CCCWC February 2008 competition results
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43 clues entered.
TETRA
Very, very close this month - but congratulations to Luciano who follows up his recent Azed 2nd prize with another 1st place in our CWC - but only by a whisker!!
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Luciano Ward | Chromatic scales are a feature of this 'retro' quartet? Without question! | Chromatic...this = def.; QUARTET reversed minus QU | 44 | 6 |
| 2 | 34 | Brian Douglas | Site traffic reveals what can be got from net with a search on Amazon | siTE TRAffic; Amazon: river and website | 42.5 | 7 |
| 3 | 32 | Dave Williams | Seconds from stifling Ken, Otto brazenly eats a fish | Explanation: 2nd letters of “stifling Ken, Otto brazenly eats”, + ref. the film “A Fish Called Wanda”, in which exactly that occurs... | 41 | 6 |
| 4 | 9 | Dave Parfitt | Fish in batter topped with dressing | (b)ATTER*; dress = 'to set in order; prepare, arrange' | 40.5 | 5 |
| 5 | 11 | Chris Jeremy | Fish paste.Traditional sandwiches! | hidden | 33 | 6 |
| 6 | 37 | Brian Dungate | Tank group offensive, supported by gunners | Tank group = def. (fish species); TET (offensive) + RA | 32 | 3 |
| 7 | 43 | mark oshin | Who's this we find swimming in fresh hot waters? | composite anagram and lit. WHOS + TETRA = HOT + WATERS | 31 | 4 |
| 8 | 21 | Tim Moorey | It’s great foremost in tank, less good battered! | anag incl t less g; & lit | 21 | 3 |
| 9 | 15 | Nick Smith | Fishy treat | Lit + TREAT anag | 19 | 2 |
| 10 | 24 | Don Manley | Odd glimpses of The Eternal that could come to those fishing on lake? | alternate letters, ref. disciples on Lake Galilee | 18 | 4 |
| 11 | 2 | A swimmer is put right back into the drink | right - rt back in Tea | 14 | 1 | |
| 11 | 12 | Fish platter turned heads in pub lunch outing | *PLATTER minus P(ub) L(unch) | 14 | 2 | |
| 13 | 3 | Brilliant swimmer's caught in elaborate trap | Def/hidden | 13.5 | 3 | |
| 14 | 13 | Fish supper, sprinkled with just the right amounts of salt and vinegar | TE[salT vinegaR]A | 12.5 | 2 | |
| 15 | 26 | Offensive artist displays fish | TET (Tet offensive, Vietnam War) + RA (Royal Academician) | 12 | 3 | |
| 16 | 10 | Fish in batter, decapitated and fried | (b)atter* | 10 | 2 | |
| 17 | 38 | Telecommunications equipment’s to regulate ambulances, primarily | Initials & lit. | 9.5 | 3 | |
| 18 | 25 | Offensive artist coloured fish | TET + RA | 7.5 | 3 | |
| 19 | 16 | Fishy treat? Hardly! | treat* | 7 | 2 | |
| 20 | 36 | Swimmer emerged from elite training | hidden | 5.5 | 1 | |
| 21 | 1 | A fish to land with half this line | The clue is a tetrameter | 5 | 3 | |
| 21 | 20 | It leads to a fourfold increase in grammatical usage | Cryptic definition of tetra as a combining form | 5 | 1 | |
| 21 | 29 | Proclaims: "This swims in tropical stream" | comp. anag. &lit.; PROCLAIMSTETRA = TROPICALSTREAM | 5 | 1 | |
| 21 | 40 | Up late waiter? Not pilau, we ordered fish | Anag of UPLATEWAITER - PILAUWE | 5 | 4 | |
| 25 | 28 | One in a tank counters offensive by artillery | Tet + RA, ref Tet Offensive | 4.5 | 2 | |
| 26 | 4 | Centre-half comes from the back to join leaders of the attack, playing four up front | (cenTRE, T, A)*: defn refers to prefix | 4 | 1 | |
| 26 | 7 | Fish and tater stew - for four? | Double def, fish and four; anag (stew) TATER | 4 | 2 | |
| 26 | 39 | The Ring, perhaps? Not dull, though one might find the Rhine rather a cold setting! | TETRA(logy) - ref. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen | 4 | 1 | |
| 26 | 41 | What's indicated by 'quartet'? It's the other way around | Tetra- ('combining form'); hidden rev. & lit. | 4 | ||
| 30 | 6 | False red nose is a little fishy? | ref. false red nose tetra (Petitella georgiae) | 3.5 | 2 | |
| 31 | 22 | Lawrence's skill returned with Spenser's plant | TE (art) TRA def Spenser's plant | 2 | 3 | |
| 31 | 33 | Show fish that’s brilliant about painting and music, etc., etc., no end | ART+ETc reverse | 2 | 1 | |
| 33 | 30 | Retrospective of paintings, etc, etc - no place for severed head of cow or confounded fish in tanks? | Reverse of (ART ("paintings, etc") + ETC - C(ow OR onfounded)). Ref. D.Hirst. Tetra are popular aquarium fish | 1.5 | 2 | |
| 34 | 17 | Four placed first and in the ascendant, without question | (down clue) (qu)ARTET reversed, def = 4 placed first (prefix) | 1 | 1 | |
| 34 | 18 | I ate trawler full of fish! | hidden | 1 | 2 | |
| 36 | 8 | Fish batter not fully mixed | (B)ATTER* | 0 | ||
| 36 | 14 | Fish, tater chips and a vegetable of some sort | anag. and 2 defs.; chip (vi) = become cut/broken into chips | 0 | ||
| 36 | 19 | Is its bite tragically apparent? | Hidden & Lit | 0 | ||
| 36 | 23 | Mad Hatter freed small Hearts - is something fishy? | (H)atter* | 0 | 1 | |
| 36 | 27 | Offensive in 1968, sun god is now small fry | TET + RA | 0 | ||
| 36 | 31 | Say, roughly treat festival artist - plant (old) fish ? | TETRA = four part (clue) (treat)* Tet RA two definitions | 0 | ||
| 36 | 35 | Starts to raise with a pair of tens, ace and four | direct = four; (starts) To Raise with (a pair of) TEns, Ace | 0 | 1 | |
| 36 | 42 | White trash catches fish!! | hidden | 0 | 2 |