CCCWC October competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 19: Curate fidgets with priest collar
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| Such a clue-friendly word (thanks Robert), this was really hard to judge. Lots of perfectly good clues, so I had to look for that little extra something that made a clue stand out. 31 is an excellent topical reference and a shade better than 16. 40 is the cleverest of the & lits., perfectly worded, as is 43, just pipping 47. The chess idea is well handled in 41, and the picture conjured by 19 is very plausible. Sadly that left no room for 2 and 21's original ideas or 51's neat combination of 'apartment' and 'smoke'. In a more average competition they'd all have been contenders. |
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A lot of reasonable clues this month, and I distributed lots of half points. The clues that stood out to me for more points than that were 40 and 5, the former with a perfect surface reading &lit, the latter slightly strained, but still the same great idea; 29 and 47, both original ideas, well worded with respect to surface and cryptic reading.
For 15, a "castle" is not a chess piece, but "castling" is a chess move, which could not possibly result in the queen being taken since it would be illegal. Clue 22 seemed to have a lot of superfluous wording for surface reading only. Clues 19 and 31 were not quite up to "above half points" because of the exact wording. I thought 19 would have been better as "Curate fidegeting with priest's collar" and the "first" in 31 seemed to me to be a bit clumsy. |
