Women Power – Solutions, Annotations and Results

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BONUS QUESTIONS:
1. What are the 7 themed entries? MOTHER, DAUGHTER, GRANDMA, AUNT, WIFE, SISTER, NIECE

Annotations 

Across
1 Parent in metro running around Hyderabad at first (6) MOTHER.
Def- parent, running-anagrind, around- container indic, Hyderabad initially-h
4 The German taking nothing for kid (8) DAUGHTER.
Def- girl, the german- der, taking- containment indic, nothing- aught
10 Hard to get binary codes including vote for mass (3,6) HOI POLLOI.
Def- mass, hard-h, binary codes-01,01, including- containment indic, vote- poll
11 Tear piece of strip upwards (3,2) RIP UP. Def- tear, T clue
12 Make lace covering plain upholstery fabric (7) TABARET.
Def-upholstery fabric, make-anagrind, lace-tat, plain-bare,aroundcontainer, indic
13 Old lady starts to greet relatives: naani, daadi, maami and ajji funnily (7) GRANDMA.
Def- old lady, starts to- acrostics indicator, funnily- anagrind, grndmaa*
14 Relative dropping Jack from tour (4) AUNT. Def-relative, tour-jaunt, dropping-del, jack-j
15 Bats, raven outside short shade over porticos (9) VERANDAHS.
Def- porticos, bats- anagrind, outside- containment indic, shade- e- shad, over- rev indic
20 Taxmen like fresh roses in vessel (9) ASSESSORS.
Def- taxmen, like-as, fresh-anagrind, roses*, vessel-ss
21 Partner won international field event for starters (4) WIFE.
Def-partner, acrostics
24 Slight reduction in hormone (7) INSULIN.
Def- harmone, slight-insult, reduction- del of last ;etter, in-in
27 Deer meat cooked in ovens (7) VENISON.
Def- sambar, say, cooked-anagrind, inovens*
28 Doctors’ opinion featuring body part (5) TORSO.
Def- body part, T clue, featuring- t indic
29 Transplant the marrow for farmer’s friend (9) EARTHWORM.
Def-farmer’s friend, transplanted- anagrind, themarrow*
30 Scientist torn about old information (8) ROENTGEN.
Def- scientist,torn-rent, information-gen, about- container indic, old-o
31 Dumping one with weapon aboard showing some friendliness (6) WARMTH.
Def- showing some friendliness, with one leaving- w th weapon-arm inside, aboard -container indic

Down

1 Mom carrying headgear with pinch of sindoor for sages (8) MAHATMAS.
Def- sages, mom- mama,carrying-container indicator,headgear- hat, pinch of sindoor-s
2 Spooner’s security strengthens lower backs (9) TAILBONES.
Def- Lower backs, spoonerism of security- bail, strengthens- tones- tailbones
3 Auditioned unenthusiastic European before electronic bulletin (1-5) E-BOARD.
Def- electonic bulletin,auditioned- hp indic, unenthusiastic-bored~ board , european-e ,before -positional indic
5 Furious leader leaving, behaving sensibly (5) AGING.
Def-behaving sensibly, furious- raging, leader leaving- r del
6 Girl holding tip of rose also small crowns (8) GARLANDS.
Def-crowns, girl-gal, holding- containment indic, tip of rose- r, also-and, small-s
7 Japan’s parliament backtracking to grab power without enthusiasm (5) TEPID.
Def- without enthusiasm, Japan’s parliament-diet, back tracking- rev, to grab- containment indic, power-p
8 Withdraw actual record internally (6) REPEAL.
Def- withdraw, actual- real, record-ep, back-rev inside- container indic
9 Student wearing thicker, small flannels (8) FLATTERS
Def-flannels, student-l, wearing- containment indicator, thicker-flatter, small-s
16 Ant eater runs inside Dvaraka getting beaten up (8) AARDVARK.
Def- ant eater, runs- r, inside- insertion indic, getting beaten up-anagrind, dvaraka*
17 Physical injury buried one, lost awfully in bad weather (9) HAILSTORM.
Def- bad weather, physical injury-harm, buried- insertion indic, one-i, awfully- anagrind, lost*
18 Pick up vegetable, little barley, oat in shallow vessel (8) KEELBOAT.
Def- shallow vessel, vegetable-leek, pick up- rev indic for down clue, leek<-, little barley- b, oat-oat
19 Siren, say alarmed hyenas softly circling the north end of marina (3,5) SEA NYMPH.
Def- siren,say, alarmed- anagrind, hyenas p*, around-continment indic, north end of marina- m
22 Son tries wrestling sibling (6) SISTER.
Def- sibling, son-s, wrestling- anagrind, tries*
23 Organise dharna in south Indian state (6) ANDHRA.
Def- South Indian state, organise-anagrind, dharna*
25 Binge watch entertaining pair (5) SPREE.
Def-binge, watch-see, entertaining- container indic, pair- pr
26 Relative invited crew regularly (5) NIECE.
Def- relative, regularly – letter pick, invited crew- n i e c e

Scorecard

Congrats to the 34 solvers who maxed the score and to every one who participated. Very well tried.

Grid Rating: The puzzle got a good score of 8.15. It got 7 perfect 10s (16% of those who rated). The lowest score was 5.

Favorite Clues:  The Top 3 clues were

1. Hard to get binary codes including vote for mass (3,6) 13 Votes
2. Slight reduction in hormone (7) 12 Votes and
3. The German taking nothing for kid (8) 9 Votes

Thanks Saral for a fun grid. It was a lovely tribute in memory of your dad and I’m sure he would have been proud.

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