CCCWC November 2016 competition results
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46 clues entered. 34 votes cast (32 competitors, 2 others).
TURNOVER
A very close-run competition this month sees Colin Thomas secures his second victory of the year with a nice topical clue that proved difficult to trump. Congrats Colin.
Similar topicality was the key in second place as well – and a definition that particularly took my fancy – Toby continues his excellent year with his 6th podium of 2016.
Barry switched electorates for his own piece of topicality and maintained a recent run of podium successes.
David bags 4th spot with a clue based on another popular recent subject matter.
Finally, Anthony bounces back to the top 5 after his win a couple of months ago.
Many thanks for another fine month – on to Christmas!
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | Colin Thomas | Run vote corruptly, installing Republican? There might be two sides to this story | RUNVOTE* around R (= Republican); definition refers to front page news story that goes onto another page (Chambers' def. 4 of 'turnover'). | 39.5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 6 | Toby Robertson | Ballot box stuffed in vote rigged by Republican business figure | URN (Chambers: 'a ballot box') in VOTE anag. (rigged) + R; def. business figure. [Oxford: stuff the ballot box (US) = place bogus votes] | 37.5 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | 33 | Barry Solomons | Rerun vote after European exit in order to reverse result? | Rerun vote (anag)… after (E)uropean exit. | 35 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 10 | David McKie | Change channels to see what could be served up on Bake Off? | TURN OVER and definition (pastry) | 32 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | 11 | Anthony Nannini | Changes in Jobs' plans for Apple ? | Double definition. Turnover in jobs and apple turnover | 29 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | 8 | Steve Randall | Business needing dough folded | double definition | 22 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | 29 | Satyen Nabar | Pie chart of company performance? | DD | 21 | 6 | 2 |
| 8 | 25 | mark webberley | Movement of people upset production | Triple definition | 18 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | 15 | Kenneth Horne | For all the money taken, see no potential in artist | Def + no potential ( 0 volts) in artist (TURNER) >> TURN(OV)ER | 14.5 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | 26 | Russ Cook | Newspaper article features crazed voter grabbing ballot box | VOTER* round URN (Chambers definitions include TURNOVER as NEWSPAPER ARTICLE and URN as BALLOT BOX) – 'features' = link word | 14.5 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | 5 | Artist captures old Victory rolling | o V in Turner; rolling noun; HMS Victory | 14 | 1 | 3 | |
| 12 | 3 | A well-placed "please" might merit such afters? | &lit; i.e. turnover for afters/pudding; ref P.T.O. | 11 | 2 | 2 | |
| 13 | 19 | How to get semi-revolver to produce a semi-revolution? | ie turn over to get revo(lver), action of turning over is through 180 degrees only, not 360 required for full revolution | 9.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 14 | 28 | Pass six balls, one to the other side | Pass = turn (per Chambers), 6 balls = over; in football, basketball, etc., a ball passed to the other side is a turnover | 9 | 2 | 1 | |
| 14 | 42 | The man leaves the container open after dispatching the last pastry | t(he) + urn + over(t) | 9 | 0 | 1 | |
| 16 | 34 | Revenue from samosa, say (8) | Double def – Samosa is an example of turnover (pastry) made in India. Turnover also means revenue | 8.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 16 | 44 | Vase found in trove. Byzantine yield? | URN in *TROVE ind by Byzantine (complex/of ancient empire); trove=treasure-trove | 8.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 18 | 1 | A flipping silly TV rerun involves cop in Oxford? Try another channel | def. turnover = a turning over = a flipping (Ch); dble wordplay: O in anag TV rerun, cop = head; turn over vb; Morse or Lewis | 8 | 3 | 2 | |
| 19 | 7 | Bridie groomed our navy vet. | Bridie=Scottish turnover;Anag(groomed)our+rn+vet | 7.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 19 | 13 | Flip the dessert (8) | flip = turnover; turnover = dessert | 7.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 19 | 17 | Go on, regain posession | Go (TURN) on (OVER) – regain posession (sporting definition) | 7.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| 19 | 21 | "King" Trump (not a representative of the people) is giddy about November upset! | ("ER" + "TRUMP" – "MP") ANAGRAM AROUND "NOV"; TURNOVER DEFINITION = "UPSET" | 7.5 | 2 | 3 | |
| 23 | 24 | Mounting excitement about star, we hear, in Hollywood production? | RUT ('Mounting excitement') reversed + NOVA homophone; ref. celebrity baker Paul Hollywood | 6 | 1 | 2 | |
| 24 | 40 | Small folded pie sadly run over edge of tray | RUN OVER T(ray)* | 5.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 25 | 4 | Apple user configuring new router to head off virus | Definition: 'Apple user'; Anagram of N+ROUTER+V ('head off virus'); Anagram indicator: 'configuring' | 5 | 1 | 4 | |
| 26 | 18 | 'Goo' for dessert! | 'goo' = 'go' (turn) and 'o' (over) | 4.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 27 | 35 | Rob's income | Double def. | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
| 28 | 2 | A small pie oven cooked in trade union's Rolls-Royce. | Def + Anagrind (cooked) of oven in turr. (There are microwave ovens designed for cars.) | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 28 | 45 | Voter shifts involving the ballot box deliver this to the White House | urn(=ballot box) in voter* | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 30 | 14 | Flip Wilson lost soccer ball to Beckham (8) | Double def. : Flip = turnover; Wilson lost soccer ball to Beckham = turnover (in sports) | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 30 | 37 | Run voter down for taking advantage of a bad lie (8) | anagram of "run voter" (down = broken: see Chambers): def as in rugby tackle. | 3 | 0 | 2 | |
| 30 | 43 | Touring Dover and Turin without identity for an apple pastry? | Anagram (touring) of DOVER and TURIN less ID (identity) gives TURNOVER (an apple pastry) | 3 | 0 | ||
| 30 | 46 | What sales were worth a crisis? I expect an answer. | Def: what sales were worth. Turn=crisis. Over as in two-way radio. | 3 | 2 | ||
| 34 | 16 | Fortune teller sees artist getting naked adoration | TURNER about [l]OV[e]; turnover = wealth indicator = fortune teller | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 34 | 23 | Lie on your other side, when you've coughed up the pill. | Def x2 ("turnover" = loss of possession of the ball (pill) in rugby, etc). | 2 | 0 | ||
| 34 | 30 | Pie made by the artist, with love essentially (8) | Definition: pie (as in an apple turnover) wordplay: TURNER (the artist, English landscape painter JMW Turner) around (with) OV (love essentially) | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 37 | 9 | Chance to get complete business | TURN(chance)+OVER(complete); 'business' = def (ie total volume of sales) ref Chambers & Oxford | 1.5 | 2 | ||
| 38 | 27 | Overturning routine, fire up oven with baker's last pie | RUT< + OVEN* (fire up = excite) + (bake)R | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 38 | 31 | Rare habit, about to consume cooked oven pie | R/RUT < (about); cooked oven = NOVE; pie = definition; TUR<NOVE>R | 1 | 0 | ||
| 38 | 38 | Six deliveries by Warne? (8) | CD | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| 41 | 12 | Confused voter given run-around: surrender's the result | T(URN)OVER voter*, run* | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 42 | 20 | I'm one word so may use mille feuille if I were two I would need only one new leaf to start again. | Reference to TURNOVER and TURN OVER | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| 42 | 22 | Leaders of the union now recommend striking over staffing rate | First letters (anag) plus 'over' | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| 42 | 32 | Relinquish the stolen ball! | Double definition ("turnover ball" in rugby) | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 42 | 39 | Slices of goo pie! | TURN (go) OVER (o) – def pie – eg apple turnover | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 42 | 41 | Somerset, it’s reported, go down | Somerset = somersault (as one word) = def..; it’s reported = justifies ‘hearing' two words, go = TURN, over = DOWN. | 0 | 1 | 2 |