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Clue no. 24: Scottish banker drinking fine wine
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A clue to TOKAY.
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| I don't know about MCJOB, but TOKAY certainly defeated the anagram fiends – just a single one, which must be a first. T + OKAY was the most obvious treatment, so a clue using this wordplay needed something special to distinguish it, and only 36 managed this in a sufficiently misleading, if rather closed-shop, sort of way. I liked 17 for its several puns and coherent surface, and 24 was the best of the Tays. 33 won me over with a clever idea, though I guess a gecko's tail is attached to a gecko's bum rather than a whole gecko. Finally 15 and 41 were the most satisfying of the rest. A couple of devices I couldn't accept: "A drink, we hear" for the letter T (it doesn't sound like 'tea' when it's in 'tokay'); "pieces of Bartok and Kodaly" (much too vague); and "right out of Tolkien" for to(l)k(ien) (very indirect). |
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1st= (2.5 points each) 33 (excellent idea, but arguably the gecko's tail is attached to the gecko minus the tail, which means the definition is not quite right; but a small point: very clever clue), 35 (my only doubt was a certain cumbersomeness} and 36 (lovely, but for this to work we need to see the Azed clue conpetition as 'What could come from BARPERSON', which is just OK I think)
4th= (1.5 points each) 1 (very good, but a marginally odd surface), 4 (my only criticism was the tortuous way in which a single letter is clued; but lovely surface) and 9 (very good, with several nice layers, but I suppose one could carp and say that Tokay need not itself be a vintage wine)
7th (1 point) 41 ('Wine' as a definition is a bit thin, but otherwise rather good)
8th= (0.5 points each) 19 (was less than certain about 'today' = 'for the time being', and marginally odd surface, but otherwise good), 24 (simple but good), 27 (likewise) and 39 (wasn't sure that a 'wine prank' is very satisfactory, but otherwise good) |
