1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#525 - THUNDER
Total Clues: 19 Total Voters: 23
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Turned crazy, consuming heroin and crack (7) | 33 | 17 | TURNED* around H; crazy= anag ind, consuming= cont ind, heroin= h, def= crack |
- There''s a really good clue somewhere in here. ''Turned crazy'' doesn''t slip off the tongue as well as ''Turned out''... - lol |
| 2 | Ramki Krishnan | Blast from empty trench below (7) | 23 | 12 | Def = blast, T-H (end chars of trench) + UNDER (below) | --- |
| 3 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Scream when husband turned up (7) | 20 | 10 | Def: Scream, Anagram of H TURNED, Anagram indicator Up |
- “up” to me implies reversal (in a Down clue), but not anagramming more generally |
| 4 | Adman_i | Shaken hunter finally heard a roar (7) | 18 | 10 | Shaken - Anagrind, Finally - Last letter selection, Roar (Definition) - (HUNTER)(hearD)* | --- |
| 5 | Sitter | Weather report? (7) | 17 | 8 | CD |
- Nice one! |
| 6 | Textrous | A banging model dancing nude in the middle of washroom (7) | 16 | 8 | Def: A banging (n.); model=T, dancing nude=UNDE*, middle of wasHRoom=HR => T H(UNDE)R | --- |
| 7 | Sparsh Sinha | The drunk criminal takes out king in blast (7) | 14 | 9 | Def - blast, criminal - anagrind, the + drunk - k(takes out king) = thunder |
- Really like this. Lovely surface, simple thing for solver to do once they get the instruction, which is just the "wrong" side of obvious. |
| 8 | manish jhaveri | Rajnikanth understandably gets clap (7) | 12 | 7 | Telescopic Clue. Def = Clap | --- |
| 9 | Abhay Phadnis | Aftermath of lightning hurt Ned grievously (7) | 12 | 7 | Definition: aftermath of lightning; [HURT+NED]*; anagram indicator: “grievously" | --- |
| 10 | VENKATESAN P | Hoot from mad hunter holding head of deer(7) | 11 | 6 | Definition: Hoot. Anno: (HUNTER*) around (D(-eer)). Mad - Anagrind. Head of deer - D. Holding - Container indicator |
- Not sure how hoot = thunder |
| 11 | --- | Shout and turn red after hunt fails (7) | 10 | 9 | Def: Shout, (hunt)* red<< | --- |
| 12 | --- | No end to the downward Pound! (7) | 10 | 6 | No end to the: Remove the last letter from "the" → TH; downward: Synonym for "UNDER" --> TH+UNDER. Def.: POUND (verb, as in to make a loud noise) | --- |
| 13 | --- | Knocked out by a major dose of the clap (7) | 7 | 4 | UNDER (in a state of unconsciousness/knocked out) by/after (most of/a major dose of) TH[e] = clap. | --- |
| 14 | --- | Short article on the German tailing one from France in bad weather (7) | 6 | 5 | TH(-E) UN ( one from France) DER (the in German) BAD WEATHER-DEF | --- |
| 15 | --- | Storm warning as crazy communist returns carrying powerful bomb | 6 | 5 | Definition: storm warning, crazy communist = RED NUT, returns = reverse letters, carrying powerful bomb = include H | --- |
| 16 | --- | Clap with understanding essentially (7) | 5 | 4 | Telescopic/ Clap is the definition/ embedded word in the fodder/ essentially is the Telescopic indicator |
- In my understanding, "essentially" indicates the answer is at the centre of the fodder, not just contained anywhere in the fodder |
| 17 | --- | Rumbling made most heads turn, not all at first (7) | 4 | 3 | (HEADTURN-A)*. Made: anagrind. Definition: Rumbling |
- What is the role of "most" in the clue? |
| 18 | --- | Tinny handbell initially less than a pealing? (7) | 4 | 2 | T(inny) H(andbell) initially = TH; less than = UNDER; a pealing = thunder (surface pun on appealing) |
- Love a good pun, I don''t use them enough in clues. |
| 19 | --- | End hurt - bust turns to boom | 2 | 2 | Anag (bust) of END HURT; def = boom | --- |