CCCWC October 2019 competition results
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43 clues entered. 37 votes cast (33 competitors, 4 others).
GULES
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | Dhirendra Tripathi | Red government reigns after banishing royal (5) | Direct: Red. Indirect: G [government] + (R)ULES [reigns] after removing [banishing] R [royal] | 40 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 29 | Rod Beards | Redness in arms and legs treated with hint of unguent | Redness in arms – definition (arms = coat of arms is in Chambers); anagram LEGS + U | 36.5 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 7 | Steve Randall | Colour found on arms and legs with limitless sun around | anagram of LEGS with [s]U[n] | 35.5 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 28 | Terry Neale | Red sludge formed when deuterium is extracted | Red = def; anagram of sludge with D (deuterium) removed. | 26.5 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 19 | John Appleton | Old Scottish marigolds giving field colour? | Double def, For "Old Scottish marigolds" see Chambers; "field" being the background of a shield in heraldry. | 25 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 23 | S.Sreeni | Red giants – unusually luminous, ebbing stars , primarily (5) | Def: Red Initial letters (basically) of Giants…stars | 25 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 38 | John Tozer | Take a drink laced with drug and turn a shade of red | E in slug, rev. | 22.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 42 | Josie Barnes | Wee Angus gathering the French marigolds in auld Scotland | Gu[le]s, (gules being an archaic, scottish word for marigolds) | 18 | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | 13 | Tony Harker | Flying Blue Ensign when leaving Benin in confusion? No — Red. | Anag BLUEENSIGN less anag BENIN. Def RED. | 17 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | 35 | Barry Solomons | Seeing red after glue ruined shirt front. | Glue (anag) + (S)hirt front. | 16 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 2 | A mixture of glues used in decorating some coats of arms | glues snag. = def. | 15.5 | 1 | 3 | |
| 12 | 39 | The standard red's making you smell rose petals ultimately | The standard red = definition; wordplay is final letters of: makin(g) yo(u) smel(l) ros(e) petal(s) | 15 | 1 | 1 | |
| 13 | 20 | Pigment in arms and legs changes with injection of uranium | def = pigment in arms (= 'heraldic insignia'); LEGS anag including U | 13.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 14 | 41 | Tincture made with drug in some alcohol withdrawn | Tincture = definition drug = e in = inclusion indicator some alcohol = slug withdrawn = reversal indicator | 10.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | 5 | Awful guiltiness — in colour here it's apparent? | comp. anag. & lit. | 10 | 2 | 2 | |
| 15 | 15 | Glue's spilt – I see red! | Anagram and definition | 10 | 2 | 1 | |
| 15 | 18 | It isn't ugliest sort of colour (5) | (UGLIEST-IT)* | 10 | 1 | 3 | |
| 15 | 43 | Zones out, quaffs red | GUZZLES (quaffs) minus ZZ (zones) | 10 | 2 | 1 | |
| 19 | 3 | Abused glue sniffers finally seeing red | Anagram (abused) of GLUE/S | 8.5 | 1 | ||
| 20 | 1 | A bit of silver added to gold to make it red | GULE(gold,Chambers) S(ilver); def:red | 8 | 0 | ||
| 20 | 16 | Goat-boy acceptable for a ruddy field | U replacing I in GILES | 8 | 0 | 2 | |
| 20 | 33 | Scarlet tincture concocted from some legumes | Scarlet tincture (def); “some” = legu..s*, omitting me | 8 | 0 | 2 | |
| 23 | 31 | Rose ran out of cereals (5) | Definition: Rose Wordplay: G(RAN)ULES Granules (cereals) without ran, with 'out' as the deletion indicator | 7 | 0 | 3 | |
| 23 | 32 | Ruby stones for your ears (5) | Ruby: def [OED – heraldry] | stones: jewels [as gems or testicles!] ["stones" rather than "gems" to double bluff; "gems" too easy?] | for your ears: homophone indicator | surface: gems for earrings. | 7 | 0 | 2 | |
| 25 | 4 | Aristocratic red flowing from old French throats? | It is thought that the term 'gules' derives from the Old French word 'goules', literally "throats"; Surface alludes to the French revolution. | 6 | 1 | 2 | |
| 25 | 27 | Red rubber found in grammar school | ULE in GS | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
| 25 | 40 | There's no tea, it's said, in Erdogan's boats: you'll get red, instead. | Gule(t)s (Turkish sailing vessel)/def. (implied sense of red wine). | 6 | 0 | ||
| 28 | 10 | Emblazoned red crosses showing marks lost on German | G (German) + (M)ULES (crosses showing marks lost); def. Emblazoned red | 5.5 | 0 | ||
| 28 | 26 | Red regimes ultimately rooting for Republican | RULES with (-rootin)G for R | 5.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 30 | 11 | Engraved parallel vertical lines indicate this luge’s damaged | 3.5 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 30 | 30 | Red's beginning to get to you Mr Patterson? | Red(def) is G U LES. U for you (txtmsg abbr.)is nowadays supported by most dictionaries – so no further indication should be needed. The Barry Humphries character Les Patterson is renowned for liking a drop or ten. | 3.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 30 | 34 | See coat's bloody colour – strike back with energy | GUL(E)S (slug rev.) | 3.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 33 | 6 | color of violence, which it presents bloody | mental balances blaze out noisy, shoots out hue of blood | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| 33 | 14 | Glowing red, Mary fled from twisted, ugly smear | 'fled from' = remove [MARY] from re-ordered (anag ind. 'twisted') letters of [UGLY SMEAR] | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| 35 | 12 | Even gruellers wear heraldic red (5) G U L E S | Even = indicates picking up alternate letters; heraldic red=definition | 2.5 | 1 | 3 | |
| 36 | 17 | Hatching egg, louse goes missing (5) | Hatching is definition and anagram indicator ; EGGLOUSE minus GOES | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 36 | 21 | Red Baron drawing fire, may require this (5) | Double definition, Red – definition, Baron drawing fire, may require this – more cryptic definition. Gules is often used in heraldry for flames or fire. Surface – referencing the First World War flying ace, who may have someone shooting at him. | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| 38 | 9 | Dead marigolds are Scottie's ugliest spray! Toss it! | Def + anagrind (spray) of ugliest-it | 1.5 | 2 | ||
| 39 | 25 | Red mullets, e.g., cook this with melt for a change | *MULLETS+EG=*GULES+MELT; melt(n)=cheese melt | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 40 | 22 | Red colour of backward, slow-moving fellow touring Spain | SLUG around E reversed | 0.5 | 0 | ||
| 41 | 8 | Colour one actor, Romeo, at first forgot playing colour sergeant | Colour = def.. ((COLOUR SERGEANT) -(ONE ACTOR R))* | 0 | 0 | ||
| 41 | 36 | Slippery creature on the retreat, welcomes exit initially. I see red | Reversal SLUG around E | 0 | 0 | ||
| 41 | 37 | Strive to bring back voiceless events: read aloud | Strive to bring (lug) back – GUL – [verbs] voice(vent)less E(vent)S: read (past tense) – aloud (homophone) RED (def) | 0 | 0 | 2 |