CCCWC January 2009 competition results
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42 clues entered. 39 votes cast (32 competitors, 7 others).
TOKAY
The first competition of 2009 saw a wide distribution of the points with not much to choose between a goodly number of clues – except for the winner, which was some way ahead!
And so you all have to start the year chasing that man again! Congratulations to John for another win; well done Richard for his second place, just squeezing ahead of Allan, David and Luciano.
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | John Tozer | A sweet wine or spirit to go in a trifle | ka in toy; ka = Egyptian spirit of the dead | 56 | 2 |
| 2 | 4 | Richard Heald | Asti no good? It's withdrawn from tasting and replaced with fine Hungarian wine | tasting with okay for Asti ng | 35.5 | 3 |
| 3 | 24 | ALLAN SCOTT | Scottish banker drinking fine wine | T-OK-ay | 33 | 2 |
| 4 | 36 | David Harry | What could come from BARPERSON? Teuton's First – it's very good. | T okay. Ref. RCT's First Prize-winning clue in Azed 1901 (January 2009) | 32.5 | 5 |
| 5 | 33 | Luciano Ward | To what is gecko's tail attached? | Answer: to kay (letter 'k'); 'gecko's tail' = 'o'; &lit. | 31 | 4 |
| 6 | 41 | John Hood | Wine's extremely tasty when eating cheese. | extremely tasty = T…Y, containing OKA (a Canadian smoked cheese) | 26.5 | 3 |
| 7 | 39 | Richard Saunders | Wine prank at zoo – tea party ends in chaos | Anagram of last letters, and reference to chimp tea party. | 25 | 3 |
| 8 | 30 | Jon Summers | That lizard's drunk! | Double definition – Tokay Gecko, Tokay Wine. | 23 | 2 |
| 9 | 14 | Lucinda Acton | Imbibed by Bartok, a yellow Muscatel beloved of Hungarians. | Hidden word clue. Muscat grapes are used in the production of Tokay. | 22.5 | 2 |
| 10 | 37 | Tom Borland | White flower's worn round York, regularly | Flower = TAY round OK = York, regularly; def. 'White' | 21 | |
| 11 | 10 | Extremly tipsy swallowing ends of Lambrusco, Hock and Marsala wine | OKA in TY | 20.5 | ||
| 12 | 9 | Essence of vintage? Yes | On “e/Essence”, see Chambers: a. “distinctive inner nature”; b. “concentrated extract containing the active constituents of [something]”; c. “a particularly fine variety of Tokay wine”. T (= “Essence (a.) of vinTage”) + OKAY (“Yes”). Any wine may be described as “essence (b.) of vintage”, but Tokay may also be Essence (c.). | 19 | 3 | |
| 13 | 29 | Temperature all right for gecko | T + OKAY = gecko (def) | 17 | ||
| 14 | 1 | A drink, we hear? All right, another drink. | T (sounds like "tea")/okay/def. | 16.5 | 2 | |
| 14 | 22 | Not OK: a youngster has wine | hidden (Tokay wine) | 16.5 | 1 | |
| 16 | 20 | My rack won't regularly return wine | Defn: wine; Every other letter, backwards in mYrAcKwOnT | 14.5 | ||
| 17 | 19 | King's filling in for the time being, duke having gone for drink | K for D in TODAY (for the time being) | 13.5 | 2 | |
| 18 | 17 | It's heavy to drink at place where tramps get loaded | at=TO (per Chambers), + KAY = quay, tramps=cargo boats | 13 | 1 | |
| 19 | 27 | Start to taste fine wine | T + OKAY | 11.5 | 2 | |
| 20 | 7 | Drink to serve to Magyars at heart | TO + KA + (mag)Y(ars); semi & lit. | 11 | ||
| 21 | 11 | Gecko (Malay). A sweet drink served with afters possibly. | 2 defs (tokay=gecko, Tokay=dessert wine) presented dictionary-style; anag. of last letters (i.e. o,y,a,t,k) | 9 | ||
| 21 | 34 | True fine wine (5) | direct = wine t = true, okay = fine | 9 | ||
| 23 | 15 | In Ireland a drink that's caught on is wine | ON (= Chambers ACCEPTED = OK] in TAY | 8.5 | 2 | |
| 24 | 16 | It's all right in tea, but Chesterton wouldn't have wanted it with water | OK in tay, 'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine'(see ODQ) | 8 | ||
| 24 | 21 | Northern flower overrunning fine wine-growing region | Tay around OK | 8 | ||
| 24 | 26 | Spotted lizard in the middle of the road, just after the junction | Tokay = Gekko gecko (SE Asian spotted lizard); T (junction) Okay (middle of the road – Roget's thesaurus) | 8 | 2 | |
| 24 | 42 | Wine temperature acceptable | t/okay | 8 | ||
| 28 | 2 | All right, after time, for a drink? | OKAY (all right) after T (time) | 6 | ||
| 29 | 35 | Type of lizard right out of Tolkien, any hint of normality abandoned | Ref gecko: Tolkien – lien, any – n(ormality) | 5 | 2 | |
| 30 | 31 | The essence of Bartok after the first half – yes! | TOK + AY. Essence being a type of Tokay, appropriate for Bartok | 4.5 | 1 | |
| 31 | 40 | Wine's a spirit swallowed by model | KA in TOY | 4 | ||
| 32 | 3 | An aromatic concoction that can be drunk after time — that's permitted | t okay; ref. "time" in a pub, whose licence may only allow drinking up to a certain time | 3.5 | ||
| 33 | 8 | Drunk at last, alright? | aT + alright (okay) | 3 | ||
| 33 | 28 | Sweet white knight's dedication | TO KAY (double def.) | 3 | ||
| 35 | 18 | It will be sweet with a heavy flavour putting spirit in trifle | KA in TOY | 2 | ||
| 36 | 32 | The wine is fine after first tasting. | Tokay = the wine. Okay (fine) after 't' (first of "Tasting") | 1.5 | 1 | |
| 37 | 13 | Hungarian wine's fine in old Greek's tea | OK (fine) in TAY (Irish form of tea, Greek is old slang for an Irishman) | 0.5 | ||
| 37 | 38 | Wine found in wells? It's a story, but grand for taking no cork out! | WINE (definition) FOUND IN WELLS (author). IT'S A STORY (tono-bungay), BUT GRAND FOR TAKING NO CORK OUT (replace 'no bung' by 'k')! | 0.5 | ||
| 39 | 6 | Domestic ox, excessive, a bit cut, going back for sweet wine | Yak OTT –T rev. | 0 | ||
| 39 | 12 | Hungarian wine makes a knockout return in the year's beginnings. | Hungarian wine = TOKAY makes – indicator a knockout – A KO return – OKA in – containment indicator The Years's beginnings – TY T(OKA)Y | 0 | ||
| 39 | 23 | Pieces of Bartok and Kodaly can have Brahms and Liszt potential(5) | barTOK kodAlY. Hungarian wine is suggested by Bartok, Kodaly, (Liszt) being Hungarian. | 0 | ||
| 39 | 25 | Spirit embodied in model wine | KA (spirit) contained in TOY (model) | 0 |