CCCWC April competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 1: After maiden over, Onions has opener of Essex going off for bad light
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| Strong competition this month and a nice variety of ideas gave me about 15 clues to choose from. 46 was a clear winner – misleading definition, concise wordplay and an entertaining surface (I've heard of talking tripe, but this is tripe talking!). I suspect an experienced hand is behind it. 36 is also cleverly misleading, as is 14. 17 has a great (if contentious) surface, accepting that 'as' is part of the definition of an adjective. 24 has several good elements to it and got a point despite the linking word 'for' (I don't feel as strongly as Azed about this). I'd have liked to give marks to the lovely 'and lit' in 18, but it doesn't quite work cryptically, and also to 5, but I'm not sure 'moon' in this sense is a noun. 1 also reads well at first but it isn't a very plausible description of cricket. A few minor issues: in 11 E abbreviates 'English' not 'England'; in 19 'produced' does double duty, taking too much liberty with the usual clue structure; Munshin in 33 was a bit too obscure for me; and 40 appears to have 'reality' as its definition. I wasn't so keen on clues that contained a nonsensical proposition and described it as nonsense – it looks rather contrived unless the nonsense is especially entertaining. But overall a high quality set and a pleasure to judge. |
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Clues 1, 20, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 35 all use link-words which suggest that the mutilated version is the same as the original. It isn't so you shouldn't use themm (see the slip for Azed No 1914). This does make life more difficult for clue-writers but at least there was a choice of letters to make latent.
What a beautiful clue 46 is. |
