| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Local travel mostly arranged before noon (6) | 40 | 25 | Def: Local, TRAVE(-l)* + N (noon), Arranged - Anagram indicator, Before - Charade indicator | |
| 2 | Gayathri Viswanath | Avoid cycling near new pub (6) | 33 | 16 | Def - pub, AVERT(with T moving to the front) + N |
- N for near is not a valid crossword abbreviation - Best of the week IMHO |
| 3 | Manish Jhaveri | Drunk veteran left English pub (6) | 25 | 17 | veteran* - e (english); drunk is anagrind; pub is definition |
- ‘Left’ seems the wrong part of speech. ‘Leaving” would have worked well - Cryptic reading a bit yodaish |
| 4 | Ramesh Swaminathan | Firm sacks head over a bit of violence in bar (6) | 18 | 11 | (-S)TERN around A V. Def:BAR | |
| 5 | Coot | This house cooking for the ravenous? (6) | 18 | 9 | Comp anag (TAVERNHOUSE* = THERAVENOUS) &lit |
- Ambitious and creative! |
| 6 | Sitter | Characters in Gustav Ernst's local | 17 | 11 | Lurker |
- Simple but nice |
| 7 | Textrous | Servants endlessly milling around a watering hole (6) | 15 | 11 | Def: a watering hole, Anagrind: milling around, anagram of (-s)ERVANT(-s) |
- Endlessly usually only last letter deletion? |
| 8 | @4flush | Ill-treated veteran abandoning hope, ultimately could drown sorrows here | 15 | 10 | Def. Could drown sorrows here. WP: *[VETERAN - E] | |
| 9 | Adman_i | Drunk servant heading out to a bar (6) | 13 | 10 | A bar (Definition) - (s)(ERVANT)*, Heading out - First letter deletion, Drunk - Anagram indicator |
- To doesn’t work - think the ‘a’ is redundant |
| 10 | @LowdownCryptic | Where people unwind and aren't out to seize victory (6) | 13 | 10 | AREN'T anag. (out) to seize V (victory); where people unwind = def; and = connector | |
| 11 | Abhay Phadnis | Drunk servant loses head in public house | 13 | 9 | "Drunk" (anagrind) sERVANT* ("loses head"); definition: public house | |
| 12 | Bird visiting Turin regularly to find a watering hole | 12 | 10 | AVE (Bird) inside TRN (Turin regularly); Def on the right | ||
| 13 | Rave party inside Tamil Nadu pub (6) | 12 | 9 | Def - pub, party-anagrind, Tami Nadu - TN , T(aver)N |
- In would be better than inside, but nice nonetheless |
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| 14 | Drunk servant heading off for the bar (6) | 11 | 8 | (s)ERVANT*. Definition: Bar |
- Best of the [s]ERVANT* clues - Think ‘the’ is redundant |
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| 15 | Bar dues not included in surfing adventures (6) | 11 | 7 | Def: Bar. (ADVENTURES -DUES)*. Anagrind: Surfing | ||
| 16 | "Thanks!" - Jules mentioned a good place to go drinking | 9 | 5 | Thanks = TA, Jules (Verne) mentioned = VERN, def = 'a good place to go drinking' |
- I like this one. Well disguised homophone - There has to be a example indicator for Jules - Jules needs def by example ind |
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| 17 | Pub in Tamil Nadu visited by cycling party (7) | 8 | 7 | T(-rAVE +R)N. Def: pub | ||
| 18 | Dive with veteran, jumping out of plane at last (6) | 8 | 6 | VETERAN* - (plan)E; jumping= anag ind, out of= del ind, plane at last= E (tail sel ind), defn= dive |
- Good surface! Def a little loose perhaps - A “Out of” B, would mean A deleted from B - Tavern not necessarily a dive.. more of a DBE? |
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| 19 | Poor servant leaving son in bar(6) | 7 | 7 | Definition: Bar. Anno: ((-S)ERVANT*). Son - S. Leaving - Deletion indicator. Poor - Anagrind | ||
| 20 | Lacking a bit of sense, servant gets sloshed in bar (6) | 7 | 6 | {SERVANT - S}*. Anagram indicator - gets sloshed. Def - bar. | ||
| 21 | Say, boring Tennessee Roadhouse (6) | 6 | 5 | Say is aver/ boring is container indicator/ Tennessee is TN/ Roadhouse is def | ||
| 22 | Bar, say/ term for inn (6) | 6 | 3 | T (bar) + AVER (say) + N (term for/last letter of inn) |
- "-" would have been better than "/" |
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| 23 | Tipplers, primarily, welcome service here | 6 | 3 | CAD. Tipplers, primarily = T welcome = AVE service = RN | ||
| 24 | PH of Tantalum compared with Erbium negligible, essentially | 4 | 3 | Definition: PH Wordplay: TA(Tantalum) + V(compared to) + ER(Erbium) + N(negligible, essentially) |
- Essentially normally indicates middle letter. Shame as nice clue otherwise |
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| 25 | Rave parties inside ‘Capitals of Thai Nation” bar(6) | 4 | 3 | Definition is bar, anagram of rave contained in T N | ||
| 26 | Local Texan heartlessly interrupted by protest (6) | 3 | 3 | LOCAL- def, T(-EXA) N around AVER (protest) | ||
| 27 | Boozer to make leather holster for retro gun (6) | 2 | 2 | TA(VER)N: to make leather = TAN; holster for = containment ind.; retro = reversal ind.; gun (verb) = REV (as one might an engine); boozer = def. | ||
| 28 | Money, say, for Indian public | 2 | 2 | Money = TIN , Say = Aver replacing I. Def - Public |
- Clever albeit v tricky wordplay. Not convinced by the def though - Nice clue. Isn''t tavern = public house? - Nice clue. Isn''t tavern = public house? |
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| 29 | They initially affirm before November bar. | 1 | 1 | T(hey) [initially] (affirm) aver [before] N(ovember) Bar-def. | ||
| 30 | State arrests a drunk priest in pub | 1 | 1 | "State"=Tennessee=TN. "arrests"=container-indicator. "a"=A. "drunk"=anagrind. "priest"=Reverend=REV (anagrammed to VER). "pub"=TAVERN. |
- Reads as an indirect anagram, which could have been avoided by using a reversal indicator - A little too indirect, I think. “Priest” for REV would be okay with a reversal indicator, but not with a more general anagrind. And there are an awful lot of states to choose from! - Indirect anagram.. - Indirect anagram |
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| 31 | Model shows before rave, dance number in Pub (6) | 0 | T (=Model, ‘shows before’ as position indicator) + (RAVE)* anagram indicated by dance + N (=Number). Defn. Pub |