CCCWC May competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 6: Being full of energy we cycle sixty minutes then sit outside
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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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Some very interesting ideas. The anagram of "How's Europe" and variants were just too over-used and none of the clues especially stood out, so they did not quite make my shortlist. 4 and 6 were both interesting ideas, but I thought 4 was too hard to solve and should also be "partner's" in the surface reading, while I could not see what "then" was doing in 6.
My favourite clue was 30, which I gave 5 points. Although I think the addition of a "Maybe" at the beginning (British H of C only an example of LH) and perhaps the use of "Commons" rather than "MPs" would have made it even better, the simplicity and topicality of the idea made it stand out.
I also liked the simplicity of 52 as an &lit and the "story" behind 8. The remaining clues that got my votes were 39 and 9, ahead of the others on my shortlist (27, 28, 35, 38, 48) mostly because of the more natural surface reading. |
