1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#533 - SUMMIT
Total Clues: 22 Total Voters: 25
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ramki Krishnan | Must I minute stupid meeting? (6) | 27 | 13 | Anagram of MUST I M, def = meeting |
- This was a great idea, think ‘stupid’ maybe doesn’t quite work after the fodder? Perhaps something like ‘disorganised’? |
| 2 | Textrous | Scale the peaks of unconquerable mountains in dreadful mist (6) | 24 | 14 | Def=Scale (Summit as a verb), the peaks of unconquerable mountains=UM, dreadful=anagrind, MIST* => S(UM)MIT |
- Unfortunately ’Summit’ isn’t in Chambers as a verb - maybe other dictionaries? - Nice surface |
| 3 | Ganesh Raman | Tummies upset, no energy left to reach mountain-top | 24 | 14 | Anagram of TUMMIES minus E. Def on the right. |
- I think a tiny tweak to ‘short of energy’ would make this work for me. - Left seems extraneous? |
| 4 | @qpheevr | Heads of state undertaking major meeting in taiga (6) | 23 | 11 | Acrostic (indic. by “heads of”) &lit (with “in taiga” topically alluding to the Alaskan venue of the recent Trump–Putin meeting) |
- Nice |
| 5 | Satyen Nabar | Crown of diamonds perhaps enthralling couple of maidens (6) | 22 | 13 | SUIT around M+M; diamonds perhaps= suit, enthralling= cont ind, couple of maidens= M+M, def= crown | --- |
| 6 | Abhay Phadnis | Pose around unwrapped mummy in climax | 17 | 10 | SIT (“pose”) “around” UMM (“unwrapped mUMMy”) = S[UMM]IT; definition: “climax” (surface reading refers to the movie “The Mummy”) |
- Don’t think you should have Wordplay ‘in’ Definition. Maybe ‘Climax: Pose around…’ or just change ‘in’ to ‘for’ |
| 7 | Ramesh Swaminathan | Season to have sex without hesitation and peak (6) | 15 | 9 | SUMMER season - ER hesitation + IT sex. Def: PEAK |
- Placing the definition in the beginning seems like it would work as well |
| 8 | Guinevere | Top tot Tim twirling! | 13 | 8 | Def: Top Wordplay: SUM (tot) + MIT (Tim twirling) |
- Tot = sum is a little dubious IMHO |
| 9 | Manish Jhaveri | Top American-backed university blocked by malevolent leader (6) | 11 | 6 | SU << MIT blocked by M; def = TOP | --- |
| 10 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Secretly admit I'm mushy about climax (6) | 9 | 7 | Def: Climax, Hidden in Reverse | --- |
| 11 | --- | I must anyway protect Mary's first crown(6) | 9 | 7 | Definition: Crown. Anno: (I+MUST)* around (M). "I must" - Fodder. Mary's first - M. Anyway - Anagrind. Protect - Container indicator | --- |
| 12 | --- | Meeting men in club? | 8 | 7 | Def = meeting; men = MM; club = SUIT (? denotes dbe) |
- Clubs is a suit (not Club) - M = man is okay but not sure if men can be MM - I think for MM it probably needs to be ‘males’ rather than ‘men’ - I was told Man is not M, Male is M |
| 13 | --- | Males wearing suit for meeting (6) | 8 | 6 | MM inside SUIT | --- |
| 14 | --- | Frenchmen dressed formally for meeting (6) | 8 | 5 | MM (abbreviation for Messieurs) in SUIT | --- |
| 15 | --- | Negotiation amount slightly short ( 6 ) | 6 | 5 | SUM (amount) + MIT[-e] (as Adv. meaning slightly, short is the deletion indicator). Def.: Negotiation | --- |
| 16 | --- | June, July, but not August? It's a high point (6) | 6 | 5 | SUMM(er) [first two thirds of summer] + IT = a high point [definition of summit] |
- Might a geographical indicator be necessary? These are not summer months everywhere. - Possibly not entirely fair, but clever! - Like the construction here, though seasons'' timing varies by region and I couldn''t guess summer for this - Too indirect for me! |
| 17 | --- | Sounds like problem with sex in peak (6) | 5 | 4 | Sounds like is HP indicator/ problem is sum/ sex is IT sounds like Summit/ peak is definition |
- Not sure you can have Wordplay ‘in’ definition - but just a tweak to ‘…problem with sex climax’ I think would work - I find homophone clues more fun when the spelling of the homophone is more different from the answer than it is here |
| 18 | --- | Basically unemployed males recruited in place for meeting (6) | 5 | 4 | U MM in SIT (place). Definition: Meeting | --- |
| 19 | --- | Meeting candy-eating official (6) | 4 | 2 | MEETING=Def; candy=MM (for M&Ms); eating=containment indicator; official=SUIT. So, SU(MM)IT. |
- candy=MM seems a bit tenuous - Candy = M&M/MM feels like two levels |
| 20 | --- | First of all, store up mountaineering material including tents, for use to reach the peak (6) | 3 | 3 | def: peak; First of all - acrostic indicator; "store up.... tents" - acrostic fodder; for use to reach - link/filler words |
- Acrostic is great but the clue has too much padding - Too many link words? |
| 21 | --- | Talks in America reflecting leader from Moscow given time mostly to withdraw (6) | 2 | 2 | US<< M TIM(-e)<<. Def: Talks | --- |
| 22 | --- | Leonard fled slum, headed to MIT, and made it to the top (6) | 1 | 1 | Def. = ‘the top’. Wordplay = S(l)UM + MIT |
- “Headed to” is in the wrong place (and tense) to pick out the first letter of “Leonard” |