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We had a great response to yesterday’s clue and 34 people managed to register their right answers in the blog, but short of our current record of 42.

Congrats to Crypt Ella ((our first one in), Ranjani Srikanth, Max Jackson, LV,, Venkatraghavan S., Guruswamy Nataraj, Arun Kumar, Camelia Oberoi, Prakash Arumugam, Dr. Shrimp Puerto Rico (he who doesn’t like his real name), Rengaswamy N, Raju Umamaheswar, Sohil, Chitkala, Sandhya Paruchuri, Raja Venkatasubramanian, Shrikanth T, Srinivas Kotamarthi, Shachii, Arjun Mukerjee, Samit Kallianpur, Mukundala Balasubramanyam, Koteswara Rao, Radhika Anand, Raghavan S V,  Srividya Thyagarajan, Lata Muthanna, Arvind Ramaswamy, Jawahar Surti, Santosh Iyer, Usha Mehta,, Ils Venky, Anupam Kathuria (welcome to the blog) and Padmanabhan.

Sorry Sureshkumar. Entitle is the wrong answer. Better luck in the next game.

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The Clue was “Look! Chap lies so regularly for obtaining positions (7)”. The Answer was “LOCALES”. This is a “Letter Selection” clue. The annotation is  LO C(h)A(p)L(i)E(s)S(o) . The definition is  “Positions”.

Once again, well done to each of you who not only solved it but also annotated it correctly in our blog post. Now, Can you solve THIS clue?

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By Sowmya

Sowmya is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and independent financial consultant based in the Middle East (Bahrain). She is a puzzle editor at Amuselabs. She has set over 1,300 crosswords for various publications including over 1000 mini crosswords, cryptic crosswords (under the pseudonym Hypatia for The Hindu) and themed crosswords for Cat.a.lyst (part of The Hindu Businessline). Sowmya runs the Facebook group 1Across where seasoned cruciverbalists interact while setting and solving clues. She has published three compilations of crosswords viz Cryptic Crossroads Volumes 1, 2 and 3. She Tweets cryptic clues daily @somsram

31 thoughts on “Can you solve this clue? -19”
  1. SALAAM
    Reversal clue
    Def: An exclamation that is not rueful: a happy greeting.
    Alas<< + ma(-ke)<<= sala + am
    Exclamation made ruefully : Alas
    Some make: : part of the word make= ma
    Quite the reverse: Reversal indicator

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