CCCWC November 2019 competition results
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43 clues entered. 35 votes cast (32 competitors, 3 others).
GENTLEMAN
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | Steve Randall | Guy rope at the back replaces one in faulty alignment | E replaces I in anagram of ALIGNMENT | 57.5 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 5 | Luciano Ward | Elegant male…knight, possibly? | Anagram ('possibly') of ELEGANT + M ('male') + N ('knight'); &lit | 41.5 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 25 | Anthony Nannini | Low-down lover adopting a touch of trickery ? Not he ! | Low-down = Gen (information) , lover = leman , adopting = inclusion indicator , a touch of trickery = t + definition Gen(t)leman | 33.5 | 0 | |
| 4 | 7 | Satyen Nabar | Elegant name regularly used for refined fellow | anag of ELEGANT N(-a)M(-e) | 25.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | 33 | Neil Mondal | Pacific island is one to be civilised | Pacific = peaceful or gentle; island = Isle of Man, for example; one to be civilised = definition | 24.5 | 0 | |
| 6 | 17 | citvilas | Good name lent maybe to a polite person | Good = G, NAME LENT anagram (maybe) = ENTLEMAN, GENTLEMAN = a polite person | 21 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 29 | Dhirendra Tripathi | Mr. Nice Guy? | Direct: Mr. (as Mister) – slightly cryptic definition indicated by the "?". Indirect: GENTLE (Nice, as in pleasant) MAN (Guy, informal meaning). | 19.5 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 36 | S.Sreeni | Refined, trim and elegant male (9) | Anag. (a(N)d+ELEGANT+M)*. &lit . Trim (v) removes either end of “and” | 17 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 2 | Don Manley | Animated fifth of November glee at end of celebration, finishing with ashen guy | anag. incl. m,n,n | 16 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | 14 | Mike Davies | Following information, lament about nice chap | GEN + *(LAMENT) = GENTLEMAN | 15.5 | 1 | |
| 11 | 16 | Get mean heartless Len a funny Valentine? | GETMNLENA* – Valentine was one of the two gentlemen in Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona | 13 | 0 | ||
| 12 | 19 | He gets respect distributing information about mental illness. | GE(ntlema)N…Gen/Info…Mental(anag) | 11 | 1 | 1 | |
| 13 | 30 | Nameless, this lent gravity somehow | &lit; gentleman – name = lent* + g | 10 | 0 | 2 | |
| 14 | 43 | Without a pair of wobbly bits he'd be a lady | gentle(wo)man – (without can also mean on the outside) | 9.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 15 | 13 | Fine fellow's diligent Le Mans series | Hidden series of letters in diliGENT LE MANs | 8.5 | 0 | ||
| 16 | 40 | Strange ambulance runs out of control, missing a car and bus, to deliver this chap. | Anag STRANGEAMBULANCE less ACARBUS. | 8 | 1 | 3 | |
| 17 | 9 | Extremely modern, elegant kind of address | (MN+ELEGANT)* extremely modern = MN , kind of – anagrind, address – definition, surface is & littish. | 7.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 17 | 35 | Refined elegant navy male. | *(elegant+n+m); &lit | 7.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 19 | 39 | Sir, take no hidden lover | GE(N)T+LEMAN | 7 | 0 | ||
| 20 | 21 | Honourable chap’s soft with servant | Honourable chap– definition; GENTLE + MAN | 6 | 0 | 2 | |
| 21 | 12 | Fellow compelling former lover to renounce company | (co)gent leman (old word for a paramour, etc.) | 5.5 | 1 | ||
| 21 | 42 | Who, at sea after net is cast, might cause entanglement | ENTANGLEMENT = NET* + GENTLEMAN* | 5.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 23 | 15 | Gentile name, ie not fanciful fellow from Verona | gentile name, not (subtracting) ie = fodder; fanciful = anag. indicator; fellow from Verona = def. (ONE of Shakespeare’s “Two gentlemen”). | 5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 23 | 28 | Moliere’s bourgeois and a scholar as well | gentilhomme, ie gentleman, “and a scholar” | 5 | 0 | ||
| 25 | 1 | A civil service chappie and one of high standing | Double def. For the cryptic element 'civil service' = polite assistance. | 4 | 0 | ||
| 26 | 26 | Male customer sent back slice of tuna melt, neglected (9) | Definition: Male customer [referred to as "(the) gentleman" in a restaurant etc.]. Wordplay: reverse hidden, indicated by "sent back slice of…" Red herring: "melt" looks like an anagrind | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 26 | 41 | Vulgar Latin from eminent gallant, eccentric fellow (9) | Vulgar (anagrind) LATIN* from (subtraction) EMINENTGALLANT* eccentric (anagrind) fellow (definition) | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 28 | 11 | Fellow accompanied by elderly lover is a courteous and honourable one | GENT + LEMAN | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 29 | 23 | I lost to a non-believer? And to the principal, a refined male? | Gentile (=non-believer) minus i + main (=principal) also minus i/def. ("a refined male"). | 2.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 30 | 3 | Canny lad | Gentle+man (nice guy) | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| 30 | 6 | Elegant mink oddly modelled for M in Paris | ELEGANTM(i)N(k) anagram; M in Paris is abbrev. for monsieur = gentleman; James Bond's M has been a woman [Judy Dench] | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| 32 | 10 | Fed troubled teen lots to begin with in making finer person (9) | Anagram of TEEN + L inside G MAN (Fed.) | 1.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 33 | 4 | Dashing Glen meant to be gallant | Glen meant anag. | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| 33 | 22 | Hospitaller with the low-down on mental stress? | Def: Hospitaller (a kind of knight = GENTLEMAN). Low-down = GEN + MENTAL* = GENTLEMAN. | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 33 | 31 | No lady, Boris's sister-in-law, Amelia | Jo Johnson is married to Amelia Gentleman, the Guardian journalist and author | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| 33 | 34 | Preposterous tuna melt neglected rye. | Reversal (preposterous) tuNA MELT NEGlected +def (Rye= gypsy word for gentleman) *also rye = bread | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 37 | 8 | Entangle a thousand around an aristocrat | letters from ENTANGLE plus M (a thousand) turned around (the indicator for an anagram) give an aristocrat (Gentleman) | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 38 | 20 | He is good company. Mental, however ultimately fun (9) | Definition: He is good, company = GE mental* (-fu)N | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 38 | 24 | Info let out on British tax haven, am officer indicated | Info = GEN, let out = TLE, British tax haven = MAN, an officer indicated = def. | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 38 | 27 | Meghan lent preparation H relieving Prince Charming? | Anagram of 'Meghan lent' minus h | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
| 38 | 32 | Note on the French mother: a kind man first, briefly, and in full. | Note = N, on LE (the French) and MA (mother) and all of that (LEMAN) after GENT (a kind man first, briefly), and the cryptic definition is overlapped with "a kind man… in full" (i.e. not abbreviated as in GENT). | 0 | 0 | ||
| 38 | 37 | Rowdy neighbours entering disturbed elegant toff | Indirect: M and N are neighbours; 'rowdy' indicates they are inserted separately and out of order, disturbed = anag. indicator, ELEGANT = fodder Direct: toff | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 38 | 38 | Shandy for one, Ann and Mel get pop | *ANN + MEL GET; def. Shandy for one (ref. 'Tristram Shandy, Gentleman') | 0 | 1 |