1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#506 - ANECDOTE
Total Clues: 26 Total Voters: 25
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Cast enacted absorbing love story (8) | 20 | 13 | Def: Story, Anagram of ENACTED around O (Love, as in the Tennis score), Anagram Indicator - CAST, Container Ind - Absorbing |
- The best of the ENACTED O anagrams, IMHO |
| 2 | Ganesh Raman | Story or play enacted about love | 18 | 12 | Def on the left; anag of ENACTED (PLAY as anagrind) about O | --- |
| 3 | @LowdownCryptic | Worker gets hold of encrypted code with electronic account (8) | 18 | 10 | ANT (worker) gets hold of ECDO (encrypted code) with E (electronic); def: account | --- |
| 4 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | An extremely erotic, lavish love story (8) | 15 | 10 | AN + EC (extremely ErotiC) + DOTE [= lavish (verb) love]. Definition: Story | --- |
| 5 | Manish Jhaveri | Cast enacted absorbing love story [8] | 14 | 11 | In surface reading, cast refers to actors. In wordplay, cast (as in spread out) acts as anagrind for ENACTED* absorbing (= taking in) love (=O). Definition = story. | --- |
| 6 | Samit Kallianpur | Short story enacted out, wins Oscar (8) | 14 | 9 | [Enacted* around O]. Out = anagrind. Wins = container ind. Oscar = O [NATO alphabet]. Def = short story. | --- |
| 7 | Satyen Nabar | Cast enacted love story (8) | 14 | 9 | (ENACTED + O)*; cast= anag ind, love= o, defn= story | --- |
| 8 | Sparsh Sinha | Episode one - Cadet undergoes transformation (8) | 13 | 9 | Def - episode, undergoes transformation - anagrind, one+cadet= anecdote | --- |
| 9 | Gayathri Viswanath | Reminiscence of one cadet at sea (8) | 13 | 9 | Def - reminiscence onecadet* | --- |
| 10 | Ramki Krishnan | A nice, engaging chestnut, done often to entertain, primarily (8) | 12 | 8 | Acrostic, with the whole clue being a def of ANECDOTE | --- |
| 11 | --- | "Tangled" - a decent love story (8) | 11 | 8 | (a decent o)* Anagram indicator - Tangled. Def - story | --- |
| 12 | --- | Story about love enacted animatedly (8) | 11 | 7 | {ENACTED}* about O (love). Anagram indicator - animatedly. Def - story. | --- |
| 13 | --- | Story of mistreated serf escaping from evil confederates | 10 | 7 | Definition: "Story"; anagram of [SERF*] "escaping from" anagram of [CONfeDErATEs*]; anagrinds: "mistreated" and "evil" respectively | --- |
| 14 | --- | European Commission replacing titanium in medicine? This story might be unreliable | 10 | 5 | European Commission (EC) replacing titanium (TI) in medicine (ANTIDOTE) | --- |
| 15 | --- | Personal story from deacon is wild and marginally true (8) | 9 | 7 | ANECDO* + T[-ru]E = [deacon is wild] = ANECDO* | [and] = + | [marginally true] = T[-ru]E | --- |
| 16 | --- | Animatedly enacted entertaining old story (8) | 8 | 6 | ENACTED * around O | --- |
| 17 | --- | A decent spinning gathering old yarn(8) | 8 | 5 | Definition: Yarn. Anno: (O) inside (A DECENT*). Spinning - Anagrind. Gathering - Container indicator. Old - O | --- |
| 18 | --- | Play enacted with love story (8) | 7 | 6 | ENACTEDO*. Play is anagrind. Definition: Story | --- |
| 19 | --- | A narrative about toe dance (8) | 6 | 5 | Definition is a narrative; about is anagrind;( toe dance)* | --- |
| 20 | --- | 'A kiss' - Short love story (8) | 6 | 4 | Kiss - neck, Love - dote, Story (Definition) - (A)(NECk)(DOTE) | --- |
| 21 | --- | Story of acne eruption, spot and, ultimately, pimple | 4 | 3 | ACNE* DOT (pimpl)E | --- |
| 22 | --- | Yarn date once fabricated (8) | 3 | 2 | (DATE ONCE)*. Fabricated as anagrind. Yarn is the definition | --- |
| 23 | --- | A detailed kiss, like in story (8) | 2 | 2 | A/ kiss is neck- detailed is deletion indicator for last letter/like is dote/ story is def | --- |
| 24 | --- | You might dine out on this date once at a resort (8) | 2 | 2 | (DATE ONCE)*; ‘at a resort’ = anagrind; ‘You might dine out on this’ = def. | --- |
| 25 | --- | Personal story of coddle after cane slipped | 1 | 1 | Personal story-def. Anec (cane) [slipped]-anagrind. [After]Dote-[coddle] | --- |
| 26 | --- | Narrative when a December note changes (8) | 1 | 1 | Def: Narrative. Anagram indicator: "changes". "A December note" worked out as "A DEC NOTE". | --- |