CCCWC February competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 13

CCCWC February competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 13: Diabolically evil tyrant lacking direction could be Big Brother (7,2)

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Comments on the clue

1.	Good try, although direction could equally be east, and why does Big Brother lack direction anyway?
2.	Clever but not convoluted, and the best usage of Big Brother in all the clues.
3.	'Lacking direction' is a bit weak both cryptically and in the surface reading
4.	Wanted to award points, but "lacking direction" was ambiguous — also could indicate "E".

Comments on the competition
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Clue 13 was my favourite, with a nice definition and a good surface that made it superior to the other clues involving Big Brother – 31 and 46. It also stood out as being a unique example where all the other good ideas were used by two or more competitors. The “trivial telly – ill” anagram was a clever idea, used by two clues 34 and 39 and I gave them joint second as both seemed equally sound to me with good and lit definitions. 5 36 49 and 55 were close behind, again nice and lits, with nothing to divide them, so getting 1 point each. There were a number of other attempts at and lit anagrams which I felt deserved merits – 7 9 23 35 52. I felt the others I gave points to were either more elegantly expressed, or the anagrams used here were slightly more contrived (verily seemed a little forced, and I preferred vile tarty to live tarty as a more accurate description) but nonetheless were all good efforts.

Comments on the competition

Clue 13 was my favourite, with a nice definition and a good surface that made it superior to the other clues involving Big Brother – 31 and 46. It also stood out as being a unique example where all the other good ideas were used by two or more competitors. The “trivial telly – ill” anagram was a clever idea, used by two clues 34 and 39 and I gave them joint second as both seemed equally sound to me with good and lit definitions. 5 36 49 and 55 were close behind, again nice and lits, with nothing to divide them, so getting 1 point each. There were a number of other attempts at and lit anagrams which I felt deserved merits – 7 9 23 35 52. I felt the others I gave points to were either more elegantly expressed, or the anagrams used here were slightly more contrived (verily seemed a little forced, and I preferred vile tarty to live tarty as a more accurate description) but nonetheless were all good efforts.

CCCWC February competition voters’ comments Clue no. 13: Diabolically evil tyrant lacking direction could be Big Brother (7,2)

CCCWC February competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 13: Diabolically evil tyrant lacking direction could be Big Brother (7,2)