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1ACCWC#564 - MUSICAL
Total Clues: 25 Total Voters: 27
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Foolish claims about leader of USA being harmonious (7) | 40 | 16 | CLAIMS* around U(sa); foolish= anag ind, about= container ind, leader of USA= U, def= harmonious | --- |
| 2 | Anne de Pimodan | Recurrent problem with internal-combustion starts to annoy Lewis Hamilton? (7) | 26 | 8 | SUM< + IC + A+L = Hamilton? (QM to indicate definition by example). Sum = problem; IC = internal-combustion; recurrent = running back in the opposite direction (all Chambers) |
- Super clue - (Why is there a hyphen in “internal combustion”?) - SUM doesn\'t really = problem |
| 3 | @qpheevr | States involved in dubious claim—Oklahoma, for one (7) | 21 | 9 | US (= ‘[the] States’) in (CLAIM)* (‘dubious claim’ = M_ICAL); DBE: ‘Oklahoma, for one’ |
- I like it but what is the dubious claim? |
| 4 | Aashirwad | Broadway ultimately boycotts clumsy AI-generated play (7) | 17 | 8 | “Play” is the definition, as a musical is a type of play. Anagram of CLUMSY AI, minus Y (“Broadway ultimately boycotts” being the deletion indicator for Y). “Generated” as an anagram indicator is not listed in clue clinic, but its close synonym “created” is listed. I feel it’s not too much of a stretch to use “generated” in the same way. |
- I love the surface and like the experiment with \"generated\" as anagrind. I am not sure \"play\" by itself works as definition. |
| 5 | Manish Jhaveri | Wild claim shows America as La La Land, say | 16 | 7 | Anagram of claim holding US (shows America) . def = La La Land, say |
- “Shows” does not indicate containment. - Not convinced that \'shows\' = containicator |
| 6 | Abhay Phadnis | Melodious medley of overtures from Liza Minelli’s absolutely unforgettable songs in ‘Cabaret’ (7) | 15 | 6 | Definition: “melodious”; anagram (“medley of”) of acrostic (“overtures from”) = [LMAUSIC]* |
- Medley of overtures is a bit unlikely |
| 7 | Amrita Majumdar | Bizarre claim about American Cats, for example (7) | 14 | 6 | CLAIM * around US, Cats for example- def |
- Very nice surface slightly marred by the need to (correctly) capitalise the first letter of Cats - The capitalization of Cats interferes with the surface reading |
| 8 | Shobha Nayak | Theatrical performance of melodrama using songs in chorus and libretto, primarily | 14 | 5 | Acrostic, def= theatrical performance |
- The surface reading of \"songs in chorus and libretto\" doesn\'t make sense to me - \'Primarily\' spoils it.... |
| 9 | PunMadMan | Leaders of many urban settlements in central Argentina lionise Evita, say (7) | 11 | 4 | Acrostic; Evita is an example of a musical |
- Hmmm coastal Argentina is more likely! |
| 10 | Veera Raghavan | Melodic recital essentially calms heart of injured in a riot (7) | 11 | 4 | Anagram of (…I…CALMS …U…). Definition: Melodic. In a riot: anind | --- |
| 11 | --- | Broadway production Rent culminates with net loss (7) | 10 | 4 | Def: Broadway production; anagrind: rent (torn up); CULMINATES* with NET removed |
- Net lost or losing net - Won\'t NET need another anagrind, given that the letters don\'t appear in that order in the fodder? - “Loss of net” would be grammatically correct. - Lovely idea but the letters of NET are in a different order so a second anagrind is required really |
| 12 | --- | Calm is restored about naked guy in Hair, for example | 10 | 4 | CALMIS* about = containing gUy; Hair, for example = def. Context: HAIR was a controversial musical partly due to stage nudity | --- |
| 13 | --- | Upper class is calm, composed, well-tuned(7) | 10 | 4 | Definition: Well-tuned. Anno: (U+IS+CALM)". Upper class - U. Composed - Anagrind |
- The surface isn’t very compelling. |
| 14 | --- | Chicago perhaps damaged claim about America (7) | 9 | 3 | Def.: Chicago perhaps (Def. - DBE); (CLAIM)* (damaged = anagrind) about (container indicator) America (US). The surface evokes Chicago’s political past and reputation for violence. | --- |
| 15 | --- | Grease (or similar) metal briefly after friction thus | 7 | 2 | Grease is a MUSICAL. Metal = aluminiumn, in brief AL; place this after MU (friction) + SIC (thus) |
- The surface doesn’t make sense as grease is not a metal. - Awkward surface - friction to mu (cofficient of friction in physics) is a bit a of a stretch IMO |
| 16 | --- | Theatre performance featuring overtures from Mame, Urinetown, Shrek, Irene, Cats, Annie, & Lizzie (7) | 6 | 4 | Acrostic. Def.: ‘Theatre performance’ |
- Acrostics are too easy to construct so they need to be quirky or funny - Nice that all the elements of the acrostic are musicals! |
| 17 | --- | Mary Poppins for one, still cycling around unserviceable island (7) | 5 | 2 | Mary Poppins for one is defination by example - still is calm - cycling around - unserviceable is US and island is I | --- |
| 18 | --- | No end to clumsy AI ravaged Chicago, say | 5 | 2 | Remove Y from clums(y) +AI, anagrind suggested by ravaged; Chicago (musical) is definition by example. |
- At first I misread “AI” as “Al” (as in Capone, who did indeed ravage Chicago). In any case, I don’t think the surface grammar works |
| 19 | --- | Greek character, endlessly ill with criminal performance | 5 | 2 | Mu + sic(k) + al, definition: performance |
- criminal=AL is a bit of a stretch |
| 20 | --- | Leader in mafia and I see American gangster films—Bugsy Malone is one (7) | 4 | 2 | M + US(I C)AL. See = C (from Chambers); films = containment indicator; definition: Bugsy Malone is one (refers to the gangster musical) |
- Too many tenuous elements together here for me. (I think I’d tolerate any one of see=C, gangster=AL, and ‘films’ as a containment indicator individually, but not all three in one clue!) |
| 21 | --- | The Sound of Music, perhaps! | 3 | 1 | The sound of music=musical/musical film, &lit |
- Music in a clue for musical? - Not just root but trunk and branches issue too! :D - That’s just a non-cryptic single definition! No wordplay so not an &lit - This gives the solver the root MUSIC for free |
| 22 | --- | Mellow calm is sadly disrupted by Unionist (7) | 2 | 1 | Def: Mellow, CALMIS* (sadly is the anagrind) disrupted by U (Unionist) |
- Dodgy def |
| 23 | --- | Cats perhaps attack chaps, maul violently (7) | 1 | 1 | Def = Cats perhaps (DBE), SIC (attack - verb imperative) in MAUL*, chaps is insertion ind |
- How does “chaps” indicate insertion? |
| 24 | --- | Maybe cats like a play with songs | 0 | 0 | Maybe cats = Musical (cats is famous musical); def: a play with songs |
- \"Cats\" must be capitalised for it to refer to the play. IMO we can mislead by capitalising a word that doesn\'t need it but not the other way around. - For a DD clue, the two definitions need to be of different senses of the word - Cats should be capitalized |
| 25 | --- | Nice to hear from you. And me? I abide... calm, composed (7) | 0 | 0 | Nice to hear - def, musical, from - connector, you and me , I - US, I , abide - containmentor, calm composed (anagram) - MCAL -> M(US I)CAL |
- “Abide” doesn’t work as a containment indicator. Even if it did, the grammatically correct construction would be “x abides y” or “x abiding y”, not “x abide y”. - “[contents] abide [container]” doesn’t work for me; it would have to be “abide in” |