1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#561 - POLICE
Total Clues: 30 Total Voters: 33
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manish Jhaveri | Monitor pandemic starting with spread of E.coli (6) | 40 | 16 | Def: Monitor. P (pandemic starting) + anagram of E.coli* |
- Great surface - strating does not work for me as a first letter indicator - Should be pandemic\'s starting or starting of pandemic - “Pandemic starting” for P is not a grammatically correct letter selection construction. Even though it works on the surface reading, the cryptic reading is grammatically incorrect. “Starting of…” or “start of…” would be acceptable. |
| 2 | @LowdownCryptic | They protect crude oil covered by Trump's last hollow compromise (6) | 29 | 11 | Def: They protect; OLI (crude OIL*) inside P (trumP's last) + CE (hollow CompromisE) | --- |
| 3 | Karol S | Keep the peace? Trump’s latest hollow “ceasefire” is about oil, stupid! | 28 | 8 | P (trumP’s latest) + CE (hollow CeasefirE) around (is about) OIL* (anag:stupid). To keep the peace = to police. |
- Very nice but I think the anagrind would need to be \"stupidly\" - In the cryptic reading, “[anagram fodder] stupidly” or “stupid [anagram fodder]” would both be grammatically correct. Unfortunately, what you have here is neither, even though the surface reads well. |
| 4 | Satyen Nabar | Watch corrupt cop lie (6) | 27 | 10 | (COP LIE)*, corrupt= anag ind, def= watch | --- |
| 5 | Kabir Firaque | Tripoli certainly has law enforcers (6) | 27 | 9 | Hidden in plain sight. Indicator: has. Definition: law enforcers |
- Short, sweet, simple - Lovely |
| 6 | Nathan Townshend | Public organisation lacking in credible effective leaders | 23 | 9 | Acrostic &lit |
- Mean but possibly justified! - “Leaders of XYZ” is a grammatically correct letter selection construction. “XYZ leaders” may work on the surface but is grammatically faulty in the cryptic reading. |
| 7 | Avtaar | Copper rod inlaid with zinc evenly (6) | 22 | 9 | -z(I)-n(C) inside POLE (rod). Def: Copper |
- very nice wordplay but \"copper\" is used to refer to one policeman. Not sure it works as definition for POLICE per se - Copper is policeman and not police IMO. But nice clue. - “Copper” refers to a single police officer, whereas “police” is a plural noun |
| 8 | Mona Sogal | Every now and then people inched towards the Boys in Blue (6) | 14 | 5 | Boys in blue is the def/ Intermittent letter selection/ every now and then is the indicator to select every other word in the fodder | --- |
| 9 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Control price right away, arresting extremes of oil (6) | 13 | 5 | Def: Control (POLICE as verb). PICE [price without R (right away)] containing OL [extremes of OiL]. | --- |
| 10 | Anne de Pimodan | Get rid of twisted agents under Trump’s control (6) | 13 | 5 | LOP< + ICE (agents under/working for Trump) = control. Lop = to cut out (Collins) |
- Can\'t see the def? - “Twisted” suggests anagramming in general rather than reversal specifically, which makes the first part of this an indirect anagram - Can\'t fault the sentiment |
| 11 | --- | Check oil winch periodically in emptied pipeline | 12 | 6 | Definition: “Check” (synonym of POLICE as a verb); “OiL+wInCh periodically" "in emptied P(ipelin)E”) = P[OLIC]E |
- Can you winch oil? |
| 12 | --- | Protect innocent people from Post Office bugs | 12 | 5 | Def = protect innocent people; post office = PO; bugs = LICE |
- I see this as a conflation of the Post Office and phone bugging scandals in the UK 😁 |
| 13 | --- | Leaders of Persia and commanders on base choke oil flows to get control (6) | 11 | 4 | Control (Defn as verb) - (Persia)(OIL)*(Commanders)(E), Leaders - Initial letters, Flow - Anagrind, Base - E, Persia - Iran |
- A from and also forms part of acrostic - “Supply” (as in more supple) would have been a better anagram indicator, fitting in will with “oil supply” on the surface |
| 14 | --- | Retrospective clip: "Kill Bill" (6) | 11 | 4 | Def = Bill (Chambers), LOP (clip) << + ICE (kill). Surface refers to a clip from the classic movie Kill Bill |
- Definition needs to be \"the bill\" - \"Kill BIll\" is a great idea - Chambers says that the police force is “the Bill”, not “Bill” |
| 15 | --- | Those at Scotland Yard made cop lie | 9 | 4 | Anagram (suggested by made) of 'cop lie', Definition - those at Scotland Yard | --- |
| 16 | --- | European without sources of identity caught by cops (6) | 8 | 4 | Definition = cops, European = Pole, I(dentity) c(aught) inside Pole |
- “By” is a juxtaposition indicator used to indicate that two components of wordplay are next to each other. I don’t think it works as a link-word between wordplay and definition. |
| 17 | --- | E coli harassed by penicillin primarily to protect | 4 | 2 | To protect (def.), harassed=anagrind, penicillin primarily (p), p(e coli)* |
- Anagram \"harassed\" does not read well with the fodder E.Coli IMO - The anagram indicator could be changed to something more appropriate for the clue’s surface |
| 18 | --- | Guard played pinochle apart from basically napping hourly (6) | 4 | 2 | Def. : guard, pinochle*-N(apping)-H(ourly), anagram ind: played, deletion indicator:apart from, first letter selector: basically | --- |
| 19 | --- | Cop lies mostly about the law (6) | 3 | 2 | def: the law, lies mostly is LIE, about is anagram indicator, COP+LIE is anagram fodder | --- |
| 20 | --- | Force cutback of price without any publicity | 3 | 2 | Cut=lop back is 'pol' ; price without 'pr'; def'n- force |
- Very nice idea but the \"of\" intrudes on the wordplay |
| 21 | --- | Prevent outlaws lurking in criminal environments originally | 3 | 2 | Acrostic, semi-&lit | --- |
| 22 | --- | Threesome known for walking on the moon prowl kitchen regularly (6) | 3 | 2 | Odd-numbered letters in PrOwLkItChEn, indicated by “regularly”. “Walking on the Moon” is a hit song by The Police, a trio | --- |
| 23 | --- | Keep watch on topless Alice following red Teletubby (6) | 3 | 1 | Def - Keep watch on; Red Teletubby - Po; topless Alice - lice; PO+LICE | --- |
| 24 | --- | Force tasked to maintain law, peace per Spooner (6) | 2 | 1 | def = Force; Spoonerism "law, peace" |
- Spoonerizing “law, peace” gives me “paw lease”—not quite “police” |
| 25 | --- | Guard, obliging, has caught thief initially running away (6) | 2 | 1 | Guard: Definition. POLI(+C-T)E. Has: containment indicator | --- |
| 26 | --- | Protect Chief Pilot flying towards Europe after thief somehow escaped (6) | 2 | 1 | Anno: (CHIEF+PILOT* - THIEF*)(E). Anagrind – Flying & Somehow. Deletion indicator – Escaped. Europe – E. Definition: Protect. | --- |
| 27 | --- | Cop lied about abandoning dead cop (6) | 1 | 1 | COPLIED* ("about" is the anagrind) - D (dead); Def: cop |
- The repetition of cop doesn\'t quite work, and cop is one policeman - not police as a whole |
| 28 | --- | Law enforcement chief from SE Asia trades weed for meth (6) | 1 | 1 | Law enforcement=def; chief from SE Asia=POL POT; “trade” his POT for ICE |
- I think \"chief from SE Asia\" is too generic for Pol Pot |
| 29 | --- | Law enforcement official extremely implicated in initial probes investigating Commissioner’s ethics (6) | 0 | 0 | Def: law enforcement. First & last of ‘official’ inserted into firsts of ‘probes ...’ yielding P + OL + I + C + E |
- “Initials of XYZ” as a letter selection indicator is grammatically correct. “Initial XYZ” might work in the surface reading but is grammatically incorrect in the cryptic reading. |
| 30 | --- | Son rescued from ring, inspired to join law enforcement (6) | 0 | 0 | S (son) deleted from (s)plice (to join), O (ring) added to def - law enforcement | --- |