CCCWC October 2015 competition results
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58 clues entered. 46 votes cast (42 competitors, 4 others).
MONTGOLFIER
For the second month running we have a new name at the top of the leader board – well done David! And just a few months into your CCCWC "career"!
The rest of the podium is filled by some more familiar names. Second place – for the second month running – missing out by just a single point this time is Luciano. After his win in August that's 3 podiums in a row – could be going for Dave P's record run!
Good to see Simon back in the frame with his first podium this year, back in third – an amusing anag. & lit.!
Margaret also scores her second podium in a row, achieving 4th spot with a very different surface reading.
Finally, CCCWC stalwart Warren grabs 5th place – first podium for a couple of years – with another interesting surface.
Well done to all – on to LOCK STOCK AND BARREL next!
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | David McKie | Balloon first made by inventive foreign lot | M + anag | 43.5 | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | 9 | Luciano Ward | Conveyance I get on from ground with line secured | Conveyance = def; L (line) in IGETONFROM* (anag indic = ground) | 42.5 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | 52 | Simon Shaw | This might arise if you've left mooring loose ! | anag. &lit. | 33.5 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 54 | Margaret Irvine | Twinkling girl of ten pops balloon | mo(ment)=twinkling + girl of ten* | 32 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | 49 | warren fraser | Scratch golfer I'm not, but I am full of hot air! | anag "golferimnot"+def (A scratch golfer has a handicap of zero or lower i.e., is an excellent golfer.) | 28.5 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | 43 | Roslyn Rougvie | My French flier got high | My French = mon + fliergot*; &lit | 27.5 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 14 | rose bird | Foolish for long time and full of hot air! | anag(foolish)"forlongtime" + Def | 26.5 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | 34 | Peter Cargill | Inflate me with hot air? Right, go on, lift me high! | *R(right)+GO+ON+LIFT+ME ind by 'high' | 24 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | 28 | Vinit Wankhede | High flier's time for long trips (11) | TIMEFORLONG* | 22.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 56 | Gerard Wiley | What might give men lift or go high | Anagram and lit. | 21.5 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | 8 | Balloon left mooring unexpectedly | leftmooring* | 21 | 2 | 5 | |
| 11 | 32 | I am up in the air for long time (11) | Anagram of FOR LONG TIME indicated by "up in the air"; & lit | 21 | 3 | 4 | |
| 13 | 3 | Across the channel my flier got transported (11) | Across the channel my= mon, flier got = anag fodder , transported= anag indicator. Whole clue = definition | 18 | 2 | 4 | |
| 14 | 12 | Disoriented frogmen toil to find floater | (frogmen+toil)* , Defn: floater | 17.5 | 2 | 7 | |
| 15 | 44 | My! In France, there's a row about a German car: there's much hot air in that! | My in France = "mon" + "tier" (= row) around [VW] Golf (= German car, centre of the "emissions" hullabaloo)/def. | 12.5 | 3 | 3 | |
| 15 | 48 | One smoothly ascends Order of Merit on embracing golf | MERITON anag. around GOLF; Order of Merit = golf rankings | 12.5 | 1 | 3 | |
| 17 | 25 | Got small mass on fire and left ground — in this? | Anagram of GOT+M(small mass)+ONFIRE+L(left). Anagram indicator = ground. | 12 | 4 | 2 | |
| 17 | 40 | Lifting off first in Annonay, what could be up for a long time? | Whole = both anag. less A (up: excited) & lit. (maiden flight was in A.) | 12 | 1 | 2 | |
| 19 | 45 | Nervous groom left in flying balloon (11) | direct = flying balloon; anagram of "groom left in"; indicator = nervous. | 10.5 | 1 | 4 | |
| 20 | 7 | Balloon left mooring in ruins. | (Sorry — too obvious — short of time!) | 9.5 | 1 | 6 | |
| 20 | 16 | French inventor left mooring in disarray(11) | Definition + Anagram | 9.5 | 0 | 6 | |
| 20 | 39 | Left mooring insecure, resulted in balloon going up? | (anag) left mooring | 9.5 | 2 | 5 | |
| 23 | 20 | Frenchman regularly bound to turn out with troubled flier in his hot-air contrivance | M + (b)O(u)N(d)T(o) + GO + FLIER* | 9 | 0 | 2 | |
| 23 | 31 | Hot-air balloon's mooring felt uncertain | (MOORING FELT)* | 9 | 3 | 2 | |
| 25 | 27 | Hesitation after moon flight without hydrogen confused aviation pioneer. | *MOONFLIG[H]T + ER | 8.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 26 | 11 | Didn't fret looming over the countryside? (11) | ANAGRAM "FRET LOOMING" to spell MONTGOLFIER which is defined by "hot air balloon" which is inferred by "looming over the countryside". | 7.5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 26 | 19 | French name on the rise – flier got transported | (FLIER GOT)* after NOM< (&lit and a DOWN clue, hence 'on the rise') | 7.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 28 | 15 | French balloonist's footling about in summer, lacking height (11) | Anagram of FOOTLING in MER (SUMMER – SUM) | 7 | 0 | 1 | |
| 29 | 37 | Its flames rise up, accidentally melting roof | Anag. 'melting roof' | 6.5 | 2 | 4 | |
| 29 | 38 | It's slipped mooring and left ground altogether? | comprises anags. of mooring and left, & lit. | 6.5 | 2 | 4 | |
| 29 | 50 | St Andrews man has a row about his game — goes right up in the air and gets heated | Mon-t-golf-ier | 6.5 | 1 | 4 | |
| 32 | 21 | German car, one controlled by corrupt motormen no more, is a vehicle full of emissions? (11) | GOLF+I in (MO)TORMEN*; ref VW emissions scandal; a balloon being 'a vehicle full of emissions?' | 6 | 1 | 5 | |
| 32 | 26 | He operated the first mega balloon, without, alas, the first brother | anag.[thefirstmegaballoon(-the-alas-b)]* (anag. indicated by 'operated' and deletion by 'without') def: entire clue – Only the younger Montgolfier went up on the first hot air balloon | 6 | 1 | 4 | |
| 32 | 33 | In this thing, slipping mooring then lifting off | &lit Comp. Anag. IN MONTGOLFIER THING / MOORING THEN LIFTING | 6 | 1 | 4 | |
| 32 | 47 | Old aerostat mooring felt shaky | Old aerostat = def (montgolfier is obsolete term for hot-air-balloon=aerostat). MOORINGFELT* | 6 | 1 | 2 | |
| 36 | 41 | Men go or lift in air-borne contraption | Anagram -Men go or lift; Air-borne contraption = def of montgolfier | 5.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 36 | 58 | Zeppelin performs for long tine | Direct = Zeppelin, anagram "for long time" indicator – performs | 5.5 | 1 | 5 | |
| 38 | 23 | Ghenghis Khan has time to fire around a balloon | (Well known) Mongol containing t, with fire anagram and meaning. | 5 | 1 | 3 | |
| 38 | 30 | Hot-air balloon pioneer family seen working for a long time without initial approval. | Hot-air balloon pioneer family (MONTGOLFIER) seen working (anagram indicator); anagram of FOR A LONG TIME minus A (without initial A of approval). | 5 | 0 | 6 | |
| 38 | 55 | What could crash on Rome flight after losing height? | anag less h & lit | 5 | 2 | 4 | |
| 41 | 57 | Woods perhaps concealing first of ice on French mountain – seen from here by P. Fogg? | MONT + (GOLFER around I(ce)). Ref. Phileas Fogg's balloon flight over the Alps in Around the World in 80 Days | 4.5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 42 | 4 | Airmen identified with hair extracted from the original sample | Compound anag 'from the original – hair' | 3.5 | 1 | 5 | |
| 42 | 29 | Hot air balloon left mooring, floated around | Hot air balloon – definition (left mooring)* – fodder floated around – anagram indicator | 3.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 44 | 2 | A light craft airmen go in for a float | anag.[go + (a)irmen + flo(a)t] & Lit | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| 44 | 10 | Crack golfer I'm not – birdies are beyond me as I launch powerless to drift with the wind | (golfer I'm not)* | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
| 46 | 42 | More confused about floating around without a floating device (11) | Definition: floating device Wordplay: more* (more confused) about [(floating)* (floating around) -a (without a)] | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| 46 | 46 | Nice way to get around, though high inflation's customary | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 48 | 13 | Floating more without first ascending shocked the hot-air balloon inventor family. | Anagram of FLOATING MORE minus A (without first letter A of ascending) shocked (anagram indicator) the hot-air balloon inventor family (MONTGOLFIER). | 1.5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 48 | 18 | French name going back to fragile original, flown by first of aviators | NOM (rev.) + *TO FR(A)GILE; &lit. | 1.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 48 | 36 | It left mooring transported by hot air | (LEFT MOORING)* | 1.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 51 | 1 | A hot-air balloon is tiptop in an Asian firestorm. | Def + (T)iptop in an Asian (MONGOL) (FIRE)storm* >> MONTGOLFIER | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| 51 | 24 | Go to film at sea with half of Warner Brothers | (GO TO FILM [war]NER)*; def = Brothers. | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
| 51 | 35 | Inventor to climb heartlessly as one enters woods | Syn of climb = Mount-U (heartlessly) = Mont. Golfier = One(i)enters woods(golfer) | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
| 51 | 53 | Too much hot air here has wobbly roof melting | def: too much hot air here; anag. of 'roof melting'; anag. indicator: 'wobbly'; def. has wordplay | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
| 55 | 22 | German car that is right on a French mountain provides air transport | Mont (French mountain) +Golf+ie+r, def. air transport | 0.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 56 | 6 | Balloon, flipping cat inflates in Tom and Jerry occasionally burst | FLOG< inside (IN TOM ER)* | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| 56 | 17 | French mount game That's right a French gasbag. | French mount (MONT) game (GOLF) That's right (IER) DEF gasbag. | 0 | 1 | 6 | |
| 56 | 51 | The first to take off orders longer motif | Anagram of 'longer motif'. | 0 | 0 | 4 |