| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ramki Krishnan | Old ancestral houses rock! (5) | 35 | 17 | Hidden word, houses is indicator, def = rock |
- Nicely camouflaged indicator |
| 2 | Samit kallianpur | What starts in discos and night clubs, essentially? (5) | 33 | 16 | Acrostic Semi &lit. [Nightclubs = night clubs (Collins)] | |
| 3 | N Anantakrishnan | Ball spun and caught Labuschagne's outside edge (5) | 24 | 10 | Def - Ball. Anagrind - Spun. (And)* C (caught) E (outside edge of Labuschagne) | |
| 4 | Simon T. Hill | Discotheque? Being there at ten isn’t necessary | 23 | 15 | Being there (attendance) ‘at ten’ isn’t necessary (deletion) | |
| 5 | Ganesh Raman | Ignoring safety first, frantically ascend a series of steps | 23 | 10 | Anagram fodder: ASCEND minus S (SAFETY FIRST); Anagrind: FRANTICALLY; Def: A SERIES OF STEPS | |
| 6 | Avtaar | Withdraw after missing first ball (5) | 18 | 11 | DISTANCE(withdraw (verb)) -IST(first). Def : Ball | |
| 7 | Arjun Mukerjee | Basically, divorce attorneys never comfort either party (5) | 16 | 10 | Definition: "party" (Merriam Webster synonym). Acrostic indicator: "basically". | |
| 8 | @inwitinwit | Footloose behaviour leads to disapproval among nunnery's conservative elders? (5) | 13 | 9 | Acrostic Indicator: "leads to". Fodder: "Disapproval Among Nunnery's Conservative Elders". (Cryptic) Def: "Footloose behaviour" (referring to the film "Footloose", about a small town where dancing is banned). | |
| 9 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Oscar, essentially clinched by cast and entourage's ultimate "Naatu Naatu" performance | 13 | 7 | Def: Naatu Naatu performance (a popular dance number and the recent Oscar winner), C>>AND*+E | |
| 10 | Veena Venkataraman | Ball delivered after no-ball compromises economy basically (5) | 13 | 7 | Definition: Ball; Acrostic clue (indicated by basically); First letters of delivered after.... economy: Dance; Surface refers to free hit affecting the bowler's economy rate | |
| 11 | William Snow (@ContoCrosswords) | Move about and start to circle one’s bottom? | 13 | 5 | Move about and = (AND)* / start to circle = C[ircle] / one’s bottom = [on]E / &lit | |
| 12 | Bad diets can block its periodic movement (5) | 10 | 6 | DEF: periodic movement; DIETSCAN* - ITS (anagrind: Bad, deletion indicator: block) | ||
| 13 | T or F? | 7 | 5 | CD. T is tango and F is foxtrot in the NATO alphabet. Surface can be read as a choice between Thursday or Friday |
- Great find. "True or False?" is the surface reading that came to mind for me. - For the surface reading, “true or false” seems more natural than “Thursday or Friday” - …or true or false |
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| 14 | Diva can escape doing the three-step and perhaps do the two-step (5) | 6 | 5 | Fodder "DivAcaNesCapE" is doing the three-step (letter selection) and "perhaps do the two-step" = dance | ||
| 15 | Rock band goes topless consuming drug in the beginning of concert. It's crazy! (5) | 6 | 5 | def - rock , it's crazy - anagrind , and(band goes topless) + e (drug) + c(beginning of concert) = dance | ||
| 16 | Rush and change clothes for big event (5) | 6 | 3 | AND * + C (-hang) E , def - big event |
- “Big event” is rather vague for a definition - nice, but change clothes = ce? hmmmm |
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| 17 | Rock can perhaps be stopping drainage getting drained (5) | 4 | 3 | CAN* in D(r….g)E. Stopping: insertion ind. Drained: core deleted. Def:Rock | ||
| 18 | Movement beginning with doctors and nurses citing excuses(5) | 3 | 3 | Definition is movement, acrostic clue |
- I think it should be beginnings in or beginnings of . - Should be "beginnings" for the cryptic grammar to work |
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| 19 | Gyrate as if caned. | 3 | 3 | Gyrate: definition Anagram of CANED as if : anagrind caned = fodder |
- How does "as if" work as an anagram indicator? |
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| 20 | Unusual! A Nitrogen electron's five hundred degree spin (5) | 3 | 2 | (A N (Nitrogen) e (electron) D (five hundred, as in Roman Numerals) C (degree, as in Celsius))* ; unusual being the anagram indicator. Definition: Spin | ||
| 21 | Manipuri, perhaps is the ritual language of workers! | 2 | 1 | D&CD. Manipuri(raas leela) is a dance form. Ritual language of honey bees is also known as dance language. | ||
| 22 | Doctor skips smashed root, takes an energy ball(5) | 1 | 1 | Anno: {D(AN)C}{E}. Doctor-root*=DC. Skips= Deletion indicator. Takes=Insertion indicator. Energy=E. Definition: Ball | ||
| 23 | Measure enacted with odd omissions after first draft amended (5) | 1 | 1 | measure = dance (as in ‘tread a measure’); first letters of Draft Amended, followed by eNaCtEd with odd letters omitted | ||
| 24 | Popular steps taken by Party in the grip of clear debacle | 1 | 1 | Definition: Popular steps taken; clear debacle= DE; Party= ANC(African National Congress); in the grip of is container indicator |
- Party to ANC is not standard, IMO |
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| 25 | Regularly descend and turn to frolic (5) | 0 | 7 | Letter-picking and reversal (indicators: regularly & turn) with fodder: dEsCeNd AnD. Definition: (to) frolic. | ||
| 26 | European holding a number is on a jig | 0 | 3 | DAN(C)E | ||
| 27 | Move to track belly, perhaps (5) | 0 | D Def: (1) move to track & (2) belly, perhaps (belly dance is a type of dance) |