| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ramki Krishnan | Old criminal ran away from quarantine (7) | 29 | 18 | Def = old, anagram of (QUARANTINE - RAN). Since RAN appears as-is in QUARANTINE, no separate anagram ind. Away from - deletion ind. Criminal - anagrind | |
| 2 | Satyen Nabar | Old man, quite distressed without money (7) | 27 | 16 | (MAN QUITE)* - M; distressed= anag ind, without= deletion ind, money= m, defn= old | |
| 3 | Nathan Townshend | Quite an extraordinary heirloom? | 21 | 13 | Fodder, grind, def, maybe &lit as well. | |
| 4 | Ramesh Swaminathan | A book on intelligence extremely unique and old (7) | 21 | 12 | A NT book IQ intelligence U....E def: OLD | |
| 5 | Samit Kallianpur | Old equation is modified to exclude zero (7) | 20 | 14 | [Equation*-o]. Equation = anagram fodder. Is modified = anagrind. Zero = o. Excluded = deletion ind. Def = Old | |
| 6 | Adman_i | "Old article....quite funny" (7) | 18 | 13 | Article - An, Quite - anagram fodder, Funny - Anagrind, Old (Definition) - (AN)(QUITE)* | |
| 7 | Textrous | Article quite worn out? (7) | 18 | 11 | &Lit; Article=AN, QUITE* (anagrind: worn out) |
- Nice idea, but an antique isn''t generally worn out, so for an &lit another anagrind might have been better - Not convinced by worn out as an anagrind. |
| 8 | Economizer | Old-fashioned, quaint piece, essentially (7) | 17 | 9 | Quaint* + e | Old: definition; fashioned: anagrind; quaint: anagram fodder; piece essentially: e; |
- The hyphenated phrase spoils it imo |
| 9 | Ganesh Raman | Age-old equation solved without using cipher | 15 | 12 | Def: AGE-OLD; Anagram of (EQUATION minus 0); Anagrind SOLVED | |
| 10 | Amrita Majumdar | Very old, quaint house finally demolished (7) | 15 | 11 | Very old - def, (QUAINT + E) * | |
| 11 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | In Spain, what happens after opposition to something classical (7) | 15 | 8 | QUE (what in Spanish) after ANTI (opposition to); Definition: Classical |
- What is the role of “happens” here? |
| 12 | Old-fashioned auntie goes berserk, hugs Queen (7) | 12 | 9 | Old-fashioned is def/ auntie */ goes berserk anagrind/ hugs container indicator/ Queen is Q | ||
| 13 | Restored quaint European relic (7) | 11 | 9 | (QUAINT)* + E(uropean). Anagram indicator - Restored. Definition - relic. | ||
| 14 | Old joke overheard (7) | 11 | 8 | Definition: Old, joke: Antic; overheard: homophone indicator |
- well, it isn''t a homophone really - Same root (etymologically), and also not quite homophonous |
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| 15 | Old worker stepped in for fight in shop (7) | 10 | 10 | ANT (worker) replacing BOUT (fight) in BOUTIQUE; def = OLD | ||
| 16 | Old, quaint, exotic and expensive basically (7) | 10 | 9 | (quaint)* e(xpensive) Exotic - anag ind. Def - old (and extended definition) | ||
| 17 | In restaurant, I queried vintage (7) | 6 | 4 | HIPS: restaurANT I QUEried; indic: in; def: vintage |
- Clever telescopic with an awkward surface |
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| 18 | Surprisingly quaint bit of exotica is an old and valuable object | 5 | 4 | Anagrind: "surprisingly"; (QUAINT)* + E (bit of exotica); definition = an old and valuable object |
- piece rather than bit would have been more appropriate imo |
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| 19 | Quite unusual article at the entrance is a heirloom (7) | 3 | 3 | QUITE*<=>AN. Unusual: anagrind. Def: heirloom |
- I think heirloom needs an rather than a |
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| 20 | Article quite circulated | 2 | 2 | AN + QUITE*, &lit |
- The &lit is a bit tenuous |
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| 21 | Quickly auntie flourished one lucky heirloom (7) | 1 | 1 | Composite Anagram, QUICKLY AUNTIE* = I LUCKY ANTIQUE*, Anagram Ind. Flourished, Def. Heirloom | ||
| 22 | A tune composed about Iqbal leaving retrograde poison test site becomes classical(7) | 1 | 1 | Defn: Classical. Anno: (A)(TUNE*) around (IQ(-LAB<--)). Poison test site - LAB. Retrograde - Reversal indicator. Leaving - deletion indicator. Tune - Fodder. Composed - Anagrind | ||
| 23 | Questionably quite an artifact. | 0 | 2 | [questionably] anagram signal. Quite an - antique. Artifact- definition | ||
| 24 | This iconised in acquisition need, perhaps | 0 | CA : (Antique iconsised)* = acquisition need |