CCCWC January competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 4: Contemptible person's clever remarks point to Spooner
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A clue to PIPSQUEAK.
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Answers were strangely consistent. Clues were usually serviceable but lacking the spark of inspiration. Several took the opportunity to use a Spoonerism – I thought 4 the best of these. For anagrams, perhaps the letters made it difficult for fodder to go beyond quip, pique and quean. 6 and 37 had deletions from the fodder. Pip was defined in different ways – I liked the reference to Great Expectations in 25 and 7. Definitions in several cases settled for something straight forward – often nothing, nobody or nonentity. |