1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#524 - RETALIATE
Total Clues: 26 Total Voters: 25
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @LowdownCryptic | Playing sitar, Beatle starts off "Get Back" (9) | 30 | 12 | Anagram (playing) of (s)ITAR, (b)EATLE; deletion ind = starts off; def = get back (at somebody) |
- Delightful - I love this! Great clue and fabulous surface! |
| 2 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | After setback, I had to counterattack (9) | 25 | 16 | <(LATER) (after reversed, <setback) + I + ATE (had); Def. Counterattack | --- |
| 3 | Samit kallianpur | I eventually returned at end of game, to even the score (9) | 21 | 13 | [I Later<< + at + e]. I = I. Eventually = later. Returned = reversal ind. At = at. End of game = e. Def = to even the score (v) | --- |
| 4 | Satyen Nabar | Red alert at base after India's counter-attack (9) | 18 | 11 | ALERT* + (AT E after I); red= anag ind (ref: Chambers crossword dic), at= at, base= e (logarithmic base abbrev), after= placement, India= I, def= counter-attack |
- I’m sorry, but “red” doesn’t work for me as an anagrind, pace Chambers |
| 5 | N Anantakrishnan | Essentially America and others worried about India's counter-attack | 18 | 9 | (-Ame)R(-ica) et al (I) ate | --- |
| 6 | Ruskin | Diner grabs butt from below counter | 17 | 9 | Diner = EATER; grabs: butt = TAIL; from below = backwards = RETA(LIAT)E; def = counter |
- Nice clue, I was trying to find a nice way to use counter but didn''t manage it! - This does need to be a ‘down’ clue I think, but it’s a good one! |
| 7 | VMA Nair | Soldiers, Territorial Army and others turned up to protect India and to fight back (9) | 16 | 10 | (RE)(TA) {L(I)ATE}< Soldiers = RE, Territorial Army = TA, and others= ET AL, turned up = reversal Ind, to protect = Container Ind, India = I, Definition = to fight back | --- |
| 8 | @qpheevr | Make like the Empire and treat Leia badly? (9) | 16 | 7 | (TREAT LEIA)*; badly = anagrind; def alludes to “The Empire Strikes Back” | --- |
| 9 | Ganesh Raman | After coming back, angry king left to take revenge | 14 | 10 | After (LATER) coming back (Reversal indicator) =RETAL; ANGRY (IRATE) minus R (KING), LEFT as Deletion Ind; Def: TO TAKE REVENGE | --- |
| 10 | Sitter | Get even with nudists leaving abandoned industrial estate | 14 | 7 | Compound anagram - INDUSTRIALESTATE minus NUDISTS | --- |
| 11 | --- | Movie boxer demolished by Rocky’s first counter-punch (9) | 11 | 5 | ET+ALI+ATE by/after R~ = (to) counter-punch (fig.) Hyphenated as per Chambers. |
- Love this clue and surface! - “movie” seems too vague for ET |
| 12 | --- | Greek character, after some time, returning to capture island and take revenge | 10 | 6 | ETA + LATER <- around I | --- |
| 13 | --- | Judge allows delayed return with interest in payback (9) | 7 | 4 | ETAL<- I in RATE. Definition: Payback | --- |
| 14 | --- | A model kidnapped by an online merchant stood up to take revenge (9) | 5 | 4 | Def: to take revenge; Reversal indicator: stood up; AT (A model) in ETAILER (online merchant) <- | --- |
| 15 | --- | Police tail a terrorist knocked back to extract revenge (9) | 5 | 4 | Def. Revenge (verb), Type: Rev. tel., Tel. Ind. extract, Rev. Ind. knocked back | --- |
| 16 | --- | Ultimately stronger, one reluctant boxer had to strike back (9) | 4 | 4 | strongeR onE reluctanT (RET) + ALI + ATE, | --- |
| 17 | --- | A dog retreats, hides in crooked tree to strike back(9) | 4 | 3 | Definition: Strike back. Anno: (A)(TAIL<--) in (TREE*). Dog - Tail. Crooked - Anagrind. Tree - Fodder. Retreats - Reversal indicator. Hindes - Container indicator | --- |
| 18 | --- | Hit back of short trailer abandoned at end of avenue (9) | 3 | 3 | Hit back <def> = {of} minus last letter from [short] TRAILEr* (abandoned) AT E [end of avenuE] RETALI(-r)(*) AT E. | --- |
| 19 | --- | React to somewhat detail a terrible blowback (9) | 3 | 2 | Hidden word with reversal; def = React, somewhat = hidden word indicator blowback = reversal indicator, dETAIL A TERrible | --- |
| 20 | --- | Settle the score from trial arranged around the start of evening at the back of college (9) | 2 | 2 | Settle the score- def , TRAIL* around E AT E (back of college) | --- |
| 21 | --- | Returned later to island, consumed with revenge (9) | 2 | 2 | LATER<< to I(sland), ATE with DEF: revenge | --- |
| 22 | --- | Fight back savage tail, a terrifying revolutionary in hiding (9) | 1 | 1 | Reverse telescopic - revolutionary is reversal indicator - in hiding is telescopic indicator - word embedded in reverse in the fodder with Fight Back as def | --- |
| 23 | --- | Hit back at drug joints with speed available all around. (9) | 1 | 1 | R[{e+TALI}]ATE: Hit back at (def.): RATE (speed) around E (drug) + TALI (joints) |
- How does “available” fit into the wordplay? |
| 24 | --- | Avenge oddly tragic split in connect (9) | 1 | 1 | Definition: “Avenge”; TAI (“oddly tragic”) “split” in RELATE (“connect”) = RE(TA)L(I)ATE | --- |
| 25 | --- | Get up late, I ate right before! | 1 | 1 | Get (def) up late (ETAL) I ATE, right (R) before! | --- |
| 26 | --- | Leaders of the Roman Eastern Empire circled, rousing Attila to fight back (9) | 1 | 1 | Leaders - First letters, circled - around, rousing - anagrind, to fight back (definition) - (RE(ATTILA)*E), Reference to Attila the Hun |
- I think you needed to take out ‘the’ as otherwise you get TREE as the leaders |