1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#543 - RELOCATING
Total Clues: 24 Total Voters: 28
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Moving injured girl at once (10) | 32 | 19 | (GIRL AT ONCE)*, injured= anag ind, def= moving | --- |
| 2 | Ganesh Raman | Glacier not melting or shifting | 30 | 18 | Anagram of GLACIER NOT, Anagrind MELTING, Def SHIFTING |
- wp or def? |
| 3 | Ramki Krishnan | A telco erratic in call transferring (10) | 23 | 15 | Anagram of ATELCO inside RING (call), def = transferring, erratic is anagram ind | --- |
| 4 | @qpheevr | High-octane girl is going somewhere (10) | 23 | 10 | Anagram of OCTANE GIRL, indic. by “high”; def. “going somewhere” | --- |
| 5 | Gayathri Viswanath | Broken down car let go in shifting (10) | 18 | 10 | Def - Shifting, car let go in * | --- |
| 6 | Sitter | Actor Nigel Havers is moving home | 17 | 8 | Anagram (havers [both Chambers and Collins has it meaning to waver or vacillate]) of ACTORNIGEL |
- Terrific find. - Nice find! - Brilliant - Doesn''t need "is" |
| 7 | Textrous | Moving home? Let cargo get shifted around (10) | 16 | 12 | Def: Moving, the letters of LET CARGO get shifted (anagrind) around (containment ind) IN (home) | --- |
| 8 | ALP | What could get you to Tokyo from Kyoto? (10) | 16 | 8 | Relocating Kyoto* = Tokyo, in both cryptic and real sense | --- |
| 9 | VENKATESAN P | Melting glacier not moving elsewhere(10) | 15 | 10 | Anno: (GLACIER+NOT)*. Anagrind - Melting. Definition - Moving elsewhere | --- |
| 10 | Ruskin | Leaving wretched girl at once | 13 | 10 | Def = leaving; anag of GIRL AT ONCE | --- |
| 11 | --- | Moving company integral in transit (10) | 13 | 8 | Anagrind: Moving, Anagram : "co + integral", Definition: "in transit" | --- |
| 12 | --- | Sadly clearing out.. extremely moving (10) | 11 | 6 | Def: Moving, Anagram of CLEARING O(-u)T*, Anagram indicator - Sadly | --- |
| 13 | --- | Castle, correlating with Queen sacrifice, moving to a different spot (10) | 10 | 5 | Correlating* (anagrind - castle (intransitive verb - term in Chess relating to swapping of pieces)) - r (with Queen sacrifice) def - moving to a different spot |
- Not sure I buy ‘castle’ as an anagrind. (And, contra the annotation, it needs to be transitive here for the cryptic grammar to work!) |
| 14 | --- | Regional court vacated, prepared for shifting (10) | 9 | 7 | (REGIONAL CT)*. Prepared: anagrind. Definition: Shifting | --- |
| 15 | --- | Shifted cargo inlet, moving to a new place (10) | 7 | 4 | Anagram (shifted) of CARGO INLET; Defn.: Moving to a new place |
- Cargo inlet? |
| 16 | --- | Tragic act in final performing role was moving (10) | 6 | 5 | Tragic - anagrind, (ACT IN performinG ROLE)*, final - last letter, Moving (Definition) |
- What is the role of ''was''? - should be ''final of'' |
| 17 | --- | Revolting leaves eaten by Popeye, possibly on the move (10) | 6 | 2 | COLE = cabbage = leaves. RATING = sailor/Popeye possibly => R(COLE<)ATING = on the move |
- A rating is a sailor in the navy; Popeye is a civilian |
| 18 | --- | Moving Goan relict all over the place (10) | 4 | 3 | Moving = Def: all over the place = anagrind; (Goan relict)* | --- |
| 19 | --- | Leaving to trace log in that's suspicious (10) | 3 | 3 | Leaving is the definition. Anagram of Tracelogin* (suspicious is the anagrind) |
- (Surface would be smoother with no space in the noun “login”) |
| 20 | --- | Moving experience for a beginner in a CT Angio procedure post an Emergency Room relapse (10) | 2 | 2 | Beginner (L) plus anagram of CT Angio (procedure) after ER returning | --- |
| 21 | --- | After eliminating duplication, National Inter-College could be changing sites (10) | 2 | 1 | Letter bank ind: After eliminating duplication; Fodder: National Inter-College (e.g. India’s NICE crossword competition); Anagrind: could be; Def: changing sites | --- |
| 22 | --- | Cole returns in “a 4-star picture,” giving “a moving performance” (10) | 1 | 1 | Reverse ‘Cole’ (ELOC), place in RATING (‘a 4-star picture’). Def. = ‘a moving performance’ |
- I don’t think it’s fair to expect the solver to get from “a 4-star picture” to RATING without a DBE indicator - Needs an example indicator to get "Rating" from "a 4 star picture" |
| 23 | --- | Moggy elected to be put in post again? It's getting where it needs to be (10) | 0 | 2 | Moggy [CAT] + elected [IN] inside RE-LOG [post again] | --- |
| 24 | --- | Shifting Re pointing places on site | 0 | 1 | Re is first 2 word and charade of locating |
- I don’t understand the surface reading - Relocating and locating have the same root |