| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Disinterested husband dumped! I can chill out (8) | 35 | 15 | (I CAN CHILL)* - H; husband= h, dumped= del ind, out= anag ind, defn= disinterested |
- Perhaps the most popular clue in this list ! |
| 2 | Ganesh Raman | Call in heads of investment committee to reset objective | 28 | 14 | Anagram of CALL IN + IC (heads of investment committee) ; Anagrind TO RESET; Def OBJECTIVE (as in dispassionate or neutral) | |
| 3 | @LowdownCryptic | Medical note secured, I call in sick (8) | 28 | 12 | C (note) inside (secured), I CALL IN* (anagrind: sick); def: Medical |
- I think you need "secured in" instead of "secured." |
| 4 | Madhusudan H | Dispassionate chiefs of Chinese lab ignored notice implying COVID-19's accidental leak (8) | 21 | 11 | Defn: {DISPASSIONATE}; Acrostic Clue | |
| 5 | Saurabh Upadhyay | Cold calling endlessly, manipulated, trapped innocent customers primarily [8] | 15 | 9 | (CALLINg)* around I(nnocent) C(ustomers). Anagrind is manipulated. Def: Cold. Surface refers to telephone scams | |
| 6 | William Snow (@ContoCrosswords) | Cycling without outer layers in the Netherlands, I caught a cold | 14 | 8 | Cycling without outer layers = [cy]CLI[ng] / in the Netherlands = in NL / I caught a = ICA / cold = definition |
- "Cycling without outer layers" suggests YCLIN |
| 7 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Cold weather puts off friend flying in from Western state (8) | 13 | 8 | Def: Cold, Weather - CLI(-MATE) (puts off friend - deletion of mate), + NI< + CAL. Surface alluding to the cold weather in California |
- I think ‘putting off’ would be better for the cryptic grammar |
| 8 | N Anantakrishnan | 150 in one hundred balls - oddly not simple | 13 | 6 | C L in I C AL (oddly not - remove odd letters). Def - simple (Chambers) |
- 150 > 100. |
| 9 | Textrous | Cold, heartless, wild chinchilla (8) | 12 | 9 | Def=Cold, heartless, wild chinchilla = anagram of CHINCHILLA without any H | |
| 10 | Amrita Majumdar | Impersonal and cold villain loses head perhaps, getting caught (8) | 11 | 7 | C (-V) ILLAIN * around C , IMPERSONAL -DEF | |
| 11 | @drcheruvarun | Detached leads of cable lugs containing lithium, nickel and calcium (8) | 11 | 5 | Charade with container Def: detached, C (LI+NI+CA) L (Li Ni Ca contained in leads of C-able L-ugs) | |
| 12 | Unemotional clan I repeatedly enlivened | 10 | 6 | Letterbank clue CLANI gets used repeatedly out of order (repeatedly enlivened) to make CLINICAL. Def: unemotional. | ||
| 13 | Exotic lilac in front of courtyard lacks personal touch (8) | 7 | 6 | Def - lacks personal touch. Exotic - anagrind. Lilac + in + c(front of courtyard) = clinical |
- should have been "lacking personal touch" - Should be lacking personal touch. Otherwise nice clue |
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| 14 | Being motionless, I call 101 possibly around noon(8) | 5 | 5 | Definition: Being motionless. Anno: (I+CALL+CI)* around (N). 101=CI. Noon=N. Anagrind: Possibly |
- Clinical is emotionless and not motionless! - Don''t you mean "emotionless"? |
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| 15 | Diagnostic centres lead in novel ideas cheating afflicted laymen from the beginning | 5 | 4 | acrostic, from the beginning is acrostic indicator, Definition: Diagnostic | ||
| 16 | Scientific link between monoclinic Al2Fe(SO4)4.22H2O and triclinic Al2(SO4)3.17H2O | 5 | 3 | Telescopic: "mono(CLINIC AL)2Fe(SO4)4.22H2O and tri(CLINIC AL)2(SO4)3.17H2O". Indicator: "link between", in that CLINIC + AL links the crystal system (monoclinic or triclinic) to the corresponding mineral. Def: "Scientific". Ref: Al2Fe(SO4)4.22H2O = halotrichite; Al2(SO4)3.17H2O = alunogen (see Wikipedia). |
- Using clinic as part of telescopic to clue for clinical doesn’t work IMO |
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| 17 | Possible to diagnose cold (8) | 3 | 2 | double definition | ||
| 18 | Office having no hesitation to adopt modern India’s objective (8) | 3 | 2 | CLERICAL (office - adjective) - ER around (to adopt) IN(modern) I(ndia). Def: Objective |
- Extra "I" in wp. |
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| 19 | Cold, flawless cut, we hear, by a criminal (8) | 1 | 1 | Definition: Cold; flawless: clean; cut: nick; we hear: homophone indicator; ~(clean nick) -> clinic; criminal: Al |
- For me, “clean” isn’t homophonous with the first syllable of “clinical”. And I’m not sure how criminal leads to Al (Capone?) |
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| 20 | Swear by contract on one state objective (8) | 0 | CLIN(g) [Swear by as in to CLING meaning to remain stubbornly faithful, contract being the deletion indicator] + I (one) + State (CAL or California); Definition: Objective (very efficient without feeling attached) |
- For subject-verb agreement, "contracts" works better than "contract." |