CCCWC October 2013 competition results
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65 clues entered. 51 votes cast (48 competitors, 3 others).
DOLMADES
You have to hand it to Mike Baker, he certainly has the knack of pitching the right kind of clue for this competition! He notches up his third win this year with an excellent clue that was well received. But he didn't always have it his own way. For a quite a while John Appleton's effort was pushing hard and in the end a creditable second place with another super clue – perhaps offering the Christmas fare a little too early for some tastes!
Tom maintains his recent good run and follows up last month's win with another visit to the dentist – well done Tom!
Next we see a welcome return for Andrew Varney – consecutive clues of his achieving 4th place – although the previous effort was June 2012! Perhaps this will spur him on to more regular appearances!
Final podium spot goes to Robin Gilbert. Always pleased to see Robin in the honours as he has been such a long standing and staunch supporter of this competition – both with his clues and excellent and comprehensive comments – hearty congratulations!
Another month done and it's all still to play for in the Annual Competition – good luck!
Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
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1 | 2 | Mike Baker | After heading to dentist, some lad sadly leaves with fillings | D + anagram of SOME LAD | 78 | 4 | 5 |
2 | 58 | John Appleton | Turkey snacks – Boxing Day's same old rubbish! | Around (i.e. boxing) D[ay] is SAMEOLD* | 56 | 2 | 3 |
3 | 26 | Tom Borland | Lad with some onset of dental decay leaves with filling | *LAD SOME D; def. leaves with filling | 39 | 1 | 4 |
4 | 37 | Andrew Varney | Mother and daughter fill dish; son finishes it and leaves, stuffed | ma + d in dole + s | 31.5 | 0 | 3 |
5 | 10 | Robin Gilbert | Crazy about small portions? On the contrary, leaves stuffed | DOLES around MAD (not MAD around DOLES). In surface reading, “leaves” is a verb. | 31 | 1 | 3 |
6 | 64 | Pete Milne | What's cook prepared in casings of leaves? | DO(cook)+(MADE in LS) &lit | 30 | 2 | 4 |
7 | 17 | Chris Lancaster | Fare prepared wrapped in a covering of leaves (8) | DO (= to fare) + {MADE in L(eave)S}, &lit | 27 | 4 | 4 |
8 | 46 | Steve Randall | Sad mole wanders around taxidermy centre and leaves stuffed | SADMOLE* around taxi[D]ermy. Definition – leaves stuffed | 24 | 1 | 3 |
9 | 16 | James Glassonbury | Farce in the Savoy? | Farce = stuffing; Savoy = cabbage. | 23.5 | 2 | 5 |
10 | 22 | Doug Stanford | Greek offering contribution to idol made sacrifice | Hidden | 23 | 4 | 2 |
11 | 40 | Odd meals prepared for food parcels | ODD MEALS ang of DOLMADES, prepared-indicator, food parcels-definition | 22.5 | 1 | ||
12 | 57 | Turkey dinner? Get dishes out, get crackers in! | DOLES (dishes out) with MAD (crackers) inside; dolmades are a traditional dish in Turkey | 21.5 | 1 | 1 | |
13 | 56 | This idol made silver screen entrée in Batman? | Hidden. Ref. Batman, a Turkish city | 20.5 | 4 | 6 | |
14 | 20 | Food parcels produced for consumption by poor old pensioners, ultimately | OLD* MADE S | 19 | 3 | ||
15 | 34 | Middle Eastern dish leaves one stuffed | double definition; Leaves (one) stuffed. | 16.5 | 1 | 2 | |
16 | 32 | Mediterranean food in small portions stuffed with nuts (8) | Mediterranean food <> defn. in small portions = DOLES <> Chambers English Dictionary // STUFFED WITH <> container // NUTS <> 'mad' | 15.5 | 1 | 1 | |
16 | 35 | Mixed, made, and sold in a Taverna? | anag made + sold, Taverna = greek restaurant | 15.5 | 1 | ||
18 | 39 | Mysterious characters covering large cracked dish found in Western Asia | DOES (John, Jane, etc.) enveloping L + MAD | 15 | 0 | 2 | |
19 | 19 | Folded vine leaves as loved in Med (extra ingredients minced)? | VINE* leaves ASLOVEDINMED = ASLODMED (letters minced); &lit | 14 | 1 | 4 | |
20 | 8 | Cooked odd meals for Greeks to snack on (8) | Cooked = Anagrind Odd meals = fodder For Greeks to snack on = def | 12.5 | 3 | 2 | |
21 | 61 | Turkish dish starts to drool over damsel in distress(9) | Defn : Turkish dish; starts to (d)rool (o)ver (damsel*) in distress (anagrind) | 10.5 | 3 | 4 | |
22 | 13 | Dish which makes Spanish girl crazy for men | Dolores – substitute mad for or | 10 | 1 | 2 | |
23 | 42 | Old dames chewing stuffed leaves! (8) | old dames = anagram (chewing = indicator); stuffed leaves = direct. | 9.5 | 0 | ||
23 | 65 | With no finales, modest Lady Gaga leaves wrapped in meat, quite the reverse | (modes + lad)*; Gaga = anagram indictor; leaves wrapped in meat, quite the reverse = def; That excellent singer/songwriter Lady Gaga famously wore a dress made of slices of meat. | 9.5 | 1 | 4 | |
25 | 30 | Made, sold, chewed .. and leaves when stuffed | madesold* | 9 | 0 | 1 | |
26 | 45 | Sad model's thrown up, having stuffed food. | anag/def ("thrown up" = vomited [inf]). | 8.5 | 1 | 1 | |
27 | 3 | Bite from Lebanon prepared to be stuffed in parties? | Bite from Lebanon=L, prepared=MADE, parties=DOS => LMADE stuffed in DOS; &Lit | 8 | 1 | ||
28 | 1 | A couple of Spaniards entertained the French, consuming bananas for a main course (8) | A couple of Spaniards = DOS; entertained = containment ind.; the French = LE; consuming = containment ind.; bananas = MAD. So: DO(L(MAD)E)S. | 6.5 | 1 | 1 | |
28 | 62 | Turkish food made into attractive dishes – only 1 lira! | Turkish food=definition. MADE inside DOLLS=ATTRACTIVE WOMEN=ATTRACTIVE DISHES with only one L | 6.5 | 2 | ||
30 | 18 | Finger food makes odd meals | anag | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
30 | 21 | Greek delicacies – made,sold,ordered. | anag. on "made, sold" | 6 | 1 | 5 | |
30 | 47 | Same old god-awful cabbage meals | (same old + d)* ref. school dinners | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
30 | 63 | Turkish food with prepared filling sold out | made (=prepared) in sold* | 6 | 2 | 3 | |
34 | 11 | Delicacies, half-cut medallions, served in parties | anag of medal(half of medallions) inside dos(parties); def: delicacies | 5.5 | 1 | 1 | |
35 | 7 | Cook minced lamb quickly; add rice when it's finished; wrapping with stewed leaves finishes Greek dish | DO+LMA+steweD(ricE)+leaveS (LAMb anag.) | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
36 | 6 | Cheese put back into sold-off food parcels. | EDAM (reversed) in SOLD (anag – 'off'). Def – food parcels (rice etc wrapped in vine or other leaves). | 4.5 | 4 | 1 | |
36 | 24 | Is Köse Dam lodging some revolutionary potential energy source for the Turks? | is kö[SE DAM LOD]ging; some revolutionary (ie hidden and reversed); def: potential energy source for the Turks?; ref: 'dolmades' being the plural of the original Turkish 'dolma'; Köse Dam is situated in the Black Sea region of Turkey. | 4.5 | 1 | 1 | |
36 | 54 | Tasties eaten in Savoy sometimes make old dames belch | *; imperative belch (= pour forth). Savoy cabbage | 4.5 | 0 | 1 | |
39 | 41 | Odd meals prepared like these in a taverna. | Anag. odd + meals; semi-&lit. | 4 | 1 | ||
39 | 55 | Taverna's fare sold freshly made within | Taverna's fare = dish at a Greek restaurant (def); rearrangement of sold around made | 4 | 3 | 2 | |
41 | 36 | Mixture of something loaded in e.g. hot cooked leaves | anag. (something loaded) less anag. (in eg hot) & lit. | 3.5 | 1 | ||
42 | 14 | Dishes stuffed (forced into old broken saucepan lid) | Dishes stuffed = def., forced = MADE contained in DOL (old broken) + S (saucepan lid) | 3 | 1 | 3 | |
42 | 23 | Idol made sandwich filling for wraps. | contained within "Idol made sandwich". "Filling" is container indicator. "Wraps" is def | 3 | 0 | 2 | |
42 | 50 | Sold bad cheese – returned in delicate Greek food parcels | SOLD* containing EDAM backwards ('returned in'); definition | 3 | 1 | ||
42 | 59 | Turkey's savoury stuffing leaves sad old me blown up | *sad old me; blown up=overfed/exploded | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
46 | 44 | Portions stuffed with nuts? Not usually (8) | DOLES containing MAD. Definition – &lit, with "not usually," as this is not the usual filling. | 2.5 | 1 | 3 | |
47 | 12 | Delicious item from the grapevine?(8) | Cryptic definition | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
47 | 49 | Seldom notice stuffed food. | SELDOM AD(notice) – stuffed is anagram indicator and also part of def – stuffed food. | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
47 | 60 | Turkish delight's sold all over the place stuffed with nuts and a mystery additive | The definer is TURKISH DELIGHT(S). Anagram of "SOLD" with insertion of "MAD" and "E" ("MYSTERY" refers to the lack of number) | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
50 | 25 | Jobseeker is angry inside and leaves completely stuffed. | DOLE + S with MAD inside &Lit | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
50 | 31 | Mediterranean dish unusually sold, stuffed with semi-hard cheese from the East. | DOL(MADE)S = anagram of "sold" + container of "made" (edam reversed, or "from the east") | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
50 | 33 | Middle East leaves, seldom made full of beans? | anag & lit seldom made less ME (ME "sometimes incl Greece & Turkey" Chambers) | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
50 | 38 | Mother's back, shares round Greek dish. | DOLES round DAM reversed | 1 | 1 | ||
50 | 51 | Stuff males do fumblingly on first date (8) | MALESDO* containing D | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
50 | 52 | Stuffed grape leaves loaded with Ramsay's heart dressing. | def+anag(dressing) of loaded+ms (Ramsay is Chef Gordon) | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
56 | 9 | Cooked odd meals; stuffed vine leaves, perhaps | ODD MEALS* | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | |
56 | 15 | Dishes which get prepared in Middle Eastern site? | DOLLS (dishes) has MADE (prepared) replace its 4th letter (with "Middle Eastern site" indicating location in the 5-letter word) | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | |
56 | 27 | Leaves packing meat and rice, cooked and freely sold outside (8) | Leaves packing meat and rice(def.). MADE (=cooked) in anagram of SOLD | 0.5 | 2 | 2 | |
56 | 28 | Leaves well stuffed, after cook served up meals including dumpling starter? | COOK = DO…(anag)MEALS including(D)umpling..Stuffed vine leaves. | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | |
60 | 4 | Boy leaves molded salad medley for stuffed molded leaves. | anag.(medley)molded salad -lad + def | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
60 | 5 | Charities accept unlimited plate from Middle Eastern sources | DOL(MAD)ES | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
60 | 29 | Made and sold with leaf and meat (8) | Anagram | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
60 | 43 | Pieces with leaves externally, stuffing forced in — party starter? | do + made in l(eave)s & lit. | 0 | 0 | ||
60 | 48 | Savoury dish Eric prepared in the Savoy perhaps, goes off? | def: savoury dish. eric prepared (fodder and indicator) = rice, in the savoy perhaps = cabbage + goes off = leaves | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
60 | 53 | Stuffed vegetable dishes that can explode are odd meals. (8) | DOLMADES (stuffed vegetable dishes) can anagram (explode) to become ODD + MEALS | 0 | 0 | 3 |