CCCWC June competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 25: Newspaper keeps doubly quiet with nothing on the Parisian den of iniquity (5,3)
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| 1. | "doubly" serves no purpose in the surface reading. | | 2. | The order of the wordplay suggests LE comes after SHPO and the surface seems a bit awkward |
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Top Shelf was such an obvious anagram, that a clue was going to have to be truly excellent to stand out, none did so I dismissed all of them, though 50 got close.
Other anagrams seemed exceptionally tortuous. Anagrams, for me, should have an elegance in their construction; clueing a string of letters and half words and throwing in an anagrind seems to lack this quality, unless excellent wordplay and originality underpins it. I feel likewise about compound anagrams. 15 2 points, 18, 40 and 44 got one point each.
22 gained a merit for attempting MARMITE as a definition, though the wording didn't work for me.
Of the rest I awarded 25 1 point, 52 2 points, 38 3 points, 19 4 points. |
