CCCWC April 2015 competition results
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53 clues entered. 41 votes cast (38 competitors, 3 others).
CHOKEY
So now we know – it's not just Azed who has a liking for clues with a cricketing reference. it's more widespread! Congratulations to Margaret on winning with some very clever wordplay and, of course, that cricketing theme.
Tough luck on Tom, just missing out in second (following his 3rd place last month) with his very neat and concise &lit offering.
Don continues his excellent form of this year, a little way back in 3rd with the best of the Election themed clues.
Anthony in 4th place, his first podium finish since his World Cup victory last summer – his clue made me chuckle with its aptness once the Election results came in!
Finally Dave P maintains his amazing run of podium finishes this year! Coupled with the last competition of 2014 that's now 5 in a row – I will have to check the archives, that must be a record! Well done Dave, a nicely deceptive definition.
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | Margaret Irvine | Caught pushing forward in game, getting a nick | Hockey with C further forward, def=a nick | 56 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | Tom Borland | Block with small yard? | CHOKE + Y; &lit. | 52.5 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 34 | Don Manley | Nick contrived to back leader of Conservatives | C + hokey, ref. Clegg and Cameron in 2010 Coalition | 44 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 33 | Anthony Bradley | Nick Clegg's beginning to get too sentimental | C + HOKEY ~ Def: Nick ~ Ref (for non-Brits): Lib-Dem party leader | 38 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 17 | Dave Parfitt | Cooler drink's welcomed in hot year | COKE with H inside + Y; def. = Cooler | 29 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 39 | John Tozer | Pen gag that's funny at last | choke + y; pen = prison | 25.5 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 37 | Jason Crampton | Night-watchman contrived to follow captain's lead | HOKEY (contrived) after C(aptain) | 19 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 3 | Steve Randall | Boring job about to become crucial in prison | CHO[RE] substituting KEY for RE | 18 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 52 | David McKie | Where should drug smuggling – heroin, say – lead you? | H (common description of heroin) in COKE + Y; surface provides definition | 17.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 19 | John Appleton | Finally, Frederic March to work alongside Stanley Holloway? | Def = "Holloway?"; final letters of "Frederic March to work alongside Stanley" | 16 | 0 | |
| 11 | 20 | Foremost of cons has organised means of unlocking prison | C(ons) H(as) O(rganised) KEY | 15 | 2 | 1 | |
| 12 | 41 | Place for men with convictions? Sounds suffocating (6) | CD and choky hp | 13 | 1 | ||
| 13 | 29 | Leading with clubs in game causes a stir | HOCKEY with C moved to lead. | 12.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| 14 | 51 | Ultimately angry after heroin's found in fizzy drink can (6) | (angr)Y after (H in COKE); definition = CAN | 11.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| 15 | 32 | Nick Cage ? | Double definition Refers to actor Nicholas Cage. | 10.5 | 1 | 4 | |
| 15 | 46 | Rebel embraces satisfactory year in jail | (CHE embraces OK) + Y; jail – defn | 10.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| 17 | 36 | Nick's quixotic wish: To pluck surprise victory at last | def: nick (=prison); last letters spell CHOKEY; ref. Nick Clegg and dismal electoral prospects for LibDems | 10 | 1 | ||
| 17 | 48 | The lock-up is a cell, holding outlaws, killers; even yegg heads. | def+heads"c+h+o+k+e+y" | 10 | 1 | ||
| 19 | 9 | Catch oik eventually, after emptying prison. (6) | wordplay: "after emptying" = use only outside letters of first three words; definition: prison. | 9.5 | 3 | 1 | |
| 19 | 43 | Prison church has no solution | CH+O+KEY | 9.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 21 | 8 | Can result from rigging hockey | &lit. (hockey)* [can=jail=chokey] | 8.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 22 | 22 | He swallows ok in extremely chewy porridge | ok within he within c-y, porridge=def | 8 | 2 | 3 | |
| 22 | 30 | Lock-up? Children love something to open it. | Lock-up is definition. CH=children; 0=love, KEY. | 8 | 0 | ||
| 24 | 42 | Playing hockey in prison | hockey* | 7 | 3 | 1 | |
| 24 | 53 | You'd expect karma or hubris commonly starts after being banged up here. | Down clue: initial letters reversed – banged up, &lit. ('starts' as noun.) | 7 | 0 | ||
| 26 | 10 | Caught by phoney watchman | C + HOKEY | 6 | 2 | ||
| 27 | 1 | Ball and chain earlier basic in prison | CH(chain) in front of O(ball)+ KEY(basic); def = prison | 5.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 27 | 24 | Hockey's messy penalty box? (6) | HOCKEY anagram is a prison ("PENALTY BOX"). | 5.5 | 2 | 3 | |
| 29 | 5 | Can be caught when moving to the front in ball game | Can & chokey are both slang for prison. "Ball game"=HOCKEY, which becomes CHOKEY, when c(=caught) is moved to the front. | 4 | 1 | 2 | |
| 29 | 12 | Chapter “O”, vital to where one may begin and end a sentence | CH+O+KEY/Where one may begin and end a sentence = definition | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| 29 | 27 | Leader of can-can can be dropped from popular dance? Can indeed! | Leader of can = c; can (pokey) can be dropped from popular dance (hokey pokey); c + hokey = chokey = can, indeed! (definition) | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| 29 | 35 | Nick's bird, Kitty, can help to start car? Why, you say? | Def x4 (nick, bird, kitty & can)/choke + y. | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| 33 | 31 | Native American tribe removed before adding first Yankee prison | CHerOKEe – ere + Y; def = prison; ref the Cherokee were forcibly relocated in the 1830s under the Indian Removal Act to allow for the expansion of European settlers. | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 33 | 40 | Pick removes ice with decisive ‘clink’ | [CHOICE removes ICE] + KEY; ('remove' as in 'take off' (a hat, etc.); clink = def | 3.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| 35 | 15 | Company shipping hard fruit for the can | Definition: the can. Wordplay: h(hard) in Co(Company) + key(fruit) | 3 | 1 | ||
| 35 | 25 | Housebreaking: minimum of court's answer? | HO(house, breaking=inserting) in C(first of court) and KEY(answer) & lit | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| 35 | 50 | Two islands one of them is old in jail. | inCH+Old+KEY = in jail | 3 | 0 | 2 | |
| 38 | 6 | Can cyclist, retaining kinetic energy, follow olympic final? | (Chris) HO(KE)Y after olympi(C). Def. can. | 2.5 | 3 | 1 | |
| 39 | 4 | Bung that finished off Tory created stir? | Bung = choke/bribe…finished off Tor(y)…stir/prison | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| 39 | 7 | Can move about to lead the game | C ho (-C<<) key, Can – Definition (a Prison): About – C – move to the beginning of Game (HOCKEY) | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| 39 | 38 | Old term for clink, encountered in colonial Hindustan's exercise yards originally | o + k in initials, & lit. | 2 | 0 | ||
| 42 | 23 | Hockey brawls fill the sin bin!(6) | direct = sin bin. hockey = anagram of chokey (brawls = indicator) | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 42 | 47 | Taken in by psychic hokey-pokey in America (6) | (C HOKEY); Containment indicator: Taken in; Definition: Pokey in America (U.S. slang for jail, see http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pokey) | 1 | 0 | ||
| 42 | 49 | Tight necklace cut off? Yes, once for a stretch. | choke( r) + y | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 13 | Cloggy, off the wall Hockney has lost direction but has energy | def = cloggy ;(hockney – ne + e)*; anag.ind. "off the wall" is a book of prints by Hockney | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 45 | 14 | Clubs phoney Indian watchman | C + HOKEY | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 45 | 16 | Conservative's artificially formal in prison (6) | C+HOKEY | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 45 | 18 | Enterprising department once leaves fruit for guard | CHOKE(BERR)Y | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 21 | Having left India, Trunchbull's cooler here (6) | Having left India – ref. to Anglo-Indian orig.; Trunchbull's cooler = def. (prison [from Roald Dahl's Matilda]), here – ref. to UK usage. | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 45 | 26 | Ice-hockey foul – leave ice for sin bin | anag. (ice-)hockey; foul = entangled | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 45 | 28 | Leaders on cool hustings outperformed by Major, perhaps cooler! | c h o + key, underrated John M's 1992 soapbox electioneering | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 45 | 44 | Prison is firm about a second chance, chief! (6) | CO (firm) about H (a second chance) KEY (chief). Def.: prison. | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 45 | 45 | Prison places a constriction on your head. | Prison = CHOKEY constriction = CHOKE + (Y)our head. | 0 | 0 | 1 |