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1ACCWC#573 - IMPLICATE

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1	Clue: Changing climate, with leaders of petroleum industry to blame Anno: CLIMATE + P + I * blame = def	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
2	Clue: Corrupted italic documents politician at the end to incriminate Anno: Politician=MP inside (documents as containment indicator) italic* + e (thE end), definition: incriminate	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
3	Clue: Incriminate a politician with pussy-grabbing story (9) Anno: I (=“a”) MP (=“politician”), with LIE around CAT (“pussy-grabbing story”). In this adjectival construction, “story” does the “grabbing”. (Chambers has “9. A lie, fib” for story.)	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
4	Clue: Expose one politician's falsehood about competitive exam in India (9) Anno: Def = expose, I + MP + LIE around CAT (competitive exam in India)	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
5	Clue: Simple vicar unfrocked twice by oddly twee associate Anno: [S]IMPL[E]+[V]ICA[R]+T[w]E[e] = associate, as in to	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
6	Clue: Connect iodine and phosphorus to climate change (9) Anno: Def: connect. I + P + CLIMATE anagrammed (change).	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
7	Clue: Involve young rascal with story about moggy Anno: Def= Involve, Young rasacal= Imp with Story = Lie about Moggy= Cat	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
8	Clue: Involve leaders of insignificant minority parties left in coalition after the elections (9) Anno: Acrostic clue; Involve - Defn; leaders of - acrostic indicator; Insignificant Minority Parties Left In Coalition After The Elections - fodder	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
9	Clue: Little devil and insurer dined together to connect Anno: connect=implicate, def., (imp)(LIC)(ate)	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
10	Clue: Involve one political leader in the matter of climate change (9) Anno: Charade with first letter, containment and anagram; def = involve; I (one) + P (political leader) in (containment) (CLIMATE)* change anagrind	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
11	Clue: Point to polar icecap broken up and engulfed by changing climate (9) Anno: (I+P+CLIMATE)*: IP (“polar IcecaP”) separated (“broken up”) and inserted into (“engulfed by”) an anagram of (“changing”) CLIMATE. Def.: “point to”	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
12	Clue: Incriminate little rascal, one caught in spinning tale (9) Anno: IMP (little rascal) + IC (I = one, C = caught) inserted into an anagram ("spinning") of TALE. = L (IC) ATE; Def.: Incriminate	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
13	Clue: Hint: International climate changes to get first priority (9) Anno: Definition: Hint. Anno: (I)(CLIMATE)* around (P(-riority). International - I. Climate - Anagram fodder. Changes - Anagrind. To get - insertion indicator. First - Letter selection indicator	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
14	Clue: Involve in adaptation of Tamil epic (9) Anno: (TAMIL EPIC)*, adaptation of = anag ind, def = involve	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
15	Clue: Charge current member of parliament with false statement about Bengal, perhaps (9) Anno: Def: Charge; I (current) + MP + LIE (false statement) about (containing) CAT (Bengal, perhaps)	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
16	Clue: Charge's on setter's dominant image, according to Spooner (9) Anno: Def: Charge Setter's -> I'm + spoonerism of key plate (definitions verified by Chambers)	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
17	Clue: Suggest correcting limp, by a treatment initially with ice covering (9) Anno: Def SUGGEST. LIMP* IC ( A T) E	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
18	Clue: Accuse no one at first in sabotage of atomic pile (9) Anno: Definition: accuse; [AT(-o)MIC PILE]*; deletion indicator: “no [O]ne at first”; anagram indicator: “sabotage of"	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
19	Clue: Tbd Anno: Tbd	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
20	Clue: Compromise one partner with dirty clip (9) Anno: Definition: Compromise; I (one) MATE (partner) containing PLIC (anagram of clip with dirty as the indicator)	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
21	Clue: Spread malice; it veils power to accuse indirectly (9) Anno: Indicated by Spread (past participle), anagram of (malice it) containing (veils) P (power) , def - to accuse indirectly	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
22	Clue: Translated Tamil epic for associate (9) Anno: Anagram of Tamil epic . Anagrind is translated . Definition is associate	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
23	Clue: Involve rascal? No more accommodating irresponsible crook to begin with (9) Anno: Involve is the def/ Rascal is imp, no more is late/ accommodating is container indicator/ irresponsible crook to being with us I and C	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
24	Clue: Copy writer's in for extremely rare frame Anno: I'M (writer's) comes in for RE (extremely rare) in Replicate(copy). Definition- frame.	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
25	Clue: Incriminate politician in one improper, essentially wiliest act (9) Anno: MP in I (..LIE.. ACT)*. Improper: anind. Definition: Incriminate	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)
26	Clue: Amidst changing climate, archipelago’s focus is to pursue international compromise (9) Anno: P (archipelago’s focus) probing CLIMATE* (anagrind: changing) after I (international); definition = compromise	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment (optional — no vote required): Visibility: Public (Results page) Private (host dashboard only)

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