CCCWC October 2010 competition results
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58 clues entered. 43 votes cast (41 competitors, 2 others).
CAPTURE
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | Paul Coulter | Put suspect in custody | CA(PTU)RE (put* & lit.) | 72.5 | 6 |
| 2 | 5 | Tim Moorey | Alternatively, put into custody | anag in care & lit | 43 | 5 |
| 3 | 18 | Luciano Ward | Cop put vagrant in custody | PUT* in CARE; cop (vb) = def. | 32.5 | 3 |
| 4 | 12 | Margaret Irvine | Bone likely in kipper | apt in cure(=kipper, verb); C has bone=seize, nab | 32 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | Dave Parfitt | A cute move involving pawn and rook? | A CUTE anag. inc. P and R & lit.; move = verb | 31 | |
| 6 | 19 | Richard Saunders | Curate fidgets with priest collar | CURATE P * See Chambers for priest = P, collar = to seize or arrest (Slang) | 27 | 2 |
| 7 | 35 | Peter Cargill | Nick, carve, cut and pare | Nick=def; 'carve' cut+pare* | 26 | 1 |
| 8 | 26 | John Tozer | Fitting's correct around collar | apt in cure | 21.5 | 2 |
| 9 | 56 | Eddie Looby | Trained curate receives priest's collar | P in anag CURATE | 19 | 1 |
| 10 | 47 | John Tabraham | Take medicine to stifle fit | APT in CURE | 18.5 | 3 |
| 11 | 10 | Arrest likely under cover of smoke. | Arrest = capture. Likely = apt. Smoke = cure | 17 | 2 | |
| 11 | 43 | Seizure treatment suppresses fitting | APT in CURE | 17 | 2 | |
| 13 | 53 | Take up crate manufacturing | 15.5 | 2 | ||
| 14 | 2 | A computer out of order corrupted input | anag. less OM | 15 | 2 | |
| 14 | 15 | Castle taking queen in opening? | C (castle) + APERTURE (opening) minus ER (queen) &lit. C = castle is in some but not all versions of Chambers | 15 | 2 | |
| 14 | 31 | Leader of Chile meets with joy first miner finally escaping trap | C + (r)apture: ref. TV coverage of mine rescue | 15 | 3 | |
| 17 | 29 | Hook, well timed, thrown in temper | defn; = apt inside cure (verb) | 12.5 | 2 | |
| 18 | 16 | Chile's premier round hole without hesitation to take men out | Defn: to take men out = to capture (chess); c+ap(er)ture; Ref: Chilean president's prominent role in miners' rescue | 12 | 1 | |
| 19 | 34 | Nick becomes a surprisingly cute pal, switching from left to right. | CUTEPAL anagram with R for L. Defn Nick (in The Chambers Thesaurus) | 11.5 | 1 | |
| 19 | 39 | Priest and Curate's wrongful arrest | (P + CURATE)* | 11.5 | 1 | |
| 21 | 21 | Dog has fit in drug bust (7) | C(APT)UR, plus E. BUST = CAPTURE | 10.5 | 3 | |
| 21 | 50 | Take round suitable medicine. | Take = capture, round suitable (apt) is medicine (cure). | 10.5 | ||
| 23 | 41 | See queen coming out in opening to make this? | See = C + Opening = AP(ER)TURE; &lit., chess | 10 | 2 | |
| 24 | 28 | Having a smoke and fitting in? You'll get detention | APT in CURE | 9.5 | ||
| 25 | 38 | Press denied access to corrupt Puerto Rican cop | [PUERTO RICAN]* minus IRON (press); def. = cop | 9 | ||
| 26 | 45 | Take care after swallowing the odd half of Petrus! | ca+(p+t+u)+re; Defn: take | 8 | ||
| 26 | 49 | Take quiet curate dancing. | p(quiet)+curate anagram indicated by "dancing". "Take" definition. | 8 | 2 | |
| 28 | 8 | Arrest canine before one starts treading in dog's mess | c = canine; a; t in pure (see C). | 6 | 1 | |
| 28 | 11 | Arrest of odd coal pit ouvrier | Alternate letters | 6 | 1 | |
| 30 | 51 | Take small apartment? Smoke outside! | CAPTURE = Take : C-APT-URE | 5.5 | 2 | |
| 31 | 30 | Land where Dormouse's third teacup is broken | Def = land. Anag of R + TEACUP | 5 | 2 | |
| 31 | 32 | Nail Premier's coffin and pray the undertaker rests eternally! | Nail=def; Premier's=first letters from the 7 words | 5 | 2 | |
| 33 | 48 | Take possession of small apartment and restore outside | c (apt) ure | 4 | 1 | |
| 33 | 52 | Take That's to cover track originally written by Midge of Ultravox | cap, t, Ure | 4 | ||
| 35 | 55 | Teacup storms over right to computerise ID card info? | (teacup)* inc. r | 3.5 | 1 | |
| 35 | 57 | Transport minister finally dismissed after getting caught in trap | Rapture minus r + c | 3.5 | ||
| 37 | 14 | Capon: Turkey missing knobby skin bag. | 'cap' is on 'ture' (missing outside or skin of knobby ie 'ky'); bag = def. | 3 | 1 | |
| 38 | 4 | Act pure around beach. | Anag – Act pure, Def – beach (verb) | 2.5 | 1 | |
| 38 | 54 | Taking skipper shortly by water through Ripon | taking=def.; skipper shortly=Capt., by=alongside, water through Ripon=Ure (river) | 2.5 | 1 | |
| 40 | 23 | Eerily in outer space, no noise, only vacuum? | Comp Anag IN OUTER SPACE – NOISE : vacuum ~ capture (dust) | 1.5 | 1 | |
| 40 | 25 | First cameraman arranges posers, then, ultimately renders exquisite picture. | First [c]ameraman [a]rranges [p]osers, [t]hen, [u]ltimately [r]enders [e]xquisite (picture = def to succeed in recording (a subtle quality, etc) • The camera captured her smile. | 1.5 | ||
| 42 | 27 | Gain and lose particle from plutonium reaction | Gain = defn; Pu (plutonium) + reaction – ion (anag) | 1 | ||
| 43 | 36 | Oddfellow's about fit to bust. | C(apt)ure (cure = "an odd or queer person")/def. (bust = arrest [N Am]). | 0.5 | ||
| 43 | 42 | Seize agitated puce rat (7) | Seize (def.) agitated(anag.ind.) puce rat(anag) | 0.5 | 1 | |
| 45 | 6 | An aspiring pedagogue is overcome by smoke possibly leading to seizure | A P(upil)T(eacher) inside CURE (= “smoke possibly”). Definition: seizure. | 0 | ||
| 45 | 7 | Appropriate with smoke around? | apt in cure, &lit.; appropriate a verb in the definition, an adjective in the wordplay; in an old battle a capture could well have been accompanied by the smoke of cannons | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 9 | Arrest corrupt player abusing odds in both instances | anagram of odd letters of CoRrUpT and PlAyEr | 0 | ||
| 45 | 13 | Capital expenditure, deducting provisional subject a law previously committed to paper, I take as a prize | Delete (it + a + lex + pend + I) from (capital expenditure) | 0 | 2 | |
| 45 | 17 | Control summit primarily through endless fertilizer ingredient (7) | Control = definition; summit = CAP; primarily through = T; endless fertilizer ingredient = URE(-A) | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 20 | Cut and reap if you want to seize it! | anag.cut+reap = capture/seize | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 22 | Dr.Robert.G.Edwards was the right choice (in medicine) to get the prize | was the right choice – apt . medicine – cure. *Def.to get the prize – capture *ref Dr.Edwards winning the 2010 Nobel prize in medicine | 0 | 2 | |
| 45 | 24 | Escape is only possible following this officer, you're told | CAPT + YOU'RE sounds like URE | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 33 | Net return of treadmill — splitting head (7) | RUT rev in CAPE | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 37 | Pinch hat not like mine. | Pinch = arrest/capture. hat = cap. not mine = your (like ure) | 0 | 2 | |
| 45 | 44 | Take an exercise class suitable for anyone in pain | ( PT + U ) in care | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 46 | Take control of apartment held by oddball | APT in CURE (=an odd person) | 0 | ||
| 45 | 58 | "True Grit", with large screen (7) | direct = screen large = CAP, true = TURE (grit = anagram indicator) | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 59 | Worry about exercise for all is appropriate. | PT + U in CARE. Def: "appropriate" (vb) | 0 | 2 |