| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | @LowdownCryptic | Greetings! Good handoff after vacation – let's start year picking out a winner (4-5) | 42 | 18 | HI (Greetings!) + G (Good) + HF ("handoff" after being vacated) + L (start of "let") + YER ("year" picking out A) = HIGH-FLYER (winner) |
- Intricate wordplay and very topical. Kudos to the creativity - Meta? Creative mind, for sure! |
| 2 | Textrous | If the shy girl reforms, it's going to be a success-story (4-5) | 41 | 19 | Def: a success-story; IFTHESHYGIRL* ("reforms" is the anagrind) minus ITS (it's going) |
- Fantastic clue! - Not sure if High flyer is exactly synonymous with success story. - Succinct and well constructed! Love it! |
| 3 | Sreelakshmi | Shy, fragile? Hey, not easy to transform into someone likely to succeed! (4,5) | 37 | 19 | {SHY FRAGILE HEY - EASY}* Definition: someone likely to succeed |
- Excellent clue! |
| 4 | Nicholas Loader | Hefty girl misguidedly sacrificing time for hot, ambitious individual | 26 | 14 | HEFtYGIRL* -t +H = ambitious individual |
- Interesting construction! |
| 5 | Samit Kallianpur | The Reverend says "Rise to greater altitudes, ambitious one!" | 20 | 10 | Spoonerism of Fly higher. Rise = fly. To greater altitudes = higher. Def= Ambitious one |
- Smooth surface - I like how you''ve dealt with the surface! |
| 6 | Yossi Fendel | One who demonstrates pluck of very shrill note on broken lyre | 17 | 12 | "One who demonstrates pluck" is def. "Very shrill note" = HIGH-F and "broken lyre" = LYER. |
- Splendid clue! - Creative - I like how the cryptic grammar and surface complements each other! |
| 7 | Bhalchandra Pasupathy | Bats rely on acutely pitched note, one that goes far (4,5) or (4-5) | 13 | 8 | RELY* after HIGH(acutely pitched) F(note). Definition: one that goes far |
- Note can be A,B..G. makes it indirect ? - Different way of thinking! |
| 8 | Satyen Nabar | That woman picking up flighty models leaving bar is a go-getter (4-5) | 11 | 7 | HER around FLIGHTY* - T; that woman= her, picking up= cont ind, models= anag ind, leaving= del ind, bar= T |
- Interesting surface |
| 9 | amrita majumdar | Elon Musk maybe drunk and dancing freely exuding energy! | 9 | 8 | Def- Elon Musk maybe, Drunk- high , freely -e anagrammed |
- Great clue! - Such a fun surface! |
| 10 | Ramki Krishnan | That woman having terrible fight, mostly with extremely lazy person who may get promoted quickly (4,5) | 9 | 7 | HER around (FIGH* + L-Y), def = person who may get promoted quickly |
- A little wordy but the surface does make sense to an extent! |
| 11 | Avtaar | Like Shankar Mishra, perhaps , pissed freely,ignoring people at the back, after getting drunk (4-5) | 9 | 5 | HIGH(Pissed) +(FREELY-peoplE)*(after getting drunk is anagrind). Def:Cryptic Def Like, Shankar Mishra,perhaps who was a "high" flyer | |
| 12 | Someone extremely successful like Icarus? | 8 | 4 | DD. "someone extremely successful", and "like Icarus", a definition by example, a little cryptically, hence the ? Icarus's actual failure also lends to the ? in the surface |
- Definitely an interesting connection you''ve made there just wondering whether that question mark suffices! |
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| 13 | Hustler's ad for being on drugs? (4,5) | 7 | 4 | A "HIGH" FLYER | ||
| 14 | It's a bird? It's a plane ? It's Superman? (4-5) | 6 | 4 | CD |
- Smart |
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| 15 | Extremely ambitious & unreasonable bill | 6 | 2 | Unreasonable (High, as in greater than normal) bill (Flyer), Definition: Extremely ambitious | ||
| 16 | Hello, hot leg fry cooked for an achiever?(4,5) | 5 | 4 | Definition: Achiever. Hello=HI; Hot=H. Anno: (HI)(H+LEG+FRY)*; Cooked=Anagrind |
- It''s a cute attempt! Leg fry sounds a bit odd though |
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| 17 | Inebriated traveller was whiz-kid (4,5) | 5 | 4 | DD (whiz-kid, inebriated traveller) with a cryptic reference to the recent Air India incident. Taking the whiz is slang for peeing. | ||
| 18 | Drunk traveller’s a go-getter! (4-5) | 4 | 3 | D/CD with the whole surface referencing the recent Air India incident | ||
| 19 | First-class ticket holder aboard Air India, say? | 4 | 3 | Punny DD | ||
| 20 | Peppy Martin, perhaps, is an ambitious professional (4-5) | 3 | 2 | Peppy {HIGH} Martin, perhaps (FLYER); Defn: ambitious professional. Peppy Martin is a politician, who ran for Kentucky governor. | ||
| 21 | Star that’s way up in the sky (4,5) | 3 | 2 | Star = def 1 / that’s way up in the sky = def 2 |
- The way you''ve used ''star'' seems clever! |
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| 22 | Very Intoxicated Pilot? | 2 | 3 | Cryptic definition? | ||
| 23 | Overachiever smashed a bee, perhaps | 2 | 2 | Def: OVERACHIEVER; SMASHED: High (as in being drunk); A BEE PERHAPS: Def by Example for Flyer | ||
| 24 | Fly high curiously with queen in a hot air balloon, say(4,5) | 2 | 2 | Defn is a hot air balloon say; anagram of fly high + er(Queen) |
- hmmm.."fly high" is in the clue as well as in the answer high fly (er) - Fly high * to give high fly? It''s just switching words, barely qualifies to be an anagram, I think? Wondering about the definition too. I like the imagery though! |
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| 25 | Go-getter Reverend says is stylish and more advanced (4,5) | 2 | 2 | Fly higher >> high flyer (spoonerism) Fly = stylish Higher = more advanced Def: Go-getter | ||
| 26 | Drunk passenger, perhaps, is a successful guy (4,5) | 2 | 2 | Double Definition (Drunk passenger perhaps / successful guy) | ||
| 27 | Holy fighter’s order is to go ahead (4,5) | 2 | 2 | CA clue. To high flyer= (Holy fighter)*. Order: anagrind. Definition: Go ahead Reference to the period of crusades | ||
| 28 | Icarus, perhaps losing altitude in floundering daylight hurtle: "Fie!" (4-5) | 1 | 1 | (DAYLIGHT HURTLE FIE)* - ALTITUDE. "floundering" = anagrind. "losing" = deletion indicator. "Icarus, perhaps" = definition. |
- Quite elaborately constructed but I can discern cleverness! I feel ''fie'' fits the surface and more importantly cryptic grammar, but yet sticks out somehow |
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| 29 | One greatly successful as drunken air-traveller? (4,5) | 1 | 1 | One greatly successful = definition, drunken = high, air-traveller = flyer | ||
| 30 | IGNORE FOR VOTES | 0 | ||||
| 31 | IGNORE FOR VOTES | 0 | IGNORE FOR VOTES |