Today's puzzle:
Manage the affairs of the head of a government department for publicity? (10)
Its solution: ADMINISTER
Upto 5pm solved by the following 20 (if any more people solved it before 9pm their names will be added after 10 pm).
Solved by 22 persons:
1) 6:00:49 S.Parthasarathy
2) 6:12:18 Meenakshi Ganapathi
3) 6:15:59 Thirumoorthi Subramanian
4) 6:25:18 Siddhan Subramanian
5) 6:26:13 Kesavan
6) 6:32:35 Ramarao
7) 6:34:40 M.K.RAGHAVAN.
8) 6:34:40 S.R.BALASUBRAMANIAN
9) 6:37:35 Lakshmi Shankar
10) 6:38:23 Ravi Subramanian
11) 6:44:20 Raja Rangarajan
12) 7:13:57 R.Narayanan.
13) 7:36:42 S P Suresh
14) 9:17:10 Dhayanandan Bhaskar
15) 10:26:30 Nanganallur Chittanandam
16) 10:44:48 Suba Srinivasan
17) 12:03:23 M K Bharathi
18) 14:54:13 Sankarasubramanian
19) 15:02:04 R. Padma
20) 16:13:25 Ambika
21) 18:09:14 KB
22) 19:29: 13 Suresh K
Manage the affairs of the head of a government department for publicity? (10)
Its solution: ADMINISTER
Solved by 22 persons:
1) 6:00:49 S.Parthasarathy
2) 6:12:18 Meenakshi Ganapathi
3) 6:15:59 Thirumoorthi Subramanian
4) 6:25:18 Siddhan Subramanian
5) 6:26:13 Kesavan
6) 6:32:35 Ramarao
7) 6:34:40 M.K.RAGHAVAN.
8) 6:34:40 S.R.BALASUBRAMANIAN
9) 6:37:35 Lakshmi Shankar
10) 6:38:23 Ravi Subramanian
11) 6:44:20 Raja Rangarajan
12) 7:13:57 R.Narayanan.
13) 7:36:42 S P Suresh
14) 9:17:10 Dhayanandan Bhaskar
15) 10:26:30 Nanganallur Chittanandam
16) 10:44:48 Suba Srinivasan
17) 12:03:23 M K Bharathi
18) 14:54:13 Sankarasubramanian
19) 15:02:04 R. Padma
20) 16:13:25 Ambika
21) 18:09:14 KB
22) 19:29: 13 Suresh K
Comments
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_administer_
manage and be responsible for the running of (a business, organization, etc.).
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_Manage the affairs of the head of a government department for publicity? (10)_
_for publicity?_
= *ad* (advertisement)
_the head of a government department_
= *minister*
_Manage the affairs of_
= *ad+minister*
= *administer*
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