CCCWC Christmas Special 2011 competition results
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33 clues entered. 30 votes cast (27 competitors, 3 others).
PARTRIDGE in a PEAR TREE (2 defs. + letter mixture)
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Roslyn Rougvie | A Greek obelisk is a giant pointed projection | Grebe/oak ogre/beak. Letter mixture – A GREEK OBelisk. Defs: a giant, pointed projection | 39.5 | 0 | |
| 2 | 23 | Dave Parfitt | Monster bill left me mega broke! | GREBE in OAK = OGRE/BEAK; (left me m)EGA BROKE | 38.5 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 20 | John McCabe | Legs get weaker, causing new pains. | Defs: legs=pins, get weaker=wane; letter mixture=NEW PAINS; bird=swan, tree=pine | 37 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 11 | John Tozer | Fiend broke a gent's nose | oak/grebe; ogre (fiend) beak (nose); BROKE A GEnt's | 27 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 33 | Shyam | Use red ink to pen letter | PIN{K NOT}E; PINK: red; NOTE: letter, (INK TO PEN)* | 21 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 27 | Kathy Martin | Pathetic urge to go after cheap fuel. | Bird: tit (small songbird, Concise Oxford); Tree: peach: peat/itch (peat – cheap fuel, itch – urge) Mixture: Pathetic | 19.5 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 10 | Barry Solomons | Fearsome brute in a rage broke nose. | oak/grebe..o(grebe)ak…ogre (f.brute) beak (nose)..r/age broke | 19 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 16 | Paul Coulter | How celebs lose hanger-on | OWL, BEECH; BOW, LEECH | 19 | 0 | |
| 9 | 4 | John Appleton | Bold rebellion against whip, perhaps, from a nervy backbencher | RAVEN in BAY = BRAVE/NAY; Defs = "Bold" and "rebellion against whip, perhaps"; mixture = (A NERVY BA)ckbencher. | 17.5 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 26 | Eryl Bassett | Passé Doctor Who celebrity is employed by The Archers | OWL in BEECH gives BOW (employed by archers) + LEECH (archaic or passé doctor). Mixture = WHO CELEBrity | 17 | 0 | |
| 11 | 17 | I scrambled egg and lemon | GLEDE in MANGO = MANGLED EGO; I = EGO, scrambled = MANGLED; *EGGANDLEMO | 16.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 12 | 13 | Giant bill – a Greek bother? | GREBE in OAK, OGRE BEAK, A GREEK BOther | 14.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 13 | 5 | Concur with nonsense; go sheer bananas! | Defs SHAG/BOREE = BOSH/AGREE: letter mixture = GO SHEER BAnanas | 13.5 | 0 | ||
| 14 | 32 | Thin metal spears reduce new pains. | Thin metal spears = PINS; reduce = WANE; new pains = *PINSWANE* (SWAN in PINE) | 13 | 0 | ||
| 15 | 14 | Giant old prow of Greek boat | tree = OAK; bird = GREBE: OAK/GREBE – OGRE/BEAK; defs: OGRE = "giant"; BEAK = "old prow" (beak is an old word for the prow of a ship); letter mixture = GREEK BOAt | 12 | 0 | ||
| 16 | 3 | Bill, a Greek boy, and a mythical monster | GREBE in OAK to give OGRE/BEAK. Letter mixture is in AGREEKBOy | 11.5 | 0 | ||
| 17 | 29 | Revolutionary flag reveals bare legs! | Combination: SAL/GREBE – SAG/REBEL. Defs: "revolutionary" and "flag". Letter mixture: BARE LEGS. | 8 | 0 | ||
| 18 | 9 | Expression of disgust crosses face of one hearing a gue I'm fiddling with | EMU in a FIG tree : FIE/MUG | 7.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 19 | 15 | Greens' alert? Back Gore perhaps | TERN in SAL (tree); STERNAL; back = stern, Al = Gore | 6 | 1 | 1 | |
| 19 | 18 | Lack heart to take time off from working, chief? | KEA/LARCH : LAKE/ARCH : LACKHEAR(-t)* : lake – see Chambers (4) | 6 | 0 | ||
| 19 | 31 | That dude is allowed to give our boy Koranic lessons? | BAY/ROOK; BRO/OKAY; [BOY KORA]nic; dude = bro; allowed = okay | 6 | 0 | ||
| 22 | 2 | Bar excess? Drive foolishly! | FID/OVER: DOVE in FIR, over,n.; ref. Don't drink and drive! | 5.5 | 1 | ||
| 23 | 28 | Retired physician to bend body below chest | Letter mixture: [BELOWCHE]st Defs: "to bend body" "retired physician" BOW / LEECH … OWL in BEECH | 5 | 0 | ||
| 24 | 12 | Forlorn dragon eager to unsettle heart, perhaps? | gander/orange – organ/derange. defs: heart, perhaps/to unsettle. forlorN DRAGON EAGER | 4.5 | 0 | ||
| 25 | 6 | Course a captive lion wept! | OWL/PINE; POW(a captive) LINE(course); LIONWEPt | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| 25 | 19 | Legendary fraulein, rescued from obscurity by the zeal German brothers had. | egret / hazel – haze / Gretel: haze = obscurity: Gretel = legendary fraulein: THE ZEAL GERman: ref the Brothers Grimm who republished the story of Hansel and Gretel | 3 | 0 | 2 | |
| 25 | 21 | Low krill waste is aim for Irish port? | LARK/WILLOW = WILL/ARKLOW [anag. LOWKRILLWA; defs. aim for = will(verb), Irish port = Arklow] | 3 | 0 | ||
| 25 | 24 | Noel's band and Ray Davies rendezvous at Ian's kiosk | Noel's band = Oasis, Ray Davies = Kink, OA sis kin K – oak and siskin | 3 | 0 | ||
| 29 | 7 | Customise law to make openings in Scotland flexible | M/OUS EL/ASTIC. "Mou" is Scots for mouth & "Mastic" the tree from which mastic comes – see Chambers. | 2.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 29 | 25 | Northern play… accomplished in chalk-area. | LAKE/ARCH (KEA in LARCH): LAKE (vb to play; N England) CHALK AREa | 2.5 | 0 | ||
| 31 | 22 | Miserly père earns a noble | PE(ER/NE)AR | 2 | 0 | ||
| 32 | 8 | Dive for sailor's tool under counter | DOVE/FIR FID/OVER DIVEFOR* 'sailor's tool' 'under counter(opposite)' (counter = overhang of ship's stern) | 0 | 0 | ||
| 32 | 30 | Slow Rasta dub by Indian clerks | BUSTARD/BAY — BABUS/TARDY — (RASTA DUB BY)* | 0 | 0 |