| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Suyash Roongta | A long-term CEO restructured business empire. (12) | 46 | 22 | Anagram of (a long-term CEO). Indicator: restructured. Def: business empire. |
- Smooth anagram find! - Smooth surface - N: superb clue, unfortunately with so many great clues it needs some pizzazz (&lit, interesting story, etc.) to be my favourite - Simple but effective |
| 2 | Textrous | Company working to enlarge markets, primarily? (12) | 32 | 17 | Company: CO, working: anagrind, markets primarily: M, &Lit => CO (TO ENLARGE M)* |
- N: Amazing clue! |
| 3 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | A recent gloom entangles an Industrial Group (12) | 22 | 11 | (A recent gloom)*. I suppose the reference and context is obvious. |
- “I suppose the reference and context is obvious.” Not to me - N: would prefer entangled as indicator, great anagram though |
| 4 | Madhusudan H | "The Godfather" opens with Ma Corleone dancing in a group (12) | 19 | 10 | Fodder: {TG} {MA CORLEONE} , Anagrind: {DANCING}, Defn: {GROUP}, Filler:{IN A} |
- A brilliantly-made connection! - Not sure about ‘opens’ for the wordplay - otherwise great - Nice attempt..not sure if just ''opens'' works. ''Openers of/for'' or ''openings of'' works - N: would prefer ''starts'' as indicator. Technically the dance comes shortly after the first scene, still, a tremendous clue! - Initial letters may be better indicated by "openings" or "starts" rather than "opens", with "starts" maintaining the lovely surface. |
| 5 | Manish Jhaveri | Organisation with many businesses can merge & loot perhaps (12) | 18 | 11 | canmergeloot* Def = organisation with many businesses |
- N: great idea, loot is a bit of a stretch though |
| 6 | Saurabh Upadhyay | Perhaps GE or META, essentially any large leading company (12) | 17 | 7 | &lit, the whole clue is the definition. Anagram of GE+OR+META+N (essentially aNy)+L (large) with CO in front (Co is abbreviation for Company, leading is instruction to bring it in front) |
- N: oh no, this was almost perfect, leading makes CO go to the end though - Deft wordplay. |
| 7 | @qpheevr | Get room clean, organized—it’s a jumble (12) | 14 | 11 | Anagram of GET ROOM CLEAN. “organized” = anagrind; “it’s a jumble” = def. |
- N: what a great find and unique idea, can''t quite buy ''jumble'' in the surface8 |
| 8 | Rhiannon Vivian-Bolt | Corrupt elector among consortium (12) | 14 | 8 | Anagram indicator: Corrupt; Anagram fodder: Elector among; Definition: consortium. |
- Smooth! - N: great anagram find but surface is a bit vague |
| 9 | Sparsh Sinha | Ten cool gamers without savings to begin with, build company (12) | 13 | 9 | Def - company, ten+cool+gamers - s(savings to begin with), build - anagrind = conglomerate |
- Like the surface! - I don’t like the tense of ‘build’ for the cryptic grammar - otherwise great - N: not a fan of ''to begin with'' as indicator though it might be accepted. Gamers-s. Hmm. Otherwise brilliant. |
| 10 | Ganesh Raman | Come to learn and begin to gain ground in a large, diversified corporate | 12 | 7 | Anagram of "COME TO LEARN + G (BEGIN TO GAIN)"; Anagrind: GROUND; Def: LARGE, DIVERSIFIED CORPORATE |
- Might be long, yet quite smooth! - N: would prefer ''beginning to gain'' as indicator, otherwise outstanding - though do you mean *corporation? |
| 11 | Ratna Rao | Left in African country, befuddled team without enough resources initially stick together(12) | 12 | 6 | Left (L) African country - Congo , befuddled anagrind , without insertion indicator ,initially - letter picking up indicator ...Cong(l)om(er)ate*.....def stick together |
- N: Extraordinary clue |
| 12 | Syndicate's name, logo, etc altered after Republican's entry(12) | 11 | 8 | Definition: Syndicate. Anno: (NAME+LOGO+ETC+R)*. Republican=R. Anagrind=Altered |
- N: Excellent clue |
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| 13 | Group of companies, not large, come prepared | 10 | 7 | (not large come)* |
- N: fantastic anagram but alas not such an interesting surface |
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| 14 | Big corporation cheating government a lot - mere cunning! (12) | 10 | 6 | CON (cheating) + G + ALOTMERE* (cunning as anagrind), def = big corporation |
- Surface just a little odd towards the end, but quite a good attempt! - N: a con is an ''instance of cheating'' not just ''cheating'', otherwise excellent |
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| 15 | Student in African country joins setter to evaluate diversified organisation (12) | 9 | 7 | Student in African country = L in CONGO, joins = connector, setter = ME, to evaluate = RATE, diversified organisation = definition |
- N: this is a beautiful clue but using a fairly obvious wordplay risks seeing you compared with others using a similar construction |
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| 16 | Multinational corporation: "Let romance go wild" (12) | 8 | 6 | LET ROMANCE GO* (anagrind: wild) - topical clue about what's wrong with Valentine's Day |
- Very good attempt - yes in the context of Valentine''s day, it makes sense - N: Amazing anagram find just not totally convinced about the surface |
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| 17 | Great company Elon Musk's capital fashioned into multi-level corporation (12) | 7 | 5 | Anagram: GREAT + CO + ELON + M (capital of Musk), Anagrind : fashioned, Def : multi-level corporation |
- Tendencies towards an indirect anagram, but well constructed! - Indirect anagram? Company -> CO - N: CO for company is very well known but would prefer avoiding the indirect anagram, wonderful clue otherwise |
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| 18 | Company that could be great with Elon’s money! (12) | 7 | 5 | &Lit. CO + ELONGREATM*, Anagrind - could be |
- N: not a fan of ''could be'' between elements of wordplay, otherwise a breathtakingly good clue - Doesn''t work as &lit for me |
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| 19 | Congress shortly assembles team with role to unite (12) | 6 | 5 | CONG (Congress shortly) + TEAM ROLE* assembles is anagrand def: unite |
- N: would prefer assembled as anagrind. A shame. Otherwise phenomenal. |
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| 20 | Sedimentary rock formed from gravel on comet yields the element vanadium (12) | 6 | 4 | (GRAVEL ON COMET)* – V. Anagrind = "formed from". V = symbol for vanadium; with "yields" — as in "gives up" — as the deletion indicator. Def = "Sedimentary rock". |
- N: would prefer ''yielding'' for cryptic grammar, lovely unique idea |
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| 21 | Basically Cummins, GE or Telamon perhaps | 5 | 4 | ( C GE or Telamon)* &lit (or extended def at least) |
- N: maybe just regionally/contextual specific but have only heard of GE which took away from this for me, splendid idea though. - Nice, except Telamon is not very well known |
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| 22 | Cool agreement without a bit of effort worked out with union (12) | 4 | 4 | (Cool agreement-e)* Worked out: anagrind. Definition: union |
- N: not a fan of wp with def. Otherwise cool idea. - hmmm wordplay with def? nice attempt though |
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| 23 | Reorganised old Colgate merger oddly has new business (12) | 4 | 4 | Old: O; merger oddly: M,r,e; Reorganised: Anagrind; {O Colgate m r e}* has (containment indicator) N (new): Conglomerate; Business: Definition |
- N: I feel bad but ''has'' sticks out in the surface. Great idea though. |
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| 24 | Multinational company General Motors only half organised (12) | 4 | 3 | CO + anag (organised) *GENERAL MOT(ors). Definition multinational. |
- N: Multinational to mean conglomerate is a stretch. Fantastic otherwise. |
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| 25 | Company with a lot of money and large takings, originally fragmented (12) | 4 | 3 | Company = CO / with / a lot of money = MONE / and / LARGE / takings, initially = T / fragmented = anagram indicator / CO + (MONE[y]LARGET[akings])*fragmented / &lit |
- N: Excellent clue |
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| 26 | Rock Club (12) | 3 | 3 | DD |
- Nice try, but both come from same root. - Same root? - N: there is a root issue here also I''m not sure why a conglomerate is a ''club''. Creative idea though. wee |
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| 27 | Adani saga ; Hindenburg says 'a muddled con game lore, time and again played out by this Corporate Group' (12) | 3 | 2 | Muddled - anagrind, time = t, (con+game+lore+t)*, Corporate Group - definition |
- N: "Adani saga; Hindenburg says" and "again played out by" is extraneous? (ANDAGAIN* is close to ADANI SAGA.) ''Con game'' is nice. - Many extraneous words.. |
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| 28 | Re (metal) + CO₂ (1 ng) ---violent reaction---> compound | 2 | 2 | Anagram with 'violent reaction' as the indicator. Definition = compound. (O₂ is take 2 O, 1 ng or nanogram is take 1 of ng, purely for surface, Re is a rare metal)) |
- N: Excellent clue! (O2 for OO and 1 ng for NG is pretty liberal haha but too imaginative to fault.) |
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| 29 | Adani group, say "it's a concoction" | 2 | 2 | DD adani group, say/it's a concoction |
- N: obvious root issue (though not jarringly so) and surface is vague but love the disguising of ''say''. - Root issue |
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| 30 | Barking mongrel dogs company had in a compound | 2 | 1 | MONGREL* (barking) after (dogs) CO (company) ATE (had) = compound |
- N: Being picky but ''Compound of ... dogs company had'' would be better I think,ŕ otherwise awesome |
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| 31 | Dismantle magnet cooler to create a combination(12) | 0 | 2 | def : combination; anagrind 'dismantle' ; fodder 'magnet cooler'. |
- N: dismantle is a cool anagrind, surface doesn''t really make sense though |
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| 32 | Companies combined to create disturbance surrounding the confused mongol | 0 | 1 | Def on left = Companies combined; CREATE anagram and MONGOL anagram inside |
- N: excellent anagram find but ''to'' is a problem |
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| 33 | Group of Mongol race etc. regardless of clans initially agitated | 0 | *mongolraceetc- c, agitated is anagrind, Def: Group |
- N: brilliant anagram find, surface is not quite there for me |