CCCWC January competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 6

CCCWC January competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 6: Criminal equips pack, head of crowbar poking out, the despicable man

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A clue to PIPSQUEAK.
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1.	'The' is perhaps redundant.
2.	An imaginative attempt at fodder. I wasn't completely persuaded by poking out (deletion), criminal (anagrind) or despicable man (def).

Comments on the competition
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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.

Comments on the competition

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.

CCCWC January competition voters’ comments Clue no. 6: Criminal equips pack, head of crowbar poking out, the despicable man

CCCWC January competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 6: Criminal equips pack, head of crowbar poking out, the despicable man