| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @LowdownCryptic | Favourite part in movie? Naked bums, to be crude (9) | 36 | 18 | Favourite = PET, part in movie = ROLE, naked (b)UM(s) = UM, to be = connector, crude = definition |
- 🍑 - This made me laugh! |
| 2 | VENKATESAN P | Old plum tree chopped up for fuel(9) | 34 | 17 | Annotation: (O+PLUM+TREE)*. Anagrind: Chopped up. Definition: Fuel |
- The unhinted abbreviation of OLD to O makes the anagram somewhat indirect |
| 3 | Suyash Roongta | Source of energy found in our temple complex (9) | 24 | 15 | Def (source of energy) found in Wordplay - (our temple)* complex (anagrind). | |
| 4 | Ganesh Raman | Europe regularly limits processed crude oil | 24 | 15 | Anagram of EUROPE LMT (regular as alternate letter selection indicator); Anagrind: PROCESSED; Def: CRUDE OIL | |
| 5 | Saurabh Upadhyay | Our temple can be a source of energy (9) | 16 | 11 | Anagram of “OUR TEMPLE”. Def: A source of energy | |
| 6 | Amrita Majumdar | Favorite character is essentially clumsy and maybe crude! (9) | 14 | 11 | PET ROLE UM |
- Good wordplay, but "is" should be removed (and "!" is not needed) - Funny! |
| 7 | Adman_i | Porter and mule used as car finally runs out of gas (9) | 14 | 8 | Gas (Definition) - (PORTER)(MULE)*-(caR), Used - anagrind, Runs out - deletion indicator |
- Wordplay of Def does not work, also not sure of the anagrind |
| 8 | Abhay Phadnis | A flammable liquid ruined our temple (9) | 13 | 10 | Definition: “A flammable liquid”; Anagrind: “ruined”; Anagram fodder: [OUR+TEMPLE]* | |
| 9 | Textrous | Let me pour freshly made oil (9) | 13 | 9 | Def: oil; Anagrind: freshly made; LETMEPOUR*, | |
| 10 | Sparsh Sinha | A type of jelly made primarily of plum tree (9) | 11 | 11 | Def - a type of jelly - petroleum jelly, made - anagrind, primarily ( first letter selector ) of = o+ plum + tree = petroleum | |
| 11 | Satyen Nabar | Terrible temper, lout's most crude (9) | 11 | 9 | anag of TEMPER LOU(-t); terrible= anag ind, most= last letter del ind, defn= crude | |
| 12 | What's of vital importance to the US perhaps? - People wanting Pence and president Trump gone! | 10 | 7 | [(-P)eo(-p)le + trump]* Wanting = deletion ind [Clue clinic]. Pence = P [Chambers]. President = P. Gone = anagrind. Def by example = What's of vital importance to the US perhaps. |
- Cheeky surface |
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| 13 | Oil from special place? I'm not sure (9) | 10 | 6 | Def- oil, special- pet, place-role, I'm not sure-um | ||
| 14 | Oil? Let me pour out (9) | 9 | 6 | (Let me pour)* indicated by out. | ||
| 15 | Oil lamp's first taken inside our temple, lit and left outside (9) | 8 | 6 | Def: Oil, Anagram Indicator - Lit, L>>OUR TEMP(-L)E*, |
- Nice surface - Seems gratuitous to add an extra L and then take an L out - Interesting construction, but introducing the L and then deleting it seems superfluous, even though it makes for a good surface |
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| 16 | With the French in, put more shifts extracting crude (9) | 8 | 6 | LE in PUTMORE*. Shifts: anagrind | ||
| 17 | Our temple complex - it puts a lot of things in motion (9) | 8 | 4 | ourtemple* (complex is anagrind). Def = it puts a lot of things in motion | ||
| 18 | Our temple is ransacked for source of fuel (9) | 7 | 5 | (OUR TEMPLE)*; “is ransacked for” = anagrind; “source of fuel” = def. | ||
| 19 | Doctor, let me pour juice (9) | 5 | 5 | Anagram of letmepour* | ||
| 20 | End of favourite croissant bitten off - it’s delicious, we hear, and a source of energy (9) | 5 | 3 | Favourite = PET; croissant with end bitten off = ROL(-l); it’s delicious, we hear = EUM (homophone of yum) |
- “End of croissant bitten off” would need to be contiguous. (And I pronounce the EUM in PETROLEUM as two syllables, not like YUM) |
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| 21 | Refined our temple's oil | 3 | 3 | (our temple)* | ||
| 22 | Crude alien character a bit ugly is hugged by Modi? (9) | 2 | 2 | Def: crude. PM Modi? around ET alien character ROLE U ... Abita ugly |
- Is Modi required? Can''t it just be PM? - The Grammar is also crude and a bit ugly |
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| 23 | Person, not able to speak back consuming part in play under the ground in crude form | 1 | 2 | P{ET(ROLE)UM<=} |
- Surface doesnt make sense to me |