CCCWC June 2020 competition results
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54 clues entered. 47 votes cast (39 competitors, 8 others).
THE YOUNG ONES
When I set this clue phrase I was intrigued to see the mix between clues that referenced Cliff Richard, one of my all-time favourite comedies and "straight" definitions. Well, the results are in…and Sir Cliff won!
It was a close-run competition and although you managed to keep him off the podium for one month, Steve Randall returns in style! A lovely anagram with a neat subtraction giving him his second win and fourth podium of the year – well done sir!
John Tozer just failed to make it consecutive victories being squeezed into 2nd spot – another very clever anagram, this time referencing the classic comedy show.
We have a new name taking third. After a handful of entries Vina achieves a first podium placing with a "straight" definition to augment another neat anagram – welcome to the higher echelons!
Another debut appearance on the podium in fourth position – so welcome to Steve Ball with a clue that references the Cliff song rather than the film. A neat seamless transition between definition and wordplay. Congrats to Steve!
A familiar name completes the top 5; Luciano displays his usual adeptness in forming an &lit clue, his second podium of the year.
Thanks to all, and on to July!
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Steve Randall | 60s film not sexy enough when sloppy kiss cut | NOTSEXYENOUGH* – X | 53.5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 3 | John Tozer | Anarchic Gen X comedy outshone Gen Y rubbish | anag., ref. 1980s TV series | 50.5 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | Vina | Absurdly, no-one yet hugs grandchildren for instance | Anagram of <no-one yet hugs>. Definition, grandchildren for instance. Reference to lockdown restrictions | 47 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 24 | Steve Ball | It's a song people love, one sung all over the place | THEY + O + ONESUNG* | 35.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | 40 | Luciano Ward | Teen song you associate with Richard, essentially? | (TEEN + SONG + YOU + H) anagram; &lit. ref to Cliff Richard song | 29 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | 41 | Rod Beards | Teen song youth played, top of the pops | Anagram TEEN SONG YOUTH, minus T: top of the = T, pops = goes suddenly. &lit – song went to number one for Cliff | 28.5 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | 27 | Roslyn Rougvie | No toy guns here – skipping ropes primarily diverting children | (notoyguns)* – r ; anagrind = diverting; def = children | 25.5 | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | 43 | mark webberley | The guys on one outlandish TV programme! | Anagram/semi-&lit | 22.5 | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | 28 | Dave Williams | No-one got upset with the guys in this show | anag. *(NO-ONE + THE GUYS) | 21.5 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | 30 | jimmosco@uwo.ca | One honest guy roughed up by kindergarten class | One honest guy (fodder); roughed up (anag ind); kindergarten class (def) | 21 | 0 | |
| 11 | 10 | Cliff air reinvigorated one honest guy (3,5,4) | Hit single for Cliff Richard – anagram | 20 | 3 | 1 | |
| 12 | 25 | Kids splashing honey on guest | (HONEYONGUEST)* | 19.5 | 3 | 1 | |
| 13 | 18 | Free-range hens: You get no small eggs from them! | Free-range = anagrind; Hens you get no = fodder; small eggs from them! = definition | 15 | 2 | 1 | |
| 13 | 33 | Scumbag College housemates tongue honeys with gusto | (tongue honeys)* | 15 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | 17 | Frantic, you then disappeared with small children (3,5,4) | frantic – anagram indicator (you then * ) disappeared=gone, S . Children – def | 14.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 16 | 4 | Bananas not enough? Yes, for children (3,5,4) | Definition – children. [not enough yes]* indicated by bananas. | 14 | 3 | 1 | |
| 17 | 12 | Cliff track found on Guernsey, overlooking rock face to west of Herm (3,5,4) | Definition: Cliff track [=song by Cliff (Richard)] | Wordplay: (ON GUERNSEY -R TO H)* [anagrind: found] | Guernsey and Herm are neighbouring Channel Islands | 13 | 2 | 3 | |
| 17 | 15 | Definitive article Jung once slightly misquoted raises particular issues | Definitive article (The); Jung(young) once(ones) slightly misquoted (homophone! ind) = particular issues (def) | 13 | 0 | 3 | |
| 19 | 29 | Not a good song, yet enough play Elton's 80s hit | *SON(G) YET ENOUGH; def. Elton's 80s hit | 10.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 19 | 36 | Show the calves? | Double def | 10.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| 19 | 52 | Yes, not enough rocking in film from Cliff | (YES NOT ENOUGH)* | 10.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 22 | 16 | Elton's first hit single, from the early '60s (3,5,4) | DD. The '80s comedy was Ben Elton's first tv success, Cliff's single released in 1962. Elton John (born 1947) successful later. | 10 | 3 | 1 | |
| 22 | 39 | Teen guys hoon around making anarchic sitcom. | "Teen guys hoon" anag, "around' suggests rearrangement, resulting in definition. | 10 | 2 | 3 | |
| 24 | 38 | Students ran wild in this house, with oddly tangy rum left inside | Students ran wild in this = definition, anagram of (HOUSE+TNY) containing (GONE = left) | 8 | 0 | 1 | |
| 25 | 34 | Shadows hit an arrangement of nearly enough honesty | ENOUG + HONESTY anag | 7.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 26 | 37 | Song with youth seen shuffling about (no 'Elvis' ultimately!) | (anag.less s & lit., ref. Cliff Richard) | 6.5 | 2 | 2 | |
| 27 | 11 | Cliff sung one version. The boy (no bachelor) joined in (3,5,4) | anag. SUNG ONE THE OY & lit | 6 | 2 | 3 | |
| 27 | 20 | Honey 'nut' goes mad in TV show | def: TV show (Honey nut goes)* anagrind: mad | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
| 29 | 8 | Children's TV show | DD Ie Children/is/TV show | 5.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 29 | 19 | Having rejected Diamond, play honey-tongued singer's first hit (3 5 4) | Honey-tongued s = anagram fodder, Having rejected Diamond = omit d , play = anagrind, + hit = definition | 5.5 | 1 | ||
| 29 | 35 | Show students depicted in Stonehenge rave endlessly entertaining you | Def: "Show students depicted in", YOU in STONEHENG(E)* (rave = anagrind, endlessly for curtailment) | 5.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 29 | 49 | TV comedy's anarchic? Yes, not enough! | Anagram – fodder = YES NOT ENOUGH, indicator = anarchic | 5.5 | 0 | ||
| 33 | 5 | Before university, they regularly snog on pills? Could be an episode of this (3,5,4) | Before – position, university – OU, they – THEY, regularly snog – NG, on – ON, pills – ES. Could be an episode of this – def using wordplay for context, referencing the anarchic sitcom | 5 | 2 | 2 | |
| 33 | 42 | That 80's Show was bit boring (3,5,4) | CD. BORING was an episode of 'The Young Ones'. 'That 80's Show' was an American sitcom (Jan-May 2000). Unlike the super successful 'That 70's Show'(1998-2006), the spin-off failed miserably and was cut short. Of course, TYO was actually an 80's show. | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 33 | 51 | Yes, not enough is done for American children | Yes not enough = anagram fodder: is done (for) = anagrind (whether used with or without 'for' which otherwise would be the link word to def); American children = def (Collins American English) | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 33 | 54 | Youths, for example, none doddery? | *YOUTHS+EG+NONE; doddery=old/anag indicator | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 37 | 48 | Tiny tots are grown ups on radio? (3,5,4) | Tiny tots is the def/ homophone clue with on radio as HP indicator/grown ups can be described as The young once | 4.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 38 | 45 | There's a song to be sung by them best, brags composition | (the young ones best brags)* = there's a song to be sung by, comp. anag. & lit. | 4 | 0 | 2 | |
| 38 | 46 | These, mostly junior 11, are all kids. | These mostly (THE), junior (YOUNG), 11 (ONES). DEF "All kids" | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| 40 | 50 | Yes, not enough acting in this film | YESNOTENOUGH* Not impressive acting by Cliff Richard in the film | 3 | 3 | ||
| 41 | 31 | One of Cliff’s film musicals has honey-tongued characters lacking drama initially but achieving vigorous finale. | anagram of honey-tongued minus D plus S | 2.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 41 | 32 | Plumber finally makes way for one guy specializing in potties for toddlers (3,5,4) | Def: toddlers. R {plumber, finally} replaced by {makes way for} E YOUNG {ONEGUY*, with "specializing" as the anagrind} in THRONES {potties}. | 2.5 | 0 | ||
| 43 | 14 | Cliff's would have been illegitimate, if he had remained a Bachelor Boy. | Cliff Richard hits..Bachelor Boy & The Young Ones. | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 43 | 22 | Is this what Ben Elton would call Falkirk F.C.? | And lit. Falkirk F.C. known as 'The Bairns'. Bairn is Scottish/Scots for child. Ben Elton co-creator of "The Young Ones". | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 43 | 44 | The rising generation – they regularly hot up no-go jokes | THEY + (h)O(t)U(p)N(o)G(o) + ONES | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| 43 | 53 | Youth seen on idiot box leading in gag show | youth seen on* outside g(leading in gag); idiot(adj) as anag. ind.; def show(TV) (but also an all in one clue) | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| 47 | 9 | Cliff air in 1961 concerned minor group of the population | DD. CLIFF = singer and steep rock face; AIR = what one breathes in and song; MINOR GROUP OF THE POPULATION = small group and younger members. | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 47 | 13 | Cliff's hit with fledglings and juveniles, for instance | Double definition perhaps or single one? Cliff Richard's 60s hit song; fledglings and juveniles are the young ones who might find a cliff 'a hit' (appealing). | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 47 | 21 | I'm backing opponents of gun reform making a film | They (opponents in bridge) + o' (of) + gun* (reform as a noun) + one's (I'm) | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 50 | 6 | Book, film, TV series … three words | Not cryptic at all – just a charade! | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 50 | 7 | Brains developed in bars? With non-use they go to waste. | Def: BRAINS (developed*) IN BARS? / Wordplay: with NON-USE THEY GO (to waste*) “non-use” is in ODE. | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 50 | 23 | It sounds like a male shows the sprogs. | Rik Mayall (of TV series/show "The Young Ones") ie: "a Mayall show is"– homophone/def. | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 50 | 26 | Little lambs, they bound out of bounds, southbound (3,5,4) | Little lambs = The Young Ones; THE/Y (B)OUN(D) G/ONE S(south) = southbound | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 50 | 47 | They essentially sound almost close to psychos in extremely graphic nineteen eighties sitcom (3,5,4) | THE Y ("They") + OUN ("essentially sound") + [O ("almost close to psychos") placed in GNES ("extremely" = first letters of "graphic nineteen eighties sitcom"] = &lit. | 0 | 1 | 3 |