CCCWC October competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 51: Take small apartment? Smoke outside!
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I thought this was an excellent set of clues, by far the strongest that I remember in this competition. After my first run through, I had at least 15 candidates for votes, which made the task of awarding votes (pleasantly) demanding.
Ultimately, I gave 5 points to 40, which is as good an &lit. as I've seen; 4 points to 12, for a perfect and succinct surface; 3 points to 5, an excellent clue which is, to my mind, slightly outshone by 40; 2 points to 26, another with an excellent, tight surface; and 1 point to 51, which is pleasingly original. |
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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. |
