1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#551 - SHAMBLES
Total Clues: 24 Total Voters: 27
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shobha Nayak | Mess made by lambs she slaughtered | 27 | 9 | Anagram suggested by slaughtered |
- Elegant in its simplicity |
| 2 | Nathan Townshend | Poor lamb, she's for the abattoir | 26 | 10 | Poor = grind, she's for = fodder, abattoir = def |
- Best surface out of many \"lamb\" clues probably |
| 3 | Ramki Krishnan | Well-dressed doctor in ship's mess (8) | 19 | 9 | MB (doctor) dressed by (cont) HALE (well) inside SS (ship), def = mess |
- indirect anag - Innovative containment indicator |
| 4 | David Ward | Disgraces surrounding origin of Brexit left chaos | 18 | 7 | Def: Chaos. SHAMES (s) around (surrounding) BL (origin of Brexit + Left) | --- |
| 5 | Ganesh Raman | First sign of hung assembly, sadly, leaves youth leader in a state of disarray | 16 | 7 | Anagram of H (First sign of HUNG) + ASSEMBLY - Y (Youth Leader); Anagrind SADLY; Del Ind LEAVES; Def A STATE OF DISARRAY | --- |
| 6 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Counterfeit bullets regularly seen leading to chaos (8) | 15 | 6 | SHAM (Counterfeit) + BuLlEtS (alternate letter selection indicated by “regularly seen”); Def.: Chaos |
- “Seen” can be deleted from the clue - Interesting enough surface and different from most of the other clues |
| 7 | Veera Raghavan | She mostly blames another for the mess (8) | 14 | 6 | SH(e) AMBLES*. Another: anagrind. Definition: Mess |
- mpt sure re anagrind - I don’t really buy ‘another’ as an anagrind (especially if placed after the fodder) - IMO, \"another\" as anagrind would need to precede the fodder - it cannot apply to the previous word(s) |
| 8 | Amrita Majumdar | In the end, unfairly blames second husband for mess (8) | 14 | 5 | BLAMES* going behind S H | --- |
| 9 | Sampath Srinivasan | A dog's breakfast of lamb she's stewed (8) | 12 | 6 | (lamb she's)* stewed = anagrind; def = a dog's breakfast | --- |
| 10 | @LowdownCryptic | Disorder caused by endless humiliation and praise (8) | 12 | 6 | SHAM(e) + BLES(s) |
- The surface doesn’t sound like a plausible sentence but the wordplay is A+ |
| 11 | --- | Say grace after meat course? Back to front, it makes a muddle (8) | 12 | 4 | HAM (meat course) + BLESS (say grace) becomes (back to front) S + HAM + BLES. Def = ‘a muddle’ |
- I liked how all the bits of the clue come together here. Bit wordy but a nice story |
| 12 | --- | Awful mess Blah, awful mess | 11 | 5 | Anag of MESS BLAH; def = awful mess |
- I hope Blah like this one! |
| 13 | --- | Chaos caused by opening for Burnham (and Left), in humiliation to Starmer’s leadership | 11 | 4 | B+L (opening for Burnham and Left) in SHAME+S (humiliation + Starmer’s leadership) = SHAM(BL)E+S |
- Very topical in the UK context! - Not unclunky, but full marks for topical surface |
| 14 | --- | Quietly strolls through the slaughterhouse | 9 | 5 | Quietly=sh + strolls=ambles; definition - slaughterhouse |
- Very nice charade, though \"quietly walks\" might have worked better IMO - \"strolls\" has a connotation of peace and leisure that doesn\'t quite fit the surface - nice surface but I don\'t think \"through\" works as a connector |
| 15 | --- | Blah mess, possibly (7) | 9 | 3 | &lit anagram |
- Small and succinct clue with a very nice surface |
| 16 | --- | She's sheltering injured lamb in jungle(8) | 7 | 3 | Definition: JUNGLE. Anno: (SH(LAMB*)ES). Injured - Anagrind. Lamb - Anagram Fodder. Sheltering - Containment indicator |
- The best use of this device I have seen in this set, though the definition is a bit iffy IMO |
| 17 | --- | That woman's eating minced lamb in mess (8) | 7 | 3 | SHE'S around LAMB*; that woman's= she's, eating= cont ind, minced= ang ind, def= mess | --- |
| 18 | --- | The girl's carrying minced lamb to a slaughterhouse | 7 | 2 | Def: a slaughterhouse, The girl's: SHES, carrying: containment indicator, minced lamb: AMBL* |
- If the lamb is already minced why is it being taken to the slaughterhouse? |
| 19 | --- | Submarine lab ‘Minerva’ has come up empty—what a disgrace! (8) | 7 | 2 | First and last letters (indic. by ‘empty’) of ‘SubmarinE LaB MinervA HaS’ in reverse order (indic. by ‘come up’ in a down clue); def. ‘what a disgrace!’ | --- |
| 20 | --- | Nazis defending inept Leavitt’s lead amid live chaos (8) | 6 | 2 | SS defending/containing HAM (clumsy, inexpert – Chambers) + B(L~)E => S(HAM+B((L))E)S = chaos | --- |
| 21 | --- | Epic delighted to leave blasphemies out in ruins (8) | 5 | 2 | Definition: Ruins(blasphemies-(epic-c (de-lighted i.e. to remove c)))* |
- I can’t make much sense of the surface, and c is the *speed* of light, not light itself - delighted = de-lighted = remove c (vel of light?) is too indirect IMO - Ambitious! Delighted seems a bit tricksy and overall the surface doesn\'t work for me |
| 22 | --- | Duck goes for a side-splitting bet in human footwear - walks like this? | 3 | 1 | From SHOES (human footwear) O (duck, in cricket) goes "for" (to be replaced by) {g}AMBL{e} [a bet, with the sides splitting (off)]) -> A duck trying to walk in human shoes arguably SHAMBLES ("to walk with an awkward, unsteady gait) |
- A bit too elaborate for my taste (and I’m not convinced “side-splitting X” works for “X with the sides removed”) |
| 23 | --- | Fewer cycling around film actor Bishop in madhouse (8) | 2 | 1 | Fewer is less/ cycling around film actor Ham / Bishop is B/ Madhouse is definition |
- Wouldn\'t Fewer be Lesser? - “Film” seems superfluous—a ham is one who overacts, which could just as well be on stage as on screen |
| 24 | --- | Havoc as sables are distributed in H&M? Au contraire! (8) | 2 | 1 | Definition: “Havoc”; “H" & M” “are distributed” in S_A_BLES = S[H]A[M]BLES (reversal of wordplay instructions indicated by "au contraire") | --- |