CCCWC October competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 12

CCCWC October competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 12: Disoriented frogmen toil to find floater

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A clue to MONTGOLFIER.
7 comments refer to this clue (from 5 competitors, 1 other)
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Comments on the clue

1.	A unique anagram, however the definition seems far too vague.
2.	Rather an irrelevant surface reading
3.	Nice wordplay. But frogmen are scuba divers so would only toil to find something submerged, not a floater.
4.	Good anagram idea, definition a bit weak
5.	Surface story isn't wholly convincing
6.	Definition a bit loose. Interesting anagram, but if it's floating on the surface why do we need the frogmen?

Comments on the competition
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Unsurprisingly, this month's clue word produced a plethora of anagrams, many of them incorporated into the & lit. (2, 3, 18, 19, 26, 33, 38, 40, 43, 52* and 56) or semi & lit. (5, 9, 25, 32 and 55) format. Clues which relied on a generally descriptive definition in non & lit. format (10, 11, 21, 37, 46, 48, 50, 51 and 57) tended to be more challenging to solve than those including (hot air) balloon (1, 6, 7, 8, 23, 29, 31, 39, 45 and 54) or variants (47 and 58). Other references to 'hot air' appeared in 8 clues (14, 17, 20, 34, 36, 44, 49 and 53), with 2 clues each defining by 'floater' (12 and 42) and 'air transport' (22 and 41). The remaining 9 entrants chose to define the inventor/family/pilot, rather than the invention (4, 13, 15, 16, 24, 27, 28, 30, and 35). The commonest anagram strategy was to combine MOORING with either LEFT (7, 8, 16, 29, 36, 38, 39 and 52) or FELT (31 and 47), with 6 clues using FOR LONG TIME (14, 28, 30, 32, 40 and 58) as the fodder. LIFT also featured with MEN OR GO (41 and 56) and R GO ON ME 934). 2 clues each used GOLFER I'M NOT (10 and 49), MELTING ROOF (37 and 53) and FLOATING MORE – A (13 and 42) and there were single occurences of FROGMEN TOIL (12), GROOM LEFT IN (45), LONGER MOTIF (51) and ON ROME FLIGHT – H (55). Surface readings with a golfing flavour were popular (10, 48, 49 and 50) with two clues featuring (Tiger) Woods in the wordplay (35 and 57). Just 3 clues included the Golf motor car in their wordplay (21, 22 and 44*), with two of these managing a topical reference to the VW emissions scandal.

Comments on the competition

Unsurprisingly, this month's clue word produced a plethora of anagrams, many of them incorporated into the & lit. (2, 3*, 18, 19, 26, 33, 38, 40, 43*, 52* and 56*) or semi & lit. (5, 9*, 25, 32 and 55) format. Clues which relied on a generally descriptive definition in non & lit. format (10, 11, 21, 37, 46, 48, 50, 51 and 57*) tended to be more challenging to solve than those including (hot air) balloon (1, 6, 7, 8, 23, 29, 31*, 39, 45 and 54*) or variants (47* and 58). Other references to 'hot air' appeared in 8 clues (14, 17, 20, 34, 36, 44*, 49 and 53), with 2 clues each defining by 'floater' (12 and 42) and 'air transport' (22 and 41). The remaining 9 entrants chose to define the inventor/family/pilot, rather than the invention (4, 13, 15*, 16, 24, 27, 28, 30, and 35).

The commonest anagram strategy was to combine MOORING with either LEFT (7, 8, 16, 29, 36, 38, 39 and 52*) or FELT (31* and 47*), with 6 clues using FOR LONG TIME (14, 28, 30, 32, 40 and 58) as the fodder. LIFT also featured with MEN OR GO (41 and 56*) and R GO ON ME 934). 2 clues each used GOLFER I'M NOT (10 and 49), MELTING ROOF (37 and 53) and FLOATING MORE – A (13 and 42) and there were single occurences of FROGMEN TOIL (12), GROOM LEFT IN (45), LONGER MOTIF (51) and ON ROME FLIGHT – H (55).

Surface readings with a golfing flavour were popular (10, 48, 49 and 50) with two clues featuring (Tiger) Woods in the wordplay (35 and 57). Just 3 clues included the Golf motor car in their wordplay (21, 22 and 44*), with two of these managing a topical reference to the VW emissions scandal.

CCCWC October competition voters’ comments Clue no. 12: Disoriented frogmen toil to find floater

CCCWC October competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 12: Disoriented frogmen toil to find floater