1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#548 - PARTY
Total Clues: 25 Total Voters: 27
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @LowdownCryptic | Do they finally catch up? (5) | 31 | 15 | Down clue: Y (they finally) + TRAP (catch) all reversed (up); "Do" is definition | --- |
| 2 | Manish Jhaveri | Person not completely left out (5) | 21 | 13 | PARTLY (not completely) - L (left out); def = PERSON | --- |
| 3 | Samit Kallianpur | Knocked back gin at the end of birthday bash (5) | 17 | 10 | [Trap< + Y]. Knocked back = reversal ind. Gin = Trap. The end of birthday = Y. Def = bash. |
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| 4 | Veena Venkataraman | Set some booby traps up (5) | 17 | 10 | Some: telescopic word indicator; up: Reversal indicator; Set: Definition; (boobY TRAPs) |
- Surface grammar is a bit problematic, I think - we "set up a trap", not "set a trap up" - Nice |
| 5 | Textrous | A gang set up some booby traps (5) | 16 | 13 | Def: A gang; reversal ind: set up, hidden ind: some => boobY TRAPs <- |
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| 6 | Ramki Krishnan | Leaders in politics - absolute rogues - tricking you! (5) | 16 | 9 | Acrostic clue with whole clue being def of a political party |
- The &lit doesn’t quite work for me—surely the whole party aren’t all leaders? |
| 7 | Sampath Srinivasan | Group promoting all right thinking youth leaders (5) | 15 | 11 | Acrostic; def = Group; leaders - acrostic indicator | --- |
| 8 | Nathan Townshend | Some Christmassy trappings are put up for this | 14 | 9 | Reverse hidden, down clue, &lit |
- Would work better without "are" (which creates a slight problem with cryptic grammar) |
| 9 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Not completely excluding Labour for coalition (5) | 13 | 10 | PARTLY – L; Partly (not completely) excluding (deletion indicator) L (Labour), for is the equivalence word. Definition: Coalition (in the political sense of PARTY or a formal political group) |
- isn''t a coalition more than one party? |
| 10 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Do excuse one in agreement | 11 | 9 | Def: Do, PARITY- I | --- |
| 11 | --- | Social Reform? | 11 | 6 | Double Def |
- The winner! - Great DD, though the second definition may not travel well outside the UK |
| 12 | --- | Certain individual’s nose picking up traces of alcohol and tobacco (5) | 9 | 5 | P(A)R(T)Y: ‘nose’ (verb) = PRY; ‘certain individual’ = def. | --- |
| 13 | --- | Penny and Marty heading out for celebration (5) | 8 | 7 | P + MARTY - M, CELEBRATION -DEF | --- |
| 14 | --- | Some subpar type of political organization (5) | 8 | 6 | Hidden word: subPAR TYpe. Def. political organization. | --- |
| 15 | --- | Thrash schoolboy's backside after break (5) | 8 | 4 | ~Y after (to) PART = thrash | --- |
| 16 | --- | Person with wind making loud parp from bottom (5) | 8 | 4 | FARTY (with wind) making F[orte] > ~]P = person (as per Chambers) | --- |
| 17 | --- | Function of revolutionary fly trapper (5) | 7 | 6 | Reverse telescopic; definition is “function” | --- |
| 18 | --- | Finally dump pretentiously artistic group (5) | 7 | 6 | …P+ARTY; definition: group |
- a synonym for ''arty'' without the word ''artistic'' would be better |
| 19 | --- | Do the Conservatives celebrate the individual? | 7 | 4 | Quadruple def DO (n), THE CONSERVATIVES (n), CELEBRATE (v), THE INDIVIDUAL (n, DBE [one of the parties in a litigation]) |
- “the Conservatives” needs a DBE indicator |
| 20 | --- | Celebrate political grouping (5) | 7 | 3 | Double definition; celebrate = party (verb); political grouping = party (noun) | --- |
| 21 | --- | Not fully avoiding meal at the end in function (5) | 6 | 4 | PARTLY-L. Def: Function |
- Liked the other clue with PARTLY -L wordplay better |
| 22 | --- | Leader of Portugal approaches pseudo political alliance (5) | 4 | 3 | Anno: (P)(ARTY). Leader of Portugal - P. Pseudo - Arty. Definition - Political alliance. | --- |
| 23 | --- | Social gathering for paintings etc in the outskirts of Pondicherry | 3 | 2 | Paintings etc = Art in PY (outskirts of Pondicherry) |
- It works without etc i think - (I think the surface would work better with sg. “painting”, which could be read as an activity) |
| 24 | --- | Fantastic pastry with tasty filling eaten at celebration (5) | 3 | 2 | Celebration (definition) - [(PASTRY)-(taSty)]*, Fantastic - anagrind, filling - middle letter, eaten - delind |
- Won''t "filling" of tasty be AST? Just the S would perhaps be essence or heart. - "at" as connector between wp and def is iffy IMO |
| 25 | --- | That group! To some extent left out(5) | 3 | 2 | Definition is that group, to some extent is partly, so partly - l( left out) |
- Why “that”? |