CCCWC June 2015 competition results
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51 clues entered. 41 votes cast (37 competitors, 4 others).
PARLEYVOO
Congratulations to Teyrnon for his first win on the CCCWC website! A comfortable victory with his simple, neat but well-spotted anagram.
Margaret continued her consistent run with a second place to follow up her win a couple of months ago – another neat anagram.
Steve R finally hits the podium after some strong efforts this year – a Nice clue!
JT recaptures a top 5 spot after a two month gap since his last win, and congratulations to Leon who gains his first ever podium finish – the two of them both finding the same anagram.
A special mention must also go to Dave Parfitt whose amazing run of 6 podium finishes has sadly come to an end – but it was so close! He was just squeezed out into 7th place – very well done Dave, I am sure that is a record that will take some beating!
Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
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1 | 37 | Teyrnon Powell | Paolo? Very unusual name for a Frenchman | anagram + definition | 61 | 1 | 2 |
2 | 10 | Margaret Irvine | French overplay free love | overplay* + 0 | 45 | 2 | 3 |
3 | 33 | Steve Randall | Nice chap in A&E very poorly treated | Nice chap = Frenchman, anag of A E V POORLY | 34.5 | 2 | 5 |
4 | 2 | John Tozer | A Frenchman, pay for love? Must be abroad missing France! | anag. less F | 31.5 | 1 | 3 |
5 | 7 | Leon Marzillier | French curiously pay for love but not with francs | PAYFORLOVE* minus F | 29.5 | 1 | 2 |
6 | 6 | Kenneth Horne | Eric Cantona, say, rough player with very good heart. | Eric Cantona, say = Frenchman >> Parleyvoo Rough* PLAYER >> PARLEY + (V)ery g(OO)d heart. | 23.5 | 0 | 2 |
7 | 3 | Dave Parfitt | A vet briefly struggles with poorly Alsatian? | A + VE(t) + POORLY anag.; Alsatian = someone from Alsace | 22 | 3 | 2 |
8 | 9 | Larry Baum | French Open leader trails erratic player Five-Love | French=PARLEYVOO Open leader=O after (PLAYER, anag) + V + O | 21.5 | 1 | 2 |
9 | 39 | Dave Williams | Pay lover to get changed in front of old Frenchman | (paylover)* + O | 20 | 1 | |
10 | 27 | Don Manley | Magical lover boy not born a Prince? Frog! | anag. less b incl. P, with apologies for definition! | 16 | 0 | 2 |
10 | 28 | Martin Price | Maybe Strauss-Kahn got lovey with a pro, in a tumble? | Def. ("a Frenchman")/anag. | 16 | 2 | 1 |
12 | 29 | Mistakenly levy a poor Frenchman | Mistakenly= anag indicator ,levy a poor = anag fodder ,Frenchman= definition | 14.5 | 1 | ||
13 | 44 | Poor Valéry runs away, teased thus? | *POO(R) VALERY; &lit. | 12.5 | 0 | 2 | |
14 | 1 | A Frenchman is quitting Paris—unknown in love, destroyed by love | PAR(is) + [Y in LOVE*] + O | 12 | 2 | 1 | |
14 | 22 | Language of love or pay-off? | LOVE OR PAY anagram | 12 | 2 | 2 | |
14 | 36 | Overplay tragedy? That's nothing for a Frenchman | PARLEYVO+O (overplay anag.) | 12 | 0 | 2 | |
17 | 18 | French-Scottish gingerbread avec premier vin and duck egg. | def+scottish gingerbread=parley;(avecpremiervin=withtopwine);premier=first or top(ofvin)=v;+o+o | 11 | 0 | 2 | |
17 | 41 | Play over and over in medley – one from Armentières perhaps. | Anagram of play+over+o(ver). Frenchman, but also reference to refrain in WW1 song. | 11 | 0 | ||
19 | 19 | Frenchy makes distraught lover pay before love. | Frenchy: definition; distraught: anagrind; lover pay: fodder; love: O | 10 | 1 | 1 | |
20 | 42 | Played polo with a very disturbed Frenchman | Anagram of 'polo' and 'a very' | 9 | 0 | 1 | |
21 | 11 | French players almost drunk see two balls | PLAYER[S]* + V(see) + O + O | 8 | 0 | 1 | |
21 | 14 | French swimming pool very appealing, essentially. | anag (swimming) of POOLVERY(appe)A(ling). | 8 | 0 | 1 | |
21 | 20 | Frog's crazy gravity-free groovy leap | g(roovyleap)*, def=frog | 8 | 1 | 3 | |
24 | 49 | Standard new levy on glasses is laughably French | Standard = PAR + (LEVY)* = LEYV + glasses = OO; laughably French = def.. | 7.5 | 1 | ||
25 | 4 | Before tango's conclusion, relatively older man and mistreated lover incorporate ultimate in perversity to have intercourse in Paris | [Pa + (lover)*], incl. y, + o ; ref. 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci film | 6.5 | 1 | 4 | |
26 | 15 | Frenchman, ignoring sex at first, pays old lover to dress up | (PAY(s)/O/LOVER)* [parleyvoo = Frenchman, Chambers] | 6 | 1 | 1 | |
26 | 40 | Perhaps he pays for lover to get fresh with his tongue? | Compound anagram: (HE PAYS FOR LOVER)* = (FRESH + PARLEYVOO); his tongue = French (one def. of PARLEYVOO). Entire clue could describe Frenchman (another def. of PARLEYVOO) by reference to his characteristic kissing method. | 6 | 2 | 2 | |
28 | 8 | French No.6 player having lost the lead is down one set to love | Set=Anag[(N)o + V(I) + player] + O(=love). Definition: French | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
28 | 32 | New levy breaks a poor wretched Frenchman | LEVY* in (A POOR)* | 5 | 2 | ||
28 | 45 | Running into manure ruined early victory for one in the French race | p(early*+V)oo/Def. = one in the French race; Chambers: A Frenchman | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
28 | 51 | Would dashing lover pay for ring, meaning to get engaged? | lover pay (anag)…O = ring | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
32 | 43 | Poor Leavy bashed the French. (9) | POOR + LEAVY anagrams to PARLEYVOO. | 4.5 | 0 | ||
33 | 21 | Hinky dinky talk in Armentieres patois!(9) | Double definition. (from the "song", of course!) | 4 | 0 | ||
33 | 30 | Moneypenny for one very upset about licenciate with licence to kill – Le Chiffre among many? | P(ersonal)A(ssistant) + (VERY* around L(icentiate)) + OO (= licence to kill). Ref. James Bond. And yes, I know that it wasn’t in fact Bond who killed Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, but he did have a licence to kill him. | 4 | 0 | ||
35 | 26 | Mad over play with ordinary informal language of Moliere (9) | Anag of OVER PLAY + O(rdinary); informal language of Moliere = defn | 3.5 | 0 | ||
36 | 35 | Oscar's first play: over-complicated question to migrant on the French border? | O (Oscar's first) PLAY OVER (anagram fodder) complicated (anagrind) – question to migrant on the French border? – definition | 2.5 | 0 | 1 | |
37 | 24 | Love and pray fervently with love, say like the Gauls (9) | (Love+Pray)* | 2 | 0 | ||
37 | 50 | Standard, small room to accommodate very poor, rupee-less Frenchman (9) | EVY [anag of VERY after deleting R (rupee-less)] in PAR (standard) LOO (small room) Frenchman is the def. | 2 | 0 | ||
39 | 16 | Frenchman's duck during over – play not up to scratch | O in (over – play)* | 1.5 | 0 | 1 | |
39 | 47 | Speaking French poorly? Eva is upset. (9) | Anagram poorly+Eva | 1.5 | 0 | 1 | |
39 | 48 | Standard line, for example at start of various spectacles, is to speak French | Standard = PAR; line, for example = LEY; start of various = V; spectacles = OO; definition = to speak French | 1.5 | 1 | ||
42 | 12 | French police acting very poorly, English getting stuffed | E in anag incl a v police = put in order, unprotected UK vehicles at Calais. A for acting and v for very are both in Chambers | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
42 | 46 | Say Napoleon very loosely, on a no-names basis? Yes, a ——— | Comp anag, less N N, & lit – Napoleon as example of Frenchman (as indicated by say) | 1 | 0 | ||
44 | 5 | Can this question make one vocal, pray? | &lit composite anagram (make) of ONE VOCAL PRAY = CAN PARLEYVOO (this question) | 0.5 | 0 | 4 | |
44 | 34 | Nice language from play overcooked with love (9) | Def. Nice language –> language spoken in Nice (France) –> French. Wordplay: (play over)* + o (love); anagram indicator cooked | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | |
46 | 13 | French provocatively translated when no ITV commercials initially interrupt | Provocatively* – (ITV+C) | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
46 | 17 | Frenchman’s quaintly poovy circling Van Gogh’s venue endlessly | POOVY (anagram) round ARLE(s) | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
46 | 23 | Local French resistance love struggling with Axis before being captured by Jerry | [R LOVE Y (Axis) A (before)]* in PO | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
46 | 25 | Lévy, just not acute, a poor, confused Frenchman! | (LEVY A POOR)*; 'just not acute' to delete the accent; {Note: His detractors may agree but nothing personal intended} | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
46 | 31 | Moulin Rouge dialogue? Weird, loopy rave! | *LOOPYRAVE; ref OTT film | 0 | 0 | ||
46 | 38 | Parisian chef e.g. combining bit of sage leaves, parsley, vegetable root and eggs | Parisian chef = Parleyvoo (def.). Parley (= PARSLEY – S, or "bit of sage leaves parsley") + V (vegetable root) + O + O (eggs) | 0 | 0 |