| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samit kallianpur | Came a day, sadly, when one had to leave school (7) | 31 | 16 | [(Came a day)* -a]. Sadly = anagrind. When one had to leave = deletion indicator for 'a'. Def = School [surface alludes to school nostalgia] |
- One does not mean a. The deletion indicator does not work IMO. |
| 2 | Ganesh Raman | Roguish cadet may give the slip to team leader at training establishment | 24 | 14 | Anagram of CADET MAY - T (Team leader); Anagrind ROGUISH; Def on the right | |
| 3 | Suyash Roongta | Genius bagging a reward ultimately at my school (7) | 19 | 12 | AC(A D)E + MY. Genius = ACE, reward ultimately = D. Container indicator = bagging. Def = school. | |
| 4 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | School clubs made to rot in extremes of apathy (7) | 17 | 12 | C (Clubs) + MADE* (anagram indicated by rot) inside AY (extremes of apathy); Definition: School | |
| 5 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Institution made a controversy extremely complicated (7) | 17 | 12 | Def. - Institution, MADE A C…Y* | |
| 6 | Textrous | Ragged co-ed may lose love for a college (7) | 17 | 9 | def: COLLEGE, anagram of COEDMAY with O going for A | |
| 7 | Abhay Phadnis | Plato’s school starts to attract criticism as Dean expels Mykonian youths (7) | 15 | 9 | Definition: “Plato’s school”. Wordplay: Acrostic (“starts to”) of the last seven words. Surface-related trivia: Mykonos is a Greek island, so youths from there might indeed have been in Plato’s Academy! | |
| 8 | Ramesh Swaminathan | Institute expert takes on promotion with monetary ends (7) | 15 | 8 | Def: INSTITUTE anno: AD in ACE + M...Y. Expert = ACE, promotion = AD | |
| 9 | Economizer | School Day came for boarding-school (7) | 14 | 6 | DAY CAME* with school as the anagrind | |
| 10 | Lakshmi Vaidyanathan | Setter's chasing a scoundrel with drug in institution (7) | 12 | 9 | Def- institution, setter's - my, chasing- positional indicator, a-a, scoundrel- cad, drug-e | |
| 11 | Centre of a possible decay around the top molar (7) | 10 | 5 | Centre- def, A DECAY* around M |
- “The” is redundant - nice clue...Shouldn''t it be top of molar? |
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| 12 | College girl tackles rogue starting to eve-tease (7) | 9 | 6 | AMY around {CAD + E(-vetease)}; girl= Amy, tackles= cont ind, rogue= cad, starting to= 1st letter sel ind, defn= college | ||
| 13 | A rogue base next to my school (7) | 7 | 4 | A CAD (rogue) E (base, as in the mathematical constant) next to MY. School - definition | ||
| 14 | Bach mid-range pieces and Amadeus (minus a retuning problem) played with my conservatoire | 7 | 3 | {B}ac{h} [mid-range pieces] + {Am}ade{us} a mus[minus a returning problem} [played] ana. + my. = Academy. Conservatoire-def. | ||
| 15 | A military trainee detailed the alpha and omega of military school (7) | 6 | 6 | A+CADE(t)+M(ilitar)Y: military trainee = CADET, detailed = remove last letter (de-tail), the alpha and omega of military = M+Y, school = def | ||
| 16 | A team loses direction to my training institute | 6 | 4 | A+ team losing direction = cad(-r)e, +my training institute - definition | ||
| 17 | Engineer aced setter's A-level initially in college (7) | 5 | 4 | Def - College; AcedmyA* Engineer - anagram indicator setter's = my | ||
| 18 | A break dance, not tango essentially, near fancy school(7) | 5 | 3 | Anno: (A)(DA(-N)CE*)(MY). Break - Anagrind. Da(-n)ce - Fodder. Tango essentially - N. Not - deletion indicator. Definition - School. | ||
| 19 | Play me 'da capo' (returning segment) at the Conservatoire | 4 | 3 | Reversed hidden. Conservatoire = def; 'da capo': "Indication to return to the beginning of the piece" | ||
| 20 | Start air-conditioning even as lemonade spills on my end | 4 | 3 | AC-ADE-MY |
- Where’s your definition? |
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| 21 | Lacking roof basically, gallery mostly unoccupied in college (7) | 3 | 3 | (ARCADE-r) M…Y. Def: college | ||
| 22 | One Little Woman admits rascal and cheat essentially in school | 2 | 2 | One Little Woman is Amy around cad + a (cheat essentially) / school is definition | ||
| 23 | School Day came dancing (7) | 2 | 2 | School = ACADEMY ; School = Definition; Anagram : (DAY CAME)* ; Anagrind : Dancing | ||
| 24 | School a rogue European, gosh (7) | 0 | 4 | School=Def, A+CAD+E+MY | ||
| 25 | A stinker's been given this award after striking MC initially (7) | 0 | 3 | A CAD (stinker) + ['s been given] EMmY (this award) -m [after striking Mc (initially)] &lit - reference to the slap |
- Clever &lit but may not strike a chord to those who don’t follow the oscars |