CCCWC November competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 30

CCCWC November competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 30: Everbody's endlessly sorry about block and tackle failure. (4,5,3,6)

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A clue to LOCK STOCK AND BARREL.
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1.	I don't believe Lock Stock and Barrel is used in the sense of everybody.
2.	SORR is not surrounded by the anagram. And used in the anagram and in the definition.
3.	"Everybody" and "lock, stock and barrel" are both synonyms of "all", but they absolutely are not synonyms of one another.

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All in all a somewhat disappointing set of clues compared to others since I began participating in this contest. (My own effort wasn't up to much either!) Most entries had quite poor surface readings. Most problematic though was the number of incorrect definitions – the answer is an adverb phrase meaning "completely", "totally", "in its entirety". Clues 13, 31, 35, 39 defined it as "everything", a noun. 30 used "everybody", even more strangely. 23, 36, 41, 42, 47, 48 also used noun phrases as their definitions. 15 used an adjective. Try substituting your definition for the answer in a sentence to see if it works.

Comments on the competition

All in all a somewhat disappointing set of clues compared to others since I began participating in this contest. (My own effort wasn't up to much either!) Most entries had quite poor surface readings. Most problematic though was the number of incorrect definitions – the answer is an adverb phrase meaning "completely", "totally", "in its entirety". Clues 13, 31, 35, 39 defined it as "everything", a noun. 30 used "everybody", even more strangely. 23, 36, 41, 42, 47, 48 also used noun phrases as their definitions. 15 used an adjective. Try substituting your definition for the answer in a sentence to see if it works.

CCCWC November competition voters’ comments Clue no. 30: Everbody's endlessly sorry about block and tackle failure. (4,5,3,6)

CCCWC November competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 30: Everbody's endlessly sorry about block and tackle failure. (4,5,3,6)