CCCWC September 2012 competition results
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37 clues entered. 41 votes cast (32 competitors, 9 others).
GUESTIMATE
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | Mike Davies | Get a sum with it worked out on back of envelope? | (get a sum it) worked out (anag ind)+ (envelop)e =guestimate (verb cf Chambers 11th ed); def is whole &lit | 62.5 | 1 | |
| 2 | 33 | Pete Milne | Use it to work out large number in crowd? | USEIT* + M (large number) in GATE (crowd) | 45.5 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 25 | John Tozer | Roaming estate, I mug and stab | anag. | 44 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 24 | Kathy Martin | Revised ETA? I use GMT to give a rough indication. | Anag. of "ETA I use GMT" and def. | 39 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | 27 | Mike Baker | Struggling at sum? I get close to value | Anagram of (AT SUM I GET) + E, & Lit. | 36.5 | 0 | |
| 6 | 14 | Vinit Wankhede | Get me a suit fit for a round figure (10) | GETMEASUIT* , Fit as a spasm; round figure can be guestimate in sense of approximation | 35.5 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 3 | Margaret Irvine | A sum I get wildly, support ultimately lacking | A sum I get* + te(e) &lit | 35 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | 34 | Andrew Mulholland | Visitor I'm worried will make an uninformed judgement | GUEST + IM + ATE | 26.5 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | 1 | David Harry | A dodgy figure, on the fiddle, violent at times | gue + anag. 'at times' | 26 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 23 | Don Manley | 'Mr Smith' staying at hotel with one 'Mrs Smith'? It could be what you reckon! | guest + I + mate, ref. suspicion of couple having affair | 23 | 3 | 2 |
| 11 | 2 | A result of straw poll in e.g. USA…Mitt agitated before start of election? | straw poll = guestimate….(anag) e.g. USA Mitt (Romney)..…start of (e)lection. | 15 | 2 | ||
| 11 | 13 | Get at sum creatively with a bit of exaggeration | (GET AT SUM)* contains I + Exaggeration & lit. | 15 | 2 | 2 | |
| 13 | 21 | Leaving Earth use time gate – Doctor Who knows when | Anag. use time gate minus e | 14 | 0 | 3 | |
| 14 | 4 | Adding energy, I must get a different answer, more or less | "E" in anag of "I must get a"; def="answer, more or less" | 13.5 | 1 | ||
| 15 | 26 | Stab in the dark's missing by miles somehow – sadly it must be my age! | (IT MUST BE MY AGE)* minus (BY M)* …(yes, both anagrinds required) | 12.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 16 | 10 | Carelessly tag item, use an approximation | *( tagitemuse) | 12 | 4 | ||
| 17 | 30 | The visitor, me, and a friend, I think? (10) | GUEST + I + MATE | 10.5 | 2 | 3 | |
| 18 | 17 | I'm worried after visitor provokes a hunchbacked figure! (10) | I'M ATE after GUEST; provokes = brings about; a hunchbacked figure! = estimate (figure) backed by a hunch (guess) | 8.5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 19 | 20 | Judge charging me with a suit? Get off! | Anag. ME+A+SUIT+GET | 8 | 0 | 3 | |
| 19 | 36 | With no knowledge, roughly work out most of movement and accompany on viol | (STI[r] + MATE) after GUE | 8 | 0 | 1 | |
| 21 | 9 | Bent must get regular game, I reckon | (MUST GET [g]A[m]E I)*; def = "reckon". Ref. footballer Darren Bent. | 6 | 0 | 4 | |
| 22 | 15 | Half guru, half priest, I mount a conjecture | GUru + priEST + I + mate = def | 5.5 | 0 | ||
| 23 | 16 | I have it away with lodger maybe on top – a rough number! | Guest + I + mate/def (number = "a girl" [slang]). | 5 | 1 | 3 | |
| 23 | 19 | "It's within" argues Tim at examination of quick forecast(10) | direct = quick forecast ; it's within = indicator; container: arGUES TIM AT Examination | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 23 | 28 | Suggest a time for refurbishment without good survey initially? | anag less g s & lit | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 23 | 31 | THREE lumps of sugar with tea? And time for stirring? | anagram: s, u, g, tea, time (& lit. examples) | 5 | 1 | 5 | |
| 27 | 37 | Without sufficient evidence one can form an approximate judgement with a guest item! | Anagram: a guest item | 4 | 0 | 3 | |
| 28 | 5 | Aegist mute distributed thereabouts(10) | anagram(aegist mute) indicator(distributed) definition(thereabouts) | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 28 | 7 | Ballpark figure to be made from instruments I'm to show in Tate | GUES + (I'M in TATE) | 3 | 1 | ||
| 30 | 8 | Base calculation on limited knowledge and surprisingly amuse – get it? | AMUSE GET IT* | 2.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 31 | 6 | and this approximation gives order of a set magnitude. | comp anagram; and guestimate = (a set magnitude)* | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| 31 | 11 | Company contacts team I treated roughly in the ballpark | Company = GUEST contacts 'TEAM I' (anagram) / anagram indicator = treated / def: roughly in the ballpark | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 33 | 18 | It's an effort to work out, but lacking confidence I must get a new slimline rear end | Anagram of I MUST GET A, then (SLIMLIN)E. Definition is up to and including confidence | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 33 | 22 | Make assumptions on hearing visitor ingesting mash and tough egg starters (10) | Make assumptions on (guestimate) hearing (homophone indicator) guessed/visitor/guest, I(ngesting) M(ash) A(nd) T(ough) E(gg), starters (initial letter indicator) | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 33 | 29 | Surmise fiddles while ringing retired tax evading plonker | Surmise = def. fiddles = gues (Chambers); while = time; back tax = xat; evading plonker (kiss) = X. GUES-TIM(AT)E | 0 | 0 | ||
| 33 | 32 | To take a shot largely in the dark – a belly full of potato heralds a diminution of energy | ESTIMA (a well-known variety of potatro) inside GUT + E(nergy) | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 33 | 35 | Visitor to China takes a hazard nowadays | GUEST+(I)MATE | 0 | 0 | 2 |