CCCWC February 2011 competition results
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61 clues entered. 45 votes cast (41 competitors, 4 others).
SHERLOCK
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 57 | Tim Moorey | The man to crack case of slaughter on Strand | he in s(laughte)r + lock & lit | 47 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 24 | Mike Baker | He probes unusual cases of sinister criminal outbreak | HE in *(SR CL OK) &lit | 41 | 4 | 3 |
| 3 | 7 | James Glassonbury | Busy loan shark trades yen for sovereign (8) | busy (noun) = detective (Chambers); loan shark = Shylock, trades Y for ER. | 35.5 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 59 | John Tozer | Villain making Yard pause for thought? You'll need me | er for y in Shylock & lit.; Scotland Yard | 35 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | 21 | Pete Milne | Foremost among sleuths; that person with what it may take to close the case | S+HER(that person)+LOCK. &lit | 34.5 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | 5 | Luciano Ward | Busy bottle-washer locks bottles up (8) | Hidden; busy (n) = detective | 31 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | 37 | Siva Nair | "My brother is the flamboyant slick hero, not I", said Mycroft. (8) | [slick hero]*-i and &lit | 29 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | 51 | Martin Price | Spotted dick in baker's treat, we hear? | Def (dick = detective/sherlock)/baker's treat = Baker Street. | 28 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | 3 | Nick Smith | BBC drama queen left in shock | ER + L in SHOCK | 22 | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | 4 | Larry Baum | Brandeis's last pawn captures the final pieces of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. | Brandeis's last = S + pawn=HOCK around ERL (last pieces of Justice Oliver Wendell) Definition: Holmes | 21.5 | 1 | 4 |
| 11 | 35 | Missing racehorse. What's fishy about it disappearing…Hold on! He's the chap we want | SHERGAR – GAR (a pike-like fish) + LOCK. Ref. Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze | 20.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 12 | 17 | Dick ordered kosher with starters of chopped liver | Defn:Dick ;(kosher+cl)*, kosher used as noun ; chopped liver is a popular kosher dish often eaten as a starter | 20 | 1 | 1 | |
| 13 | 14 | Detective's role disguised in "The Empty House"? | *ROLE in SH(A)CK .Sherlock Holmes returned after his apparent death in " The Adventure Of The Empty House" disguised as an old bookseller. | 19 | 3 | 5 | |
| 14 | 15 | Dick Dastardly`s penultimate shocker…bananas! (8) | Definition…DICK, Anagram, indicated by BANANAS, of L+SHOCKER | 14.5 | 1 | 3 | |
| 15 | 13 | Detective woman with red hair ? | SHE-R-LOCK | 14 | 0 | 6 | |
| 15 | 44 | Real shock if this amateur were baffled? | Comp. anag. *REAL SHOCK = SHERLOCK + A (amateur); &lit. | 14 | 2 | 2 | |
| 17 | 8 | Busy Queen wearing something inferior? | BUSY (def); ER in SHLOCK | 13.5 | 3 | 1 | |
| 18 | 38 | One adept at unearthing clues finally spots lady's hair | spot(S) + HER LOCK | 12.5 | 2 | ||
| 19 | 18 | Dismay about noble lacking a dick | SH {E{-A}RL} OCK | 11.5 | 2 | 5 | |
| 20 | 9 | Clerk's outlandish case possibly Holmes's first | anag clerks & o(utlandis)h; def=Holmes's first (NB stockbroker's clerk genuine Holmes case) | 11 | 1 | 1 | |
| 21 | 2 | A bit of Spanish fly leads to OTT carnal knowledge, I notice – and how! | S(panish) + herl + first letters o, c, k. | 10 | 0 | 2 | |
| 22 | 25 | Her lock's cracked; his case is closed | Anag & sleuth hint | 9.5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 23 | 29 | I’ll find crook without fear, not counting the odds | er in shlock & lit.: crook = inferior = shlock | 8.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 23 | 45 | Shock about Queen and Labour leader, reveals sleuth. | Shock about er and l (labour leader) | 8.5 | 0 | ||
| 25 | 26 | He’s hired to investigate electric convulsion surrounding origins of equine racing’s loss | "He's hired to investigate" = def.; SHOCK around inits E+R+L. Ref: February's events at Newbury. | 8 | 2 | 2 | |
| 26 | 43 | Rarely one escaped from slick hero | Anag less i & lit; rarely=uncommonly | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
| 27 | 50 | Some dick wandering about Libya's capital in shock | Defn:Some dick; sh(re*+l)ock; Ref: Gaddafi | 5.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| 28 | 49 | Smart detective undid her locks | Anagram of 'her locks' | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
| 29 | 53 | 'tec of inferior quality admitting eccentricity before end of career | SHLOCK around E + (caree)R | 4.5 | 1 | ||
| 29 | 61 | Woman's left in tricky situation – can he help? | SHE + L in ROCK | 4.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 31 | 16 | Dick left after Liz, in shock. | SH (ER)(L) OCK. Dick = def, Liz = ER, left = L | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| 31 | 36 | Money missing from shop! Clerk ordered for a detective (8) | Anagram of (shop clerk minus p (money)). a detective – defn. | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| 33 | 11 | detective finds woman's hair after first of September | detective = definition wordplay: first of Sept = S + her + lock | 3.5 | 0 | ||
| 34 | 12 | Detective Holmes right perplexed to lose Moriarty's lead around the centre of Hackney | Defn: Detective; (HOLMES,R)* – M(oriarty) + C(=around) + (hac)K(ney) | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 34 | 47 | Sleuth hesitates, left in complete surprise (8) | Sleuth (Definition) hesitates (ER) left (L) in (position indicator) complete surprise (SH OCK) | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| 36 | 22 | He deduced the soprano's key entry point | Holmes' speciality was deduction. S(oprano, as in SATB) + her lock | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 36 | 34 | Miss Sutherland's hair, perhaps, arranged to solve a case of identity. | Her locks (anag); Miss Sutherland is the client in "A Case of Identity" (Adventure III, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| 38 | 23 | He probed privately when peer went into shock after a thievery (8) | DEF: He probed privately WP: ERL ( Earl/peer after 'a' thievery i.e. removal of 'a') went into SHOCK: SH(ERL)OCK | 1.5 | 0 | ||
| 38 | 39 | Perhaps Ellery Queen is clothed in shoddy | ER in shlock = clothed in shoddy (adj.). Def is "perhaps Ellery", surely just as fitting a def as the forename Sherlock. | 1.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 40 | 1 | A ——— amazed you ultimately — sorting out hard clues, OK? | comp. anag. incl. d, u & lit. | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 40 | 27 | Holmes in The Crooked Man, solved without using one main method? Yes and no | Comp Anag (SHERLOCK + ONE MAIN METHOD > HOLMES IN THE CROOKED MAN); & lit | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 40 | 40 | Positive Ness speaks like a detective. | Sounds like "sure loch":(loch = Loch Ness and Ness = FBI agent Eliot Ness) + def. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 40 | 55 | The detective turned over rock and shell without a trace of luck | anag.; trace of luck = L | 1 | 0 | ||
| 40 | 56 | The genius of Doyle: a Mystery writer pronouncedly into Horror | SH(ERL)OCK (Erle hom.) | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 45 | 32 | Me, me? I'm no Holmes monicker – how odd! | Comp. anag. me(1)=SHERLOCK + ME I'M NO, me(2) should be italicised (but only for dramatic effect!) | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 41 | Private Dick Lambert exposed in shocker in the toilet | Private Dick = def. + L in shocker*/ in the toilet = anagram indicator | 0.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 45 | 42 | Quiet seizure of coke – Stevenson involved in investigating user | Def: investigating user (Holmes had a drug habit); Clue: Quiet = SH, COKE (anag = seizure), RL (Robert Louis Stevenson) | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 48 | 6 | Busy line obtained by shocker on the switch | l in *(shocker); def: Busy = detective | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 48 | 10 | Clouseau:"dat's what I said, Hums"(8) | direct = Clouseau; Hums = Holmes = Sherlock (said = indicator) In same manner as in movie, when he ordered a room: rum ! | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 48 | 19 | Fed son poison withdrawing millions…keep reading (8) | S (son) + R (reading) in HE(m)LOCK. Fed (def: FBI agent – a detective – 'sherlock' apparently not limited to British usage). | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| 48 | 20 | Footballer's girl almost leaves evil man for that lady detective | WA(G) leaves WARLOCK, replaced by SHE | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 48 | 28 | I investigate an actor, not cast in a Jewish part | SHER [actor Anthony] + (SHYLOCK – SHY [to cast]), Shylock being the Jew in The Merchant of Venice. | 0 | 3 | 2 | |
| 48 | 30 | Indian tiger's hair for detective | SHER (Hindi/Urdu word for 'tiger', cf. Shere Khan of the Jungle Book stories) + LOCK (hair) | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 48 | 31 | Investigator revealed in bombshell ultimately Jane Russell lost heart | (janE + RusselL) in SHOCK | 0 | 1 | ||
| 48 | 33 | Merchant of Venice swaps the unknown for Queen Scarlet's hero | SHYLOCK with Y changed to ER. Omitting the THE at the start should suggest A merchant (Shylock) rather that THE merchant (Antonio). Definition refers to A Study in Scarlet. | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 48 | 46 | Situation where you'll find theater of inferior quality enthralling? With Holmes, perhaps? | ER in shlock; ref. Katy Holmes | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 48 | 48 | Sleuth takes blow and injects diamorphine before capturing a fugitive earl (8) | SOCK {blow} with insertion of H {diamorphine} and E(A)RL. | 0 | 1 | ||
| 48 | 52 | Taking about turn, jealous type shakes off unknown private eye (8) | Jealous type (=SHYLOCK) shakes off (ie loses) unknown (Y) and takes about turn (RE backwards) to get private eye (=SHERLOCK) | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| 48 | 54 | That which happens to sheep in Spring, on Baker Street mysteriously, save for the alphabet's first and plural. | "SHEAR LOCKS" -minus the A and final S, Holmes' known address being 222 Baker Street | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 48 | 58 | Victorian cast copper handle (one of a pair)! | c1887, cast = characterized, copper = one who cop's villains,handle = name (One of a pair = Sherlock of Sherlock Holmes)! | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 48 | 60 | Who is the man with odd role in hit novels? (8) | Who is HE (the man) with RL (odd RoLe)in (c/c indicator) SOCK (hit) novels? S{HE}{RL}OCK | 0 | 0 | 4 |