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| 1. Any cycling leaves young man knackered it’s often felt |
| 1. | Clever device to get rid of ANY | | 2. | Clever; best of the bunch by a mile |
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| 2. Beano felt a waste |
| 1. | I like the Beano but the definition is a bit tortured | | 2. | So is 'felt a waste' a mangled definition, or 'a waste' (or felt) padding? Also, mung bean is a bean, not mung (except in Hindi). Also, WP! |
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| 3. Cheap cloth manufactured under new government order, at first |
| 1. | I think acrostics are easy to write, so they need something extra like humour | | 2. | Decent, workmanlike clue |
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| 4. Chewed on gum and felt wasted? |
| 1. | Good clue but 'chewed gum' is more natural than 'chewed on gum' | | 2. | Good clue. |
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| 5. Chewing gum on fabric |
| 1. | Nicely minimal, perhaps too minimal in the definition? | | 2. | Simple but effective, points here. | | 3. | Good clue. |
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| 6. Exploding gun muffled by covering of merino wool and cotton |
| 1. | Adequate def? | | 2. | Definition's a bit loose |
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| 7. Fashionable young men with no desire for inferior threads |
| 1. | Nice idea but just because something is fashionable doesn’t mean that it has actually been fashioned… | | 2. | Lovely surface, but fashionable is not an anagrind. Amendable doesn't mean amend. | | 3. | But you haven't told me you want me to fashion YOUNGMEN, just that I could! Nice surface and def though. |
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| 8. Felt fabric salvaged out of humungous pile |
| 1. | What's pile doing here? | | 2. | Pile is superfluous here | | 3. | what is the role of 'pile' in the clue? |
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| 9. Felt tawdry playing Among Us endlessly (5) |
| 1. | This got a point after I checked that 'Among Us' is a thing | | 2. | Does tawdry mean what you want it to mean? Mungo is [what is used to make] cheap=inexpensive felt; tawdry is cheap=showy etc. | | 3. | Tawdry felt doesn't work for me, it means showy but without worth, rather than worthless by itself |
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| 10. Felt united by charity |
| 1. | I like this but felt the definition needs more than just 'felt' | | 2. | Quite a journey to get from lower case united to MU as it might be extracted from MUFC. | | 3. | I like charity for NGO, but united (esp without the capital) is not enough for MU |
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| 11. Felt waste in beaker contains nitrogen and oxygen |
| 1. | Cryptic grammar: if you use a link word you need to be careful with verbs. Participle or infinitive only work here. | | 2. | Wordplay works but the surface is not convincing |
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| 12. Flock to leave behind number in retreat |
| 1. | Very good use of 'flock', points here. | | 2. | Nice def! Good clue. |
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| 13. Greek character heads relief program for Glaswegian patron |
| 1. | NGO surely runs the program, and isn't itself the program. Neat though. | | 2. | The wordplay works but the surface doesn't |
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| 14. Gun shot old maiden dressed in cheap clothing (5) |
| 1. | GNUMO, UGNMO, UNGMO, NGUMO or NUGMO if rearranging the two fodder elements as described. Cloth not clothing too, unless I've missed a def. | | 2. | This is a new word on me, but I can't find any reference to the clothing made from recycled fabric being called Mungo. |
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| 15. Gun's shot a second round leaving residue |
| 1. | Running fodder into indicator not ideal. Is there enough in the def? | | 2. | Definition is a tough ask, like the wordplay though |
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| 16. Humungous core made from waste wool |
| 1. | What's the surface about? | | 2. | I think it is waste wool, rather than being made of it. | | 3. | Definition {from} wordplay would have worked |
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| 17. Jerry Park? |
| 1. | Two DBEs seems a cop out. |
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| 18. Letter from Greek welfare group named Glaswegian saint |
| 1. | Is this a plausible surface? | | 2. | Not sure about 'named' |
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| 19. Low-quality fibre leads to one making ugly gastrointestinal noises, unfortunately |
| 1. | Very good (but allowing ourselves anagrams of first letters for short entries takes a lot of the skill out of the game?) | | 2. | Most amusing, points here. | | 3. | 'Leads to' and 'unfortunately' are rather obvious indicators. | | 4. | Chortle |
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| 20. Manchester United's new goalscorer's off-target headers felt substandard. |
| 1. | I like the headers | | 2. | Substandard felt might be a definition. But felt substandard?! | | 3. | Not at all bad. Points here. |
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| 21. Mongoose family takes a moment to surround retreating wildebeest |
| 1. | Good find. Family is herpestidae technically, and species mungos mungo. Is it ok to take just a bit of that? | | 2. | Would the wildebeest even notice them? | | 3. | 'takes' feels superfluous here, otherwise good. |
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| 22. Monsieur cut a French green fabric of little worth? (5) |
| 1. | Quite liked this except I'm not totally convinced Green=Go. | | 2. | Green = GO a little loose | | 3. | Monsieur can be M by itself, and cut doesn't mean the same as abbreviated. I like the def though! |
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| 23. Mug with no pants, gets cheap fabric (5) |
| 1. | A bittersweet tale that made me smile. | | 2. | Comma splice in surface | | 3. | Doesn't need the comma, better without! | | 4. | Why the comma? |
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| 24. Must broadly speaking bash on producing poor material |
| 1. | MUN is too obscure for my liking |
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| 25. Must travel abroad for cheap fabric ( 5 )
Travel =Go |
| 1. | Needs some kind of indicator for mun=must. Would have been better with 'Local must travel….' | | 2. | You don't explain abroad. Padding? or reasonable ornamentation on travel? Hmm. Would be nice to know we need a TARDIS for must too. | | 3. | If you must use must, it must have an archaism indicator. Abroad is superfluous. | | 4. | MUN is too obscure for my liking |
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| 26. Not oddly, impugns good cloth wasted |
| 1. | Good spot but feels a bit forced | | 2. | A little to strained for me | | 3. | Who does? |
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| 27. Obligation to turn what's essentially wasted into new material |
| 1. | MUST (n) = obligation looks ok, and GO (n) = turn clearly is. But what's to doing? Dodgy juxtapostion indicator? |
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| 28. Poor young men longing to get free, cheap cloth from mill |
| 1. | Very like my clue so points awarded, only quibble is that cloth can't be both cheap and free! | | 2. | Don't like the indirect pointer to yen in the anagram fodder … and even if ok, it probably needs an indicator that it's a fragmented yen | | 3. | Surface unravels: the cloth can't both be free and cheap. |
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| 29. Pulled from loom, ungodly mass of fibres for reuse |
| 1. | The only ungodly surface that is natural. Nice clue. |
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| 30. Recycled bits of used gabardine – old made new? |
| 1. | Best of the acrostics, and a nice &lit too | | 2. | Very good (but allowing ourselves anagrams of first letters for short entries takes a lot of the skill out of the game?) | | 3. | A bit of one thing seems fair way to select a first letter. Bits of several to select several doesn't. Article perhaps critical? Nice though |
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| 31. Recycled cloth is primarily made using nice garments only (5) |
| 1. | Clear WP, but a stretch to say this is semi &lit: any old rubbish that can felt would do. | | 2. | You make garments using recycled cloth – other way around does not read well. |
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| 32. Recycled material once more clothes antelope from the east. |
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| 33. Recycled material produced from mill, unmistakably nondescript, generally old at first |
| 1. | Acrostics need to be pithy and funny. This one needs some more work. |
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| 34. Reused material among us, stripped and recycled |
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| 35. Scraps from mill, unused no good offcuts? |
| 1. | How are first letters scraps, except by dubious convention? OK they're fragments, but odd bits left over rather than convenient first bits. |
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| 36. Scraps obtained from mill used nevertheless to manufacture waste product |
| 1. | Too much of a jump between 'manufacture waste product' and 'go' | | 2. | Ditto 35's comment for scraps. And manufacture? It's just getting rid of it. | | 3. | The other 'scraps' clue was stronger. Good idea though. |
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| 37. Second loads shotgun with woollen material (5) |
| 1. | Dodgy fodder/ indicator compound. And presumably some sort of tamping operation. Is that loading though? |
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| 38. Singer of 'In the Summertime' must, locally, be ranked with others |
| 1. | Surface suffers trying to get a viable synonym for GO. I'm not sure if you succeed. | | 2. | Mungo Jerry is the name of the band, not the singer |
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| 40. This waste is recycled into e.g. woman's suit |
| 1. | This is very high quality material. Perhaps not my favourite, but the clue I wish I'd written. | | 2. | Nice comp. anag. points here. |
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| 41. Um Bongo cocktail (after taking a shower) for the Glasgow man |
| 1. | You're asking to much of the solver with the shower reference. | | 2. | I can see the logic behind 'taking a shower' = subtract BO, but I don't think I'd get it. | | 3. | The BO deletion is quite an ask! |
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| 42. Van, hurling from New York, driven by man from Paris: an escape |
| 1. | Definition is too obscure. | | 2. | Unsolvable? Multiplier effect of: unindicated example, tough anyway; flight-of-fancy link; unsupported abbreviation; loose GO synonym. | | 3. | Too obscure for me |
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| 43. Waste from ungodly trousers (5) |
| 1. | Ungodly is a bit awkward, but the trousers are excellent. | | 2. | Does the surface work? If the WP is an extension of the def, ungodly's the wrong word. If not, what are ungodly trews anyway? Do they leak? |
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| 44. Waste little time around lounges essentially (5) |
| 1. | I'm afraid any clue using 'essentially' gets no points from me | | 2. | Essentially is a stretch of an indicator. Allowing it variable extent makes it more so (!). Magpie allows middle 1 or 2 letters. |
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| 46. Waste produced by doctor eating flipping antelope ! (5) |
| 1. | So for the surface we have to imagine a venison-eating doctor's poo? | | 2. | The mind boggles. |
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| 48. Young man without any letters to his name |
| 1. | Starts out well. Is the rest missing? | | 2. | I like the construction, but Mungo is such an unusual name to be defined so broadly. | | 3. | There doesn't seem to be any manipulation attempted. 'To' doesn't work as a link (although it might with a generative anagram indicator). | | 4. | Nice comp. anag. but where is the definition? |
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