CCCWC November competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 23: Five of hearts…four of clubs…or a spade taken at random?
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| 27 is clever, but it seems to me to be an indirect anagram – (the PAST bit) 23 Too many people have resorted to anagrams. This one is cleverer that most of them but that &lit. is so often added to make a clue look better than it is. In this case, strictly speaking, shouldn't 'perhaps' be used to indicate that these are examples of the object defined? |
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Six clues seemed to me to have that extra lift –
33 – 5 pts – real emotion there.
50 – 4 pts – it tells a believable story. That 'Tesco' formed a hidden word was especially nice.
5, 10, 23 and 30 – 1.5 points each |
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A number of poor clues, too convoluted, trying too hard to be something they are not. A general observation, this week and also others – yes, maybe a lot of AZED comps are won by &lit clues. I suspect that an awful lot more are lost by people trying to create the same &lits and failing – and when they do fail, these clues can look awful.
clue 5 … don't anagrams normally contain all of the letters to be anagrammed?
7 poor anagram – what do we do with the 'S? And is performance a good anagrind?
9 makes little sense despite the long justification
12 hmmm!
15 I don't get – why is it &lit?
23 needs to be fifth of hearts, fourth of clubs etc which wrecks the clue
27 fail? – fails
28 what on earth is a semi &lit .. an attempted &lit which doesn't even get halfway there? |
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I found the better clues in this selection difficult to separate, but in the end, my points are as below. All have excellent surfaces and the definitions are very fair – many of the other clues had definitions which seemed a little far-fetched.
Points to:
5 points : 33
3 points each to 25, 26 and 50.
1 point to 36
Honourable mentions to 13, 22, 23 and 42 |
