1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#526 - STAMPEDE
Total Clues: 21 Total Voters: 27
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @LowdownCryptic | Blast made pets rush wildly (8) | 33 | 19 | Def: rush wildly; (MADE PETS)* anagrind is "blast" (imperative), not "made" or "wildly" | --- |
| 2 | Samit kallianpur | Early signs of stress among people detected in flight (8) | 27 | 13 | [St+Am+Pe+De]. Early signs of = ind to pick 1st 2 letters from fodder (Clue clnic). Def = flight |
- Sorry it didn’t quite get to the shortlist for my vote but I really like this idea! Think maybe a little bit of tweaking to make the surface flow a bit more would have made it more of a winner for me! I actually wonder if it could be turned in to an ‘&lit’ clue… - Def in Wordplay works, Wordplay in Def does not - Nice variation on the usual style of acrostic |
| 3 | Amrita Majumdar | Charge politician amid heated debates after book is released (8) | 24 | 14 | Charge- def , MP inside de(-b)ates* |
- I love this clue, but felt ‘charge’ let it down a bit - would have loved ‘Career’ instead! |
| 4 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Seated in assembly bored by parliamentarian in charge (8) | 24 | 12 | Def: Charge, SEATED*<,MP (parliamentarian), Anagram Indicator - in assembly |
- Def in Wordplay works, Wordplay in Def does not |
| 5 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Frenzied step made in panic (8) | 22 | 13 | (Step Made)* indicated by 'Frenzied'. Def.: Panic. Semi-&lit Clue |
- Def in Wordplay works, Wordplay in Def does not |
| 6 | Manish Jhaveri | Team sped out creating mass frenzy [8] | 20 | 13 | teamsped* def = mass frenzy | --- |
| 7 | Sitter | Bolt set off at speed covering metres (8) | 20 | 11 | ATSPEED* around M(etre[s]) | --- |
| 8 | Abhay Phadnis | Criminal sped at me in frenzied rush (8) | 18 | 11 | Definition: “frenzied rush”; Anagram of "SPED AT ME"; anagram indicator: “criminal" |
- Def in Wordplay works, Wordplay in Def does not |
| 9 | Textrous | Shot made pets rush about in a herd (8) | 15 | 11 | Def: rush about in a herd (v); Anagrind: Shot; madepets* | --- |
| 10 | VENKATESAN P | Careless speed at motorway entrance leads to uncontrolled rush (8) | 15 | 9 | Definition: Uncontrolled rush. Anno: (SPEED+AT+M(otorway))*. Careless - Anagrind. Entrance - First letter selection indicator | --- |
| 11 | --- | Basically many people excitedly entering arena, results in this? (8) | 15 | 9 | M P E inside STADE (arena), def = this, whole clue an extended def for STAMPEDE, ref the recent stampede in Bangalore stadium |
- I think I need the clue to say “French arena” for STADE - Good one! (I''d put the comma after Basically, not after arena) |
| 12 | --- | Sat awkwardly, not the first one to get in the way of sudden rush | 12 | 10 | SAT* + (I)MPEDE | --- |
| 13 | --- | Section of cannoneers tamped explosive charge (8) | 12 | 7 | Hidden [s tamped e], indic. by “section of”; def. “charge” | --- |
| 14 | --- | Rush to brand bucking, unholy steed. | 5 | 3 | Rush-def. (to brand) - stamp. (bucking)-ana sig. (unholy) - no saint. {st}eed = STAMPEDE |
- "unholy" does not suggest removal of "st" - “Unholy” as an indicator to delete ST is clever, but too indirect to be fair to the solver |
| 15 | --- | Head of English department felt students ultimately making a comeback in career (8) | 3 | 2 | Reversal of E DEP MAT S. Definition = Career (verb) |
- Tricky! |
| 16 | --- | Collapsed set hosting a politician- entitled and disgusting basically resulted in frenzied scattering (8) | 1 | 1 | Set* / collapsed is the anagrind/ hosting is container indicator/ a politician is AMP/ basically entitled and disgusting is ED/ Frenzied Scattering is definition |
- Couldn''t make sense of the surface; too much happening |
| 17 | --- | Steer the agitated mob posing extremely deranged emotions headed towards a mad onrush (8) | 1 | 1 | Def: mad onrush; headed = acrostic indicator; Steer.....emotions = acrostic fodder |
- "headed" does not work as an acrostic indicator - I’m not sure ‘headed’ works grammatically as an acrostic indicator. ‘Heads’ or ‘Headings’ would work if you tweaked some of the words used in the acrostic. |
| 18 | --- | Nude bar plugs perverse topless eliminators – for a charge | 1 | 1 | [I]MPED[E] plugs/inside [H]EATS< = (nounal) charge |
- Couldn''t make sense of the surface - Little too many steps for me in this - having to find a synonym for heats, remove the top and reverse it was a step too far imho. |
| 19 | --- | Rush eased out finally anyway after mounted police were involved (8) | 1 | 1 | MP(@Chambers) in (EASED T)*. Anyway: anagrind. Definition: Rush |
- Couldn''t make sense of the surface |
| 20 | --- | Charge brought as poor Tamsin's ex in deep trouble | 1 | 1 | Def: charge, anagrind: poor, deletion ind: ex, so read as "anagram of TAMSIN is excluding IN", giving STAM, anagrind: trouble, giving PEDE |
- The only way "trouble" can function as an anagrind is as an imperative verb - I think ‘brought as’ is somewhat superfluous here sorry. I’m not sure if the ‘’a’ after Tamsin sort of gets in the way too? - Not sure I buy “ex” (or “-’s ex”) as a deletion indicator |
| 21 | --- | Torrent tome/a movie initially in high speed (8) | 0 | 0 | Torrent (Definition) - (S(TAM)PEDE)*, Initially - first letters, High - anagrind |
- I couldn’t really make sense of the surface sorry |