CCCWC August competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 46

CCCWC August competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 46: Rarity of port in American urban stores

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1.	I can believe that one might struggle to buy port in certain US cities – love the wordplay and mildly misleading definition

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The two favourite approaches seem to be the dead cat expression (18 being my favourite example) and the handily vague "unusual thing" definition, with wordplay forming your pick of any number of surprising statements (46 and 58 my favourites). Where clues have taken a different approach, I've tried to award their originality. While the word "curio" has arguably taken on a bit of a life of it's own, it is pretty much a shortened version of "curiosity" so not really suitable imho for use as an element in a clue for that word.

Comments on the competition

The two favourite approaches seem to be the dead cat expression (18 being my favourite example) and the handily vague "unusual thing" definition, with wordplay forming your pick of any number of surprising statements (46 and 58 my favourites). Where clues have taken a different approach, I've tried to award their originality. While the word "curio" has arguably taken on a bit of a life of it's own, it is pretty much a shortened version of "curiosity" so not really suitable imho for use as an element in a clue for that word.

CCCWC August competition voters’ comments Clue no. 46: Rarity of port in American urban stores

CCCWC August competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 46: Rarity of port in American urban stores