CCCWC September competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 2: All they wanted? To-do; wasted!
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A clue to ASTER (Printer’s Devilry).
3 comments refer to this clue (from 2 competitors, 0 others)
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| 1. | Not enough context given to find answer, and neither reading is natural | | 2. | All _who_ wanted? Would be better as something like "All wine-lovers wanted.." |
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| A lot of entries don't seem to get the point of PD clues, which is that the undevilled version should make sense in a way that convinces the solver that the answer is correct. It's good if the devilled version makes sense too, but that is a secondary consideration. 32, 33 and 46 are examples where the undevilled version makes less sense than the devilled; 2, although it "works", doesn't give the solver enough information. Several clues used "b/aste roast", but most of them, didn't make it clear enough _why_ basting is a good thing. 21, which I gave my best score to, successfully makes both versions make sense, with a nice change of meaning between them. |
