CCCWC September 2018 competition results
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43 clues entered. 38 votes cast (33 competitors, 5 others).
JOANNA LUMLEY
Another close run contest with congratulations going to Tom – his second win of the year – with a finely crafted anagram managing to avoid the obvious with a well-disguised definition.
David was just a couple of points behind with his anagram – that's his 3rd podium of the year – well done!
Don bagged 3rd spot – just a point and a half back – with his anagram &lit. for a second podium of 2018, nice one Don!
Jeff also scoops a second top 5 finish for this year, working in an AbFab reference to his clue.
A tie for 5th place, Bhalchandra following up last month's win with another anagram – and Luciano bagging consecutive podium spots with his clue showing a bit of variation using Joanna = piano…
Well done to all for your efforts with a tricky challenge!
Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
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1 | 41 | Tom Borland | Taking a spin round Lake, enjoy manual 1970s Avenger (6,6) | L (Lake) in *ENJOY MANUAL; def. 1970s Avenger (ref. Hillman/Chrysler Avenger) | 35.5 | 0 | 1 |
2 | 11 | David McKie | Actress Una, jolly mean when riled? | *UNA JOLLY MEAN | 33.5 | 1 | |
3 | 8 | Don Manley | Actress originally inspired by a jolly nun — me, possibly? | a in anag. & lit., ref. JL's convent education | 32 | 3 | 2 |
4 | 22 | Jeffery Robinson | Fabulous star is an upper-class drunk with jolly name | Semi-&lit – (Absolutely) Fabulous star; ANUJOLLYNAME*; Patsy is jolly name for JL in AbFab, and she is upper-class and often drunk | 28 | 1 | |
5 | 9 | Bhalchandra Pasupathy | Actress pouring heart out in journal, laymen touched | {JOU(r)NAL LAYMEN}* with touched (mad) as anagram indicator | 27 | 1 | 1 |
5 | 36 | Luciano Ward | Piano Melly played when entertaining upper-class model and actress? | piano = JOANNA; [MELLY anagram] entertains (holds) U; def = model and actress; ref George Melly (showing my age…) | 27 | 3 | |
7 | 20 | Nick Smith | Enjoy manual labour, initially, working as Monsoon assistant | ENJOY + MANUAL + L; JL played Edina Monsoon's assistant in Ab Fab | 26 | 3 | |
8 | 2 | Satyen Nabar | Actively liberal English gal many love, heartily announcing, 'Justice for Gurkhas primarily!' | (L + E + GALMANY + O + UN)* with J for G, &lit; actively= anag ind, heartily anno(UN)cing= central letter selection, J for G(-urkhas)=substitution. Ref: Describing Joanna Lumley and her activism on behalf of Gurkhas. | 21 | 0 | |
9 | 30 | Sudarshan Jaganathan | No date with a jolly mundane, awful actress (6,6) | (A JOLLY MUN[-d]ANE)* with awful as anagram indicator | 20 | 1 | |
10 | 4 | Vinod Raman | Actor Jack's remake of "A lonely man (U)" (6,6) | Def:Actor. J + (A LONELY MAN U)*. Reference to actor Jack Palance in the 1957 movie, The lonely man | 18.5 | 4 | 1 |
11 | 13 | An actress, a piano, a smoke-filled place – and a long line | joanna (rhyming slang), lum (chimney), ley (line) | 18 | 1 | ||
12 | 25 | Jay on menu – all being treated to this absolutely fabulous bird? | (anag) jay on menu all…AbFab. | 17.5 | 0 | 2 | |
13 | 19 | Enjoy LA buzz around comeback of Disney film actress | ENJOYLA* around MULAN< | 17 | 1 | 2 | |
14 | 33 | One that smokes grass is pursuing a piano player. | Lum = chimney/"one that smokes" + ley = lea = grass(land)/on Joanna = piano (rhyming slang)/def (player). | 15 | 2 | ||
15 | 39 | She sailed with Monsoon, drifting on, all May and June (6, 6) | She sailed with Monsoon – definition ref Edina Monsoon in AbFab. drifting – anagram ind. ONALLMAYJUNE*. Monsoon which brings rains to Indian subcontinent starts in May and peaks in June.Monsoon and sailing have long association too. https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/navigation-began-india-indians-used-monsoon-winds-sailing-long-greeks-72629 | 14 | 1 | 1 | |
16 | 18 | Drunkenly half-cut, just a lonely man wanting absolutely fabulous lady (6,6) | Anagram | 13 | 1 | 1 | |
17 | 35 | Patsy's joint rolled manually with one? | J(oint) + MANUALLYONE*. Patsy as in Ab. Fab. | 12.5 | 1 | ||
18 | 26 | Jewelled opener one manually fashioned for an actress (6,6) | Def.: an actress; Wordplay: J (Jewelled opener) + (ONE MANUALLY)*, anag. ind. fashioned | 12 | 1 | 1 | |
18 | 37 | Piano playing mule extremely likely to become a fabulous favourite (6 6) | Piano = JOANNA. Anagram (playing) of MULE + L(ike)Y | 12 | 1 | ||
20 | 40 | Strangely enjoy manual labour, missing the first part of Ab Fab and our Patsy? | Anagram of [ENJOY MANUAL L]abour (ie missing the first part of [Ab] Fab and [our]; def = Patsy? | 11 | 2 | 1 | |
21 | 28 | Jumper worn by an old grad student, inscribed with name of star! (6,6) | Def: Star, ANNO: JOEY (Jumper – cryptic ref to a kangaroo) << AN (N)ALUM L, Alum – Old grad, L – Student | 10 | 1 | ||
22 | 5 | Actor Joe McGann's top, annually, when performing | Def = Actor, (JOE M ANNUALLY)*, anagrind = "when performing". | 9.5 | 1 | ||
23 | 21 | Fabulous player piano links up minuet’s first parts with half of medley | Fabulous player = definition [ref Absolutely Fabulous], piano = JOANNA, L(inks) U(p) M(inuet) + (med)LEY | 9 | 0 | ||
23 | 23 | I may be cast as Molly, Jane and Una | (MOLLYJANEUNA)* | 9 | 2 | 2 | |
23 | 43 | With videos remixed, she might make Madison Avenue jolly. | Composite anagram. | 9 | 1 | ||
26 | 34 | Only “Jam and Jerusalem” has this actress, as an organist, performing with Dr. James (6,6) | Composite anagram &lit; Def: This actress, as an organist; Anagram of {(JOANNA LUMLEY)+(DR JAMES)}* = ONLYJAMANDJERUSALEM Anagram indicator : Performing; Dr James (Vine) – character from Jam and Jerusalem with Joanna Lumley playing the organist Delilah Stagg. | 8 | 1 | ||
27 | 16 | Burmese title Melly played on piano for champion of Gurkhas (6 6) | Burmese title = u+ melly = anagram fodder, played=anagrind on=following, piano= Joanna + definition | 7.5 | 2 | ||
27 | 24 | Jack, only a mule, an unfettered Gurkhas' mascot | J[Jack] ONLYAMULEAN* [unfettered] def. Gurkhas' mascot (I know this is controversial, substitute 'Gurkha warrior' if you wish…) | 7.5 | 1 | ||
29 | 3 | Actor described llama nun shot in 3D once | Actor described = def., (llama nun)*, shot = *, 3D once = JOEY (threepenny joey). So JO ANNALUML EY | 7 | 0 | 1 | |
30 | 42 | Una, Jane and Molly creating another unsinkable lady! | *UNA(Stubbs)+JANE(Fonda)+MOLLY(Brown) ind by 'creating another' | 6.5 | 0 | 2 | |
31 | 32 | Old actress ugly: annul male joy! (6,6) | Direct=old actress; anagram of "annul male joy"; ugly = anagram indicator | 4.5 | 0 | ||
32 | 14 | An actress and the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from California died in July. (6,6) | MAE NOLAN (who died on July 9, 1973) was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from California and an anagram of her name can be found inside the month of July (JoannalUmLeY) to spell actress JOANNA LUMLEY. | 4 | 1 | 2 | |
33 | 15 | Annually, Joe M. transforms – she's "Patsy Stone" | (Annually Joe M)* | 3.5 | 1 | ||
33 | 27 | Joey, covering an article in the Mirror, endlessly mulls about the actress (6,6) | Jo{an <<an [mull(-s)]*}ey, def=the actress, na(article, reversed), reversal indicator=in the Mirror, deletion indicator=endlessly, anagram indicator=about, container indicator=covering | 3.5 | 0 | ||
35 | 12 | After a piano, stupid mule's caught in empty lorry. Patsy! | A piano = JOANNA + anagram of MULE in L(orr)Y. | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
36 | 10 | Actress recording a bit of music (extremely unoriginal composition) wearing a small jumper (6,6) | Actress = def, recording = ANNAL, a bit of music, extremely unoriginal composition = (M U-L)*, wearing = container ind, a small jumper = JOEY | 1 | 2 | ||
36 | 38 | She represented many/all English Juno characters | *manyall(E)Juno*, semi@lit, Juno = a woman of stately bearing and regal beauty | 1 | 1 | ||
38 | 31 | Occasionally keeping Jo Brand on as comic, ultimately no Tati, she's funny | (Occasionally keeping) JO br AN do NA s + (*comic) ULTIMATELY less TATI = Lumley. Def: she's funny. | 0.5 | 0 | ||
39 | 1 | A not so old piano only performs as member of Steed's team | 'Old Joanna' is piano in cockney rhyming slang. Not so old also implies new. Joanna Lumley was the only Joanna cast in The Avengers or The New Avengers. Joanna Lumley acted as Purdey in The New Avengers as Steed's female Avenger team member. | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
39 | 6 | Actor's sweetheart (Ms Tellwright) thinks quite a lot about lines (6,6) | JO (John Anderson my Jo) ANNA (of the five towns) – rev MUL(ls) LEY lines – although female the dear lady may apparently be described as an "actor" in modern parlance – even if she self-identifies as something else it'll still be OK – PC etc. | 0 | 0 | ||
39 | 7 | Actress backing compassion in farming journal incoherent on an aluminium compound applied to pasture | J + (ON AN)* + ALUM + LEY | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
39 | 17 | Daughter of Nepal and Scots lover lass in Mull, yea mostly frolicking | JO + ANNA + {MULL YE(a)}* | 0 | 1 | ||
39 | 29 | Keep one in Durham after 'earing piano player | Keep = Castle (per Bradford's) one in Durham – Lumley, after 'earing (indicates cockney word [for]) piano – Joanna – player (def) actor/ess | 0 | 1 |