CCCWC January competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 22

CCCWC January competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 22: He gorges, yet grudges waste (6,4)

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A clue to GREEDY GUTS.
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Comments on the clue

1.	Very good clue, surface and wordplay
2.	The 'yet' jars in the surface reading – rather forced.
3.	I am not normally a fan of the so-called semi&lit but this is a terrific one, best this month for me.
4.	If using an imperative anagram indicator, this should be before the anagram fodder.
5.	Perhaps 'waste' doesn't adequately convey the change required from an anagram indicator ?

Comments on the competition
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Once again a healthy serving of clues to feast on this month. GREEDY GUTS is one of those cluewords with a relatively tight definition, whilst at the same time being either a singular or plural noun and also offering the option to define by example. Just 4 solvers chose the latter route (Bunter, 2 and 48, Elvis 10 and Henry VIII 27) but only one of these included the essential indication that the person concerned is an example of a gluttonous individual (10). Only one clue chose to define more than one greedy guts with an ingenious &lit. (47). Popular options for the definition included 7 pigs (1, 25, 28, 32, 39, 40 and 41), 3 gluttons (15, 16 and 44), 3 scoffers, (23, 42 and 46), 2 gourmands (14 and 18), 2 fatty/fatsos (7 and 8) and 2 gorgers (21 and 22). Three greedy birds also flew in for an appearance: cormorant (3), gannet (11), raven (33). A variety of more descriptive definitions were offered in half a dozen &lit. clues (4, 12, 20, 30, 31 and 47) and slightly more semi &lit. clues (6, 13, 19, 23, 26, 34 and 49). The wordplay in the latter should provide an enhancement of the definition, but sadly in these examples the non-enhanced definitions are all rather too vague to stand alone. They were, however, preferable to no definition at all – 43. Turning to wordplay, anagrams proved as popular as ever this month. Some of the best clues employed clever compound anagrams (4, 5, 9, 23, 25. 36, 39* and 47), whilst others slipped up with inadequate anagram indicators (8, 16, 18, 22, 26 and 35). A fair anagram indicator clearly indicates a disturbance or rearrangement of the letters or words in question. Having the correct number of anagram indicators is also essential, perennial errors including forgetting to include one at all (30), omitting the second indicator when it is necessary in a compound anagram (10) and over-complicating things with too many indicators (49). A few clues attempted to indicate the clueword cryptically with reference to the guts (contents) of GREEDY, ie REED (43, 44 and 48). However, the guts of greedy doesn't really equate to greedy guts, just as 'big bottom' isn't the same as 'bottom of big' (1).

Comments on the competition

Once again a healthy serving of clues to feast on this month. GREEDY GUTS is one of those cluewords with a relatively tight definition, whilst at the same time being either a singular or plural noun and also offering the option to define by example. Just 4 solvers chose the latter route (Bunter, 2 and 48, Elvis 10 and Henry VIII 27) but only one of these included the essential indication that the person concerned is an example of a gluttonous individual (10). Only one clue chose to define more than one greedy guts with an ingenious &lit. (47). Popular options for the definition included 7 pigs (1, 25, 28, 32, 39, 40 and 41), 3 gluttons (15, 16 and 44), 3 scoffers, (23, 42 and 46), 2 gourmands (14 and 18), 2 fatty/fatsos (7 and 8) and 2 gorgers (21 and 22). Three greedy birds also flew in for an appearance: cormorant (3), gannet (11), raven (33). A variety of more descriptive definitions were offered in half a dozen &lit. clues (4, 12, 20, 30, 31 and 47) and slightly more semi &lit. clues (6, 13, 19, 23, 26, 34 and 49). The wordplay in the latter should provide an enhancement of the definition, but sadly in these examples the non-enhanced definitions are all rather too vague to stand alone. They were, however, preferable to no definition at all – 43.

Turning to wordplay, anagrams proved as popular as ever this month. Some of the best clues employed clever compound anagrams (4, 5, 9, 23, 25. 36, 39* and 47), whilst others slipped up with inadequate anagram indicators (8, 16, 18, 22, 26 and 35). A fair anagram indicator clearly indicates a disturbance or rearrangement of the letters or words in question. Having the correct number of anagram indicators is also essential, perennial errors including forgetting to include one at all (30), omitting the second indicator when it is necessary in a compound anagram (10) and over-complicating things with too many indicators (49). A few clues attempted to indicate the clueword cryptically with reference to the guts (contents) of GREEDY, ie REED (43, 44 and 48). However, the guts of greedy doesn't really equate to greedy guts, just as 'big bottom' isn't the same as 'bottom of big' (1).

CCCWC January competition voters’ comments Clue no. 22: He gorges, yet grudges waste (6,4)

CCCWC January competition voters’ comments

Clue no. 22: He gorges, yet grudges waste (6,4)