CCCWC September competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 49: Underground leader leaves Bin Laden sect in disarray.
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A clue to CLANDESTINE.
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Quite a large number of perfectly acceptable clues this month, but few with real sparkle. The ones that scored well from me were those with convincing and imaginative surfaces well integrated with the definition and s.i. – 4, 24, 36, 49 and, especially, 5.
6, an otherwise good clue, defines “clandestine” as “canny”, presumably on the ground that Chambers gives “sly” as a meaning for both. But the meanings of words don’t obey mathematical rules, and it does not follow from the facts that A = B and B = C that A = C. In this case, I don’t think that “canny” and “clandestine” are equivalent. |
