CCCWC May competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 24: Look! In the Post Office, we and the Queen employ a huge energy source.
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A clue to POWERHOUSE.
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| Only clues 3, 6, 24, 30, 33, 46, and 55 eschewed anagrams and the obvious division power/house. So 5 points to the best of these, clue 46; 3 points to clue 6; and 1 point to each of the rest. Clue 26 took my fancy and received 2 points despite its power/house split. The imaginative clue 37 almost received points. |
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| What I noticed this month were several clues with bizarre or highly implausible surface readings, where the clue writer had forced unrelated elements together, perhaps in the hope of producing something amusing. Examples are 5, 13, 24, 36 and 11, whose long explanation was unconvincing. 3 on the other hand has a great surface, but I thought it marginally too difficult. Not many misleading definitions, but a few decent puns, the best of which is 23's "the one with the drive?". This is the one clue that made me chuckle, and I gave it top marks. 27 is concise and misleading, 39 has a good topical surface, and 9, 14 and 19 all read well. 37 and 43 contain original ideas, but neither works very well cryptically. Another good turn-out, and rather easier than last month to choose the best clues. |
