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1ACCWC#565 - CEASEFIRE
Total Clues: 25 Total Voters: 33
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shobha Nayak | Somehow, I see a farce, not a truce | 68 | 24 | Anagram (suggested by somehow) of I SEE A FARCE minus A (not a), Def = Truce |
- Simply brilliant! |
| 2 | Aashirwad | Fierce sea storms resulting in call to stop rowing? (8) | 32 | 12 | Anagram of FIERCE SEA, indicated by “storms” as the anagrind. The definition is “call to stop rowing?” where “rowing” has the double-meaning of “fighting” as well as “rowing a boat”. |
- I like the “rowing” wordplay! |
| 3 | Nathan Townshend | Break free as ICE makes deal to stop shooting (9) | 27 | 11 | Break = grind; FREE AS ICE = fodder; deal to stop shooting = def | --- |
| 4 | Textrous | The onset of consented calm following fury? (9) | 24 | 8 | &Lit; The onset of consented: C, calm: EASE, following: F, fury: IRE |
- Very nice device but \"consented calm\" seems odd - something like consensual might make the surface work well - Neat &lit - “Consented calm” is a bit stilted (“consensual” might work better) |
| 5 | @LowdownCryptic | Agreement suspending engagement on all fronts during fierce fighting! (9) | 23 | 10 | &lit clue: ASE by acrostic (on all fronts) inside FIERCE* (fighting) |
- I don’t think “on all fronts” indicates starting letters of the preceding words. - Nice clue, but the commonly used insertion indicator \"during\" is questionable. The dictionary meaning signifies a temporal setting rather than a spatial position. |
| 6 | Nitish Asthana | Stop shooting! I see France is out-numbered and beaten | 20 | 9 | Anagrind (suggested by beaten)- I see France, with \'N\' removed (suggested by out-numbered); def\'n- stop shooting! |
- The definition seems to treat cease and fire as separate words - Out-numbered for deleting N is certainly creative, but it doesn’t work in terms of cryptic grammar. |
| 7 | Amrita Majumdar | Suspension of hostilities after fierce sea bombing (9) | 19 | 9 | FIERCESEA* |
- \"after\" looks out of place as a connector |
| 8 | Veera Raghavan | Suspension of hostilities and relief in the midst of endless fierce fighting (9) | 18 | 7 | C(EASE)FIRE*. Fighting: anind. Definition: Suspension of hostilities | --- |
| 9 | Anne de Pimodan | A termination of hostilities essentially suppressing fierce fighting? (9) | 16 | 5 | A + ~S + ~E~ + FIERCE*. &lit |
- The clue is technically fine, though I don’t think suppressing is the best choice of word for the surface. - How does E, not being the central letter, come from hostilities? |
| 10 | Pundit JEE | A fierce battle always ends, ordered by this (9) | 10 | 5 | Anagram (ordered by) of ( a fierce e s) , last letters of battlE alwayS, semi andlit(this) |
- To be grammatically correct, the letter selection indicator would have to be “ends of battle always” or “battle always’ ends” for ES. - Should be ends of battle always |
| 11 | --- | Rev Spooner's charges produce truce | 10 | 4 | Definition: truce. Spoonerism of CEASEFIRE is Fees (charges) Sire (produce) |
- “Fees sire” spoonerizes to “seize fire” or “sees fire” (with a [z] sound), not “ceasefire” (with [s]) |
| 12 | --- | Fierce fighting over - America finally welcomes long-overdue truce (9) | 9 | 4 | Anagram of FIERCE around A (America) S E (last chars of welcomes long-overdue). Def = truce, fighting = anagram ind, over = containment ind |
- I don’t think A is a standard abbreviation for America all by itself (only as part of larger abbreviations such as NA for North America or USA) |
| 13 | --- | Every now and then, Yemeni forces discharge round for America\'s supremo, violate truce (9) | 7 | 3 | Definition: Truce Wordplay: (eei (alternate letters of Yemeni) + forces-o+a)* (violate as the anagram indicator and supremo as the acrostic indicator) |
- I don’t think “violate” works as an anagrind after the fodder, and I’m sceptical about “supremo” as a letter selector (seems like the setter was grasping for something fancier/less obvious than “leader”) |
| 14 | --- | Fierce fighting over stormy sea leads to truce(9) | 6 | 3 | Definition: Truce. Anno: (CE(ASE*)FIRE*). Fierce & Sea - Fodders. Fighting & Stormy - Anagrinds. Over - Containment indicator |
- “Over” doesn’t suggest containment to me. (In a down clue, “X over Y” implies X preceding Y) |
| 15 | --- | Call to desist jamming mounted rifle, not large, leads to truce (9) | 6 | 2 | Charade with containment, reversal and deletion; def = truce; call to desist - CEASE, jamming - containment indicator; mounted - reversal indicator; ELFIR minus L (not large); CEAS-EFIR-E |
- ‘[container] jamming [content]’ is backwards — and the containment seems gratuitous, since CEASE (=‘call to desist’) is already part of CEASEFIRE anyway |
| 16 | --- | Stop noisy one about truce (9) | 6 | 2 | def: Truce; charade clue CEASE + F + I + RE |
- Cluing the CEASE in CEASEFIRE as “stop” isn’t very cryptic - \"cease\" is used in the same sense in the charade and the def |
| 17 | --- | Éire faces struggles without this (9) | 5 | 3 | (EIREFACES)* [anag:struggles]. Semi&lit definition. Éire (the island containing the Irish Republic and UK territory, Northern Ireland) has a long history of struggles that (largely) ended with the ceasefire agreement signed in 1998. However, some tensions remain: it’s an ongoing peace process. |
- Nice historical reference - I like this approach, but I don’t think “without” works as a connective (“struggles to achieve this” would be better) |
| 18 | --- | A temporary pause can extinguish ardor (9) | 5 | 2 | Def: ‘a temporary pause’. CEASE + FIRE |
- Building CEASEFIRE out of CEASE+FIRE isn’t very cryptic |
| 19 | --- | Fierce sea wrecks truce | 5 | 2 | Fiercesea* | --- |
| 20 | --- | Pick up - grip - let go. Pause before resuming action. (9) | 4 | 2 | Homphone (indicator: "pick up") of seize ("grip") + FIRE ("let go"); definition: "pause before resuming action" (pause as a verb for surface reading, as a noun for definition) |
- Are \'seize\' and \'cease\' homophones? - I think the definition is a bit vague. Perhaps with a question mark at the end it could pass for a cryptic definition. - “Seize” [siːz] is not a homophone of “cease” [siːs] |
| 21 | --- | Confer about calm taking priority over anger - with this result? | 3 | 2 | CF (this literally stands for Latin word "confer") around EASE [calm], before IRE [anger] - semi-&lit: such a conference could lead to a CEASEFIRE | --- |
| 22 | --- | End of hostilities uncertain - eccentricity faces ire (9) | 3 | 1 | (e(eccentricity - listed in Chambers) faces ire)* anagrind - uncertain (listed in Chambers) def - End of hostilities | --- |
| 23 | --- | Truce male pitches for, I hear, before conflagration (9) | 2 | 1 | Truce = defn; C and C# are common male singing pitches in Hindustani Music, hence Cs; I hear = HP indicator, hence Cs => cease; conflagration = fire. Have taken a small liberty with the Ximenean requirement that the hp indicator be adjacent to the fodder, in favour of a smoother surface. I’d appreciate feedback on this, as well as on the allusion to Hindustani Music. |
- Too arcane - I don’t know much about Hindustani music specifically, but in general, *any* human vocal range would include C and C♯ (in at least one octave), regardless of gender. Do you mean keys rather than pitches? And I don’t understand the surface reading |
| 24 | --- | Blended ice-free - as officer’s break order? (9) | 2 | 1 | Anagram (blended) of ICE FREE AS; “officer's break order” is the Cryptic Definition for Ceasefire (an order for a specific break in fighting) | --- |
| 25 | --- | Arranged fierce sea battle’s end, at least for a time (9) | 0 | 0 | (FIERCESEA)*; anagrind “arranged”; def. “battle’s end, at least for a time” | --- |