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1ACCWC #561 – POLICE – OPEN FOR CLUES
This week’s contest is hosted by Aashirwad
For 1ACCWC 561, the chosen word is POLICE
Here are the rules
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- Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly.
- Please login to participate. You can use your wordpress/gmail account for login but please use one account consistently so that your performance can be tracked for the leader board
- Contest closes at 8:00 AM, April 10, 2026 after which VOTING will be open.
- All participants who set clues are expected to vote as well. So please check when the Voting opens and/or bookmark the links
- Voting will close at 7:00 AM, April 12, 2026 after which Results will be announced.
Click here to ENTER THE CONTEST
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1ACCWC #560 – INDETERMINATE – Results
Of the 27 clues for INDETERMINATE, 22 clues (including the entire top ten!) contained anagrams. Interestingly, though there were a few understandable repeats, the anagrams showed quite a variety, demonstrated beautifully by the top 5 clues having unique sets of anagram fodder.
• Karol S asks us to enjoy “crumble” “AT DINNERTIME” with “E(cstasy)”
• Nitish Asthana tells us “I’M ENTERTAINED”, “drunk”
• Pundit JEE gives us a “vague form” of “INTERNET MEDIA”
• Satyen Nabar describes how a certain unnamed “R(epublican) EMITTED INANE” “rubbish” (whoever could he be talking about?)
• and, returning to top spot again after winning with ANGELIC a week earlier, Aashirwad gives us a news update about “belligerent” “leaders of I(srael) M(aking) DETENTE with IRAN” doubtful.Congratulations to Aashirwad and all the toppers, and a big thank you to all the contestants for a great set of clues!
Top 10
# Name Clue Points Voters Anno Comments 1 Aashirwad Belligerent leaders of Israel making detente with Iran doubtful (13) 38 13 Anagram of IM+DETENTE+IRAN, with belligerent as the anagram indicator. Doubtful is the definition (ref: Chambers Dictionary). “Detente” means ceasing of hostilities. – Excellent!
– Liked this but I’m not 100% sure about “belligerent” as anagrind!2 Satyen Nabar Unpredictable Republican emitted inane rubbish (13) 32 11 (R EMITTED INANE)*; Republican= R, rubbish= adjectival anag ind. def= unpredictable – While the surface reading is fine, the cryptic reading has a problem. “Rubbish” being a verb anagram indicator should come before the fodder, which would of course make your surface suffer. 3 Pundit JEE Vague form of internet media? (13) 24 10 Anagram of internet media = indeterminate 4 Nitish Asthana I’m entertained, drunk and unsettled. 23 7 Anagram suggested by drunk; def- unsettled – Nice clue. Simple and sound. 5 Karol S Crumble at dinnertime: ecstasy beyond measure 22 9 (AT DINNERTIME + E)* [anag.: crumble]. Indeterminate = “unable to be predicted, calculated or deduced” (Collins) …and if you’ve never had crumble, you haven’t lived! – Great use of crumble – which indeed delicious! 🙂 6 VENKATESAN P Misbehaving teen trained? I’m not sure. 20 9 Definition: Not sure. Anno: (TEEN+TRAINED+IM)*. Anagrind: Misbehaving 7 Nilesh Parmar Uncertain dinnertime. Eat out 15 7 Definition – uncertain, (dinnertime+eat)*, out as anagram indicator 8 @LowdownCryptic “Undefined” error after Internet ad? I’m upset (13) 14 5 E (error) after (INTERNET AD I’M)*; anagrind: upset; def: undefined – I don’t think error = E is a standard abbreviation.
– As a backend developer this is the story of my life9 Nathan Townshend ‘Dinner’ and ‘teatime’ are different? It’s unclear! 13 7 TEATIME + DINNER* are different = grind 10 Textrous Unknown drug taken after bananas at dinner-time (13) 13 5 Def: Unknown; drug: E, anagrind: bananas => ATDINNERTIME*+E Congrats to the toppers and all those who participated.
Over to Aashirwad for the next contest.
If you have any comments or feedback on the contest or the new 1ACCWC app. or any suggestions, please leave a comment and I shall try and incorporate it.
Here’s the link to the full results Also Check out the Leaderboard for 2026.
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Voting Now Open – 1ACCWC #560
1ACCWC 560 hosted by Abhay Phadnis is now closed for clues.
Voting is now OPEN
All participants who set clues are expected to vote. You are not allowed to vote for your own clue
- Click on clues to shortlist them, click on the Shortlisted Button to see shortlisted clues only
- Use arrows to move clues up or down the list if you wish to. Clicking on the buttons moves the clue right to the Top or Bottom of the list.
- Allocate a total of 10 points exactly across 4 clues e.g. 4,3,2,1 (ideal allocation) or 3,3,3,1 etc. A running total is visible on the top of the page to help you see what you have allocated.
- Click on submit votes. You will not be allowed to allocate more or less than 10 points/4 clues
- Votes from voters whose names are not recognised from FB/Twitter/Bluesky will be disallowed. Please use your login IDs.
- Participants who do not vote will lose 10 points for the round
Do check out our Leaderboards. These includes points for all players whose clues figure in the Top 10 each week and gets accumulated over the year.
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1ACCWC #560 – INDETERMINATE – OPEN FOR CLUES
This weeks contest is hosted by Abhay Phadnis
For 1ACCWC 560, the chosen word is INDETERMINATE
Here are the rules
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- Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly.
- Please login to participate. You can use your wordpress/gmail account for login but please use one account consistently so that your performance can be tracked for the leader board
- Contest closes at 10:00 AM, April 3, 2026 after which VOTING will be open.
- All participants who set clues are expected to vote as well. So please check when the Voting opens and/or bookmark the links
- Voting will close at 7:00 AM, April 5, 2026 after which Results will be announced.
Click here to ENTER THE CONTEST
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1ACCWC #559 – HONOUR – Results
This week’s 1ACCWC received 31 clues, with good participation from regulars and irregulars alike.
The majority of clues went with a wordplay of HONOUR = ON inserted in HOUR, with several setters opting for surfaces referencing the TV show “60 minutes”. On the flip side, a few of setters tried to use unique cryptic devices or wordplay ideas with varying degrees of success.
Voted comments focused on setting technique: can a homophone indicator be used to indicate rhyming words? Can extraneous words be used to improve a clue’s surface reading? Is “gnawer” a spoonerism for “Honour”? Can “nailed by” be used as a containment indicator? (It can, it’s referenced in Clue Clinic).
With 47 points from 18 voters, the winning setter this week is Abhay Phadnis! That’s about as decisive as the voting in this contest gets. His clue was topical and technically sound: Leaders of Hungary oppose NATO on Ukraine; Russians applaud (6)
Congratulations Abhay. Over to you as the host of next week’s contest.
Top 10
# Name Clue Points Voters Anno Comments 1 Abhay Phadnis Leaders of Hungary oppose NATO on Ukraine; Russians applaud (6) 47 18 Acrostic (“leaders of”); definition: “applaud” (for HONOUR as a verb); surface is topical – Simple and beautiful 2 Manish Jhaveri Time to get working for recognition 29 11 HOUR (time) to get ON (working). Definition: recognition 3 @LowdownCryptic Time has no respect (6) 29 10 HOUR (time) contains (has) NO; Def: respect 4 Satyen Nabar Almost jump and run excitedly to receive Oscar award (6) 27 11 HO(-p) + RUN* around O; almost= delete last letter, jump= hop, excitedly= anag ind, to receive= cont ind, Oscar= O, def= award 5 ALP Trump’s about to get nailed by 60 Minutes (6) 24 7 H(ON)OUR. Honour = any one of four best trumps in whist; on = about; nail = to secure (all Chambers). Trump last appeared on the show in November 2025 and famously stormed off in 2020 claiming “biased, hateful and rude” questioning. Bless him. – ‘Nail’ can mean ‘secure’, and ‘secure’ can mean ‘contain’, but that doesn’t mean ‘nail’ can mean ‘contain’ 6 Karol S Showing in 60 minutes: The Crown 18 8 ON (showing) in HOUR (60 minutes). Crown as in trophy/prize = honour – Of the various clues to use “60 minutes”, I think this one works best 7 Amrita Majumdar Essentially loud horn blown to celebrate (6) 18 8 OU HORN* 8 Anne de Pimodan After seducing Bond in the buff, Honey finally lost virginity (6) 14 5 After seducing/containing [b]ON[d], HOUR[i] => H(ON)OUR (virginity). Houri = alluring woman (Collins, etc). Ref: Honey Ryder in Dr No. – “After” is superfluous to both the surface reading and the wordplay. And “Honey” for HOURI seems tenuous 9 @qpheevr In Lesotho, nourishment is put on a pedestal (6) 12 7 Telescopic (lesotHO NOURishment); ‘put on a pedestal’ = HONOUR (verb) 10 Arnav V Raju Pay tribute to dear leaders of old utopian regimes (6) 11 4 Definition: Pay tribute to Wordplay: Dear -> hon (as in honey). + first letters of following with leaders as acrostic indicator Congrats to the toppers and all those who participated. Over to Abhay Phadnis for the next contest.
If you have any comments or feedback on the contest or the new 1ACCWC app. or any suggestions, please leave a comment and I shall try and incorporate it.
Here’s the link to the full results
Also Check out the Leaderboard for 2026.
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Voting Now Open – 1ACCWC #559
1ACCWC 559 hosted by Aashirwad is now closed for clues.
Voting is now OPEN
All participants who set clues are expected to vote. You are not allowed to vote for your own clue
- Click on clues to shortlist them, click on the Shortlisted Button to see shortlisted clues only
- Use arrows to move clues up or down the list if you wish to. Clicking on the buttons moves the clue right to the Top or Bottom of the list.
- Allocate a total of 10 points exactly across 4 clues e.g. 4,3,2,1 (ideal allocation) or 3,3,3,1 etc. A running total is visible on the top of the page to help you see what you have allocated.
- Click on submit votes. You will not be allowed to allocate more or less than 10 points/4 clues
- Votes from voters whose names are not recognised from FB/Twitter/Bluesky will be disallowed. Please use your login IDs.
- Participants who do not vote will lose 10 points for the round
Do check out our Leaderboards. These includes points for all players whose clues figure in the Top 10 each week and gets accumulated over the year.
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1ACCWC #559 – HONOUR – OPEN FOR CLUES
This weeks contest is hosted by Aashirwad
For 1ACCWC 559, the chosen word is HONOUR
Here are the rules
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- Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly.
- Please login to participate. You can use your wordpress/gmail account for login but please use one account consistently so that your performance can be tracked for the leader board
- Contest closes at 8:00 AM, March 27, 2026 after which VOTING will be open.
- All participants who set clues are expected to vote as well. So please check when the Voting opens and/or bookmark the links
- Voting will close at 7:00 AM, March 29, 2026 after which Results will be announced.
Click here to ENTER THE CONTEST
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1ACCWC #558 – ANGELIC – Results
The clue-writing competition for ANGELIC received 26 clues.
In 5th place, with 12 points from 6 voters is PunMadMan for “Nice gal! Sorted and ethereal”
In 4th place, with 19 points and 9 votes, is Ramesh Ss for “Orange lichee extract is delicious”
Securing 3rd spot, with 26 points from 9 voters, is @LowdownCryptic for
“Like a church choir sings scales to loosen up, but without the sopranos”2nd on the podium, with 35 points from 13 voters, is Satyen Nabar for “Cocktail of gin and ale, cold and divine”
And the winner of this round, with a whopping 41 points from 15 voters, is Aashirwad for
“Lovely gal with nice bust”Aashirwad, all yours!
Top 10
# Name Clue Points Voters Anno Comments 1 Aashirwad Lovely gal with nice bust (7) 41 15 Definition = lovely. Anagram of GAL+NICE. Think of “bust” as in “broken” for the anagram indicator. 2 Satyen Nabar Cocktail of gin and ale, cold and divine (7) 35 13 (GIN + ALE)* + C; cocktail of= anag ind, cold= C, def= divine – Great clue, but I hope nobody ever mixes gin and ale
– 66
– sounds gross!
– This cocktail sounds like it would kill me!3 @LowdownCryptic Like a church choir sings scales to loosen up, but without the sopranos (7) 26 9 (sINGs sCALEs)* anagrind is “to loosen up” (s = soprano abbr.); def is “Like a church choir” – Very nicely done!
– nice!4 Ramesh Ss Orange lichee extract is delicious (7) 19 9 Or(ange lic)hee def: delicious – Nice surface, but I’m not buying the definition
– Good wordplay, but I don’t think delicious = angelic
– Nice telescopic, but I’m not sure about ‘delicious’ as a def.—something like ‘heavenly’ or ‘divine’ would be better, while still working with the surface reading
– Extract from/of orange lychee would be better5 PunMadMan Nice gal! Sorted and ethereal (7) 12 6 (NICE GAL)* with ‘Sorted’ as the anagram indicator, and ‘ethereal’ as the definition, – I would like to meet this girl
– Why would a nice gal be ethereal?6 Polslaw Eerie clang, i.e., something otherworldly (7) 12 5 Anagram CLANG + IE. Def: ‘something otherworldly’ 7 Kalyan Bandyopadhyay Saintly upright character captivated by wandering glance (7) 12 5 I (upright character or letter) inside (captivated by) anagram (wandering) of GLANCE. Def: Saintly – I love the idea of “upright character” but think it’s too loose a def. 8 Shobha Nayak Heavenly glacier destroyed after capital of Russia moved to North 12 4 R (Capital of Russia) becomes N to give ‘glacien’, Anagrind = destroyed, Definition = heavenly – Moved =/= changed 9 @qpheevr Renewed vigilance after loss of sixth innocent (7) 12 4 (vi)GILANCE*: ‘renewed’ = anagrind; ‘after loss of sixth’ = indicator to drop VI from fodder; ‘innocent’ = def. – VI = six or sixth?
– Beautiful headline-style clue10 Nitish Asthana Mainly agreeable, naturally gorgeous, exceptionally loving, incredibly charming and divine? 11 4 Acrostic suggested by mainly; definition divine. – mainly is a standard last letter deletion indicator – bit of a stretch to use it for acrostics! Congrats to the toppers and all those who participated.
Over to Aashirwad for the next contest.If you have any comments or feedback on the contest or the new 1ACCWC app. or any suggestions, please leave a comment and I shall try and incorporate it.
Here’s the link to the full results
Also Check out the Leaderboard for 2026.
