| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Ramki Krishnan | Extremely lithe and fit for competition (8) | 29 | 18 | L-E (extremely lithe) + AGUE (fit), def = competition | |
| 2 | VENKATESAN P | Leaders of Portugal and Russia leave Czech capital after the French Conference (6) | 25 | 15 | Definition: Conference. Anno: {(-PR)AGUE}<->{LE}. Leaders of Portugal and Russia=PR. Czech capital=PRAGUE. Leave=Deletion indicator. The French=LE. After=position indicator. | |
| 3 | Veena Venkataraman | Startle a guest wielding club (6) | 22 | 12 | startLE A GUEst - Telescopic clue (indicated by wielding) ; Definition: Club |
- Concise and elegant, with good use of another sense of “club” |
| 4 | Samit Kallianpur | Hiding in jungle, a guerrilla group (6) | 20 | 12 | Telescopic. Indicator = hiding in. Def = group | |
| 5 | @LowdownCryptic | The French debate extraditing premier of Russian Federation (6) | 20 | 12 | LE+A(r)GUE: The French = LE; debate = ARGUE, getting rid of R (premier of Russian); Federation = league | |
| 6 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Every other clue's fit for contest (6) | 20 | 11 | Def: Contest, cLuE+AGUE | |
| 7 | Textrous | A gang of people burgle a guest house (6) | 19 | 12 | Def: A gang of people, burgLE A GUEst, "house" is the containment indicator |
- Great find. Unfortunately gang / league is singular whereas burgle (verb) is plural. - i think it should be fodder ''houses'' or fodder ''housing'' definition |
| 8 | Adman_i | Band chills on the banks of the lake (6) | 17 | 9 | Banks of the lake - (L)(E), Chills - fever/(AGUE), Band (Definition) - (L)(E)(AGUE) |
- Maybe in an A, if “on” can be read as ‘after’—but in a D, this implies AGUELE - nice clue but i feel ''the'' is not needed (banks of the = te..banks of lake = le) |
| 9 | Lakshmi Vaidyanathan | After violent gale European union recalled band (6) | 14 | 8 | Def- band, after- positional indicator for eu from European union, recalled- reversal indicator for ue <- European, violent- anagrind for gale | |
| 10 | Ramesh Swaminathan | Category of galestorm extremely unpredictable (6) | 13 | 7 | Def: category. GALE* + U...E. Strom anagrind and extremely letter selection indicator | |
| 11 | Ganesh Raman | Time wasted in arranging tutelage for class | 13 | 7 | Anagram of TUTELAGE excluding T (TIME) ; Anagrind - ARRANGING; Def: CLASS |
- Shouldn''t it be times!!! |
| 12 | The French Resistance abandons fight with coalition (6) | 12 | 7 | The French - LE, ARGUE (fight) -R (resistance) , Coalition-def | ||
| 13 | Three mile club (6) | 10 | 8 | Double definition; three miles = one league (measure of distance); club = second definition | ||
| 14 | The French discuss abandoning King's alliance (6) | 10 | 8 | The French = LE. Discuss = ARGUE. King = R. Abandoning = deletion indicator. Alliance = def. | ||
| 15 | Shake a leg, oddly out of tune by band(6) | 6 | 3 | Band-Definition, shake- anagram ind, oddly out of-exclude odd letters, by-connector | ||
| 16 | Three miles of fancy loungewear, worn out and discarded | 5 | 4 | Three miles = def; fancy = anagrind; loungewear = fodder; worn out = ONWR; discarded = deleticator | ||
| 17 | Footballers together shake a leg to play with University of Edinburgh. | 5 | 4 | Def: footballers together = league. Anagram (shake) of A LEG + (plays with) UE. | ||
| 18 | Co-worker colonel left behind for three miles | 5 | 4 | COLLEAGUE minus COL. Def - three miles | ||
| 19 | In Chile, a guerrilla’s ally (6) | 5 | 3 | Hidden (in ‘ChiLE A GUErrilla’); def. is ‘ally’ (verb) | ||
| 20 | Union invested in Bougainvillea Guest House (6) | 4 | 4 | Def = “union”. Containment indicator = ‘invested in”. |
- “House” seems superfluous - House is extraneous i think - House is redundant in cryptic reading. It could have been used as hidden word indicator instead of "invested in" |
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| 21 | Google a guest's lodge | 4 | 3 | Hidden clue. Def:lodge 's read as has (indicator) |
- is lodge a syn of league? |
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| 22 | Plague not to start spreading after introduction of drug in society (6) | 4 | 3 | (PLAGUE-P+E)* Def: society | ||
| 23 | About a mile high club (6) | 3 | 1 | double def- about a mile high means league (unit of distance), club means a collection/league |
- League is about 3 miles!!! - A league is rather more than “about a mile” (1.5 in Ancient Rome; 3 miles in English), and usually measures distance overland rather than altitude (so why “high”?) |
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| 24 | Coalition's lame aligning undone from being extremely selective (6) | 2 | 2 | Select extreme letters of l(am)e, a(lignin)g and u(ndon)e; Coalition being the definition | ||
| 25 | Association in shelter nursing endless fever (6) | 2 | 2 | Association = LEAGUE ; Association = Definition ; Shelter = LEA; Endless fever = (A)GUE (LEA+GUE) |
- “Endless” suggests omitting either the last letter (AGU) or maybe both first and last (GU), but not just the first |
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| 26 | Bloc member without a posh edge(6) | 1 | 1 | Definition is bloc, member is leg, without indicates containment, posh is u, edge is e,so le(a)g u e | ||
| 27 | One of 20k submarine contests at Verne's level (6) | 0 | A league is a level of competition, and also a tourney. Allusion is to a famous Jules Verne title. |