CCCWC November 2008 competition results
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44 clues entered. 34 votes cast (29 competitors, 5 others).
WILD MARE
A much stiffer challenge this month and congratulations to John on returning to the top for the third time this year!
A couple of regular podium finshers take 2nd and 3rd spots, but then we have a 3-way tie for 4th place!
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | John Tozer | Rile M. Daw? Breaking this might do | anag. & lit.; seesaw Marjory Daw | 53.5 | 3 |
| 2 | 19 | Tim Moorey | One's reluctantly saddled with unwanted war inspired by WMD lie abroad | war less w (= with) in anagram of WMD lie | 33.5 | 5 |
| 3 | 38 | Luciano Ward | The plank occupied by playful kids, we beheaded admiral at sea | WE(A)DMIRAL*; the plank occupied by playful kids = wild mare (seesaw) | 28 | 1 |
| 4 | 24 | Jenny Mackenzie | Problem with Daimler's bumpy ride | Anag. w Daimler. Wild mare = seesaw = bumpy ride. | 27.5 | |
| 4 | 25 | Shirley Curran | Reading gaol inmate admitting damage from instrument of torture | Wilde (Oscar) taking in 'mar' | 27.5 | 2 |
| 4 | 41 | Ian Harper | Whereon child wanting companion to push hard from the other end goes in opposite directions? | CHILD (wanting = lacking) CH to RAM (rev = from other end) in W and E = opp dir: ref to seesaw | 27.5 | 2 |
| 7 | 33 | Wil Ransome | Shakespeare's short weird Dream – Bottom here in play for children? | Wil(l) (Dream)*; the bottom is on a seesaw, which is a children's plaything | 25.5 | 1 |
| 8 | 31 | Mick Hodgkin | "Seesaw… Daw… er, master…?" – line I garbled | DAW ER M L I anag, ref nursery rhyme | 24.5 | |
| 9 | 8 | Arnold Peace | 'Daw' rime includes line about one | DAW + RIME +(includes) L(ine) Anag. (about) & Lit. Ref to See-saw Margery DAW i.e. def = see-saw. (Rime also = Rhyme) | 22 | 4 |
| 10 | 18 | Ken Horne | Naturally, mother is concerned with the ups and down in the playground. | Naturally (wild), mother (ma) is concerned with (re) + ups and downs in the playground (Def: "naturally, mother" & seesaw) | 19.5 | 1 |
| 11 | 5 | Cruel sea can rise and fall | cruel(wild) + sea(mare), wild mare = seesaw | 18 | ||
| 12 | 11 | Device designed primarily to hurt when mounted | d mar in wile &lit; wild mare/horse/timber-mare= instrument of punishment/torture that works this way | 17 | 4 | |
| 12 | 34 | She's harder to ride than others with a milder disposition | W + A MILDER * | 17 | 1 | |
| 14 | 22 | Pitch caused by stormy sea | Pitch = seesaw motion = wild mare; wild = stormy, mare = sea | 15 | ||
| 15 | 39 | Tortured Liam drew instrument of punishment | Liam drew (anag) | 14 | ||
| 16 | 36 | Spooner's gentle old cautious horse | Spoonerism of MILD WARE produces the punishment device | 13.5 | 1 | |
| 17 | 42 | White Daimler's potential ride for young couples | W = white + anag. DAIMLER; ref. wedding limos. | 13 | 1 | |
| 18 | 21 | Oscar perhaps receives a hard push from the rear in a punishment machine. | Oscar/Wilde. Ram reversed. Wild mare/punishment machine(Chambers) | 10.5 | ||
| 19 | 12 | End of Little Bighorn, perhaps, about to be heralded by Crazy Horse | (littl)E + RAM rev. preceded by WILD; herald = 'to precede or usher in' (Collins 2003); Horse = def. (as in the instrument of punishment) | 10 | 1 | |
| 19 | 32 | Shakespeare's short "Dream" play about an untamed ass? | Def. "an untamed ass?"; Shakespeare's short = WIL(L) + anag. ("play about") of DREAM; Surface alludes to Nick Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 10 | 3 | |
| 21 | 3 | Crazy Horse's Wife? | Famous native American and leader of the Lakota people. You'd imagine his wife to be called "Wild Mare", wouldn't you.?! | 9.5 | 2 | |
| 22 | 4 | Crazy man acting on see-saw! | Crazy=wild, man=m, acting=a, on=re | 9 | ||
| 22 | 14 | Free ride in a fancy Daimler headed west? | w(daimler*) = wild mare; Def. free ride | 9 | ||
| 24 | 2 | Could Sergeant have commanded such persecution with a 'milder' disposition? | W+Anag.A+MILDER; ref. mild mannered J. Sergeant's treatment on 'Strictly Come Dancing'; commanded=been given | 6 | ||
| 25 | 1 | Aroused ram in pen will reportedly give ewe a rough ride | PEN = author/sheepfold;(RAM* in WILDE = WILD <i>MAR</i>E; EWE <i>sounds like</i> YOU; rough ride = <i>def</i>. | 5 | 1 | |
| 25 | 37 | Stormy old sea? It should be sounded now and then | wild + mare (def. = sea hom. present & past tense for see-saw) | 5 | 1 | |
| 25 | 40 | What moves to give start of rhyming line with name that's M. Daw? | (anag. of r line with M Daw for n & lit., ref. nursery rhyme : Seesaw, Margery Daw) | 5 | ||
| 25 | 43 | Wield arm, oscillating this? | Wield arm* | 5 | ||
| 29 | 13 | Fantastic dream's ups and downs caused by this? | WILD + MARE – ref. seesaw | 4.5 | 1 | |
| 30 | 35 | She's unbridled and abandoned when on top of Boris, it's said | Down clue. WILD = abandoned. Boris homophone = MARE (mayor)(Boris Johnson) | 3 | 1 | |
| 31 | 9 | Dear Wilma: not one sacked member on this board will receive much dole. | DEARWILM(-a)*. member(euph.); board(2 mngs.); dole = pain, grief. (wild mare= 'The Horse': a sort of plank fixed edgewise inflicting pain esp. on the victim's genitals. | 2 | 1 | |
| 31 | 17 | Mustang Sally, perhaps, short-changed through trickery. | short(dram)changed=dmar through trickery(wile)=wil(dmar)e; Def. Mustang Sally | 2 | 1 | |
| 31 | 27 | Rocker’s contribution to ‘Crazy Horses’? | Cryptic def.; a see-saw is a rocker; a wild mare might literally be a crazy horse; ref. Osmonds song. | 2 | ||
| 34 | 6 | Cunning frame for army criminal (would last for years) | WILE round (ARMY)* with D for Y, &lit; Collins supports wile=cunning | 1.5 | ||
| 35 | 16 | learner with womens institute has strange dream of untamed dam perhaps | (WI) L d-ream(mare) | 1 | 1 | |
| 35 | 23 | Place of suffering – America's? Not half! | Amer(ica's) = (mare)* i.e. wild mare. | 1 | ||
| 37 | 7 | Dangerous, semi-American helter-skelter? Close by, perhaps (4, 4) | dangerous = wild; AMER anag | 0 | ||
| 37 | 10 | Desolate maman reportedly left in a state, deserted by Monsieur Right after a finally explosive up-and-downer. | [2 subs.ind.: a. WILD ("desolate")+ MARE (sounds like “mère”); b. L(eft) in WI(sconsin)D(eserted) + M(onsieur) + AR (=(R(ight) after A) + E ("finally explosive"). Def.: "up-and-downer" = (1) a spat or quarrel (see OED or Oxf. Dict. of Modern Slang – surprisingly (to me), not in Chambers); (2) (figuratively) a see-saw.] | 0 | 1 | |
| 37 | 15 | Heard he got married on the 18th. Dreadful means of punishment! | Heard he (MALE -> MAIL) got married (WED) on the 18th (letter R). Dreadful (indicates anagram) means of punishment (Definition) | 0 | 3 | |
| 37 | 20 | One starting to whinny, maiden carelessly laired outside? (4,4) | W LAIRED* around M; &Lit (maiden also means a horse) | 0 | ||
| 37 | 28 | Rowdy mother rubs hot, short rodeo star (4,4) | Direct = rodeo star (bucking horse) Rowdy = wild, mother = ma, hot short = re(d) | 0 | ||
| 37 | 29 | Sally, for example, will not be sat upon. | (Mustang)Sally, &lit | 0 | ||
| 37 | 30 | See………saw crazy Boris on air. | Def (seesaw)/part def(crazy=wild)/homophone (Boris = mayor – sounds like mare) | 0 | 1 | |
| 37 | 44 | With Daimler's broken suspension b-both passengers bob on their b-behinds. | w + anagram: 'bob' v.t. (though the surface reads as v.i.) | 0 | 1 |