1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#466 - LEAPING
Total Clues: 21 Total Voters: 28
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Skipping rum, gin and ale, drinks Pepsi, essentially (7) | 25 | 14 | Def: Skipping, P in GINALE*, pePsi (Pepsi, essentially), Rum - Anagram indicator. |
- My COD! |
| 2 | Veera Raghavan | Jumping rekindled leg pain (7) | 25 | 14 | legpain*. Rekindled: anagrind | --- |
| 3 | Ganesh Raman | Alpine glacier’s beginning to melt - it’s plunging. | 23 | 10 | Anagram of ALPINE + G (Glacier’s beginning); Anagrind: MELT; Def PLUNGING |
- Is plunging = leaping? |
| 4 | Ramki Krishnan | Jumping as a needle is injected into part of body (7) | 21 | 15 | Def = jumping, A PIN (needle) inside LEG (part of body) | --- |
| 5 | Suyash Roongta | Shooting up with a needle in limb (7) | 20 | 12 | A needle (= A PIN) in limb (= LEG) => LE(A PIN)G. Def = Shooting up. |
- Why do I get the sense that a certain doctor wrote this clue…never given 4 points before but this clue is sharp, to the point and is about getting high in more than one sense. True perfection. |
| 6 | Satyen Nabar | Frolicking and shaking a leg after drinking peg (7) | 19 | 14 | (A LEG)* around PIN; shaking= anag ind, after drinking= cont ind, peg= pin, frolicking= defn |
- A wonderful clue with good surface and cryptic readings - not to mention it rhymes! |
| 7 | @qpheevr | Going over wild Alpine goat’s head (7) | 18 | 9 | ALPINE* (”wild Alpine”) + G (“goat’s head”) = LEAPING = (in its transitive sense) “going over” | --- |
| 8 | Saurabh Upadhyay | Racing and winning after switching sides (7) | 14 | 11 | Def: Racing. Anno: Winning = REAPING, switching sides means switch Right (R) for Left (L), giving LEAPING |
- A fine clue but I haven’t enough points left to give |
| 9 | Amrita Majumdar | Jumping up to scratch the head of spaniel playing with girl (7) | 13 | 10 | SPANIEL - S * G, Jumping up- def |
- Lovely surface imagery, can’t give you points but thought I’d leave a comment to show my appreciation |
| 10 | N Anantakrishnan | Dancing partner tripping after consuming ecstasy and gin cocktail (7) | 13 | 7 | Def - Dancing. Partner = PAL << around E (GIN)* | --- |
| 11 | --- | Leg pain? Maybe it's the result of jumping ! (7) | 12 | 9 | (LEG PAIN)*, Maybe - Anagrind, It's the result of 'jumping' - cheeky indication for the answer :) |
- Nice anagram find but the def doesn''t read well |
| 12 | --- | Spooner's stripping and jumping over! (7) | 11 | 8 | Spoonerism of peeling | --- |
| 13 | --- | The Reverend's scaling......going higher (7) | 11 | 8 | Spoonerism of Peeling/leaping. Scaling = Peeling. Def = Going higher [Source: Chambers] | --- |
| 14 | --- | Pain spreads through limb in the middle of a jump (7) | 11 | 7 | PAIN* in LEG, def: in the middle of a jump | --- |
| 15 | --- | Deceptively agile Pomeranian on vacation is jumping (7) | 9 | 7 | Def - jumping, deceptively - anagrind, agile + pn (pomeranian on vacation) = leaping | --- |
| 16 | --- | Surging Alpine glacier starts to melt (7) | 7 | 6 | [(Alpine + g)]* g = glacier starts), *indicated by melt; Definition: Surging (leaping to mean dramatic increase of a price or amount) |
- Great wordplay - perhaps “glacier starting to melt” might have worked better. |
| 17 | --- | Rocketing, one stump crashes into another! (7) | 6 | 5 | {LE(A PIN)G}; Rocketing is the definition; one stump = A PIN; another stump = LEG; crashes into is the containment indicator. | --- |
| 18 | --- | The French copying jumping ? | 2 | 9 | The French (Le) copying (Aping) jumping (leaping). | --- |
| 19 | --- | Flying fish eating pea at sea (7) | 2 | 2 | Definition: Flying. Anno: (L(PEA*)ING). Fish=Ling. Pea=Fodder. At sea: Anagrind. Eating=Containment indicator | --- |
| 20 | --- | Freerunning director Mike says “Sow on the first of November” (7) | 1 | 2 | Freerunning = definition, Mike (Leigh) homophone, sow = pig. | --- |
| 21 | --- | Appealing deplorably, pa moved away hopping | 0 | 4 | (-PA)pealing*, deplolrably - anagrind, moved away - deletion indicator, definition - Hopping | --- |