CCCWC January competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 24: Filet de rump à la Veronese? More like rabbit!
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| A very nice set of clues, I thought; my only gripe is that Rod LAVER seemed a bit over-used. 25 gets maximum points for ingenious linkage of 'flatter' and 'TV format'. 16, to which I gave 4 points, seemed the neatest of the 'conference pear' clues. 52 was very straightforward, but none the worse for that, 3 points. 2 points for 24, in which 'Filet de' worked very nicely. Finally, 1 point for 5, in which I liked 'brave talk'. At first glance, I marked 23 highly, but 'employ soft soap' is an intransitive phrase while 'flatter' is a transitive verb. |
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I was surprised by the number of clues that ignored hyphens in their definitions (4, 10, 11, 12, 13): "carry-on" is different from "carry on" and "to do" is different from "to-do".
There were quite a lot of alright but uninspiring clues, but the "lav for pee in paper" idea was a great one and most of my votes went to the three clues using this idea (8, 23, 61). My other choices were 24, 25 and 38 which all held together well, with decent surface readings and original wordplay.
I liked the idea of "state, state, state!?" used in 50 but thought it would be stronger worded as an &lit and even then with such a big choices of words and abbreviations for "state", perhaps a little unfair. |
