1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#522 - MOTHER
Total Clues: 24 Total Voters: 27
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Raise money for a little boy in trouble (6) | 35 | 17 | Substitution clue, M for B(oy) in BOTHER (trouble), def= raise (mother as verb) |
- Just "boy" for B would have also worked |
| 2 | Textrous | To care for new home takes time, right? (6) | 28 | 17 | Def: To care for (v.); new home=HOME*, time=T, right=R => MO(T)HE R |
- Nice! |
| 3 | Viraj Divecha | Found in Palermo, the rarest bear (6) | 26 | 15 | Telescopic. [Hidden in palerMO THE Rarest]. Indicator = Found in. Def = bear. | --- |
| 4 | Mona Sogal | Parent trouble after boy is married (6) | 24 | 13 | Parent is def/ trouble is bother/ b is m - substitution | --- |
| 5 | Veera Raghavan | Home in a mess without touch of the right parent (6) | 15 | 10 | MO(T..)HE* R. In a mess: anagrind. touch of: first letter selection indicator. Definition: Parent |
- Nice! |
| 6 | N Anantakrishnan | Old lady overwhelmed by chemotherapy | 14 | 9 | Telescopic | --- |
| 7 | Sowmya Ramkumar | So my heart beats with this woman, say (6) | 13 | 8 | Composite Anagram, Def: This woman, Anagram of SO MY HEART = Anagram of MOTHER SAY, Anagram Indicator - Beats | --- |
| 8 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Train them or nurture (6) | 13 | 7 | (Them or)* indicated by Train. Def. Nurture (Mother as verb). Surface alludes to two core roles of mothers. | --- |
| 9 | ALP | Sister’s heading off to check baby (6) | 12 | 7 | [S]MOTHER = to baby (as in to pamper). Smother = to check/stifle. | --- |
| 10 | Ramki Krishnan | One running home without time to rest, basically! (6) | 12 | 7 | HOME* around T + R, running is anagrind, whole clue is an extended def of mother |
- What role is "time" playing in the wordplay? |
| 11 | --- | She gave birth to the first of men - and most of the rest! | 12 | 7 | Definition: "She gave birth"; M(en)+OTHER(s) | --- |
| 12 | --- | Doctor is next to the red-headed nurse (6) | 11 | 6 | Doctor - MO, Red-headed - R, Nurse (Definition as a verb) - (MO)(THE)(Red) |
- “redhead” could work for R, but “red-headed” seems dubious - Might be better with "redhead nurse" |
| 13 | --- | Thermo-dynamic generator?(6) | 9 | 5 | Definition: Generator. Anno: (THERMO)*. Anagrind - Dynamic | --- |
| 14 | --- | Tenderness primarily in relaxed home run by her? (6) | 8 | 5 | T inside HOME* R | --- |
| 15 | --- | Nurse using one of a kind thermometer (6) | 6 | 4 | Def: Nurse. Wordplay: Reverse letterbank. “One of a kind” is indicator to select unique letters of “THERMOMETER”. “Using” is the anagrind. Hence (THERMO)* |
- Good to see another letter bank clue! |
| 16 | --- | Thermodynamic origin? (6) | 6 | 3 | Def - origin, dynamic - anagrind of thermo = mother | --- |
| 17 | --- | Test hotel for Queen Mum (6 | 6 | 3 | MOT H ER |
- I had to look up MOT to see how it corresponds to “test”; this seems like a good clue in the UK, but not one that travels well |
| 18 | --- | Symbol of Warmth in Thermodynamics (6) | 5 | 3 | Anagram of Thermo with Dynamics as the (possibly libertarian) anagrind. Def = Symbol of Warmth |
- dynamics doesn''t work as anagrind IMO. "Dynamic" does |
| 19 | --- | Baby lepidopterist? (6) | 5 | 3 | DD: ‘baby’ (verb) = ‘mother’ (verb); ‘lepidopterist?’ = ‘moth-er’ (one who goes mothing, a hunter of moths) | --- |
| 20 | --- | If sick and swelling, she can give you the thermometer! (6) | 3 | 3 | &lit letter bank: she (MOTHER) can give you THE THERMOMETER, if sick (anagrind) and swelling (growing, i.e. repeating letters) | --- |
| 21 | --- | Nurse lost a measure of broken thermometer | 3 | 2 | Def: Nurse; a measure is meter; broken is anagrind; thermometer is anagram fodder, lost is deletion indicator; (THERMOMETER-METER)* | --- |
| 22 | --- | Thermoplastic produce ? (6) | 2 | 2 | *thermo, plastic is anagrind. Definition: mother | --- |
| 23 | --- | Tom is backward and not all there at heatt but ... MA not so shortly! | 1 | 1 | TOM backwards + tHERe |
- Assuming “at heatt” is meant to be “at heart”, that’s enough to clue omitting the outside letters of THERE—which makes “not all” superfluous to the wordplay |
| 24 | --- | One smacking, perhaps, of bergamot, herbally infused (6) | 1 | 1 | [(berga)MOT HER(bally), Hidden Indicator: "infused"; Def. "One smacking, perhaps" | --- |