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| 2. A mixture of glues used in decorating some coats of arms |
| 1. | Sorry, I don't like ambiguity of verbal phrase defining noun, otherwise good | | 2. | simple straightforward | | 3. | Glues used for decorating? |
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| 4. Aristocratic red flowing from old French throats? |
| 1. | Too clever for me! | | 2. | Requires specialist knowledge to solve |
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| 5. Awful guiltiness — in colour here it's apparent? |
| 1. | Clever idea. The grammar of the cryptic reading is strained. | | 2. | Nice idea but the subtraction anagram needs to be made more explicit |
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| 6. color of violence, which it presents bloody |
| 1. | I don’t think the clue-writer intended this to be published. |
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| 7. Colour found on arms and legs with limitless sun around |
| 1. | I think the "and" is going spare in the cryptic reading | | 2. | This works on all levels and just shades it as my winner. |
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| 11. Engraved parallel vertical lines indicate this luge’s damaged |
| 1. | Wordplay should "indicate" definition, not the other way round.
"This" not needed for wordplay. |
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| 12. Even gruellers wear heraldic red (5) G U L E S |
| 1. | It looks like part of the explanation has crept into the clue box. ‘Even x’ doesn’t mean ‘the even parts of x’. | | 2. | "Even X" doesn't fairly indicate picking even letters of X. What is function of "wear?" | | 3. | Not sure "wear" is an acceptable link word |
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| 13. Flying Blue Ensign when leaving Benin in confusion? No — Red. |
| 1. | I think the "No —" isn't valid as a link. Otherwise imaginative and good | | 2. | Original word play and surface story but is 'No' justified in the word play? |
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| 14. Glowing red, Mary fled from twisted, ugly smear |
| 1. | Odd reaction to a smear? |
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| 15. Glue's spilt – I see red! |
| 1. | Appears to be a definition of someone who sees red |
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| 16. Goat-boy acceptable for a ruddy field |
| 1. | How does a = I? | | 2. | 'goat-boy' for Giles is obscure, and I->U substitution is not at all clearly telegraphed by 'acceptable for a' |
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| 17. Hatching egg, louse goes missing (5) |
| 1. | Double duty of hatching unfair | | 2. | Hatching is doing double duty – that is not ok as it is not an all-in-one clue |
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| 18. It isn't ugliest sort of colour (5) |
| 1. | "It isn't ugliest" doesn't indicate UGLIEST-IT fairly; grammar wrong | | 2. | Cryptic reading doesn’t lead to deletion of it from ugliest | | 3. | subtraction wants to be more explicit |
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| 19. Old Scottish marigolds giving field colour? |
| 1. | Love second def. First def too difficult without easy accompanying wordplay. 2pts | | 2. | Original word play but definition a stretch too far for me. |
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| 20. Pigment in arms and legs changes with injection of uranium |
| 1. | Your "and" is going spare in the cryptic reading. |
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| 21. Red Baron drawing fire, may require this (5) |
| 1. | Need another comma after Baron grammatically. Inventive but CD a bit too cryptic. Merit |
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| 23. Red giants – unusually luminous, ebbing stars , primarily (5) |
| 1. | Best initial letters clue |
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| 24. Red government reigns after banishing royal (5) |
| 1. | I can’t see any evidence for R = royal, except as part of a longer abbreviation | | 2. | Not sure "G" is a common abbreviation for government other than in "G-man" | | 3. | I would have preferred the more direct 'king' or 'queen' for R, otherwise very good. |
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| 25. Red mullets, e.g., cook this with melt for a change |
| 1. | Not keen on the double anagram indicator |
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| 26. Red regimes ultimately rooting for Republican |
| 1. | Not sure "rules" means the same thing as "regimes" |
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| 27. Red rubber found in grammar school |
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| 28. Red sludge formed when deuterium is extracted |
| 1. | Neat but the surface is too improbable |
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| 29. Redness in arms and legs treated with hint of unguent |
| 1. | ‘Hint of unguent’ looks a bit forced. | | 2. | very good deception in "arms"; good solid charade | | 3. | 'hint' spoils the surface story when it relates to applying ointment. |
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| 30. Red's beginning to get to you Mr Patterson? |
| 1. | Original approach but 'Les Patterson' is not known on the scale of 'Dame Edna'. |
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| 31. Rose ran out of cereals (5) |
| 1. | I’m not sure granules are grains in this sense, or that gules is rose | | 2. | The colour "rose" is pink, not red | | 3. | Rose isn't the same colour as red.
Granule can mean a grain in the sense of a small particle, not necessarily a cereal. |
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| 32. Ruby stones for your ears (5) |
| 1. | Great idea – what a pity 'gules' and 'jewels' are not homophones. | | 2. | Gules is not pronounced ‘jewels’. In Chambers it’s ‘gewls’ with a hard G. |
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| 33. Scarlet tincture concocted from some legumes |
| 1. | indirect anagram; no indication which letters from "legumes" are the fodder | | 2. | Don’t get the deletion of me from legumes |
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| 34. See coat's bloody colour – strike back with energy |
| 1. | "With" – acceptable containment indicator? |
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| 35. Seeing red after glue ruined shirt front. |
| 1. | Clue grammar doesn't work fairly; should be "See <synonym> after <doing something>" |
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| 37. Strive to bring back voiceless events: read aloud |
| 1. | Indirect definition unfair and proscribed by crossword editors | | 2. | Definition missing |
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| 38. Take a drink laced with drug and turn a shade of red |
| 1. | Well put together clue. |
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| 39. The standard red's making you smell rose petals ultimately |
| 1. | A good attempt at being different even if 'ultimately' always gives the last letter(s) game away. |
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| 41. Tincture made with drug in some alcohol withdrawn |
| 1. | Surprisingly the only clue to take advantage of the double meaning of tincture. |
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| 42. Wee Angus gathering the French marigolds in auld Scotland |
| 1. | I liked this good clue but not the archaic definition it depends on. |
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| 43. Zones out, quaffs red |
| 1. | Almost very neat indeed but grammatically flawed without including (out)'of' which then spoils the clue. |
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