1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#535 - CO-OPERATION
Total Clues: 22 Total Voters: 24
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veera Raghavan | Help company repaint room’s interiors afresh (11) | 35 | 18 | CO (REPAINT OO)*. Afresh: anagrind. Definition: Help | --- |
| 2 | Amrita Majumdar | Commanding officer's talk about exercise and teamwork ( 11) | 28 | 15 | CO ORATION around PE , TEAMWORK -DEF | --- |
| 3 | Samit Kallianpur | Call for each country to cut nuclear aid (11) | 22 | 14 | [Coo + per + (-N)ation]. Call = coo [like a bird-Collins]. For each = per. Country = nation. To cut = deletion ind. Nuclear = N. Def = aid. | --- |
| 4 | Sitter | Tango during Dancing On Ice - a poor conbined effort | 18 | 11 | T (NATO alphabet) inside ONICEAPOOR (anagrind is dancing) |
- Very nice! |
| 5 | Manish Jhaveri | Awful CEO withheld work budget and aid (2-9) | 18 | 10 | CEO* holding OP + RATION. Definition = aid | --- |
| 6 | Ganesh Raman | Company free to acquire share in partnership | 17 | 9 | Company CO, Free = OPEN, To acquire = ContainInd, Share = RATIO, Def PARTNERSHIP | --- |
| 7 | Adman_i | Struggling corporation lacking resources initially, gets European investment for partnership (2,9) | 15 | 8 | Partnership (Defn) - (CORPORATION -R +E)*, Struggling - anagrind, Resources initially -r, European - E, investment - insertion ind |
- too many common letters in fodder? |
| 8 | @LowdownCryptic | Company with video terminal for each area and no IT backup support (2-9) | 14 | 11 | CO (company) + O (videO terminal) + PER (for each) + A (area) + TION (NO IT < backup); Def: support | --- |
| 9 | Textrous | Head to Cohere or OpenAI to form a partnership (2-9) | 12 | 8 | Head to Cohere=C; OROPENAITO*; anagrind=form (as an intransitive verb); def: a partnership [Cohere & OpenAI are leading AI companies] | --- |
| 10 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Budget backing Pound and Euro working together | 10 | 6 | Def: Working together, COOP + E + RATION, Budget - RATION, Pound COOP, Euro - E | --- |
| 11 | --- | Company production turns into teamwork (2-9) | 9 | 4 | Definition: TEAMWORK. Anno: (CO)(OPERA)(INTO*). Company - CO. Production - OPERA. Into - Fodder. Turns - Anagrind. |
- Nice...but turns as anagrind works better after fodder imho |
| 12 | --- | Arranged piano concerto with half as many codas for electric organ, working in harmony (2-9) | 8 | 6 | (PIANO CONCERTO)* − CN. “Arranged” = anagrind. “With half as many codas for electriC orgaN” = halve the number of Cs and Ns in the fodder. “Working in harmony” = def. | --- |
| 13 | --- | My short speech about open, boundary-less teamwork (2-9) | 6 | 4 | CO (My = COR - R) + ORATION (speech) around PE (oPEn after removing end chars - boundary-less), def = teamwork | --- |
| 14 | --- | Company time invested in alternative for collaboration | 5 | 4 | CO (Company) + OP (ERA = Time) TION (Option=Alternative), Def. Collaboration |
- Nice clue but def could have been better..co(llabo)ration and co(ope)ration have many letters in common |
| 15 | --- | Support Othello, perhaps, killing Iago , basically in climax | 5 | 3 | Othello, perhaps = opera, Iago basically = I, climax = coition, opera replacing I in coition, Definition: support. Co(opera-i)tion |
- Coition is not synonymous with climax - Coition can lead to climax, but they’re not synonymous! |
| 16 | --- | AI core on top affected combined effort | 4 | 3 | Clue type: Anagram; Defn: combined effort; Fodder: AI core on top; Anagrind: affected | --- |
| 17 | --- | Help henpecked house husband to have endless sex | 3 | 3 | COOP+RATION, having/possessing [s]E[x]. A (football) pitch has two ends, etc; coop = a house where hens peck; (to) husband = (to) ration; def = help. | --- |
| 18 | --- | Collaboration = teamwork + partnership (2-9) | 1 | 1 | Triple def. |
- Multiple-definition clues should involve substantially different meanings |
| 19 | --- | Partnership Company going public about share, say (2-9) | 1 | 1 | Charade; def = Partnership; CO (Company)+ OPEN (public) about RATIO (share, say) |
- Nice clue..Not sure of role of ''going'' |
| 20 | --- | Help! Interstellar space colony's only street is destroyed! (2-9) | 1 | 1 | (Cooper Station - St); Interstellar space colony = Cooper Station (space colony orbiting Saturn from the film Interstellar); street = st (abbrev), only street = 'only' emphasizes surface, while pointing to the only 'st' in fodder; is destroyed = removal ind; Help = Def; |
- This requires some very specific knowledge |
| 21 | --- | Reorganised English corporation without republican to form partnership (11) | 0 | 6 | Reorganised = Anagrind; English = E; without republican = remove 'r'; (E+CORPORATION-R)* ; Partnership = Definition | --- |
| 22 | --- | Gandhi-led movement opposed this firm action (2-9) | 0 | 0 | Definition: “Gandhi-led movement opposed this” (reference to the non-co-operation movement led by Gandhi-ji); CO (“firm”) + OPERATION (“action”) | --- |