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1ACCWC#395 - DRESSING GOWN

Total Clues: 33 Total Voters: 38

✓ Contest Closed - Final Results

# Name Clue Points Voters Anno Comments
1 Ganesh Raman Spooner’s figuring out, standing next to sink, what to wear while at home 25 12 Spoonerism of “Guessing Drown”; ‘Figuring out’ = Guessing; ‘Sink’ = Drown; Def: What to wear while at home ---
2 Samit kallianpur A robe Gwen and Doris used repeatedly (8,4) 24 11 Letter bank : "Gwen + Doris" used repeatedly gives Dressing gown. Def = A robe ---
3 Madhusudan H Tailor designs wrong housecoat (8,4) 23 14 Tailor is Anagrind. Housecoat is definition. ---
4 @inwitinwit Tailor designs wrong house coat. (8,4) 23 12 Anagram of "designs wrong." Anagram indicator - "Tailor." Definition - "house coat." ---
5 Satyen Nabar Wrap diamond set engrossing wife (8,4) 18 9 D + (ENGROSSING W)*; diamond= D, set= anagrind, wife= W, defn= wrap ---
6 Antonio Sarmiento Tailor designs wrong robe (8, 4) 17 12 tailor = anagrind; designswrong* = dressing gown; robe = definition ---
7 @qpheevr Having played gigs, nerd owns piece of Sherlock Holmes costume (8, 4) 17 10 (GIGS NERD OWNS)*; having played = anagrind. Holmes is often described (in the books) and depicted (on stage and screen) wearing a dressing gown. ---
8 Manish Jhaveri Way to go undercover after clean-up operation {8, 4} 16 7 CD ---
9 Raj Jayaram Scolding girl for essentially dodgy bathrobe (8,4) 15 10 Scolding = Dressing down, girl = G, essentially dodgy = (do)D(gy), girl for essentially dodgy = G replaces D, bathrobe = definition - There are two Ds in ''dressing down''; how to we know which D to change into G?
10 Suyash Roongta Reprimanding girl for damaging top housecoat (8,4) 15 10 Reprimanding -> Dressing down. G (girl) replaces D (Destroying top). Def - housecoat. ---
11 --- Engineer designs wrong cover (8,4) 15 9 Anagram (Engineer) ‘designs wrong’ to get DRESSING GOWN (cover) ---
12 --- Terribly wrong designs for negligee (8,4) 14 10 Anagram of wrong designs* ---
13 --- Relish golf now becoming a night-time habit (8,4) 14 7 Relish = Dressing (Chambers), Golf = G, (NOW)* def: a night time habit (habit - something you wear regularly) - The surface doesn''t quite work with relish; it would need to be relishing.
14 --- Bathrobe's wrong designs altered(8,4) 13 9 Definition: Bathrobe; Anno: (wrong+designs)* ---
15 --- Doctor designs wrong robe (8,4) 13 9 Doctor : Anagram indicator, designs wrong : fodder, Robe : Definition ---
16 --- Wrong design ultimately causes malfunctioning of wardrobe 12 7 (Wrong design s)* Malfunctioning - anagrind Def - wardrobe - Not sure ‘wardrobe’ works as a def.
17 --- Barbaric prigs send out Penny Wong misguidedly for 'un-Parliament-friendly apparel' 12 6 pRIGSSEND* [barbaric] -p [out Penny] WONG* [misguidedly] Def: un-Parliament-friendly apparel. (Penny Wong is an Australian politician.) ---
18 --- Being casually attired, not at the start of day but in the middle of the night in a robe (8,4) 11 7 Being casually attired = dressing down - D + G, ROBE= DEF - There are two Ds in ''dressing down''; how to we know which D to change into G?
19 --- Relish Gucci’s original now trending as housecoat (8,4) 10 7 Defn is housecoat, relish means dressing, so dressing +g+now*(trending is anagrind) ---
20 --- Wrong designs undid robe 9 6 (wrong designs)*, undid as anagrind, robe as def - undone would work as anagrind but not undid
21 --- Good to dance with singers in blue robe (8,4) 9 6 G+ SINGERS* inserted in BLUE (Down) - The cryptic construction doesn''t quite work; the fodder should be withsingers* rather than only singers*
22 --- Indiscriminately growing spends giving away prince's loose habit (8,4) 9 4 GROWINGSPENDS* - P (short for prince), "indiscriminately" is the anagrind, def: loose habit - What does ''growing spends'' mean in the surface?
- I don’t really get how to parse the surface, but ‘loose habit’ is a lovely definition
23 --- Nightwear is going casual from $500 to $1000 8 5 Nightwear = def. Going casual = DRESSING DOWN, with a D (500) changed to a G ($1000) - I''m unsure of the meaning of ''casual'' in the surface.
24 --- Doctor Strange goes back on vacation to sing with Wong about a loose robe (8,4) 8 4 Defn - a loose robe, doctor -(Dr) + strange goes back -(egnarts) on vacation - 1st and last letter selection indicator -(es) + sing + Wong about(gown) = dressing gown ---
25 --- A severe reprimand as daughter gets lost for good in housecoat (7,4) 6 5 Dressing (d<>g)own def: housecoat - There are two Ds in ''dressing down''; how to we know which D to change into G?
26 --- Doctor to inform: proceed with all directions about what to wear when you're sick (8,4) 5 4 DR+(ES(SING+GO)WN) Def on right; Doctor = DR; to inform = SING, proceed = GO, both contained in ESWN ("with all directions about") ---
27 --- Chiding second daughter going out for a grand bathrobe (8,4) 5 4 Chiding - Dressing down, Going out - deletion indicator, Daughter - d, Grand - g, Bathrobe (Definition) - What is the role of second?
- I would omit ''a''.
28 --- Article about party put on before retirement (8,4) 4 3 Cryptic definition ---
29 --- Wrong designs make a loose fitting robe (8, 4) 4 3 Def - loose fitting robe wrong designs* ---
30 --- Rebuking trade of last dinar for good loungewear (8,4) 3 3 DRESSING DOWN, swap G for final D ---
31 --- Robe Wong? 2 1 RA robe - definition (used in clue as verb) Wong* ---
32 --- Robe of wrong design initially selected, redesigned (8, 1 1 Anno: (wrong design s)*. Def: Robe ---
33 --- Italian perhaps completely mastered scoring (8,4) 0 0 DRESSING [Italian (dressing) perhaps] DOWN (completely mastered, ref. MW as in 'had her lines down'); Definition: Scoring (score as in to berate, ref. MW) - This clue is for DRESSING DOWN and not DRESSING GOWN
- How do we get from DOWN to GOWN?