1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#530 - IMPROPER
Total Clues: 19 Total Voters: 22
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Corrupt Emir receiving support? It’s unacceptable ( 8 ) | 34 | 19 | (EMIR)* containing PROP (support). Defn. on the right |
- Very nice! |
| 2 | Satyen Nabar | Wild romp in pier, awfully inappropriate (8) | 26 | 14 | ROMP* in PIER*; wild= anag ind, in= insertion ind, awfully= anag ind, def= inappropriate |
- Same root and prefix in def. INapPROPRiate and answer IM+PROPER |
| 3 | Manish Jhaveri | Claim PR operations suppressed wrong [8] | 22 | 14 | Telescopic clue with suppressed being the indicator. Definition = wrong | --- |
| 4 | Sitter | This setter's right and wrong | 22 | 10 | I'M PROPER |
- Improper and proper have the same root - Made less satisfying by the fact that PROPER is the root of IMPROPER - Proper and Improper have a common root |
| 5 | CrypticBlah | Off the cuff comedy mostly saucy timeless and rude (8) | 18 | 10 | IMPRO(v) + PER(t). Definition rude. | --- |
| 6 | Ramki Krishnan | Setter is supporting a wrong (8) | 17 | 11 | I'M (Setter is) PRO (supporting) PER (a), def = wrong (noun) | --- |
| 7 | Textrous | Prime suspect hugs hooker without decency (8) | 13 | 7 | def: without decency; PRIME* ("suspect" is the anagrind") around ("hugs" is the containment indicator) PRO (hooker) | --- |
| 8 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Author’s Trump’s ultimate guy, right? Wrong! | 11 | 8 | Author’s - IM (as in person writing the clue)+ P + ROPE (guy) + R, Def: Wrong |
- (I think the surface would read more smoothly with “I’m” instead of “Author’s”) |
| 9 | Veera Raghavan | Shortly to bring in guy to replace one basically unsuitable (8) | 11 | 7 | ROPE for O in IMPOR(t). Definition: Unsuitable | --- |
| 10 | Sampath Srinivasan | Somewhat improved, perhaps not quite unsuitable? (8) | 9 | 4 | (somewhat) IMPROved; PERhaps (not quite); def = unsuitable |
- These indicators don''t specify how many letters are to be selected. - not specific enough about how many letters to keep/discard of each fodder - There’s nothing to suggest which bits of ‘improved’ and ‘perhaps’ we need to select. (‘Somewhat’ suggests a telescopic to me, which this isn’t) |
| 11 | --- | Swim pro periodically offers cricket? No (8) | 8 | 6 | Def: cricket? No (i.e. "not cricket"); telescopic, indicated by "offers" |
- Not cricket would have been a fun def. "Cricket? No" doesn''t quite work for me. |
| 12 | --- | Unfit, new Emperor heartlessly arrests Prince after 1 (8) | 6 | 4 | EMPEROR* - E around P after I | --- |
| 13 | --- | Initially in my price range, our payments eventually reached, like, ten quarters (8) | 5 | 4 | Acrostic (indic. by ‘initially’); def. ‘like ten quarters’ (10/4 being an example of an improper fraction, with its numerator greater than its denominator) |
- Good acrostic by def is a stretch |
| 14 | --- | Kinky ripe romp is bawd | 3 | 3 | (Kinky)-ana. ripe romp [is] bawdy=def. | --- |
| 15 | --- | Invalid employment insurance for famous architect: becomes a cowboy? | 3 | 3 | IM P(EI->ROPER), def “invalid” |
- Can''t find EI for employment insurance in a dictionary |
| 16 | --- | Urchin joining fancy lasso-wielder is against the rules (8) | 3 | 3 | Urchin=Imp; fancy lasso-wielder=>whimsical synonym for a lasso-wielder=>roper; against the rules=Definition | --- |
| 17 | --- | Rascal with informer gets corrupt (8) | 3 | 2 | Definition: Corrupt. Anno: (IMP)(ROPER). Rascal - Imp. Informer - Roper |
- I don''t see how informer = roper - (Never heard of roper = informer before, but I looked it up in the OED and it checks out) |
| 18 | --- | Unseemly prankster fiddled with copy, briefly (8) | 0 | 1 | Prankster = IMP. Copy, briefly is ‘repro’ anagrammed (‘fiddled with’) to yield ROPER. Def. = Unseemly |
- indirect anagrams are unfair to the solver - Indirect anagram - Indirect Anagrams are not kosher |
| 19 | --- | Hostel, resort and taverns (6) | 0 | 1 | Hotels - anagram of hostel |
- Clue for HOTELS?? - Wrong word? - Misunderstood the assignment |