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N Anantakrishnan
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Gay couple left America for England (5) | 25 | 15 | Def - Gay. Couple = Marry (-A + E) |
- Ha
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Textrous
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Drunk setter's about to make a mistake (5) | 25 | 12 | Def: Drunk; MY (setter's) about ERR (to make a mistake) |
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Kalyan Bandyopadhyay
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Men mostly sad, not so joyful (5) | 22 | 14 | ME (Men - n, deletion indicated by 'mostly') + RRY (SORRY - SO, deletion indicated by 'not so'). Definition: Joyful |
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Ramki Krishnan
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Accepting mistake, setter's happy (5) | 19 | 10 | ERR (mistake) in MY (setter's), accepting is containment int, def=happy |
- The tightest of this variety
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VENKATESAN P
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Jolly trip in Malaysia (5) | 18 | 11 | Definition: Jolly. Anno: (M(ERR)Y). Malaysia - MY. Trip - ERR. |
- Dastardly
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Raj Jayaram
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Gay female in boat undergoes sex change (5) | 17 | 11 | Gay = definition of MERRY; boat = FERRY; female = F; undergoes sex change = F becomes M; M (-F)ERRY = MERRY |
- Haha
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Amrita Majumdar
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Chauffeur after changing sex is happy (5) | 17 | 9 | Chauffeur- FERRY, - F+M ( Change sex) HAPPY -DEF |
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@LowdownCryptic
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Gay singer from Roxy Music gets a sex change (5) | 15 | 8 | Def: Gay - FERRY (Bryan Ferry is the singer from Roxy Music) changes F to M (gets a sex change) |
- I do cryptics because I don''t want to be tested on pop culture trivia. This is betrayal
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Mad at first to make a mistake, boy eventually became happy (5) | 13 | 8 | Def - happy : M(mad at first) + err (to make a mistake) + y(boy eventually) = merry |
- "At first mad" makes the surface cleaner with no loss to cryptic parsing
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Chirpy Muhammad Yunus initially admitted slip-up | 10 | 8 | M(ERR)Y. May be this is why the Bangladeshi is facing so many trials. |
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Get the wrong end of the stick in my bubbly (5) | 10 | 6 | M(ERR)Y: ‘get the wrong end of the stick’ = ERR; ‘my’ = MY; ‘bubbly’ = MERRY |
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Joyous King entering just after the Spanish quit (5) | 8 | 7 | (Just)MERELY -EL(the Spanish) +R(king). Def: Joyous |
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My muffin is gay (5) | 6 | 3 | M(ERR)Y — That is, to “muff” or make a mistake is placed “in” between the letters M and Y to get a word meaning gay. |
- I don''t think the Ardenism is especially solvable but the surface earns my points
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Joyful month end rest and recreation's what gets year started | 5 | 4 | Def:joyful M,E,RR std abb. Y from what gets year started (is Y) |
- Idgi
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High-spirited ministers enjoyed raves 'round year-end: sources (5) | 5 | 4 | First letters (sources) of ministers enjoyed raves 'round year-end. Def - high-spirited. Surface - newspaper headline perhaps with pun intended. |
- Fun sneaky acrostic indicator
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Featuring astronomer ryot's jolly (5) | 3 | 2 | Hidden word indicator : Featuring, astronoMER RYot. |
- Whoever that is. I think this would be way better with a capital R
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Setter encounters extremes of rivalry, ending December in a Christmas mood (5) | 2 | 2 | Setter - ME + decembe(R) + R(ivalr)Y, In - Insertion indicator, A Christmas mood - Definition, It's a tribute clue to Satyen Nabar :) |
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