1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#538 - INSECT
Total Clues: 25 Total Voters: 28
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @LowdownCryptic | Nicest bats for cricket, perhaps (6) | 25 | 17 | (NICEST)* Anagrind = bats; Def = cricket, perhaps | --- |
| 2 | Ruskin | Small creature quietly removed from view | 25 | 16 | Def = small creature; quietly = P; removed from view = INS(P)ECT | --- |
| 3 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Nicest bats for cricket, maybe ( 6 ) | 20 | 15 | (Nicest)* indicated by Bats. DBE: Cricket maybe | --- |
| 4 | Textrous | Bug doctor notices when Oxygen-deprived (6) | 20 | 12 | Def: Bug; Anagrind: doctor (imperative anagrind); NOTICES* - O (Oxygen-deprived) | --- |
| 5 | Satyen Nabar | Nicest bats for cricket perhaps (6) | 19 | 15 | NICEST*; bats= anag ind (as in crazy), def= cricket perhaps | --- |
| 6 | Kabir Firaque | Bug is biting tail of sullen pet cat every now and then (6) | 18 | 9 | IS around N (tail of sullen) + alternate letters in pEtCaT. Definition: Bug | --- |
| 7 | Ashwin Bhandarkar | Bug hiding in terrapin's ectoplasm. (6) | 17 | 13 | Bug = Def; hiding in = telescopic indicator; terrapINS ECToplasm. | --- |
| 8 | Manish Jhaveri | Bug quietly left study (6) | 17 | 10 | Anno: INSPECT (= study) – P (quietly). Def = Bug | --- |
| 9 | Sitter | Fly home to South-east Connecticut? | 15 | 11 | Def by example + IN SE CT |
- DBE indicator needed - Nice idea! Just needs a DbE indicator. - There''s no DBE indicator |
| 10 | @qpheevr | Unique group of scientists playing cricket, perhaps (6) | 15 | 9 | Reverse letter bank: INSECT (“cricket, perhaps”) consists of one of each letter in (i.e., a “unique group of”) SCIENTISTS, anagrammed (“playing”) |
- Nice! I''m always happy to see a well-constructed letter bank clue - This is great! |
| 11 | --- | Say, cricket is popular at school (6) | 14 | 11 | Popular = In, school = sect. Definition = Say, cricket | --- |
| 12 | --- | Mad scientist, first to teleport and become a bug (6) | 13 | 7 | A bug (Defn) - (SCIENTIST - IST)*, Mad - anagrind, First - ist, Teleport - del indicator (relocate/transfer) | --- |
| 13 | --- | Bug at home: a little spider, fly etc. (6) | 12 | 7 | Def: Bug, IN (at home) + S (a little spider)+ ETC* |
- "little" and "a little" does not work as a starting letter indicator |
| 14 | --- | Retain section covering cricket, for one | 7 | 6 | Solution hidden in "retaIN SECTion"; hidden indicator: “covering”; DBE: “cricket, for one" | --- |
| 15 | --- | Setter sprayed scent to get ladybird (6) | 7 | 5 | Definition: Ladybird. Anno: (I)(SCENT"). Setter- I. Scent - Fodder. Sprayed - Anagrind |
- DBE indicator needed - Needs a DbE indicator - just a question mark would do it - There''s no DBE indicator |
| 16 | --- | Ladybird, say, is chic with cult following (6) | 6 | 5 | def: Ladybird, say; charade IN (chic) + SECT (cult), following - position indicator | --- |
| 17 | --- | For example, cricket broadcast entices after English scored (6) | 6 | 5 | ENTICES* - E | --- |
| 18 | --- | Enter college for basically rugby and cricket, say (6) | 6 | 5 | INSERT (enter) with C (college) for R (basically rugby), def = cricket, say |
- Wonder how "basically" works as a starting letter indicator |
| 19 | --- | Obscuring nothing, dilapidated section transformed Gregor Samsa (6) | 5 | 3 | Anag. (dilapidated) SECTION (neighborhood), dropping (obscuring) the O. Def. = transformed Gregor Samsa (dung beetle). |
- There''s no DBE indicator |
| 20 | --- | Scute - just the outer layers - could be derived from this? (6) | 4 | 3 | Bear with me. A scute is "the second tergal plate of the notum of an insect's thorax". Just the (two) outer layers of SCUTE is SC(u)TE. Then we have a reverse cryptic - IN SE, CT: put CT inside SE to give us SCTE. |
- Audacity award! |
| 21 | --- | Bug’s eggs mostly removed in refurbished section (6) | 3 | 3 | (SECTION-O)*. Definition: bug |
- Not sure why this has ‘mostly’ in it? And needs an apostrophe in ‘egg’s’ to work ‘egg is removed’ - Why "eggs" when there''s only one O? What role is "mostly" playing? - What does “mostly” contribute? - why eggs mostly? just "egg removed" would be enough to remove O? |
| 22 | --- | Bug of popular program caught within (6) | 3 | 2 | Def: BUG Popular IN C caught in SET program | --- |
| 23 | --- | Prime minister essentially acts for cricket, perhaps | 2 | 2 | Prime positions for minister = inse, essentially acts= ct, A charade gives insect, Definition: cricket, perhaps |
- Just as "odd x" and "even x" don''t suggest the odd and even elements of x, "prime x" doesn''t indicate the prime elements of x - Picking prime-numbered letters is unusual enough that I think it warrants a stronger indicator than just “prime”+fodder |
| 24 | --- | About time for kiss. In sex, no break, bugger! (6) | 1 | 1 | c(about) t(time) for x(kiss) in In sex...("no break" is a perhaps superfluous instruction to delete the space between In and sex. However, I've kept it as it enhances the surface)....def - bugger! |
- A bugger is not at all the same thing as a bug… |
| 25 | --- | Cricket is one of the central pieces of antique essential crossword gen impacting setters | 0 | 0 | Def: ‘Cricket is one’ Wordplay: ‘the central pieces of’ antIque esseNtial crosSword gEn impaCting setTers |
- Surface doesn’t make any sense - Can''t make sense of the surface. Also, "of" as a connector between def and the rest of the clue is a misfit here. |