| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suyash Roongta | California policeman gets love after busting drug racket (9) | 27 | 14 | California= CA. Policeman = COP. Love = HONEY. Drug = E. Busting - deletion indicator. Racket = def. |
- Should be ''commit to'' |
| 2 | Satyen Nabar | Clamour about fraud involving head of Adani company (9) | 25 | 11 | C+PHONY around A(-dani)+CO; about= C, fraud= phony, involving= cont ind, head of= 1st letter sel ind, company= co, defn= clamour | |
| 3 | Ganesh Raman | Oh! Cop can set straight youth leader causing commotion | 21 | 11 | Anagram of OH COP CAN (anagrind: SET STRAIGHT) + Y (YOUTH LEADER); Def COMMOTION | |
| 4 | Textrous | Slyly pry on coach nicking Roger's first racket (9) | 20 | 10 | (PRYONCOACH)* - R, anagrind: Slyly, def: racket |
- Nice pieces. Surface lacks clear meaning/image but this works |
| 5 | Nathan Townshend | Can you chop nuts without you being caught making a racket? | 18 | 10 | Can you chop = fodder; nuts = anagrind; without you being caught = delete U; making = link; a racket = def |
- Vanilla but solid |
| 6 | Thejaswi Udupa | Accountant's firm made up racket | 13 | 9 | CA (Accountant) CO (firm) PHONY (made up). Def - Racket |
- Vanilla but solid |
| 7 | Adman_i | Short cop tails accountant connected to fraudulent racket (9) | 13 | 7 | Short cop - CO(p), Accountant - CA, Fraudulent - PHONY, Racket (Definition) - (CA)(CO)(PHONY) | |
| 8 | Nicholas Loader | Company a sham?! Harbouring a bit of cognitive dissonance (9) | 11 | 6 | CO (company) PHONY (a sham) outside [harbouring] A C (bit of cacophony) =C(AC)OPHONY (dissonance) | |
| 9 | Sparsh Sinha | Tipsy cop on a yacht wanting a model makes a loud inharmonious sound (9) | 10 | 6 | Def - a loud inharmonious sound, tipsy - anagrind, cop+on+a+yacht -at(wanting a model(t)) = cacophony |
- Humorous surface image and clean anno. I think this one is best |
| 10 | Raj Jayaram | Accountant firm’s false noise (9) | 9 | 5 | Accountant = CA; firm = CO; false = PHONY; noise = definition of CACOPHONY |
- Vanilla but solid |
| 11 | Basically, criticise Congress over fraud without hint of "acche din" (9) | 8 | 5 | Arcostic C C O Phony (fraud) around A (without - containment indicator). Def - din | ||
| 12 | Curbing chaos regularly by extremely touchy cop can somehow cause uproar (9) | 7 | 5 | HO in (Y COP CAN)*. Curbing: insertion indicator. Def: uproar |
- Should be ''commit to'' |
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| 13 | Clamor caused by coca-chewing fraudster (9) | 7 | 5 | Def. = clamor. CACO (anagram) + PHONY |
- Solid |
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| 14 | Accountant's firm forged DIN... | 7 | 3 | Anno: (Ca)-(co)-(phony) def:din |
- I like the concision but I think din is a suboptimal def here. "Racket" fits the surface better imo |
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| 15 | Jar of cocoa without a hint of oil can be spurious (9) | 6 | 5 | Jar-def, cocoa* - O , spurious- phony |
- The pieces here are solid but I think they could be assembled a bit more clearly |
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| 16 | Quite a hubbub when core sycophancy is reconsidered | 4 | 3 | Def = Quite a hubbub, Reconsidered is the anagrand operating on the "core" (central letters) of sycophancy = {YCOPHANC}* |
- fodder is missing an O - O missing! |
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| 17 | Racket: California trooper extracts drug from honey. | 4 | 3 | Def: Racket. Ca (California abbreviation) + cop (trooper) + honey - e (extracts drug from). | ||
| 18 | Discordant note from one caught in duplicate ring by fake (9) | 4 | 2 | one A in CC duplicate ring O PHONY fake Def: discordant note | ||
| 19 | Clamour about doll in duplicate(9) | 3 | 2 | Definition; Clamour. Anno: (CA)(COP((HON)Y). About=CA. Doll=HON. Duplicate=COPY |
- Use of about for ca is nice. |
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| 20 | Chop any ingredients, making noise (9) | 2 | 7 | clue type - letter bank, indicator - 'ingredients making', bank - 'chop any', definition - 'noise' |
- Just a tip letterbank clues generally have at least 3 doubled letters - fyi, appropriate use of a letter bank is to make an answer at least 3 letters longer than the bank (in North America, at least) |
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| 21 | Shiver while reporting "casket-like", scary noise? (9) | 1 | 1 | Modified homophone/pun: "casket-like" could be "coffin-y", and would be "c-coffin-y" if you shiver while reporting it! (Definition: scary noise) |
- Hahaha |
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| 22 | Say fake accountant firm's prior racket (9) | 0 | Def: Racket, HP Fake - Phony (~Phoney), Accountant CA Firm CO |