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Clue no. 14: Doctor's quick fix if Tardis malfunctions
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| A great turnout of 58 clues, and many of fair quality, but no outstanding winners. 'If Tardis' was a good anagram idea, and 14 made the best clue out of it. I liked 9, 50 and 58 for misleading definitions and 47 for a concise & lit., but my overall favourite by a narrow margin was 1 for its simple and economical surface. As usual, a few quibbles with some otherwise good clues: in 12 I can't see in what sense 'eluded' works as an anagram indicator; 15's 'Ernest a kissin' = staid' is a novel variation on the indirect anagram, but still indirect; 36 attempts a 'reverse cryptic' & lit., but I wouldn't accept 'First Aid = A'; and 'doubling C = F' in 55 is a step too far for the solver – and it certainly isn't true in hexadecimal. |
