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Textrous
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Royal staff's lurid secret about prince (7) | 36 | 19 | Def: Royal staff; Anagrind: lurid, prince: P; SECRET* about P |
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Veena Venkataraman
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Respect ground staff (7) | 35 | 20 | Ground: Anagrind; (Respect)* : Sceptre; Staff: Definition |
- I think this is the best of the RESPECT anagram clues
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Sowmya Ramkumar
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Secret mobile to ring President’s staff (7) | 32 | 15 | SECRET* around P (President). Mobile - Anagram indicator, To Ring - Container indicator, Def - Sceptre |
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Sparsh Sinha
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Ceremonial staff activated secret entrance to portal (7) | 26 | 13 | Def - ceremonial staff, activated - anagram indicator, secret + p (entrance to portal) = sceptre |
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Raj Jayaram
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Lost respect for royal staff (7) | 21 | 15 | Lost: anagram indicator; (RESPECT)* = fodder; royal staff = definition |
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Ramki Krishnan
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"'Sengol' ceremoniously entering Parliament today. Ridiculously extravagant" - Leaders giving stick (7) | 21 | 11 | def = stick, acrostic of "Sengol... extravagant". Surface story reflects reaction from opposition leaders in India. |
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N Anantakrishnan
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Sengol perhaps lost respect (7) | 16 | 10 | DBE Sengol perhaps. (Respect)* Lost - anagram ind |
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Suyash Roongta
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Royal staff awkwardly creeps around model (7) | 14 | 10 | {CREEPS}* around T (model). Anagram indicator - awkwardly. Def - royal staff. |
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Thejaswi Udupa
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Sengol, for one, consists of old disc covered by intricately designed crest | 14 | 8 | EP (old disc) covered by CREST* (intricately designed being the anagrind). |
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Arjun Mukerjee
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Create respect for a symbol of authority (7) | 13 | 8 | (respect)* - anagrind "create" - def "a symbol of authority"- connector "for". The surface alludes to the Indian government's recent desire to promote the Sengol. |
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Adman_i
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Rod Steiger initially accepted essentially vacuous role (7) | 13 | 8 | Rod (Defn), Steiger initially - S, accepted essentially - cept, Vacuous role - r(ol)e, Reference - Rod Steiger the Oscar winning actor |
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Warped secret about President's imperial authority (7) | 12 | 6 | Spectre ...def imperial authority; warped anagrind ; secret* around P |
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Royal staff's power breaks secret building(7) | 9 | 7 | Definition: Royal staff. Anno: (SECRET*) around (P). Building=Anagrind. Breaks=Content indicator. Power=P |
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Creepiest bug that is expelled with a special stick | 9 | 6 | Anagram of CREEPIEST minus IE; Anagrind: BUG (error) ; def: A SPECIAL STICK |
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Lastly, coconut crępes curried with mace (7) | 9 | 6 | (T + CREPES)*. "Lastly, coconut" -> "T". Anagrind: "curried". Def: "mace". |
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Baton was handed over, perhaps with respects (7) | 9 | 5 | Baton = Definition; Anagram : (RESPECTS)* ; perhaps = anagrind |
- RESPECTS has one more S than SCEPTRE, and “was handed over” and “with” don’t seem to be used in the wordplay
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Staff’s initially protected secret out! (7) | 5 | 4 | Definition: staff. (P SECRET)*. Out: anagrind |
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Some reminisce, tremulously holding on to power, or one of the symbols of power (7) | 5 | 4 | some [letters from] reminiSCE TREmulously, containing P (symbol for power); def.: ‘one of the symbols of power’ |
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Sovereignty embodies respect (7) | 5 | 2 | Defn: Sovereignty; Anagrind: Embodies; Anagram fodder: Respect |
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New crest by Ethirajulu at first overwhelmed prince & king's staff ( 7) | 4 | 3 | Def- king's staff, prince-p, new - anagram indicator for crest, at first- 1st letter picking indicator for e fro ethirajulu, by- connector, overwhelmed- containment indicator |
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Ghost silently swaps places with a 100 royal staff (7) | 4 | 3 | Charade, Def: royal staff, ghost = SPECTRE with P & C swapping places |
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Spectre tamed by staff(7) | 3 | 3 | Definition is staff, tamed is anagrind, spectre* |
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Spirit and hints of policy correction exchanges show a sign of authority (7) | 3 | 2 | SPECTRE (Spirit) with positions of P & C (hints of Policy Correction) exchanged = SCEPTRE (a sign of authority) |
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Staff centre's malfunctions not the focus of attention for President (7) | 1 | 1 | Staff- def, CENTRES * -N ( atteNtion) +P |
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This month without the English doctor found Ottokar's sign over the radio | 1 | 1 | September - EMB = Septer sounds like Sceptre - aka Ottokar's sign - Ref Tintin comics |
- I enjoyed the Tintin reference, but the surface doesn’t read very cleanly (and September isn’t this month, unless my calendar deceives me)
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