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Amrita Majumdar
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Not a bit of crease in freshly starched clothes (7) | 34 | 16 | STARCHED* -C , Clothes -def |
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Textrous
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Directors gutted after heart-breaking storylines (7) | 21 | 12 | D(irector)S after HEART*; def: storylines |
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Adman_i
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Trashed new social media platform? (7) | 18 | 10 | Thrashed - Anagram fodder, New - Anagrind indicator, Social media platform - definition |
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Sparsh Sinha
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He darts all over the place and strips (7) | 17 | 11 | Def - Strips, all over the place - anagram indicator, he+darts = threads |
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Lakshmi Vaidyanathan
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Steps outside hotel to get story-lines (7) | 17 | 10 | def-story-lines, steps- treads, outside- containment indicator for h from hotel |
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N Anantakrishnan
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Social media app is basically spreading hatred actively (7) | 15 | 11 | Def - social media app. (S hatred)* |
- 1
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Kalyan Bandyopadhyay
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Endless number of advertisements in the latest app (7) | 15 | 8 | THRE(-e) as indicated by endless + ADS (advertisements); Definition: the latest app |
- “Of” spoils this somewhat
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BINAY KUMAR PATRA
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Transcripts are hardest to crack! | 14 | 9 | *hardest, to crack is anagrind; Definition: transcripts |
- 3
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| 9 |
Thejaswi Udupa
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Rest had worn clothes | 14 | 8 | (rest had)*, worn as anagrind. Clothes is def |
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Sowmya Ramkumar
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Hatred is spread with one social app (7) | 14 | 8 | Def: Social app, Composite Anagram HATRED IS* = I THREADS* , indicated by Spread |
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Walks around high platform trying to kill a blue bird? (7) | 13 | 8 | TREADS (walks) around H (high) - def on right refers to new Threads platform trying to be a "Twitter killer" |
- Nice def!
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New social media app freely shared elements with Twitter front-end at first. (7) | 13 | 8 | HREADS (freely *shared* elements) with T (Twitter front-end) at first. Def - new social media app. |
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Doctor trades heroin for weeds? | 12 | 10 | Anagram of TRADES + H (Heroin); Anagrind DOCTOR; Def WEEDS |
- I don’t get how ‘weeds’ is a definition for THREADS
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Three short adverts for Musk's new business competition (7) | 12 | 8 | Thre is three short (of e), ads is adverts, Musk's new business competition is the definition. Threads is the solution |
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Inserts HRA without a bit of exemption in TDS(7) | 10 | 6 | Definition: Inserts. Anno: {T[HR(E)A]DS}. A bit of exemption=E. In & Without=Content indicators. |
- I don’t know what HRA and TDS stand for, so the surface reading is opaque to me
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Themes extremely sad, heartbreaking (7) | 8 | 6 | Def: Themes. {S(a)D HEART}* |
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Vacuous damsels following heart-breaking duds (7) | 8 | 5 | Vacuous damsels = d(amsel)s = DS, following = coming after; heart-breaking = anagram of heart = THREA making THREA + DS; duds = clothes = threads = definition |
- Duds is not synonymous to threads
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Wardrobe is trashed, trashed (7) | 8 | 5 | ‘trashed’ = anagrind and fodder (in either order); ‘wardrobe’ = def. (in the sense of ‘clothes’) |
- Wardrobe is not synonymous with threads
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Twitter killer app hit hardest (7) | 8 | 4 | Anagram fodder : hardest, indicator : hit, Definition : Twitter killer app |
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Where woman's a model, ads are devoid of core decency and storyline | 6 | 4 | Where, w is t, there ads minus e (core decEncy). Def: storyline |
- ‘Storyline’ implies singular THREAD
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Say, series of tweets on fibres (7) | 3 | 2 | DD |
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