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1ACCWC#442 - LANDING (7)

Total Clues: 19 Total Voters: 24

# Name Clue Points Voters Anno Comments
1 Ganesh Raman A dash of lemon with gin ordered at the end of a flight 3818L (a dash of lemon) AND (with) ING (gin ordered); Def - The end of a flight
2 Samit kallianpur Winning's delightful... and in general, inspiring! 3215Telescopic. Def = Winning [Collins]. Tel ind = inspiring
3 Adman_i Arrival of student with fashionable girl (7) 2513Student - L, With - and, Fashionable - in, Girl- g, Arrival (Definition)
4 Amrita Majumdar Outsiders not allowed at Lord Emsworth’s castle entrance (7) 2111BLANDINGS - BS
5 Maya Sharma Marina with fish around(7) 199Defn is marina, with = and , fish = ling, l(and)ing
6 Mukund Jagannathan Settling with gin and a bit of lemon twist 1810Settling-definition. Ginandl*, anag indicator TWIST
7 VENKATESAN P Indigo planes flying with poise, touching ground(7) 1810Composit angaram. (POISE+LANDING). Fodder: Indigo+planes. Anagrind: Flying. Definition: Touching ground.
8 Kalyan Bandyopadhyay Seen between flights and touchdown (7) 147Landing is seen between flights (of stairs); Definition: Touchdown
9 Remove holes from damaged gondola in the dock (7) 129Def: the dock; GONDOLAIN* - OO
10 Outcome of lunar mission elevating India in national and in global circles (7) 96HIPS, Indicator - circles, Def: Outcome of lunar mission elevating India
11 As part of festival and in general, India's southern specialty out of this world! (7) 85Hidden ("As part of") in "festivaL AND IN General"; topical, creative definition on right (landing in the moon's southern region)
12 Starting late, unlading organized in dock (7) 75(U)NLADING*. Organized: anagrind. Dock: Definition
13 Bland in grey, boxes coming in (7) 54Telescopic; coming in - def
14 Avoiding defence essentially, New England Patriots’ fifth touch-down (7) 43Avoiding = removing; def(E)nce essentially = central letter = E; New = anagram indicator; England = fodder; patr(I)ots’ fifth = I = fodder; [(-e)NGLAND + I]* = LANDING = touch-down (definition); surface reference to American football
15 Amazing grand inland touchdown (7) 43touchdown = LANDING; touchdown = Definition ; grand = G ; Anagram : (G+INLAND)* ; amazing = anagrind
16 At end of “Withnail and I”, November graupel starts coming down (7) 11L (=end of Withnail) + AND I + N G (=starts of November and graupel); ‘coming down’ = def.
17 Half of Tongue, say overwhelms clamour in harbour 11Definition = Harbour, Clamour = Din, Half of Tongue = LANG(-uage), Annotation : LAN(DIN)G
18 Shivshakti, perhaps with-in his aniconic representation 11Def:shiv shakti, perhaps. (Landing as n) with:and inside ling
19 Also in fish for final stages of chandrayan 3 (7) 02L(and)ing