dis(SENT I'M ENT)ertaining" / Hidden word indicator: "of" / Def: "Feeling" |
- Of = telescopic indicator? I''m not sure but otherwise smooth |
| 10 | Textrous | Romance moved guys consumed by sex (9) | 18 | 10 | Def: Romance (Chambers), moved: SENT (Chambers), guys: MEN, sex: IT => SENT I(MEN)T |
- dbe requires dbei. |
| 11 | Spooner's trainee transmitted idea(9) | 16 | 11 | Trainee: mentee; transmitted: sent; Idea: Definition ~(mentee sent): Sentiment |
- The only spoonerism attempt - seems to work! |
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| 12 | Feeling sad - everyone notices the imperfections mostly. Everyone notices that first of all. | 16 | 11 | Just an acrostic! Definition: feeling |
- A very natural-sounding surface, which is rare in a long acrostic - A sweet little clue. |
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| 13 | Disheartened! Most intense rough feeling(9) | 15 | 10 | Def - feeling: Mt(Disheartened most)+intense - (rough=anagrind)- sentiment |
- Fair attempt! Smooth enough surface and cryptic grammar seems to work! |
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| 14 | Feeling tense about author’s boring book (9) | 12 | 8 | Def: Feeling, TENSE* around IM + NT (Book), About - Anagram Indicator, Boring - Insertion indicator |
- X boring Y means X inside Y. Also how is IM being inserted, about is anagrind - If you’re going to anagrammatize everything, do you still need "boring" as insertion indicator? Also, shouldn’t "author’s" (possessive) translate to "MY" or "MINE" instead of "I’M" (contraction of "I am")? |
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| 15 | Present I’m enthusiastically wrapping: cheese (9) | 12 | 6 | Telescopic: preSENT I’M ENThusiastically; wrapping = indicator; cheese = def. |
- Telescopics attempted before, but I like the way your mind works - wrapping fits well, and cheese a devious misdirection! |
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| 16 | Emotion hidden in present I mentioned (9) | 11 | 6 | Telescopic | ||
| 17 | Ten men sit disoriented with belief (9) | 10 | 7 | Ten men sit: Fodder, disoriented : Anagrind, Belief : Definition | ||
| 18 | I'm protected by specialists after a trace of sinking feeling (9) | 10 | 5 | Anno: (S)(ENT)(IM)(ENT); Protected by=Insertion indicator; Trace of sinking=S; Specialists= ENT, ENT; Definition=Feeling. | ||
| 19 | Providing all that's needed, men sit in position (9) | 8 | 6 | Letter Bank clue. MENSIT*(ENT). Providing all that's needed is the indicator. Position is the definition |
- A unique attempt! |
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| 20 | Thought aloud, perfume and sex entraps about half the population! (9) | 8 | 5 | Thought is def/ aloud is hp indicator, perfume sent~ scent/ sex is IT entraps is container indicator / about half the population is men |
- This is extremely clever! Smooth surface - feels like the natural thought of a cynical person. Sex = IT is so widely used now but I thought Sex Appeal = IT |
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| 21 | At present I’m entertaining in part a belief | 7 | 5 | Def = belief, in part = hidden indicator |
- Role of At? - "At" is extraneous |
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| 22 | Thinking about time spent after leaving last relationship | 7 | 3 | time s(-p)ent* (about) after leaving (deleting) last (letter of) relationshiP Def - Thinking |
- Last relationship = last letter of relationship, also the position of the anagram indicator, not too sure about these, but otherwise a good attempt! - Wordplay leads to “Sent”? - Fodder is missing one N - You need two ‘n’s in your anagram fodder; you only have one. |
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| 23 | Idea of quantities finally adjusted - ten times two divided by one-thousand (9) | 6 | 5 | Idea = definition / quantities finally = S / adjusted - ten = (TEN)* / times two = ENT > ENTENT / divided by… / one-thousand = IM |
- Your mind works in interesting ways! I liked this little math clue |
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| 24 | Tense enmity endlessly erupted in feeling | 6 | 5 | *tens enmit, erupted is anagrind, Def: feeling | ||
| 25 | Opinion posted to accommodate new era | 5 | 3 | SENT (posted) to accomodate N (new) TIME. Definition - Opinion | ||
| 26 | Tenderness electrified male partners during s3x (9) | 4 | 2 | SENT (moved to excitement, electrified) I(MEN, male partners, ref. Chambers)T (IT = s3x); Definition: Tenderness |
- Electrified = Sent feels a bit like a stretch? Fair attempt otherwise - s3x? - “s3x”? - Note to self: Come up with a clue involving sex (IT), ejaculate (SEMEN), and the New Testament (NT). |
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| 27 | I'm admitted to hospital department repeatedly after starting to show feeling | 3 | 3 | S[how] + E.N.T.(I'M)E.N.T. |
- Good attempt, but I''m not sure the cryptic grammar works (repeatedly to mean containment of I''M in two ENTs). |
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| 28 | Feeling secure initially, I'm besieged by tree-people (9) | 2 | 2 | S + (ENT)IM(ENT) [ENT is "tree-person"] ; "Feeling" is definition | ||
| 29 | Some vacuous books covering setter couples’ romanticism (9) | 1 | 2 | S..E NT(I ME)NT . NT =Books. Def: Romanticism |
- dbe requires dbei. |
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| 30 | Satisfactory setter is being stifled by specialists' point of view | 0 | 5 | S (satisfactory) I'M (setter is) inside [being stifled by] ENT ENT (specialists) = point of view (def) S ENT(IM)ENT |
- “Is” makes cryptic grammar incorrect. Also S for satisfactory - source ? - You''re a satisfactory enough setter and I shall try no stifling! Not like I''m any specialist - but cryptic grammar seems to work! |
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| 31 | Crooked investment without victory raises passion. | 0 | 3 | def:passion. 'Crooked' is anagrind for fodder : investment-v |
- Surface seems a little odd, but overall it seems to work! - “raises” seems not quite right. “develops”? |
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| 32 | Cheese Toast! | 0 | DD toast is archiac hence the exclamation |
- I''m sure you have good reasons for this clue, it reads as smooth but I am not sure I get it |
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| 33 | VOIDED ENTRY - IGNORE | 0 |
- 🕳 |
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| 34 | Emotional opinion contained in present, I mention (9) | 0 | Emotional opinion is def, contained in is tel ind, preSENT I MENTion, tel | |||
| 35 | Feeling unusually tense one initially may not be losing heart (9) | 0 | Def: Feeling. Unusually is anagrind. (TENSE I M)* NT(not-o) | |||
| 36 | Bengali leads single men gripped by dry emotion (9) | 0 | Bengali: {SEN} leads single men {I MEN} gripped by dry {TT} = {SEN T IMEN T} ; Defn:Emotion |
- Bengali = Sen, I''m not sure if it''s too obscure, surface a bit odd, but ''gripped by dry emotion'' is a smooth find! - How is Bengali = Sen ?! |