CCCWC Christmas Special competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 45

CCCWC Christmas Special competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 45: You may see a couple in Tel Aviv shout and dance around on this occasion?

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A clue to A “FIVE GOLD RINGS” word.
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1.	A couple in Tel Aviv could be TE, EL, LA, AV, VI or IV by this logic. Possibly ok for direct use, but not in anagram fodder.
2.	I'd prefer not to have to guess which couple of letters like this. And what is that 'and' doing?
3.	'a couple in Tel Aviv' seems rather arbitrary for AV and the wordplay would require 'AV and SHOUT' dance around.

Comments on the competition
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This month 42 entries clued 18 valid words, with a further 3 clueing FIVE GOLD RINGS (6, 21, 24). Appropriately, clue words subdivided neatly into groups of 5. More than half the clues (25) led to the 5 most popular words, or variations thereon: DEJA VU (1, 5, 8, 12, 13, 25, 42) (7), AVULS/E (9, 19, 31, 36) /D (18) /ION (3) (6), BRAVURA (7, 37, 40, 44) (4), NUNAVUT (28, 35, 38, 39) (4) and SHAVUOT (17, 32, 41, 45) (4). Another 5 clue words or variations resulted from a further 12 clues: CLAVUS (11, 14, 27) (3), HELIO/GRAVURE (43, 10, 30) (3), AVUNCULAR ([20, 33) (2), CLAVULATE (15, 34) (2), and FAVUS (22, 23) (2). There were 5 other singly represented clue words which were generally more obscure (A VUESTRA SALUD (4), CHAVUTTI THIRUMAL (26), DAVUTOGLU (2), GUSTAVUS (16) and LAGAVULIN (29)). The average length of the 18 different clue wards was 8.4 letters, dropping to 7.4 letters when their relative frequencies was taken into account. In general it appeared to be easier to construct a good clue, and thereby score more highly, when a shorter clue word was chosen (the best 5 clues all had answers of 5 or 6 letters).

Comments on the competition

This month 42 entries clued 18 valid words, with a further 3 clueing FIVE GOLD RINGS (6, 21, 24). Appropriately, clue words subdivided neatly into groups of 5. More than half the clues (25) led to the 5 most popular words, or variations thereon: DEJA VU (1, 5, 8, 12, 13, 25, 42*) (7), AVULS/E (9, 19, 31, 36*) /D (18) /ION (3) (6), BRAVURA (7, 37, 40*, 44) (4), NUNAVUT (28, 35*, 38, 39) (4) and SHAVUOT (17, 32, 41, 45*) (4). Another 5 clue words or variations resulted from a further 12 clues: CLAVUS (11, 14*, 27) (3), HELIO/GRAVURE (43, 10, 30*) (3), AVUNCULAR ([20, 33*) (2), CLAVULATE (15, 34*) (2), and FAVUS (22*, 23) (2). There were 5 other singly represented clue words which were generally more obscure (A VUESTRA SALUD (4), CHAVUTTI THIRUMAL (26), DAVUTOGLU (2), GUSTAVUS (16) and LAGAVULIN (29)). The average length of the 18 different clue wards was 8.4 letters, dropping to 7.4 letters when their relative frequencies was taken into account. In general it appeared to be easier to construct a good clue, and thereby score more highly, when a shorter clue word was chosen (the best 5 clues all had answers of 5 or 6 letters).

CCCWC Christmas Special competition voters’ comments Clue no. 45: You may see a couple in Tel Aviv shout and dance around on this occasion?

CCCWC Christmas Special competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 45: You may see a couple in Tel Aviv shout and dance around on this occasion?