CCCWC October competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 47: Take medicine to stifle fit
Back to competitor’s clues |
All the comments |
Other competitions
A clue to CAPTURE.
3 comments refer to this clue (from 3 competitors, 0 others)
Move your mouse pointer over any bold clue number to see the clue.
Here is the text
| Comments on the competition |
|---|
| 1. |
|---|
| 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. |
| 2. |
|---|
| With so many entries it's not surprising to see some very similar ideas, for example 18 and 40, 43 and 47, 44 and 59. 24 and 37 rely on practically identical but dubious homophones. Several clues don't read very naturally, e.g 11 13 17 20 32 33 34 42 53. I don't see how "screen" works as a definition in58. Dr.Edwards is supefluous in 22. Vacuum = capture dust in 23 is tenuous to say the least. 14 is probably the most inventive clue but since a capon is not necessarily a turkey I ruled it out, sorry. (Chambers simply has "a castrated cock".) Some excellent pithy clues – 5 stands out, and 26 is very elegantly constructed. I also rather like 2, 10 12 18 and 40. Perhaps surprisingly, no references to the Tea Party. |
| 3. |
|---|
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. |
