CCCWC June competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 21: Initiate of solitary confinement at Reading?
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| Not a vintage collection, I thought. Some interesting ideas seemed to me to be flawed. While 4 is fine by me, I know from bitter experience that some editors would demand an second anagrind for "tin" since its letters are nonconsecutive. The idea in 8 demands "homes" in the cryptic reading; likewise 21 with "initiate". 12 surely needs recasting to bring "new" to the front, where it can legitimately be capitalised. Several clues use "no" for the O, which I cannot see any justification for (if so my apologies to the composer of 7, which I should otherwise have supported) |
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| Although the word offered a lot of different meanings and references, it seemed many competitors struggled to make a coherent clue out it. The best were: 21, an excellent & lit., if a bit of an easy definition; 15 with lots of misleading elements, a professional job, almost more than what was needed; 42, good surface, misleading context; then 4, 16, and 33, all original ideas that work and read well. Too many unsound clues this time to single any out, but 'stretch limo' clues certainly need a question mark, and I can't accept 'no mark' = '0 scar'. |
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| Two leading letter clues (21 & 48) use of both as an indicator of which letters to use and as part of those letters – surely both are clues to "scar"?? |
