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| 2. Animated fifth of November glee at end of celebration, finishing with ashen guy |
| 1. | Good clue but just a little spoilt for me by use of 'ashen' in this context. | | 2. | Ingenious, except "finishing with [x]" doesn't indicate the final letter as clearly as "finish of [x]" or "[x]'s finish" |
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| 3. Canny lad |
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| 4. Dashing Glen meant to be gallant |
| 1. | This works to a point with 'gallant' used as a noun. |
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| 5. Elegant male…knight, possibly? |
| 1. | A very minor detail, but I don't think you need both "possibly" _and_ a question mark. | | 2. | Succinct and best of the 'elegant' anagrams. |
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| 6. Elegant mink oddly modelled for M in Paris |
| 1. | Definition too indirect/imprecise |
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| 7. Elegant name regularly used for refined fellow |
| 1. | Indirect anagram since "name regularly" is not deterministic (could equally indicate AE in the fodder) | | 2. | Good basic clue. | | 3. | If "used" is the anagram indicator here, it's not a clear one |
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| 8. Entangle a thousand around an aristocrat |
| 1. | Surface reading a bit vague |
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| 9. Extremely modern, elegant kind of address |
| 1. | Not sure that 'kind of' cuts it as a anagrind. | | 2. | Vague definition – gentleman is more a "form of address" than an "address" |
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| 10. Fed troubled teen lots to begin with in making finer person (9) |
| 1. | Indirect anagram | | 2. | Surface reading seems strange; insertion indicator seems misplaced |
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| 11. Fellow accompanied by elderly lover is a courteous and honourable one |
| 1. | Gent shares roots with Gentleman | | 2. | "Gent" is just an abbreviation for the answer, so not fair/interesting to use in the charade. | | 3. | Perhaps a better charade than GENTLE + MAN, but GENT is just an abbreviation of GENTLEMAN |
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| 15. Gentile name, ie not fanciful fellow from Verona |
| 1. | Gentile – samne root as gentleman | | 2. | "ie not" is a stretch for "not ie". Surface isn't plausible/meaningful |
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| 17. Good name lent maybe to a polite person |
| 1. | Not sure "to" is a standard linkword (to a non-verb definition), which makes it padding here |
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| 18. Guy rope at the back replaces one in faulty alignment |
| 1. | Stand out clue for me – well-disguised word play – excellent. |
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| 19. He gets respect distributing information about mental illness. |
| 1. | Not sure about "illness" as an anagram indicator. |
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| 20. He is good company. Mental, however ultimately fun (9) |
| 1. | Company = GE is too esoteric |
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| 21. Honourable chap’s soft with servant |
| 1. | Same root | | 2. | or maybe just Honourable chap's kind servant,, I gave it 2 points anyway though |
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| 22. Hospitaller with the low-down on mental stress? |
| 1. | DBE lacks indication of example | | 2. | Not sure about "stress" as an anagram indicator, or "with" as a linkword. |
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| 23. I lost to a non-believer? And to the principal, a refined male? |
| 1. | "X lost to Y" in the sense above means "Y has won X (from something)" and can't indicate deletion! |
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| 24. Info let out on British tax haven, am officer indicated |
| 1. | "am". Definition seems imprecise. |
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| 26. Male customer sent back slice of tuna melt, neglected (9) |
| 1. | Excellent idea, but "male customer" is not a definition in Chambers. A gentleman might be a male anything, not specifically a customer. | | 2. | Sending back a "slice" of a sandwich sounds a bit odd. |
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| 27. Meghan lent preparation H relieving Prince Charming? |
| 1. | Gave this a merit for the idea, but not convinced by nounal anagram indicator or relieving for being deleted so regrettably no points. | | 2. | Deletion of H doesn't parse | | 3. | Nice (if somewhat tasteless) idea, but I don't think the cryptic grammar works. | | 4. | "relieving" should precede the letter it's indicating for deletion |
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| 29. Mr. Nice Guy? |
| 1. | I really wanted to see the queston mark directly behind the MR somehow | | 2. | I like the conciseness of this clue |
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| 30. Nameless, this lent gravity somehow |
| 1. | The &. lit definition is far too fuzzy |
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| 31. No lady, Boris's sister-in-law, Amelia |
| 1. | Very obscure reference. |
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| 34. Preposterous tuna melt neglected rye. |
| 1. | "Preposterous" is not a reverse hidden indicator, even if one accepts it is a reversal indicator. | | 2. | "Preposterous" not a clear reversal indicator, definition obscure. |
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| 35. Refined elegant navy male. |
| 1. | Needs a "?", since not all gentlemen are in the navy. | | 2. | n = navy seems to be an 'American English' abbreviation. |
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| 36. Refined, trim and elegant male (9) |
| 1. | Trim can't be a verb in the wordplay without ruining the grammar. However, it works as an adjective. | | 2. | 'trim' does not form part of the definition of 'gentleman' and spikes the &lit element. | | 3. | A gentleman isn't necessarily trim and elegant |
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| 37. Rowdy neighbours entering disturbed elegant toff |
| 1. | Hard to know which "neighbours" are indicated, or what "rowdy" means in this context. |
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| 40. Strange ambulance runs out of control, missing a car and bus, to deliver this chap. |
| 1. | Lot of work put in but surface looks laboured particularly due to strange anagrind | | 2. | Might be better if shorter, but it made me laugh, so for me this is the winner. | | 3. | Inventive but long clue with a surreal storyline. |
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| 41. Vulgar Latin from eminent gallant, eccentric fellow (9) |
| 1. | from works as extraction tool not subtraction | | 2. | ia “From” enough to indicate deletion ? |
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| 42. Who, at sea after net is cast, might cause entanglement |
| 1. | Even with reverse anagram clues you need a definition |
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| 43. Without a pair of wobbly bits he'd be a lady |
| 1. | Cant use woman to clue man. It clues man and gentleman | | 2. | Same would be true of e.g. cameraman. "The car is without the house" = "the car is outside the house" and not "the car surrounds the house" | | 3. | Not sure that the selection indicator for 'wo' works well enough but it certainly made me smile. | | 4. | Could also be policeman, anchorman, etc. |
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