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Here is the solution grid:
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BONUS QUESTIONS:
- Rearrange the circled letters in the grid for a topical celebration (6’1, 3) ANS: FATHER’S DAY
Annotations
| Across | Clue | Answer | Annotation | |
| 1 | Name a German composer, say (6) | HANDLE | Homophone of Handel | |
| 4 | Turns rigid from onset of fatigue during fitness exercises (8) | STIFFENS | F in anagram of fitness | |
| 10 | Designated person is one travelling around pit (7) | NOMINEE | ONE* going around MINE | |
| 11 | Massage friend’s head (7) | PALPATE | Pal + Pate | |
| 12 | Innovative uniform stores heat (7) | OESTRUS | (U + STORES)* | |
| 13 | Setter’s free to possess a great number (6) | MYRIAD | MY + RI(A)D | |
| 15 | Dug up old, vacated assembly (9) | EXCAVATED. | EX + (VACATED)* | |
| 17 | Still flat (4) | EVEN | DD | |
| 19 | Grasp urn containing egg (4) | SPUR | Telescopic | |
| 20 | Suspiciously eye occult kind of cell (9) | LEUCOCYTE | (EYE OCCULT)* | |
| 22 | Gigantic aviary stocked with exotic eggs (6) | CAVIAR | Telescopic | |
| 24 | It can help you remember or make you laugh? (7) | TICKLER | Punny DD | |
| 27 | Busy girl replaced by Romeo is angry (7) | ENRAGED | G replaced by R in ENGAGED | |
| 28 | No way alcoholic drink is medicine! (7) | NOSTRUM | NO + ST + RUM | |
| 29 | Clothing butt-naked, drunken singers (8) | DRESSING | (nake)D + (SINGERS)* | |
| 30 | Schoolmaster never pinches behind! (6) | ASTERN | Telescopic | |
| Down | Clue | Answer | Annotation | |
| 1 | Morning after girl is arrested in German city (8) | HANGOVER | G in HANOVER | |
| 2 | Point to half-elevated French city (5) | NIMES | N + (SEMI<<) | |
| 3 | Acquire vagrant vehicle (4,5) | LAND ROVER | LAND + ROVER | |
| 5 | Drink to exercise (4) | TOPE | TO + PE | |
| 6 | Girl, at last, getting rid of regular inlay (5) | FILLY | FINALLY – NA | |
| 7 | Ivy leaves fluttering in an equivocal manner (9) | EVASIVELY | (IVY LEAVES)* | |
| 8 | Quietly breaking grubby fast (6) | SPEEDY | S(P)EEDY | |
| 9 | Adaptable, flexible relatives (9) | VERSATILE. | (RELATIVES)* | |
| 14 | Rising lawyer most recently entered government ordering (9) | ADJUSTING | AD<< + JUST IN + G | |
| 16 | African country veered around below upper limit (9) | CAPEVERDE | CAP VEERED* | |
| 17 | They make you lose your spirit? (9) | EXORCISTS | CD | |
| 18 | Enthusiast embraces unusually merry transporter (8) | FERRYMAN. | F(MERRY*)AN | |
| 21 | Am escaping from howled diatribe (6) | SCREED | SCRE(-am)ED | |
| 23 | Article, say, is providing protection (5) | AEGIS | A + EG + IS | |
| 25 | Big, popular, German sandwiches (5) | LARGE | Telescopic | |
| 26 | God somehow doing no good (4) | ODIN | (DOING – G)* | |
Here’s the list of Top Scorers (For the full list, please check the Leaderboard in the Hall of Fame)
Each of the following scored 162 points (Grid Score = 160 and Bonus points =2)
Aashwina Mouli
Al Sanders
Arvind Kannabiran
Arvind Ramaswamy
Ashit Hegde
Avtaar SSv
Bhalchandra Pasupathy
Binay Kumar Patra
Debasmita Basu
Harish T.K.
Himanshu Rajurkar
Lakshmi Prakash
Lakshmi Vaidyanathan
Madhup Tewari
Madhusudan H
Max Jackson
Melissa McSeismal
Mona Sogal
Narayana Swamy D
Narayanan Rangamani
Ramesh Swaminathan
Ramki Krishnan
Rathnakumar V
Rengaswamy N.
Samit Kallianpur
Sohil Bhagat
Sparsh Sinha
Suresh Ramanathan Dr.
Tejas Siddharth
Veena Venkataraman
Venkatesan P.
Venkatraghavan S.
Congrats to the toppers and to all the solvers who participated.
Grid Rating: The puzzle got a good score of 8.33. It got 6 perfect 10s (13% of those who rated). The lowest score was 5.
Favorite Clues: The Top clues were
- No way alcoholic drink is medicine! (7) – 13 votes
- Turns rigid from onset of fatigue during fitness exercises (8) – 12 votes
- Innovative uniform stores heat (7) – 11 votes
Thanks Inswinger for a cracking debut with clean and enjoyable clues. Didn’t feel like it was a first timer’s grid at all and looking forward to more from you.
Our next puzzle will be “Free Bird” from Bingo and it will be published on Sunday 24th June.
Here’s what our solvers said..
| Comments / Feedback on the puzzle – Please provide specific com | |
|---|---|
| Al Sanders | Very clean, some enjoyable clues |
| Mukundala Balasubramanyam | Lovely topical Puzzle! |
| Rathnakumar V | Good & easy one |
| Ratna Rao | Awesome Grid |
| Arvind Kannabiran | fun puzzle. nice to see raj hasn’t lost his touch w telescopic clues. |
| Avtaar SSv | Great debut . Well constructed clues – overall decent surface work. |
| Bhalchandra Pasupathy | Very impressive for a debut grid which doesn’t feel like one at all. Liked the way many of the definitions were artfully couched. A couple of constructions were debatable even if not an issue for solving. Clues for TICKLER and EXORCISTS brought a chuckle – but the latter could equally well be EXORCISMS, with neither the clue nor checking providing a unique fit. Enjoyed much, many thanks |
| Debasmita Basu | Great fun |
| Ian VanderSchee | Nice easy solve. Enjoyed this one!! |
| Lakshmi Vaidyanathan | nICE DEBUT |
| Madhup Tewari | Hard to believe that it is a debut puzzle. Beautiful clues with amazing surface in all of them. Looking forward to more puzzles from Inswinger. |
| Nagendra Prasad R. | Found it easy to solve. Nice surfaces. |
| Rengaswamy N. | Enjoyed solving. |
| Sohil Bhagat | Very nice puzzle. Some great clues, and it was very difficult to pick out the top 3. The only glitch that I found was that there were a tad too many telescopic clues, but otherwise a great puzzle! |
| Sparsh Sinha | Well composed |
| Steve Gunter | Most of these clues are accessible for an American solver like myself. However, I do not understand the wordplay in 12-a, 29-a, 2-d, and 26-d. Steve Gunter in Raleigh, NC |
| Suresh Ramanathan Dr. | excellent clues !! |
| Veena Venkataraman | Easy grid |
| Venkatesan P. | Clues are neat and straight forward. Nice debut. |
| Venkatraghavan S. | Breezy puzzle with good clues and surfaces |
| Arvind Ramaswamy | Thoroughly enjoyed solving. Easy but fun. Many good clues. |
| Ashit Hegde | Fairly simple grid but uniformly good surfaces |
| Harish T.K. | No comments on what to improve – Setting a grid with a theme is well beyond my capability, so i don’t feel qualified to criticise. |
| Madhusudan H | Excellent grid ! |
| Mona Sogal | Smooth grid! Is this the setter’s first grid? very nicely done 🙂 look forward for more |
| Narayanan Rangamani | very good considering that it is a Debut grid |
| Prakash Arumugam | Lovely clues and a very enjoyable solve |
| Ramki Krishnan | Excellent debut puzzle. Look forward to more in the future! |
| Samit Kallianpur | Very nice debut..some good clues in there! |
| Tejas Siddharth | Nice one |
| Veera Raghavan | Very good puzzle. Well crafted clues. |
| Anantakrishnan N. | Nice and smooth |
| Koteswar Rao | GOOF |
| Max Jackson | Not difficult with a few nice clues. 29ac puzzling. |
| Prasad RV | Tough one |
| Ramesh Swaminathan | Nice. Very good debut hope to see more of this setter. Very topical bonus. |
| Binay Kumar Patra | Bonus question was easy. |
| Narayana Swamy D | Easy one |