CCCWC November competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 9

CCCWC November competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 9: Dear Wilma: not one sacked member on this board will receive much dole.

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A limited range of treatments, with many clues lacking a coherent surface. I thought 12 by far the best of the Custer treatments (and it taught me something – now I see that Little Big Horn, as I've seen it written, makes sense), and my other favourites used the Daw connection. Regrettably there were several clues that lacked soundness, some with what I suppose must be called clued definitions and others lacking grammar in the cryptic reading. The equivalent of "clue first" to indicate C is still very popular. A rueful thank-you to the author of 9 for the elucidation – information that perhaps I could have managed without.

Comments on the competition

A limited range of treatments, with many clues lacking a coherent surface. I thought 12 by far the best of the Custer treatments (and it taught me something – now I see that Little Big Horn, as I've seen it written, makes sense), and my other favourites used the Daw connection. Regrettably there were several clues that lacked soundness, some with what I suppose must be called clued definitions and others lacking grammar in the cryptic reading. The equivalent of "clue first" to indicate C is still very popular. A rueful thank-you to the author of 9 for the elucidation – information that perhaps I could have managed without.

CCCWC November competition voters’ comments Clue no. 9: Dear Wilma: not one sacked member on this board will receive much dole.

CCCWC November competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 9: Dear Wilma: not one sacked member on this board will receive much dole.