| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
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| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Am thrilled to avoid hard exercise routine (9) | 30 | 17 | (AM THRILLED - H)*; to avoid= deletion ind, hard= H (abbrev), exercise= anag ind, def= routine. |
- Not convinced by the imperative grind after the fodder - nice |
| 2 | Adman_i | Lad with trim belly occasionally running on exercise machine (9) | 28 | 18 | (LAD + TRIM + bElLy)*, Occasionally - alternate letters, Running - anagrind, Exercise machine - Definition |
- Wordplay on definition? |
| 3 | Mona Sogal | Dreamt about unfortunate drudgery (9) | 27 | 19 | Dreamt*/ about is anagrind/ unfortunate is ill/ drudgery is definition | |
| 4 | Textrous | Met a Dr. about unhealthy routine (9) | 24 | 14 | def: routine, METADR* (anagrind: about), unhealthy: ILL |
- Dr is typically used before a name, I thought |
| 5 | manish jhaveri | Gym equipment made running inside fun, not hard (9) | 23 | 14 | MADE* (anagrind is running) inside T [- H] RILL (fun not hard). Def = Gym equipment | |
| 6 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Finally, mom all tired out from drudgery (9) | 19 | 11 | mo(MALLTIRED)*. Def.: Drudgery |
- WP from Def does not work - Wordplay "from" answer is not okay IMO - Wordplay from definition? - WP from def doesn''t work. |
| 7 | @qpheevr | “You’ll go nowhere fast with this contraption covered in rust,” read Millicent (9) | 17 | 13 | Hidden, indic. by “covered in”: ruST READ MILLicent. Def.: “You’ll go nowhere fast with this contraption” | |
| 8 | @usharameshnj | Workout equipment can’t read millimeters! Not entirely! (9) | 17 | 9 | def: Workout equipment ; can’(t read mill)imeters! ; Telescope ind: Not entirely! | |
| 9 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Routine look at mobile during work (9) | 14 | 8 | T(READ M)ILL, Def: Routine, READ - Look at, M - Mobile, TILL - Work | |
| 10 | Heidi Schroeder | Routine drill team manoeuvres (9) | 13 | 9 | Anagram of “drill team.” Definition is “routine.” | |
| 11 | Monotonous team drill, abandoned (9) | 12 | 9 | Ans: treadmill, Def : monotonous, team drill *, Anagrind :abandoned |
- I think "monotonous" as definition creates a ''part of speech'' problem - POS mismatch in the def. |
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| 12 | Daily grind initially to study English philosopher | 10 | 5 | Definition: "daily grind"; charade of T (initially "To") + READ ("study") + MILL (John Stuart Mill, "English philosopher") | ||
| 13 | Drill team using running equipment (9) | 10 | 5 | Def - running equipment, using - anagrind, drill+team= treadmill |
- Using doesn’t seem to work after the fodder - Not sure about “⟨fodder⟩ using ⟨definition⟩”; the other way round seems like better cryptic grammar - "Using" as anagrind seems to apply to the subsequent words. Perhaps "used" might work better. - using doesn''t work as an anagrind. where is the sense of movement or being wrong? |
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| 14 | Sweat pants made in Turkey badly (9) | 8 | 6 | *MADE in(side) TR (IVR) + ILL (adverb) = sweat (drudgery, as per Chambers). |
- Def doesn’t work for me - Pants + intransitive verb - should follow anagram fodder - The “sweat = drudgery = treadmill” connection seems a bit tenuous for a definition |
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| 15 | Exercise drill with team training option (9) | 7 | 4 | Anagram: exercise (as imperative verb) DRILL with TEAM; Def: training option | ||
| 16 | Routine tweet about dam built on top of embankment (9) | 6 | 5 | TRILL (Tweet) around E+DAM*. Def: Routinr |
- DAM* isn’t exactly “on” E (in a down entry, ADM would be 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 E; “beside” would work for an across) |
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| 17 | Endless work running machine | 6 | 4 | Double definition - 'Endless work' & 'running machine' | ||
| 18 | Dull dream about being engrossed in work (9) | 6 | 3 | Def: Dull (Collins). Dream* in Till (work) | ||
| 19 | Isn't it always so moving when someone feels they need to lose weight? [ 9 ] | 5 | 3 | Cryptic definition (referring to the continuously moving exercise treadmill) |
- Nice but doesn’t quite work. Maybe “It’s moving when people run” - The inclusion of “so” works with the surface reading, where “moving” is an adj., but undermines the cryptic definition - I think the clue would work better without "so" |
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| 20 | Mild alert about salt mine (9) | 3 | 2 | Def: salt mine; about = anagram indicator. (Mild Alert)* is anagram fodder |
- Should be salt mines? |
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| 21 | Servant finally works, locking study with exercise machine (9) | 3 | 2 | T ( servant finally), WORKS= MILL around READ (STUDY) |
- Works would be Mills, not Mill |
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| 22 | Dream till midnight carelessly missing good work(9) | 1 | 2 | Definition: Work. Anno: (DREAM+TILL+G-G)*. Midnight - G (part of fodder). Good - G. Missing - Deletion indicator. Carelessly - Anagrind |
- I don''t understand the reasoning of inserting a letter only to take it out again? - Adding a G (“mid-niGht”) just to take it out again (“missing Good”)? Really? |
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| 23 | Overwrought, finally sick, had dream about gadget (9) | 1 | 1 | T(READM*)ILL. Definition: Gadget |
- “Gadget” makes for a rather vague def |
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| 24 | Walk in on it? | 0 | CD |