CCCWC November competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 17: Mustang Sally, perhaps, short-changed through trickery.
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It seemed to me that unsoundness abounded this month, including several indirect anagrams (e.g. 15,17) and inadequate definitions. On top of this there were many clues with wordplay using related definitions of "wild", which made the clues rather weak, and some unnatural surface readings.
I chose 19 and 25 as my top two clues, although both could also be considered flawed. "From" in 25 is used in the opposite way from convention – i.e. it states "wordplay" from "definition" rather than the other way round. In 19 the definition is a little weak, I think, and "one" superfluous to the wordplay, unless I've missed something. But I liked the surface readings and construction of these two above any of the other clues. |
