The clue for today (20/05/2018):
An actor against entry of media (8)
Its solution: COMEDIAN = Con (against, as in pros and cons) + Media
Perhaps the brief nature of the clue made it seem tougher than it actually is.
Or possibly "an actor" was interpreted to stand for a specific person in the profession of acting.
Only 12 persons have solved this:
* ) 6:02:54 Ramarao
--> 1) 6:04:32 S,Parthasarathy An actor against entry of media (8)
Its solution: COMEDIAN = Con (against, as in pros and cons) + Media
Perhaps the brief nature of the clue made it seem tougher than it actually is.
Or possibly "an actor" was interpreted to stand for a specific person in the profession of acting.
Only 12 persons have solved this:
* ) 6:02:54 Ramarao
2) 6:09:23 R. Ravishankar.
3) 6:14:34 K.BALASUBRAMANIAN
4) 6:29:06 Kesavan
5) 6:41:01 Ravi Subramanian
6) 6:48:39 Lakshmi Shankar
7) 7:05:47 R.Narayanan
8) 8:40:38 S P Suresh
9) 13:14:11 Siddhan
10) 17:38:19 Meenakshi Ganapathi
11) 18:45:08 Bala
12) 20:20:23 Radha Desikan
Comments
How about this answer?
_"An actor against entry of media" (8)_
An actor = star
Against entry of media = media -m = edia
Anagram of star +edia = *radiates*