CCCWC CHRISTMAS SPECIAL competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 39: Traverse Wynne's first – our oddly diamond across/down grid.
And for one hundred years, scarce an entry invalid.
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A clue to CROSSWORD / CENTENARY (Rhyming Couplet).
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| 1. | How pleasing that all of this was relevant to the topic – and rhymed, scanned and worked. | | 2. | does not scan very well |
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I'm not sure how many of the clues would pass muster in a poetry competition, but that of course is not part of our brief. So poetic quality has not, rightly, been among my criteria for a good clue – but it has been specified that the couplets should rhyme, and so I've discounted those that don't (27) and those where the rhyme feels unnaturally stressed (31 and 39).
A number of clues, while the rhyming was fine and the instructions were followed, didn't really make much sense in the surface reading. So these fell down too. |
