1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#559 - HONOUR
Total Clues: 31 Total Voters: 33
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abhay Phadnis | Leaders of Hungary oppose NATO on Ukraine; Russians applaud (6) | 47 | 18 | Acrostic (“leaders of”); definition: “applaud” (for HONOUR as a verb); surface is topical |
- Simple and beautiful |
| 2 | Manish Jhaveri | Time to get working for recognition | 29 | 11 | HOUR (time) to get ON (working). Definition: recognition | --- |
| 3 | @LowdownCryptic | Time has no respect (6) | 29 | 10 | HOUR (time) contains (has) NO; Def: respect | --- |
| 4 | Satyen Nabar | Almost jump and run excitedly to receive Oscar award (6) | 27 | 11 | HO(-p) + RUN* around O; almost= delete last letter, jump= hop, excitedly= anag ind, to receive= cont ind, Oscar= O, def= award | --- |
| 5 | ALP | Trump’s about to get nailed by 60 Minutes (6) | 24 | 7 | H(ON)OUR. Honour = any one of four best trumps in whist; on = about; nail = to secure (all Chambers). Trump last appeared on the show in November 2025 and famously stormed off in 2020 claiming “biased, hateful and rude” questioning. Bless him. |
- ‘Nail’ can mean ‘secure’, and ‘secure’ can mean ‘contain’, but that doesn’t mean ‘nail’ can mean ‘contain’ |
| 6 | Karol S | Showing in 60 minutes: The Crown | 18 | 8 | ON (showing) in HOUR (60 minutes). Crown as in trophy/prize = honour |
- Of the various clues to use “60 minutes”, I think this one works best |
| 7 | Amrita Majumdar | Essentially loud horn blown to celebrate (6) | 18 | 8 | OU HORN* | --- |
| 8 | Anne de Pimodan | After seducing Bond in the buff, Honey finally lost virginity (6) | 14 | 5 | After seducing/containing [b]ON[d], HOUR[i] => H(ON)OUR (virginity). Houri = alluring woman (Collins, etc). Ref: Honey Ryder in Dr No. |
- “After” is superfluous to both the surface reading and the wordplay. And “Honey” for HOURI seems tenuous |
| 9 | @qpheevr | In Lesotho, nourishment is put on a pedestal (6) | 12 | 7 | Telescopic (lesotHO NOURishment); ‘put on a pedestal’ = HONOUR (verb) | --- |
| 10 | Arnav V Raju | Pay tribute to dear leaders of old utopian regimes (6) | 11 | 4 | Definition: Pay tribute to Wordplay: Dear -> hon (as in honey). + first letters of following with leaders as acrostic indicator | --- |
| 11 | --- | Celebrate husband going to old, old city | 10 | 4 | Husband=h, going=on, old=o, old city=ur | --- |
| 12 | --- | Celebrate time when what Brits hold in favour has been superseded by the American way? | 10 | 4 | time = HOUR, replace U (what British spelling puts in "favour") with NO U (the American style of spelling that) = HONOUR [celebrate] |
- Very creative take - Clever! (And pleasingly perverse, in that we end up with the Commonwealth spelling of HONOUR by inserting “NO U”) - Interesting device |
| 13 | --- | Admire bits of overseas news covered by "60 Minutes" (6) | 9 | 4 | Def: Admire, bits of Overseas News: ON, 60 Minutes (ref. to the legendary American news show): HOUR | --- |
| 14 | --- | Reputation from working in "60 minutes" (6) | 9 | 4 | Def = reputation, ON (working) in HOUR (60 minutes) | --- |
| 15 | --- | "Sweet and Sour Chops Special" gets prize (6) | 8 | 3 | HON(Sweet)+ SOUR - (chops) S(pecial). Def: Prize |
- Surface seems implausible |
| 16 | --- | Righteousness! Oh No, You are, reportedly corrupt! | 8 | 3 | Definition= righteousness, Anagram (indicated by corrypt) of Oh No and U R |
- Too indirect (anagram of homophone) |
| 17 | --- | Kudos to Ron Howard injured with uranium, leaving hospital wing | 8 | 3 | Anagram of Ron Howard +U minus ward (hospital wing); def Kudos |
- Putting ward directly would have made it better |
| 18 | --- | Crazy rhino sheds ego to win your heart and respect (6) | 7 | 3 | def = respect; anagram with letter deletion and letter selection; crazy (anagrind) (RHINO)* sheds (letter deletion) I (ego) to win (inclusion) yOUr (heart - letter selection) |
- Surface does not make sense to me - Never heard of rhinos shedding ego |
| 19 | --- | Ben the charioteer taking Yoko's virginity | 7 | 3 | (Ben) HUR taking (Yoko) ONO ; virginity = def |
- Clever ! |
| 20 | --- | Don't encroach on our entrenched privilege! (6) | 6 | 2 | Telescopic clue with 'entrenched' as the hidden word indicator, and 'privilege' as the definition. Not sure whether 'entrenched' is a legit hidden word indicator; also, 'don't' is redundant but without it, the surface would be weird! |
- Alas, the extraneous “don’t” disqualifies this one in my books - Hidden word is not completely hidden - Every word in the clue must have a purpose as either definition or wordplay. We can’t have extra words simply to improve the surface, unless those are link words that don’t alter the cryptic reading |
| 21 | --- | O'Connor with head shaven, announces award | 5 | 2 | Definition: Award. OConnor with head shaven (O) is Connor. Homophone indicator is "announces" . HONOUR rhymes with CONNOR. |
- Def rhymes with, but is not a homophone of the fodder - Rhymes... aren\'t homophones... are they? - You’d have to lose the C as well to make a homophone—a rhyme is not the same thing! - Rhyming is not the same thing as homophone! - Connor announced is Honour. Announces here is not grammatically right |
| 22 | --- | Virtue is there in triumph on ourselves | 4 | 2 | Virtue=honour (definition) triumpH ON OURselves (T) | --- |
| 23 | --- | Operation within time gives glory (6) | 4 | 2 | Operation ON in HOUR time. Def: GLORY |
- “On” is operating, not operation |
| 24 | --- | Blow horn around Oxford University to salute (6) | 4 | 2 | Definition: Salute. Anno: (H(OU)ORN*). Horn - Anagram Fodder. Blow - Anagrind. Oxford - O. University - U. Around - Container Indicator | --- |
| 25 | --- | Oh! Mourn lost member out of respect | 2 | 1 | Anagram of "OH MOURN minus M (Member)"; LOST as Del Ind; Anagrind OUT; Def on the right |
- “Of as a link word works in the form of”definition of wordplay” but not for “wordplay of definition” |
| 26 | --- | Academy Award nomination for “Babe” ushered in the first signs of objective, universal regard (6) | 2 | 1 | DBE - Academy Award nomination. HON (synonym for ‘babe’) + O + U + R |
- There’s no DBE indicator, and “ushered in” doesn’t really contribute anything |
| 27 | --- | Recognize one who is a nuisance to Spooner (6) | 2 | 1 | Gnawer to Spooner = honour (recognize) |
- If this came up in a UK puzzle I would spend all day not understanding how the Spoonerism works! - Kind of an awkward Spoonerism, and it’s hard to get GNAWER from ‘nuisance’ - Very awkward spoonerism |
| 28 | --- | Admire husband performing to strip your clothing, starting off romance (6) | 1 | 1 | Def: HONOUR (Admire). H (‘husband’) + ON (‘performing’) + OU (middle of yOUr after ‘stripping’ its outer letters - ‘clothing’) + R (‘starting off Romance’). |
- R is the starting “of” romance. Not sure if it’s the starting “off” romance |
| 29 | --- | Active in the Golden say to retain prestige (6) | 0 | 0 | On in Hour (Golden hour) for honour | --- |
| 30 | --- | What leads to highly ordered nobility at centers of court? (6) | 0 | 0 | Semi-&lit acrostic+letter picking (h.o.n.+cOURt) | --- |
| 31 | --- | Hardworking, basically open-hearted, understanding republican gets accolade (6) | 0 | 0 | H ON O U R. Definition: Accolade |
- Cannot get to the annotation for o and u :( |