| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Textrous | Doctor lies to me about new breakthrough (9) | 38 | 19 | Def: breakthrough, Anagrind: Doctor (v.), LIESTOME* around N | |
| 2 | Abhay Phadnis | Lose time wandering around new landmark | 26 | 17 | Anagram of [LOSE TIME] "around" N ("new"); anagrind: "wandering"; definition: "landmark" | |
| 3 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Doctor emails note missing a critical point (9) | 22 | 12 | EMAILSNOTE*-A, Def: Critical point. Anagram indicator - Doctor | |
| 4 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | This landmark event is exciting – so let me in! (9) | 20 | 13 | (SO LET ME IN)* indicated by exciting | |
| 5 | Nathan Townshend | I stand by the road shivering, so let me in! | 20 | 12 | I stand by the road = def; shivering = anagram ind; SOLETMEIN* | |
| 6 | Samit kallianpur | Worked on some intel, and got a breakthrough (9) | 19 | 14 | [Some intel]*. Worked on = anagrind. Def = a breakthrough [Chambers] | |
| 7 | @LowdownCryptic | Let in some freaks for a special occasion (9) | 17 | 11 | Anagram: LET IN SOME "freaks" (goes crazy), def is "a special occasion" | |
| 8 | Adman_i | Jazz trumpeter Davis say, plays note reaching a climax (9) | 12 | 8 | Jazz trumpeter - Miles Davis, Plays - anagrind, Note - fodder, A climax (definition) - (MILES)(NOTE)* |
- The word "say" isn''t needed here |
| 9 | Veera Raghavan | With no traces of violent images, silent movie creates landmark (9) | 12 | 7 | SILENTMO(vi)E*. Creates: anagrind. Def: Landmark | |
| 10 | Satyen Nabar | Solemn tie, pants for important event (9) | 9 | 7 | (SOLEMN TIE)*, pants= anag ind, defn= important event | |
| 11 | Ratnakumar V | Lions meet arranged for an important event. | 9 | 7 | Def Milestone, ( lionsmeet)* | |
| 12 | BINAY KUMAR PATRA | It marks road in distance unit (9) | 9 | 4 | road= St, distance = Mile, unit= one, Definition: the whole clue | |
| 13 | Loins meet excitedly to achieve climax (8) | 6 | 4 | (loinsmeet)* Def: climax | ||
| 14 | Highlight abandoned stole, buried in treasury (9) | 6 | 3 | Def =Highlight, Mine =Treasury, Lesto*= Stole, Buried in = Container indicator, Abandoned = Anagram indicator, Mi lesto* ne |
- I like the part of speech misdirection in the definition |
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| 15 | Setter's climbing the French rock landmark (9) | 5 | 5 | MI [reversal (climbing in a down clue) of I'm (setter's)] + LE [the French] + STONE [rock]. Definition - landmark. | ||
| 16 | Criminal stole into deposit, making a breakthrough (9) | 5 | 3 | Criminal is anagrind/ stole*/ into is container indicator/ deposit is mine/ A breakthrough is definition | ||
| 17 | Elon Musk avoiding UK banks for important E-mobile event (9) | 4 | 4 | Anagram (mobile) of {ELONMUSK-UK+I(……)T,E}*. Def: Event | ||
| 18 | Distance to Nallampatti, Erode basically could be displayed here (9) | 4 | 3 | MILES TO NE Extended definition | ||
| 19 | Smile after cycling to corner target (9) | 4 | 3 | (-s)MILE (+S) TO NE corner. Def: TARGET | ||
| 20 | Nervous smile before century close to game. It's an important event (9) | 3 | 2 | Dfe- it's an important event , nervous- anagram indicator- smile, before- positional indicator, century- tone, close to- last letter picking indicator- game - e | ||
| 21 | Easily smile…Not on second wedding anniversary! | 3 | 2 | Smilenot*+e | ||
| 22 | Landmark monetised unfortunately after getting left for dead initially (9) | 2 | 2 | Landmark |
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| 23 | Cryptic lions meet for anniversary (9) | 2 | 2 | Definition: Anniversary. Clue type : Anagram. Fodder: Lions+meet. Anagrind: Cryptic. | ||
| 24 | Kilometre in America merged with Rocks | 0 | 2 | Parsing 2 clues of unit of measurement and definitions | ||
| 25 | On a first name basis, he trumpets single achievement | 0 | 1 | [On a first name basis, he] Miles [Davis] + one (single) -achievement-definition = milestone |
- Did you run out of Time (T)? 😝 - Missing a [t] - Wordplay is missing the T? - Where is the "T" coming from? |