| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Wasn't it a navigation component responsible for this submersible mishap? (5) | 23 | 13 | Whole clue as definition, (wasn'T IT A Navigation) hidden word, indicated by component |
- N: great |
| 2 | Veera Raghavan | Big doctor in that hospital is leaving (5) | 22 | 14 | Big: definition. (In that - h)*. Doctor: anagrind |
- “Is leaving” sort of spoils the cryptic reading. Left would have worked better - N: lovely wordplay, big doctor is not an ordinary phrase |
| 3 | Saurabh Upadhyay | It’s lost inside Atlantic, without any hint of life (5) | 20 | 10 | Semi &lit, def: It. (-A)T(-L)ANTI(-C)* Lost is anagrind, inside Atlantic = TLANTI, without any hint of life = remove L |
- N: would prefer ''inside of'' for wp though would weaken surface |
| 4 | Thejaswi Udupa | Moon? It turned brown! | 19 | 10 | IT<- TAN (brown). Titan is a moon of Saturn |
- N: it turned brown his a great find. Tricky to add def meaningfully though. |
| 5 | Raj Jayaram | Ultimately hot sex with a leading nudist showing heavenly body (5) | 19 | 10 | Ultimately hot = T; sex = IT; with = connector; a = A; leading N(udist) = N; heavenly body = definition, satellite of Saturn = TITAN |
- N: haha, will give it to you for clever def |
| 6 | N Anantakrishnan | Submarine basically imploded catastrophically, away from large sunken ship (5) | 19 | 9 | Def - Submarine (and extended def) Large sunken ship = Titanic - I C |
- nice clue, but needs dbei i think..submarine is not ''titan'' - Titan and titanic have the same root - N: kind of a root issue, kind of a nice idea though |
| 7 | Avtaar | Fragment of anti-tank submarine that sank (5) | 18 | 12 | Telescopic. an(TI TAN)k Def: Submarine that sank | |
| 8 | Textrous | Giant tapirs inhabited these Asian nations at first (5) | 17 | 11 | Def: Giant, first letters of 'tapirs inhabited these Asian nations' (ref to the extinct animal that inhabited south Asia) |
- N: being picky but ''this'' sounds better to me than ''these''. |
| 9 | @LowdownCryptic | Heavyweight's verbal contract (5) | 17 | 9 | TITAN as homophone ("verbal") of TIGHTEN, meaning "contract" as a verb (Collins); definition is "Heavyweight" (synonym for titan as a noun or adjective) with connector 's (is) |
- N: very nice |
| 10 | Adman_i | Mammoth screw up, reportedly (5) | 16 | 8 | Screw up - Tighten, Reportedly - Homophone indicator, Mammoth (Definition) |
- N: fantastic surface but can''t quite buy screw up = tighten, others probably will |
| 11 | Mahler's First, Schubert's Eighth, Tchaikovsky's Fifth, Shostakovich's Fifth, Brahms's Third, and Beethoven's Ninth | 15 | 9 | Def: "Mahler's First [Symphony]" is also called "Titan". Wordplay uses letter selection: e.g., schuberT's eighth = T, etc. Surface refers to famous symphonies in the standard repertoire. |
- N: Mahler''s First symphony is a nice find, rest is too detailed/long |
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| 12 | This train, oddly, is a thing that carries a lot of weight | 13 | 9 | Alternate letter selection, def on the right |
- N: is that odd though? |
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| 13 | Submersible starting to tragically implode taking a nosedive (5) | 13 | 8 | Acrostic Semi &Lit - Reference to the Titan implosion |
- should be "starts to" since it involves picking multiple first letters - N: lovely |
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| 14 | Fragment of anti-tank rocket (5) | 12 | 8 | Telescopic (anTI-TANk); def. refers to the Titan rockets used in NASA’s Gemini program |
- nice clue, but needs dbei? |
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| 15 | Powerful person is secure ,so it's said (5) | 10 | 7 | Powerful person is the def ; hp clue: secure = tighten ~ Titan : so it's said hp indicator |
- N: Nice. Would prefer A powerful for surface but may be seen as a mislead |
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| 16 | Giant covers tantalum with stannum (5) | 9 | 4 | Definition: Giant; Content in container: TI(TA)N ; Symbol for Tantalum = TA, Common name of Stannum = TIN | Covers : container indicator |
- N: if you use chemicals make the surface only about that |
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| 17 | Giant trapped inside a confetti tank (5) | 7 | 5 | Def - Giant, trapped inside - container indicator, confetTITANk |
- N: Haha. What is a confetti tank though? |
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| 18 | Crazy, no-limits batting by Sachin? | 7 | 4 | Anagram of ATTIN (no-limits batting). Indicator - crazy. Sachin? - defn by example. |
- nice clue..but ''by'' can''t be used as a connector imho. - N: excellent |
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| 19 | Giant moon (5) | 6 | 8 | Double definition (Titan is a moon of Saturn) |
- root issue? - Root issue - Same root I think - N: root issue |
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| 20 | This train frequently unseen by tough guy(5) | 6 | 3 | Definition: Tough guy. Anno: Odd letters from 'this train'. Frequently unseen - to remove even letters. |
- N: Surface meaning? |
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| 21 | Superman is tense, reportedly (5) | 5 | 4 | Homophone of tighten (tense), def = Superman (Collins) |
- N: nice find but a slightly unusual thing to report |
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| 22 | Brown, primarily igneous terrain in Saturn’s moon, perhaps(5) | 4 | 3 | Definition is Saturn’s moon perhaps; brown is tan , therefore t (it) an | ||
| 23 | A giant scary clown is inside - hide! | 1 | 7 | A giant = def, scary clown = IT, inside = insertion ind, hide = tan (both mean flog in Chambers) |
- N: Haha. A shame the ! is not following def |
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| 24 | Mark Twain's first tome without a major figure (5) | 1 | 1 | mark - anagram indicator, TWAIN * +T(first Tome) -W (without) , A major figure- def |
- Not sure how “mark” works as an anagrind - N: not convinced by Mark as anagrind. |
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| 25 | Marvel's Hulk's Hulk's Hulk | 1 | 1 | Marvels hulks father is titan (aka hulk's hulk) def:Hulk |
- Root issue - N: Hahaha but does hulk mean father? |