| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Textrous | Love to do a rain dance (9) | 44 | 21 | Def: Love; todoarain*; anagrind: dance (as an intransitive verb for the preceding words) |
- Clean and elegant! - Very nice clean clue! - Nice - concept of ‘rain dance’ distracts solver from anag clue, nice! 👍 - Nice fodder but unfortunately dance is conjugated incorrectly making it a nounal anagrind. The correct usage would be dances in the third person singular. |
| 2 | Amrita Majumdar | Love adult party supplies! | 26 | 16 | A DO RATION |
- Ha! Great surface, not sure cryptic reading warrants the EM though.. - nice surface - I think it would be RATIONS but I still like the surface! |
| 3 | Abhay Phadnis | A devotee's first speech shows reverence | 20 | 13 | A + ["devotee's first" =] D + ["speech" =] ORATION "shows" (A+D+ORATION); "reverence" = definition | |
| 4 | Ramki Krishnan | Love a party with food (9) | 17 | 11 | Def = love, A + DO + RATION (food) |
- Ah yes! Don’t we all! :) - flows well; good surface |
| 5 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Love tikka, ultimately with tandoori masala (9) | 15 | 10 | (tikk)A+TANDOORI*, Def: Love, Anagram indicator - Masala (spicy blend) |
- Ha! Interesting anagram indicator :) |
| 6 | Veera Raghavan | Worship a deity initially before address (9) | 12 | 8 | A D ORATION. Definition: Worship | |
| 7 | Satyen Nabar | Love fantastic tandoori starter of aloo (9) | 12 | 8 | [TANDOORI A(-loo)]*; fantastic= anag ind, starter of= 1st letter selection ind, defn= love | |
| 8 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Love to cook a tandoori (9) | 11 | 7 | (a tandoori)*. Definition: Love | |
| 9 | Suyash Roongta | Commercial address gets praise (9) | 10 | 10 | AD (commercial) + ORATION (address). Def - praise |
- clean & effective |
| 10 | Aaron Riccio | Praise article about animated Latina explorer (and her uncle) (9) | 10 | 9 | A(DORA+TIO)N; article = AN, about {container}, animated Latina explorer = DORA (TV character), and {+}, her uncle = TIO (uncle in Spanish) |
- Ha! Very clever :) could be tricky though requiring solver knowing both the GK for Dora and the Spanish for uncle.. - TIO is a nice tie-in; good surface |
| 11 | @LowdownCryptic | American tandoori cooking gets praise (9) | 10 | 8 | A + TANDOORI anag. (cooking), def: praise |
- imo this was the best of the TANDOORI clues |
| 12 | Maya Sharma | Limit commotion before thanksgiving (9) | 10 | 6 | Definition is thanksgiving, limit is ration, commotion is ado | |
| 13 | Praise a publicity speech (9) | 9 | 7 | Praise (Definition), A publicity - Ad, Speech - oration |
- Is the ‘a’ redundant? - The "a" is superfluous and complicates the clue IMO |
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| 14 | Much love felt for explorer lost in leaderless state. | 9 | 7 | DORA (explorer) NATION-n (leaderless state) ATION (anag. lost) ADORATION (much love felt). |
- Very nice - No anagrind needed here because DORA stays as it is |
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| 15 | A gangster has relationship of love | 7 | 6 | Def - love, a+do(ratio)n, gangster+don, has- inclusion indicator, relationship -ratio |
- Nice idea, not sure about surface.. (would we say people have ‘relationships of love’) |
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| 16 | Respect for explorer in country needing no introduction (9) | 7 | 6 | Def- Respect , (n)A-DORA-TION | ||
| 17 | NATO radio broadcast for charity (9) | 6 | 4 | Definition:: Charity. Anno: (NATO+RADIO) * . Broadcast - Anagrind |
- I don''t think charity is a synonym for adoration, great anagram though! - Nice anagram, but questionable definition - Clue works.. but not sure on def? |
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| 18 | What starts out as this, Dorian corrupted | 6 | 3 | &lit. in ref to Dorian Gray // *[O + A + T + DORIAN] // (what starts = first letters of 'Out As This' + 'DORIAN', anagram indicator = corrupted) |
- The &lit here seems a bit tenuous - First prize from me - I reckon you''d need the crossers in the grid before the penny dropped! - &literary! |
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| 19 | Love a Tandoori party (9) | 6 | 3 | A tandoori * = ADORATION , def = love |
- Party cannot be an anagram indicator |
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| 20 | Total love for Bill's speech | 5 | 5 | Definition, total love, Bill = ad, oration = speech | ||
| 21 | Love promotion speech (9) | 5 | 5 | Love is definition/ Promotion is AD/ Speech is oration |
- crisp clue |
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| 22 | Admiration for generated AI tornado (9) | 5 | 3 | AI TORNADO —> ADORATION (anag) | ||
| 23 | Love first-rate tandoori stews (9) | 4 | 4 | A (‘first-rate’) + TANDOORI*; stews = anagrind; love = def. |
- Wouldn''t "first-rate" be A1? |
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| 24 | Exaltation of God in a sermon (9) | 4 | 3 | D (Deus) in A ORATION. Def exaltation |
- Is D for Deus a standard abbreviation (in English)? |