CCCWC Christmas Special competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 13: Good wine for victor in children's game, and drugs queen made thin biscuit
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A clue to CRACKER / VINTAGE (Right & Left).
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| A hard challenge, as reflected in many of entries – I can't give more than 13 points altogether. The requirements aren't really met by an implicit break, as in 13, or one that splits a word, as in 22. In 10 we are apparently meant to construe RYVITA as WRY VITA, i.e. an anagram of VITA – much too complicated, I'm afraid. I think 11 is the best clue, although people not knowing the story – an controversial joke on "Mock the Week" – may not fully appreciate it. And judging by some of the explanations, there is still confusion over what constitutes an "&lit". |
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| Many of the entries eliminated themselves either through unsoundness (surely we all accept that the cryptic reading must have correct syntax?) or by being too cumbersome and contrived. Three of interest to me: 34 attracted me, but I could find no justification for V = Vera. My apologies to the author if I've missed this, but (if so) I think it will attract enough votes for the absence of mine not to matter. The other two were 13 and 22, for a similar reason. Does "non-overlapping" allow for the situation in the former, where "drugs" is used to justify parts of both segments? Or the latter, where the break occurs within a word? Yes and no respectively in my view, although I'm happy to be corrected on this. Both were imaginative, at any rate. |
