CCCWC February competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 11: Coloured wedges my objective when playing Trivial Pursuit
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| I decided in advance (a) that any clue based entirely on initial letters would have to be quite exceptional to score and (b) that job = work or the equivalent in the wordplay would disqualify (pity about 25, therefore). The two stand-out definitions were in 43 and 11, but I couldn't understand the MCJ in the former. I think the latter will be a runaway winner. The author of 12 should perhaps look afresh at structures, and see that the splits used are unconventional. |
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| An excellent turnout of 53 entries and a nice mixture of clues with much inventive wordplay, though sometimes perhaps at the expense of an effective definition or fluent surface. 44 was an outstanding & lit., trailed by 25, and 11, 19 and 45 the best of the punning definitions. The main weakness of a lot other clues was a strained surface reading rather than unsoundness (36 for example), but there were a few I thought faulty: 1 is an indirect anagram with 'second digger' only providing a clue to the anagram material; similarly 'compare' in 12 is an indirect homophone; in 46 I don't think m=man is justified (and m=male=man is indirect) and the solution requires 0 in CJB not JCB; finally the author of 48 needs to sort out their apostrophes and capital letters if they're to have any chance in this competition. |
