Daily Telegraph Prize Crossword 29454 Friday August 28Th 2020

[clueless123]

Can somebody explain why "place I mentioned in communications" is INDIA please?
Also "makes team, tea possibly? Specific info needed"
is DETAILS?
Many thanks

[dannyk13]

Details - anagram of side(team) and tea

[fiction-factory]

detail= de-tail. So chop the tail (M) off team which gives tea

[fiction-factory]

I don't think that anagram works danny as I tried that

[dannyk13]

Ignore my post.

[aelmpvw]

india is i in the phonetic alphabet

[Llanfair]

Being pedantic, today's DT cryptic isn't a prize crossword, is it?

[fiction-factory]

That may be the fault of the AB title builder

[Llanfair]

Ah, ok, thanks fiction-factory, that would explain it.

[dannyk13]

llanfair//Being pedantic, today's DT cryptic isn't a prize crossword, is it?//
No.

[fiction-factory]

Maybe not. Just tried it and although the default is PRIZE there is a drop down box option of Cryptic. It's a bit unwieldy though

[aelmpvw]

i found this parse after googling but i still don't quite follow it ...
DETAILS – To make ‘team’ into ‘tea’ we have to remove the last letter. If the first letter is the head, the last letter could be the —-, to which we need to add a prefix indicating removal, and an S on the end to make the putative verb answer match case with ‘makes’ in the clue.

[dannyk13]

ael. that is one of the worst parses ever, far too convoluted.

[aelmpvw]

thanks danny, i thought it was just me :-)