CCCWC June competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 39: Sweet backheel is good for the French (6)
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A clue to Any “Double” Word (6 or more letters) (A Game of Two Halves).
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20 – a faultless clue, I feel – anecdotal, smart word-play and efficient – 5 points. One to frame and stick on the wall.
49 – Charming – 3 points.
33 – Neat, like the word-play – 2 points.
Ten others I gave a half-point for being fairly solid with some interesting ideas and fluency, but lacking perhaps the same degree of flare or crispness demonstrated by the above: 12 15 16 17 23 31 34 36 39 50.
A personal thing – I found others a bit too busy or contrived; and a number inconsistent with the instructions, being not football-y enough in the surface reading. |
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Some lovely ideas but also lots of clues made unsound by the use of linking words which implied that, for example, BUL is the same as BUL-BUL, which it isn’t. This is something repeatedly mentioned by Azed over the years (Slips 1200, 1441, 1459, 1596, 1707, 1914 ).
Some of the linking words used were ‘as’ (4), ‘in’ (8 and 13), ‘for’ (12 and 26), 'is’ (39 and 41) and ‘prove to be’ (44).
One can normally work round the problem (eg High kicking action? Crouch has the power) but avoiding them does make life harder.
My favourite clue was 48 (where the ‘as’ is part of the definition), then 18, 17, 3 and 1. |
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It is amazing that so many people can't obey simple instructions. After wondering whether or not it really mattered, I eventually discarded all clues that weren't in the correct format (give or take a colon or a semi-colon). My votes eventually (a good lot of clues I felt) were
1st (3.5 points): 20
2nd (2.5 points): 21
3rd (2 points): 37
4th (1.5 points]: 23
5th (1 point): 36
6th= (0.5 points each): 3, 7, 10, 12, 16, 22, 39, 45, 49 |
