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1ACCWC#576 - ODYSSEY

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1	Clue: Abroad, do say yes to avoid a long journey (7) Anno: Def: long journey; Anagrind: Abroad, DOSAYYES*-A	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: Poem about leader of yore on ship getting back from Troy (7) Anno: {ODE around Y(-ore) + SS} + (-tro)Y; &lit	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: Epic dance form for the Indian audience (7) Anno: Homophone Odissi / Odyssey , accent on Indian English	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: Goodbyes regularly said primarily at the beginning and end of every long journey (7) Anno: ODYS (gOoDbYeS regularly) + S (said primarily) + E Y (the beginning and end of EverY), def = long journey	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: Mischievous synods omit final hymn before clearing out early for an epic poem (7) Anno: Anagram SYNODS, delete N, get ODYSS and add EY. Definition = an epic poem.	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: Poem capturing the essence of Ulysses at the end of lengthy journey (7) Anno: ODE around (-UL) YSS (-ES) Y, Journey -def	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: Poem about Ulysses’s focus and tenacity, ultimately Anno: ODE (poem) around (ul)YSS(es) + Y (tenacity ultmately). &lit.	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: Trip on Indian classical dance in the auditorium (7) Anno: Trip - Definition, Indian classical dance - Odissi, Auditorium - HP indicator	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: At first only diligent youths survive severe exam years’ eventful journey Anno: Acrostic	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: Essential part of everybody’s Seychelles trip (7) Anno: Hidden in plain sight, with “trip” as definition	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: Picking up classical dance form is a difficult journey (7) Anno: Homophone ("picking up") of Odissi ("classical dance form"); definition: "a difficult journey"	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: Yes, do, recycling and reusing components is an arduous but worthwhile undertaking Anno: YES DO = fodder; recycling and reusing = letterbank indicator; an arduous....undertaking = definition	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: Journey of love, days without a yes being returned Anno: Def= JOURNEY, Love= O + Days without a = DYS + Yes being returned = SEY	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: Not even on the ocean might you hear of such a long journey (7) Anno: Homophone: ODD (not even) + ASEA (on the ocean), might you hear "of" (i.e. from the word) ODYSSEY = such a long journey	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: Oppenheimer\'s Delhi connections principally called out for pilgrimage Anno: Acrostic ODC pronounced (called out). Defn- pilgrimage	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: As often as not, Monday is a seedy slog Anno: "As often as not" - take exactly every second letter from mOnDaY iS a SeEdY - an odyssey is a long arduous endeavour = a slog	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: A quest heard as a dance form Anno: quest=odyssey (def.), dance form=odissi, odyssey ~odissi (homophones)	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: In the absence of leader, group initially says yes about expedition (7) Anno: (B)ODY S SEY<-. About: reversal indicator. Definition: Expedition	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: Poem about years on ship steaming back from Troy (7) Anno: ODE about Y (years) + SS (steamship), ~Y. “Steaming” as in “racing” for the surface. Sure, it took Odysseus 10 years to get home but he was going as fast as he possibly could!	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: At Borders, Ovid and Yeats -- and even Ashe -- foreshadow your first epic poem (7) Anno: "Borders" (first and last) of Ovid and Yeats = ODYS, plus "even" letters of Ashe = SE, "foreshadow" signals before, "your" first = Y, def is "epic poem" [Note to those outside U.S.: Borders was a national bookstore chain]	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: Odes composed about mythical coastal city that sank before Yermak\'s first expedition (7) Anno: Definition: Expedition. Anno: (OD(YS)ES*)(Y). Odes - Fodder. Composed - Anagrind. Mythical coastal city that sank - Ys. Yermak\'s first - Y. About - Containment indicator	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: Long wandering in Sydney, so confused losing direction (7) Anno: Long wandering = Definition, Anagram (confused) of SYDNEYSO - N (compass direction)	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: Yes, returning after alternate goodbyes makes for a long journey (7) Anno: gOoDbYeS + YES←	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: Epic journey (7) Anno: Double definition	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: Epic about deep rift - with a boy getting abandoned - has happy ending Anno: ODE (epic) around YSS [ABYSS - AB (deep rift with a boy getting abandoned)] plus Y (happy ending)	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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