| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CrypticBlah | Cheap bigmouthed drunk? Not IMHO (6) | 20 | 14 | sub. anag. BIGMOUTHED - IMHO (in my humble opinion). Def cheap | |
| 2 | N Anantakrishnan | Shift to basically what you can afford (6) | 17 | 13 | Shift = BUDGE T(o) Def - what you can afford | |
| 3 | @qpheevr | By unanimous decision, government endorsed their leaders’ spending plan (6) | 17 | 12 | Acrostic (cued by ‘leaders’); def.: ‘spending plan’ | |
| 4 | Sitter | Plan to dislodge tory leader | 16 | 12 | BUDGE T |
- Tory leader does not indicate T. - should be Leader of Tory or Tory''s leader = L? |
| 5 | Gayathri Viswanath | Head of Union Government caught in debt, arranged funds (6) | 16 | 11 | Def - Funds DEB(UG)T* | |
| 6 | Textrous | Debug glitches before the end of test plan (6) | 16 | 11 | DEBUG* ("glitches" is a noun in a surface reading but an intransitive verb in the cryptic interpretation) + T (the end of tesT), def: PLAN | |
| 7 | Adman_i | Finance Ministry plans move to have no cuts in taxes (6) | 16 | 10 | Finance Ministry plans (Definition) - (BUDGE)(Taxes-axes), Move - Budge, Cuts - axes, no - deletion ind | |
| 8 | Samit kallianpur | Huge debt is hurting this economy, eh? (6) | 15 | 9 | Composite Anagram. [Huge debt]* = [budget+ eh]*. Anagrind = is hurting. Def = economy. | |
| 9 | Mona Sogal | Move mountains essentially for resources (6) | 14 | 8 | Move is budge+ mounTains essentially. Resources is definition | |
| 10 | Amrita Majumdar | Plan move closer to Frankfurt (6) | 12 | 10 | PLAN -def, move- budge, T(last letter of Frankfurt) | |
| 11 | Satyen Nabar | Plan to move to Thailand (6) | 12 | 9 | BUDGE + T : defn= plan, to move= budge, Thailand= T (abbrev). | |
| 12 | Outlay however includes sources of donations, grants and endowments (6) | 11 | 9 | Definition: Outlay. Anno: (BU(DGE)T) . However - BUT. Includes - Containment indicator. Sources of - First letter selection indicator (D, G & E) | ||
| 13 | Allow wager to be placed around dug-out? | 11 | 9 | Def ALLOW: Wager = BET, placed around UDG (dug-out) | ||
| 14 | Funds from government eaten by core of our debt, sadly (6) | 11 | 8 | G (government) in anagram of (U+ Debt), U = core of our | ||
| 15 | Speculation about united democratic government’s plan (6) | 11 | 7 | Def: Plan, U+D+G >>BET | ||
| 16 | Cheap marijuana purchase (6) | 10 | 6 | Def: Cheap; marijuana is BUD (slang), purchase is GET |
- This is almost identical to the first clue I came up with for this - glad someone went for it |
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| 17 | Economy primarily boosted - unlocking development, growth, effective taxation (6) | 8 | 7 | Acrostic indicated by primarily. Definition: Economy (in the Adjective sense of Budget) | ||
| 18 | Cheap grave dug as part of wager (6) | 6 | 5 | Anno: DUG* with grave (threatening in wordplay and tomb in surface reading) as anagrind inside BET (wager). Def = CHEAP (as in BUDGET hotel etc) |
- not convinced that grave works as an anagrind. |
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| 19 | Kitty revealed by illusionist finally after cutting budgerigar in half | 6 | 5 | Kitty = definition (also short for kitten to fit the surface); T (“illusionisT finally”) after BUDGE (“cutting BUDGErigar in half”); for surface reading, kitty = kitten | ||
| 20 | Business head dugout's extremely excellent financial plan (6) | 6 | 4 | B business head DUG* E...T Def: FINANCIAL PLAN |
- Business head does not indicate B. It needs a possessive or preposition. |
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| 21 | Abandoned oddly edged tub is low-cost | 4 | 4 | [abandoned]-ana. [oddly] e(d)g(e)d tub [is] low-cost-def. | ||
| 22 | Persuaded daughter to go to get some traveling allowance (6) | 4 | 3 | BUDGED-D+T. Definition: Allowance | ||
| 23 | Cut model with blue dagger regularly (6) | 4 | 3 | Def - Cut, (b)l(u)e(d)a(g)g(e)r=budge + t(model) = budget |
- Letter sequence not clear from the clue) |
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| 24 | Practically remove immigrant? That's cheap! | 4 | 3 | "Practically remove" = almost BUDGE = BUDGE minus final letter = BUDG. "immigrant?"=ET=E.T., the alien "immigrant" from the eponymous movie. "cheap"=BUDGET as in "budget airline". | ||
| 25 | Appropriate, reasonable statement | 2 | 2 | Triple Definition - 'Appropriate' (verb), 'reasonable' (adjective), 'statement' (noun) | ||
| 26 | Government ritual is a regular bout, dogs eating dogs(6) | 1 | 1 | Regular - BoUt DoGs EaTing dogs |
- What happens to the last dogs? Good attempt. - The second “dogs” doesn’t seem to contribute anything to the wordplay, only the surface |
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| 27 | Nirmala’s key speech: big duet remixed selflessly (6) | 0 | Anagram indicator- remixed. BIG DUET - I (selflessly). Definition: Nirmala’s key speech (her budget presentation) |
- Like this clue but very region specific |