1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#520 - PEACE
Total Clues: 19 Total Voters: 24
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sitter | Hope a ceasefire secures this? | 38 | 17 | Lurker | --- |
| 2 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Still, some hope - a ceasefire? (5) | 34 | 16 | Hidden word (hoPE A CEasefire) indicated by ‘some’. Def. Still. Surface alludes to current conflicts. | --- |
| 3 | Manish Jhaveri | Hope, a ceasefire holds (5) | 27 | 13 | &lit telescopic with hope used as a noun |
- The comma is superfluous and interferes with the surface |
| 4 | Textrous | Still life finally captured in motion! (5) | 20 | 11 | Def: Still (n.); life finally=E, captured in=containment indicator, motion=PACE |
- I really love this surface! |
| 5 | Saurabh Upadhyay | Some hope a ceasefire results in end of war (5) | 17 | 10 | Def: End of war. Anno: Telescopic ho(PE A CE)asefire, Indicator: Some. Connector: "results in". Cryptic grammar: Some fodder results in Def. Ref to recent world events | --- |
| 6 | Abhay Phadnis | Speed cut with ecstasy? Nirvana! | 17 | 8 | PACE (speed) "cut with" E (ecstasy) = P[E]ACE; definition: Nirvana | --- |
| 7 | Adman_i | Quiet, extremely pensive expert (5) | 14 | 9 | Quiet (Definition) - (PensivE)(ACE), Extremely - end letters, Expert - ace | --- |
| 8 | Ganesh Raman | Pope, a celebrity, embodying a state of global harmony | 14 | 9 | Telescopic (Indicator : Embodying), Def on the right | --- |
| 9 | @usharameshnj | Segment on radio about end of war (5) | 12 | 8 | Segment - piece - on radio (HP indicator) about def: end of war | --- |
| 10 | Kaustav Datta | Nirvana's intro to "Polly" starts in E, as Cobain enters | 12 | 5 | Def=nirvana; intro to Polly (P) + starting letters of the rest (indicated by "starts in"); the song Polly does start with an E chord; Cobain is the vocalist | --- |
| 11 | --- | Calm in chaos, escape with seconds to go (5) | 9 | 6 | E(s)CAPE* - Calm = def; in chaos = anagrind; escape = fodder; with seconds to go = delete S (time unit) | --- |
| 12 | --- | Ceasefire after Pakistani in the middle is killed in botched escape (5) | 6 | 5 | Ceasefire: definition. (ESCAPE-S)*. Botched: anind |
- Not sure ceasefire is synonymous with peace |
| 13 | --- | Nearly everyone investing in private equity is content | 6 | 4 | CONTENT = DEF, nearly everyone = EAC (H) , Private Equity = PE Investing in = inclusion indicator, P(EAC)E |
- I really wanted this to work but peace would be ‘contentment’ not just ‘content’ |
| 14 | --- | What followers of Gandhi want from reporter’s article (5) | 5 | 4 | Hom (reporter’s) of “piece” | --- |
| 15 | --- | Training expert gets relief (5) | 3 | 3 | Anno: (PE(=training))(ACE(=ace)). Definition: Relief | --- |
| 16 | --- | Some escape a celibate solitude (5) | 3 | 3 | Hidden (escaPE A CElibate), indicated by some; definition is solitude (as in peace and quiet, leave me in peace, etc.) | --- |
| 17 | --- | Quiet beauty chooses drugs in place of husband (5) | 3 | 2 | Def - quiet, beauty = peach - h(husband) + e (drugs) |
- E is only one drug |
| 18 | --- | Truce sounds a bit ... | 0 | 0 | Truce-def. {sounds] -homophone ind. (a bit)-piece | --- |
| 19 | --- | Faces of Pehalgam-victims, ended a chimera endorsing stability (5) | 0 | 0 | Acrostic clue/ took liberty in hyphenating Pehalgam-victims for the surface story | --- |