CCCWC August competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 9: Fearsome Indian icon and I get run out in mishap, enraging Oval?
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A clue to SHAPE / TIGER (Right & Left).
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1. | A nice surface. 'and' is a forgivable link-word, and 'in' is just about OK as an indicator. | 2. | Concise, well woven together and well hidden split |
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Very few clues managed to combine soundness with a convincing and satisfying surface. Many had indicators for initial or final letters that seem unacceptable to me: eg, "starts practising" for P & "big end" for G. Of those remaining on my short-list, 7's brilliant TIGER was rather let down by weaknesses in SHAPE. There wasn't a great deal to choose between the others so the points were fairly evenly spread, with no one scoring highly: 2 points: 7, 27, 30, 33, 34; 1 point: 11, 23, 25; 0.5 point: 2, 4, 9, 17. |