| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Ramki Krishnan | Ashwin's opening... trying desperately to grip ball for spin (8) | 33 | 15 | Anagram of (A + TRYING) around O (ball), def = spin, opening is acrostic ind, desperately is anagram ind, to grip = containment ind |
- Very good ref to IPL, and I think it did happen |
| 2 | Abhay Phadnis | Corrupt signatory decapitated in revolution | 23 | 13 | sIGNATORY* Definition: revolution | |
| 3 | Satyen Nabar | Turn blue into gray (8) | 23 | 11 | (INTO GRAY)*; blue= anag ind, defn= turn |
- Very nice - Not convinced of blue as an anagram indicator. - Short and sweet! - This may well be a winner, but, what meaning of blue makes it suitable as anagram indicator? It is there in the CCW dictionary list but I tend to take that with a pinch of salt |
| 4 | Suyash Roongta | Kinky orgy with endless mating and wild dancing (8) | 21 | 11 | (ORGY + ATIN)*. Endless mating = ATIN. Anagrind - kinky. Def - wild dancing. | |
| 5 | Adman_i | Strip occasionally in an orgy, drunk...turning round and round (8) | 14 | 10 | Strip occasionally - sTrIp, (an orgy) - fodder, drunk - anagrind, turning round and round (definitely) - AN(TI)ORGY* | |
| 6 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Spin doctor trying to obfuscate a crowd, essentially (8) | 11 | 7 | Def. Spin, Anagram of TRYING* (indicated by Doctor), around A and crOwd (indicated by “to obfuscate” - as in cover / hide) |
- Nice one...but doesn''t this become Gyr(a o)tin*? Another ind required to specify that a and o are taken in at different intervals? - The wordplay leads TRYING* around AO. Does not indicate that they are inserted separately. |
| 7 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | A trying ball - drifting and spinning (8) | 10 | 7 | [A trying o (ball)]* anagram indicated by drifting. Definition: Spinning (surface reading - something you may have heard in a cricket commentary) | |
| 8 | Thejaswi Udupa | Whirling in orgy at ruins (8) | 8 | 7 | (in orgy at)*, defn - whirling, anagrind - ruins | |
| 9 | Needing a good over, Indian openers try off spin | 7 | 5 | Needing = link (Solution needs the following wordplay); a good over = A G O; Indian openers = IN try = TRY; off = anagrind; spin = def | ||
| 10 | Desparate Rishi preponing election - ultimately a Tory revolution (8) | 6 | 5 | Desparate - anagram indicator. Last letter selection indicator - umtimately ( I G N A Tory)* . Def - revolution | ||
| 11 | Make a try, go in whirling motion(8) | 5 | 5 | Definition: Whirling motion. Anno: Anagram of (A+TRY+GO+IN). Anagrind: Make. | ||
| 12 | Partial energy rationing during revolution (8) | 5 | 4 | Def- revolution, telescopic |
- Great surface. Deducting one point for using during as a connector. - "during" is extraneous - during is out of place and doesn''t work unfortunately |
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| 13 | Oliver partying wildly and taking Porsche out for a spin | 3 | 2 | Anagram of (O PARTYING - P), Anagrind WILDLY; taking Porsche out: Deletion of P; Def: SPIN |
- Nice one, but Oliver= O and Porsche = P? - Are Oliver for O and Porsche for P standard abbreviations? - Very topical even if poor Oliver is not the culprit, but real issue is why Porsche = P? Initial letter indicator missing? |
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| 14 | After guy on vacation, actively train others in front in turn (8) | 2 | 2 | TRAINO*after GY. Definition: turn | ||
| 15 | I can make myself a ring toy! (8) | 1 | 1 | First person, meta-anagram clue. Gyration can make GYRATION (into) A RING TOY. |
- Nice but still needs a definition - Very smart, if you know the answer. But very hard for a solver to figure out - Good idea, but gyration is not a toy, so the meta concept fails, the ultimate outcome should point to ring |
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| 16 | Victory in Mumbai heard for food revolution (8) | 1 | 1 | Victory in Mumbai is Jai HP of GY+ food is ration- revolution is definition |
- "for" is extraneous |
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| 17 | Share after getting yours first of all? That's a turn. | 0 | 4 | g{etting] y{ours} [first of all] + ration (share) [after] = turn-def. |