CCCWC April competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 18

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Clue no. 18: Hot, making knob swell

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Comments on the competition
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h) 5pts Clue #18 Hot, making knob swell [really needs a '?', but couldn't resist it!] 4pts Clue #12 Grand piano lid [my head tells me this is the best, but my heart told me to go with the smutty one - sorry] 3pts Clue #16 'Hot' in rap circles [very clever, but 'rap' and 'tap' not quite synonymous, I feel] 1pt Clue #3 Certain pairs of physical attributes can make you this? 1pt Clue #11 Grand piano - something you may associate with the shows of Flanders and Swann 1pt Clue #19 If hot tap's broken, it may be cool or heard to be dripping, for instance.
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i) 5 points to clue no. 16 - a brilliant example of an &lit 4 points to clue no. 4 - cleverly done, with a very good surface reading 3 points to clue no. 14 - I couldn't agree more! 2 points to clue no. 5 - nicely misleading 1 point to clue no. 18 - for sheer rudery!
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j) There was less unsoundness than normal in my opinion, although I still discounted a few I thought were borderline (e.g. too many extra words in hidden clues, inadequate indicators for first letters). I whittled it down mostly on how interesting the clues were and how misleading the context, but that still left quite a lot of the pack. Some comments on specific clues. I discounted 18 for being a bit too obscene as a surface reading, although it would only just have been in my shortlist otherwise anyway. My favourite clue of all (even including my own) is 39, since it is an interesting and sound clue with a misleading context and a natural surface reading. My favourite of the "&lit"s are 16 and 27, since they are both sound, incorporate a precise definition, and are interesting in format and simple in phrasing. There are many other good clues that I cannot easily choose between.