Visual Key to Clue Analysis :
Definition : BOLD
Wordplay : Italics with keywords underlined as well
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Definition : BOLD
Wordplay : Italics with keywords underlined as well
Link : Normal
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1A Academic issue about toilet
Academic = don
Issue = son
Toilet = john
‘About’ is a containment indicator
We have Don John Son ; don son ‘about’ john
Answer : DON JOHNSON
4A Tits a woman shows off
Anagram “tits a woman” (‘shows off’ is the indicator)
Answer : NAOMI WATTS
6A Justice takes a year,month and an hour!
Justice = J
‘Takes’ serves as an indicator for the next word to be placed beside J
A year = a yr
Month = mo
An hour = hr
We have J AY MO HR
Answer : JAY MOHR
8A International Unit topless Scully worked with before
International unit = IU
Topless Scully = Cully
CULLY ‘worked with’ = LUCY L (anagram indicator)
Lucy L ‘before’ IU gives us LUCY LIU
Answer : LUCY LIU
9A Foreign-made jeans
‘foreign’ is anagram indicator turning MADE JEANS into JAMES DEAN
Answer : JAMES DEAN
1D Delay in loan distribution
‘distribution’ , the anagram indicator ‘distributes’ the letters of “Delay in Loan” to become…
Answer : DANNY AIELLO
2D I’m without the French spy novelist in July
Spy novelist = Le Carre ( creator of superspy George Smiley – you’d never mistake him for James Bond)
“Without the French” means Le Carre without ‘Le’ ( ‘the’ in French ) giving us just “CARRE”
Now we have IM CARREY in July.
July = JY
IM CARREY in JY gives us J IM CARRE Y
Answer : JIM CARREY
3D Sounds near but it’s far
Near sounds like NIA
Far = long
Answer : NIA LONG
5D Blanket I’m all enveloped in
‘In’ is the indicator that the answer is hidden in the sentence preceding it.
Blanke T IM ALL EN veloped
Answer : TIM ALLEN
7D Nick Dastardly, fiend at heart
Nick = rob
Dastardly = low
Fiend at heart = E ( heart of fiEnd )
Answer : ROB LOWE
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