CCCWC April competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 39: Secretary having lost a bit of esteem gets close to Brown…and still makes it.
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Lots of very good ideas this month. Clues 36 and 46 stood out for me, though. Accurate, concise, witty and with believable surface readings. Clues 5 and 13 followed very closely in points with their original workings. Clue 17 stole the last point because of the witty surface reading and original idea, although I was not 100% sure of "as" a joining word. 9 and 39 were also quite nice.
At the other extreme there were some things I did not like. There were rather too many unnecessary exclamation marks! (e.g. 2,18,26) There were a few indirect anagrams (e.g. 11), 'misleading punctuation' (e.g. 16), overlapping parts of the clue (e.g. 19) and such like.
Overall, fun to read through though, and many more ideas it seemed to me than for the LL clues to GREENGROCER a few years ago. |
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| Clues 6 and 39 were my favourites because they made perfect sense in themselves and the definitions were well hidden. Both very witty. |
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There were so many good clues that it was very hard to whittle them down. Several that were I'm sure worth points have been left out, but eventually I decided:
1st= (2 points each): 34, 46, 47
4th= (1 point each): 2, 7, 17, 20, 22, 32, 36, 39
12th= (0.5 points each): 3, 5 |
