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Clue no. 8: Badly shocked, picking up a couple of characters from Vancouver to break the cab-rank rule
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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. |
