CCCWC October competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 19: Game birds, on resort near Brighton, exhibit un-British behaviour?
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| I felt that an indication of Antipodean origin was necessary for this word and was surprised by how few clues included such. This has heavily influenced my voting. I gave 5 points to clue 39, which achieves a commendably Aussie surface. 4 points to clue 45, the most successful of the cricketing clues, I thought. 3 points to clue 19, which has an amusing surface and a neat reference to the British penchant for queueing. 2 points to clue 13 for a brave use of 'Darwinian' and 1 point to clue 40, which I feel is let down by the second 'to'. |
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| With quite unfriendly letters and the Australian context, this was a hard word to clue concisely, and the strain shows in a lot of the entries, though there's little unsoundness. I liked 39 for its entertaining surface and nice use of 'digger', and 1 and 19 also read well. 26's several puns create a good penny-drop, and put it a little way ahead of 24. I was less keen on the Sussex cricket clues because they were mostly on the long side (30 just missed the points for this reason). Some clues that ruled themselves out were: 8 – 'a couple of characters from Vancouver' is too vague for V and U; 33 – I like a clue to have some wordplay as well as a definition, however clever; and 22, which I didn't understand at all, I'm afraid. |
