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1ACCWC #558 – ANGELIC – OPEN FOR CLUES
This weeks contest is hosted by Textrous For 1ACCWC 558, the chosen word is ANGELIC Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly. Please login to participate. You can use your wordpress/gmail account for login but please use one account consistently so that your performance can be tracked for
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1ACCWC #557 – COVERT – Results
Thanks to Ganesh Raman for hosting the contest. A covert operation executed brilliantly, this contest elicited some really good clues. While most of the high-point scorers stuck to the reliable VOTER anagram because it allowed for clean political surface readings, the real wit came from the hidden word entries—specifically that “panic over the” construction. It
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1ACCWC 552 – Whiplash – Results
Thanks to Shobha for hosting the contest. Setters had a “pain in the neck” fixation with whiplash and many combined a “fashionable” (HIP) joint “with” a “wide” “wife” (W) to construct their wordplay. While some hid the answer in a “trendy” LA show others stuffed a cricket tournament (IPL) into a “mess” (HASH), or twisted
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1ACCWC 546 – TIE THE KNOT – Results
Textrous was the host and here’s his round up of the week’s contest. The clue-writing competition for TIE THE KNOT received 23 entries. Tied for 5th place with 18 points from 9 voters are: Sitter for “Make granny take the plunge?” and Ashwin Bhandarkar for “Principally, Tamilians in Ettayapuram trust horoscopes – especially kundali, nakshatras,
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1ACCWC 545 – COMPLY – Results
Veera Raghavan was the host and here’s his round up of the week’s contest. Leading the chart is Textrous with 28 points for his clue ‘Respect is missing from Special Olympics’ At the second place we have Belaircom.bsky.social with 26 points for the clue ‘Turn up, cut, fold and bend’ Venkatesan P in third place