| 1 |
Veera Raghavan
|
Jumping rekindled leg pain (7) | 25 | 14 | legpain*. Rekindled: anagrind |
|
| 2 |
Sowmya Ramkumar
|
Skipping rum, gin and ale, drinks Pepsi, essentially (7) | 25 | 14 | Def: Skipping, P in GINALE*, pePsi (Pepsi, essentially), Rum - Anagram indicator. |
- My COD!
|
| 3 |
Ganesh Raman
|
Alpine glacier’s beginning to melt - it’s plunging. | 23 | 10 | Anagram of ALPINE + G (Glacier’s beginning); Anagrind: MELT; Def PLUNGING |
- Is plunging = leaping?
|
| 4 |
Ramki Krishnan
|
Jumping as a needle is injected into part of body (7) | 21 | 15 | Def = jumping, A PIN (needle) inside LEG (part of body) |
|
| 5 |
Suyash Roongta
|
Shooting up with a needle in limb (7) | 20 | 12 | A needle (= A PIN) in limb (= LEG) => LE(A PIN)G. Def = Shooting up. |
- Why do I get the sense that a certain doctor wrote this clue…never given 4 points before but this clue is sharp, to the point and is about getting high in more than one sense. True perfection.
|
| 6 |
Satyen Nabar
|
Frolicking and shaking a leg after drinking peg (7) | 19 | 14 | (A LEG)* around PIN; shaking= anag ind, after drinking= cont ind, peg= pin, frolicking= defn |
- A wonderful clue with good surface and cryptic readings - not to mention it rhymes!
|
| 7 |
@qpheevr
|
Going over wild Alpine goat’s head (7) | 18 | 9 | ALPINE* (”wild Alpine”) + G (“goat’s head”) = LEAPING = (in its transitive sense) “going over” |
|
| 8 |
Saurabh Upadhyay
|
Racing and winning after switching sides (7) | 14 | 11 | Def: Racing. Anno: Winning = REAPING, switching sides means switch Right (R) for Left (L), giving LEAPING |
- A fine clue but I haven’t enough points left to give
|
| 9 |
Amrita Majumdar
|
Jumping up to scratch the head of spaniel playing with girl (7) | 13 | 10 | SPANIEL - S * G, Jumping up- def |
- Lovely surface imagery, can’t give you points but thought I’d leave a comment to show my appreciation
|
| 10 |
N Anantakrishnan
|
Dancing partner tripping after consuming ecstasy and gin cocktail (7) | 13 | 7 | Def - Dancing. Partner = PAL << around E (GIN)* |
|
| 11 |
|
Leg pain? Maybe it's the result of jumping ! (7) | 12 | 9 | (LEG PAIN)*, Maybe - Anagrind, It's the result of 'jumping' - cheeky indication for the answer :) |
- Nice anagram find but the def doesn''t read well
|
| 12 |
|
Spooner's stripping and jumping over! (7) | 11 | 8 | Spoonerism of peeling |
|
| 13 |
|
The Reverend's scaling......going higher (7) | 11 | 8 | Spoonerism of Peeling/leaping. Scaling = Peeling. Def = Going higher [Source: Chambers] |
|
| 14 |
|
Pain spreads through limb in the middle of a jump (7) | 11 | 7 | PAIN* in LEG, def: in the middle of a jump |
|
| 15 |
|
Deceptively agile Pomeranian on vacation is jumping (7) | 9 | 7 | Def - jumping, deceptively - anagrind, agile + pn (pomeranian on vacation) = leaping |
|
| 16 |
|
Surging Alpine glacier starts to melt (7) | 7 | 6 | [(Alpine + g)]* g = glacier starts), *indicated by melt; Definition: Surging (leaping to mean dramatic increase of a price or amount) |
- Great wordplay - perhaps “glacier starting to melt” might have worked better.
|
| 17 |
|
Rocketing, one stump crashes into another! (7) | 6 | 5 | {LE(A PIN)G}; Rocketing is the definition; one stump = A PIN; another stump = LEG; crashes into is the containment indicator. |
|
| 18 |
|
The French copying jumping ? | 2 | 9 | The French (Le) copying (Aping) jumping (leaping). |
|
| 19 |
|
Flying fish eating pea at sea (7) | 2 | 2 | Definition: Flying. Anno: (L(PEA*)ING). Fish=Ling. Pea=Fodder. At sea: Anagrind. Eating=Containment indicator |
|
| 20 |
|
Freerunning director Mike says “Sow on the first of November” (7) | 1 | 2 | Freerunning = definition, Mike (Leigh) homophone, sow = pig. |
|
| 21 |
|
Appealing deplorably, pa moved away hopping | 0 | 4 | (-PA)pealing*, deplolrably - anagrind, moved away - deletion indicator, definition - Hopping |
|
