CCCWC January competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 46: Run-of-the-mill and lacking spice, beginners jellied aspics not edible.
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A clue to PLAIN-JANE.
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| 1. | surface meaning is obscure (without the apostrophe), and an aspic is a jelly anyway | | 2. | Surely a bland jellied aspic is still edible? | | 3. | Surface not so convincing |
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| Dealing with the J was the trickiest part of this challenge, and I expected to see a few ninjas, Japans and similar. There were some fairly ropy surface readings such as 6, 16, 25, 46 and 57 which I can't imagine as pieces of English prose other than crosswordese, and some over-complicated compound anagrams (anything over 12 words is too long in my book). The charade clues working with variants on PLAIN and JANE were not sufficiently inventive, and some clueing was too libertarian for my taste, with inaccurate anagram indicators appearing quite regularly. In the end I had fewer than ten sound and interesting candidates. |
