Competition clues by Charlie Oakley
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Charlie Oakley has 20 clues
| Comp | Clue word | Clue | Explanation | Pos | Points | Merits | 2024 Annual Competition | 1 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2024 | LITTLE | Lost title after goal at last minute | TITLE* lost = anagrind – after (juxtaposition) – goal at last = L, minute = definition | 1 | 58 | 0 | 2 |
| January 2024 | AMAZON | Flower delivery service? | Double Definition – Flower/ delivery service? | 2 | 35 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 Annual Competition | 2 | 17 | |||||
| Christmas Special 2023 | SPARROW/TITANIC (Right & Left) | Huge manx cat scrapped with tit in bird box bust-up | Huge – definition. Manx cat = CA(t) + TIT IN* (scrapped = anagrind) / Bird = definition, Box = SPAR, bust-up = ROW | 5 | 23 | 1 | 4 |
| November 2023 | WASHINGTON | Former president used to be on night shifts | Former president – definition. Used to be – WAS. ONNIGHT*, shifts – anagram indicator | 5 | 18.5 | 2 | 1 |
| October 2023 | GRANGER | Hermione, for one, vacated Gryffindor with indignation | Hermione, for one – definition. Vacated Gryffindor = GR with indignation = ANGER | 3 | 32.5 | 1 | 2 |
| July 2023 | SATISFACTION | Damaged sofa – I can't sit for pleasure! | Damaged = anagrind. SOFAICANTSIT*. Pleasure = definition. | 8 | 21.5 | 1 | |
| June 2023 | WORLD WIDE WEB | Surfer's paradise? | Cryptic definition | 5 | 18.5 | 1 | 1 |
| May 2023 | MACGUFFIN | Macbeth's nemesis disposes of central character for good in plot device | Macbeth's nemesis = MACDUFF, disposes of (D) for (G) – IN from the clue. Plot device = definition. | 1 | 49 | 1 | |
| April 2023 | GODFATHER | 'Changing of the Guard' rejects universal sponsor | Changing – adjectival anagrind. {OFTHEGUARD – U}*. Sponsor – definition. | 8 | 26 | 2 | 2 |
| March 2023 | PANDEMIC | Fear about rising sea is global concern | Fear = PANIC, about – containment indicator, rising MED = DEM. Global concern – definition. [this would need to be a down clue in an actual puzzle for 'rising' to work] | 6 | 26.5 | 2 | 2 |
| February 2023 | DIMPLES | MPs lied about depressions one might have to face | MPSLIED*, about – anagrind, "depressions one might have to face" – definition | 10 | 22 | 1 | 1 |
| January 2023 | METROPOLIS | City close to pandemonium with poorest and ill almost rioting | City – definition. Close to pandemonium = M + {POOREST + IL(l)}*, rioting – anagrind. | 2 | 31.5 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 Annual Competition | 24 | 3.5 | |||||
| October 2022 | HOOVER | Former president from Lesotho overthrown | Hidden word. Former President – definition. | 3 | 29.5 | 6 | 1 |
| February 2022 | DOLCE VITA | Practise active exercises after 50 for good life | Practise = DO, ACTIVE*, exercises – anagrind, after 50=L. Good life = definition. | 7 | 29.5 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 Annual Competition | 14 | 6 | |||||
| Christmas Special 2021 | A Christmas Boxed Set (Anagram) | God is in a manger, Magi ride by, Cue: Bring presents! | Imagine Dragons, Marie Digby, Bruce Springsteen… possibly representing an excerpt from a Nativity script! | 2 | 50 | 2 | 5 |
| October 2021 | YO-YO | It's thrown when walking the dog | Cryptic definition. 'Walking the dog' in this case is the yo-yo trick rather than a perambulation with a pet. | 7 | 26.5 | 1 | 3 |
| June 2021 | NELSON / PRINCE (Right & Left) | Royal Navy splits fee it deducted from insolent disorganised Admiral | Royal – Definition, N(avy) splits – insertion indicator, fee – PRICE / INSOLENT – IT = NSOLEN* – fodder, disorganised = anagrind, Admiral = definition. Nelson was never an actual Admiral but a vice-admiral, however using that as the definition would seem obscure. | 5 | 31.5 | 5 | 5 |
| January 2021 | DISTAFF | It's used to stop tops of flax fibres and end of thread twisting | IT'S = anagram fodder, used = anagram indicator. Stop = insertion indicator. Tops of… FFA, end of threaD = FFAD twisting = reversal/anagrind. &lit. | 10 | 23 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 Annual Competition | 25 | 2.5 | |||||
| Christmas Special 2020 | A Christmas List (Anagram) | Chintz shirts, cardigans, broken pretzels, mojitos | 7 | 31 | 4 | 2 | |
| September 2020 | SEVEN (Printer’s Devilry) | Farmer found his school days unfulfilling – no wheat tending classes | Farmer found his school days unfulfilling, now he attendS EVENing classes ——— 'His' used to qualify 'he' in undevilled. Also 'days' used to suggest 'evening classes' is correct as opposed to a more specific class that might work. | 4 | 35 | 0 | 2 |