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Clue no. 42: Taking science Final, shows nerves – blows the answer
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My first trawl landed more than 20 sound clues with reasonable surface meanings, literal or devious (bah! my masterpiece has much competition).
Most other clues had been discarded for inconsequential surfaces or occasional inaccuracies of wordplay (e.g. clue 42 needs 'science’s final’ or similar to signify 'e').
To weedle down the number I discarded clues which looked easiest to create unless they had a glowing feature or surface (most clues using initial letters were marked down).
Clue 18 would have been memorable except that the 'with' (w) for the wordplay isn't quite what the surface needs ('after').
Times = ts in 51 is unorthodox but is suitably cryptic I think. The clue's simple construction goes with a great surface reading. The explanation could have been put more simply , 'rolled' being a good anagram indicator, but we're not here to mark explanations. |
