CCCWC August 2018 competition results
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40 clues entered. 33 votes cast (27 competitors, 6 others).
FAIRY / POINT (Right & Left)
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | Bhalchandra Pasupathy | Fudge in top spot just topped my brownie | def=spot(POINT); IN TOP* (fudge=anag. ind.)/def=brownie(FAIRY); FAIR(just)+mY (topped=with top removed). Surface refers to a close finish in a cooking contest | 35.5 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 4 | Luciano Ward | Cook eats a slice of incredibly delicate meat stewing in pot | FRY eats [A + I(ncredibly)], def delicate (fairy as adj); INPOT anag ('stewing'), def = meat (as in the meat (point) of an issue) | 35 | 2 | |
| 2 | 13 | Barry Solomons | Female and sprightly she's often seen on Christmas tree, set out in top position. | F/female..airy/sprightly…(anag) in top…point = position. | 35 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 40 | Peter Cargill | Whimsical blond tory's ultimate objective: party heading into disarray? | FAIRY=whimsical; blond=fair(+y); POINT=objective; P+*into; ref Boris Johnson | 30.5 | 2 | |
| 5 | 19 | Steve Randall | Holding in beer gut, aim rather to shed pounds for sylph-like figure | IN in POT = POINT, def:aim, FAIRLY sheds L (pounds) def: sylph-like figure | 26 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 26 | John Appleton | Perhaps Tinker Bell just has Wendy's ultimate aim – end of Hook? | FAIRY: Def "Perhaps Tinker Bell"; FAIR [just] + [wend]Y. POINT: Double def: aim, and a hook might end with a point. | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 6 | Ramki Krishnan | Cook's enthralling, excellent brownie fudge in top spot (5,5) | Right/left separation: Cook's enthralling, excellent brownie // fudge in top spot LEFT: Cook's enthralling, excellent brownie Cook = FRY, enthralling = container-ind, excellent = AI, def = brownie RIGHT: fudge in top spot fudge = verbal anagram ind, in top = fodder, def = spot (POINT) Surface reading: Cook's dessert of brownie fudge getting 1s | 22.5 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 39 | John Tozer | What's at the bottom of the garden? Just a bit of your marrow rotting on tip | fair + y; anag.; fairies at the b. of the g., marrow = essence, inner meaning | 19.5 | 2 | |
| 9 | 1 | Paul Coulter | A puckish type, student goes out rather often – primarily into drink, full stop | FAIRlY/P(Often)INT | 18 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | 5 | Nick Smith | Cook, excellent in the middle, impish fielder in top form | cook = FRY, A1 inside & lit (fairy = adj); point is a fielding position in cricket, IN TOP anagram; Alastair Cook is England's top-scoring test batsman and a fine fielder | 17 | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | 10 | Tony Harker | Elf quite out of line to pin tattered cape. | Elf (def: fairy) QUITE=FAIRLY out of=missing Line; TOPIN anag (tattered) POINT, cape (def: point). | 17 | 1 | |
| 10 | 33 | Satyen Nabar | Suggest twist in plot, killing many just before end of gory kind of tale | (INPLOT)*- L(many), defn= suggest; FAIR (just) + (-gor)Y, defn= kind of tale | 17 | 3 | 1 |
| 13 | 7 | Delicate part of affair – you tentatively opt in for a critical moment | Hidden (af)FAIR Y(ou)/ OPT IN (anagram) | 16 | 1 | 1 | |
| 13 | 8 | Delicate with good reason, after losing left pedal and cycling into verge | 1. FAIR(L)Y = with good reason, def. Delicate 2. P (pedal) + 'cycling' INTO; def. verge | 16 | 1 | 3 | |
| 15 | 23 | Mark's top in cooking delicate dish, excellent inside | mark – defn of POINT, anagram of (cooking) TOP IN; delicate – definition of FAIRY, dish – FRY, AI (excellent) inside | 14.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 16 | 11 | Fancy top in lace effect edged by frilly sides is delicate | TOPIN*, lace = POINT; F<AIR>Y, delicate = FAIRY | 14 | 2 | ||
| 17 | 18 | Head home to tuck into hash brownie somewhat and finally chill out | POINT (Head): IN (home) in POT (hash) / FAIRY (brownie): FAIR(l)Y (somewhat) -L / Surface note: "hash brownie" is a common name for chocolate cake laced with cannabis, which is widely regarded as a "chill out" drug. | 13.5 | 0 | ||
| 18 | 35 | Tinker Bell cracks last smithery (one fine American piece), then repairs pot in question. | FAIRY:Tinker Bell=def + *(yifar) + POINT:*(potin) +def (Tinker Bell from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, was a mender of pots and kettles.) | 10.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 19 | 30 | Spirit is just an unknown quantity with nothing in beer to indicate quality | Spirit=fairy (definition), just= fair + an unknown quantity = y (fair)(y) nothing = o in = inclusion indicator , beer = pint p(o)int to indicate = definition indicator, quality = attribute (good/bad points) | 7 | 0 | 3 | |
| 19 | 32 | Strong light used in kitchen washes softly into living area | F (strong) + AIRY (light). Fairy liquid. P (softly) + anagram of INTO. | 7 | 2 | 3 | |
| 21 | 3 | Content hippo in the headland; this creature of folklore moving far in the unknown. | POINT:hipPO IN The + def; def + FAIRY:anag(moving) of far + i + y | 5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 21 | 9 | Elemental, being of air, yet showing power blasting into matter. | Hidden answer [showing], def 'Elemental being' (fairies fall into the air category of elementals as proposed by Paracelsus) : P [power] + [blasting] INTO*, def 'matter' (the evil power of the wind is called a fairy-blast). | 5 | 2 | 3 | |
| 23 | 20 | In fancy frills expose delicate lace and pee into wind. | 1) F(AIR)Y def: "delicate". /// 2) def: "lace"(point-lace). (*wind P + INTO) | 4.5 | 1 | ||
| 23 | 38 | Unfair? Yes, it involves slight suspect top spin, spelling dismissal of occasionally silly cricketer | FAIRY/POINT. (a) Hidden. Def.: “slight” (ie, delicate – see Chambers); (b) (TOPSPIN – SP(elling))*. A.i.: “suspect”; "dismissal of" = omit. Def.: “occasionally silly cricketer” (ref. silly point). | 4.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| 25 | 24 | Mr Waugh said, "Just before you start, Mark, it's silly fielding very close to the bat" | Auberon, said – Oberon (fairy, Shakespeare) Just (Fair) before (y)ou start; Mark = point/score (def) [also fielding position which, very close to the batsman, is called "silly point"] Refererences to Auberon Waugh, writer, and Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer | 4 | 2 | 3 | |
| 26 | 12 | Fay's brownie set to cook in pot | Fay,brownie = double def. of fairy; set = point, "in pot" = anagram of point, cook = indicator; note: brownie also = cookie! | 3.5 | 3 | 4 | |
| 27 | 29 | Spirit expo likely to end with new pinot punch line | spirit = fairy, expo = fair, likely to end = y, new = anagram of pinot, punch line = point | 2.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 27 | 34 | Time and place being false and imaginary, as in Cinderella | Clue 1: DD Time/ Place Clue 2: & littish: F (False) + AIRY (Imaginary) Being as in Cinderella = fairy | 2.5 | 2 | 2 | |
| 29 | 15 | Fine and light angel finds nothing in measure to show (5)(5) | F+airy; p(o)int | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| 30 | 14 | Fine and delicate Moth seen in the field on tip off | F + AIRY (Fairy moth; Moth is a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream); ON TIP* def: fielder | 1.5 | 2 | 2 | |
| 30 | 16 | Folklore creature just unknown in expo in this state! | Definitions: Folklore creature = FAIRY; state = POINT (see Chambers). 'just' = FAIR + 'unknown' = Y. 'in expo in this' indicates POINT hidden. | 1.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| 32 | 21 | It's mostly nitrogen and oxygen in the empty friendly pixy coalmine containing oxygen and nitrogen. That's a fact. | N+O=AIR inside F(riendl)Y. Coalmine = PIT containing O and N. DEFS: Pixy Fact | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
| 32 | 25 | Oberon, for example, justly left out stage issue | fair(L)y; two mngs – ref. king of the fairies/Merle Oberon | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 32 | 27 | Queen's rightly left out, a measure containing zero purpose. | Def. (fairy = queen ["a male homosexual"])/rightly = fair(l)y; o in pint (a measure)/def (purpose = point). | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 32 | 28 | Screw tip on end of jewelry just before ring is made by one (5 5) | anag (screw) TIPON. Definition END. FAIR (just) before Y (end of jewelry). Definition (fairy) RING IS MADE BY ONE | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| 36 | 2 | After work going back home on time is an important thing if Ray is boisterous and a fantastic being | POINT: PO (work going back) IN (home) T (time); def. (important thing). FAIRY: (IF RAY)* anagram indicator boisterous; def: a fantastic being | 0.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| 37 | 22 | It's one of the distributor's contacts providing current Dutch fee for an alternative brownie | It's one of the distributor's contacts providing current = POINT; Dutch fee for an alternative brownie = FAIRY (double definition) | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 37 | 31 | Stir fry some Quebecian Poutine; European take-away with a twist, at the bottom of the garden. | fry + ia (from Quebecian) rearranged (stirred) = FAIRY poutine – eu (European) = potin rearranged (twisted) = POINT At the bottom of the garden = the point where fairies can be found? (Famously the Cottingley Fairies hoax) | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| 37 | 36 | Top in clueing, object reasonably having got left out, becoming delicate | anag., fair(l)y | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 37 | 37 | Transcendental figure, small (fairly, not large), not pi surprisingly, in which this follows the first figure | FAIRY Def: Transcendental figure, small; Clue: (FAIRLY – L); POINT: Def: point is in pi after first figure, i.e. 3 "point" 14159… ; Clue: (NOT PI)*, | 0 | 1 | 2 |