CCCWC March competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 1: A potential life-saver is adrift at sea
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| A great turnout of 58 clues, and many of fair quality, but no outstanding winners. 'If Tardis' was a good anagram idea, and 14 made the best clue out of it. I liked 9, 50 and 58 for misleading definitions and 47 for a concise & lit., but my overall favourite by a narrow margin was 1 for its simple and economical surface. As usual, a few quibbles with some otherwise good clues: in 12 I can't see in what sense 'eluded' works as an anagram indicator; 15's 'Ernest a kissin' = staid' is a novel variation on the indirect anagram, but still indirect; 36 attempts a 'reverse cryptic' & lit., but I wouldn't accept 'First Aid = A'; and 'doubling C = F' in 55 is a step too far for the solver – and it certainly isn't true in hexadecimal. |
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| Some good ideas, but many spoilt by cumbersome reading and clumsy wordplay. I judged 1 the best, and it differed from 33 by not using an unnecessary word (required). The remaining points were spread rather thinly, because there were lots of clues using the same idea, if not the same words, as each other. |
