CCCWC April competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 5: Bottom displays in middle of 'Dream' what's asinine
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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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| 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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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 |
