1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#567 - CLARITY
Total Clues: 32 Total Voters: 31
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Townshend | Drunk, she goes from hysterical rambling to lucidity | 57 | 20 | SHE* deleted from HYSTERICAL* def is lucidity |
- It’s a beautiful surface, but I can’t support the use of “to” the link word between definition and wordplay. (Aashirwad) - Almost a great clue but I think the ‘drunk’ sounds like it applies to the ‘she’ and not the rest of it (Guinevere) |
| 2 | Satyen Nabar | Simplicity of Lycra - it's elastic (7) | 39 | 16 | (LYCRA IT)*; elastic is anag ind, def is simplicity |
- Simplicity of the clue - it's admirable! (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 3 | Aashirwad | Republican in LA City agitating for transparency (7) | 23 | 8 | Anagram of LA CITY containing R from Republican. “Agitating” is the anagrind and “transparency” is the definition. Who doesn’t like transparency in government? | --- |
| 4 | Textrous | Bits of rock in terrain obstructing soil transparency (7) | 16 | 7 | Def: transparency; Bits of Rock In Terrain: RIT, obstructing: insertion indicator, soil: CLAY => CLA(RIT)Y |
- I was doubtful that soil could ever be transparent, but there are apparently some academic papers discussing “soil transparency”. (Aashirwad) |
| 5 | Manish Jhaveri | One going through directions in metropolis for better understanding (7) | 15 | 6 | A (one) going through L & R (directions) in CITY (metropolis). Def = better understanding | --- |
| 6 | VENKATESAN P | A lyric composed about the leader of Tanzania's simplicity (7) | 14 | 6 | Definition: Simplicity. Anno: (A+LYRIC*) around (T). A lyric - Fodder. The leader of Tanzania - T. Composed - Anagrind. About - Containment indicator |
- Not sure about the surface meaning on this sorry (Guinevere) |
| 7 | Shailesh Tipnis | Explicitness rocked trial in case of celebrity (7) | 13 | 6 | Def. Explicitness, trial* in C(-elebrit)Y, anag. ind.:rocked, insertion ind.: in, first and last letter sel. ind.: case of | --- |
| 8 | Nilesh Parmar | Fixed trial in vacant city for transparency | 12 | 4 | Trial* in CitY | --- |
| 9 | Anne de Pimodan | Transparency of Lycra failing to hide Ironwoman’s front bottom in event (7) | 12 | 4 | LYCRA* hiding/containing I+T |
- Not sure ‘failing’ works as an anagrind sorry. Funny surface though, I think it could be ok with a different anagrind (Guinevere) - Maximum points for audacity (Matthew Marcus) |
| 10 | Sampath Srinivasan | Revised article with easy readability (7) | 11 | 5 | Anagram with substitution. def = readability; revised (anagrind) ARTICLE*; with EasY - substitution of E by Y. |
- Clever switch! (Nathan Townshend) - "E as Y" is an interesting device but the surface reading is a bit problematic for me - why would an "article with easy readability" be revised? (Abhay Phadnis) - Interesting sleight of hand involved in the elision of spaces in the letter substitution indicator. (Aashirwad) - Clever but too difficult for the solver I think. A step too far with the L&S (Guinevere) - Ooh non-Ximenean but audacious! (Matthew Marcus) |
| 11 | --- | Typical rebranding requires PR change to provide transparency (7) | 11 | 5 | TYPICAL* (anagrind: rebranding) must change P to R to provide CLARITY (def: transparency) |
- "PR change" to indicate P being replaced by R doesn't seem right (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 12 | --- | Racy lit thrown out for explicitness | 10 | 5 | (RACYLIT)* [anag:thrown out]. Def = explicitness. [For the surface reading, lit=literature.] | --- |
| 13 | --- | Simplicity of trial organized in the outskirts of Calgary (7) | 10 | 5 | TRIAL* inside C (-ALGAR) Y | --- |
| 14 | --- | Simplicity and kindness make Henry likeable, for starters (7) | 10 | 4 | [L instead of H in Charity]. Kindness = charity. Make = instruction to change. Henry = H. Likeable for starters = L. Def = Simplicity |
- There should be some proper grammatical link between the fodder and the letter replacement indicator. For instance, “[word] with X becoming Y” is undebatable, but “[word] X becoming Y” is grammatically questionable. (Aashirwad) |
| 15 | --- | Improperly crystallised, mostly results in less transparency (7) | 10 | 3 | CA clue: Less+clarity = crystallise*. Improperly: anind. Definition: Transparency |
- What is the role of 'mostly'? (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) |
| 16 | --- | Charity hospital makes way for Centre of Legislative Transparency (7) | 8 | 4 | C(-h+L)ARITY i.e. H (hospital) makes way for L (centre of legisLative); definition: transparency |
- There needs to be some grammatical link between the fodder word and the letter substitution indicator. (Aashirwad) |
| 17 | --- | The French king dividing Paris, perhaps for transparency (7) | 6 | 3 | LA (French definite article) + R (Rex, “king”) inserted into CITY (“Paris, perhaps”), indicated by “dividing”; Def.: Transparency. | --- |
| 18 | --- | Mud with topless grit can give easy understanding. | 6 | 2 | Mud is clay. Topless grit. Rit. Clay with rit . Clarity=easy understanding. |
- Technically, “with” doesn’t indicate containment. The wordplay could have worked if “without” was used instead. (Aashirwad) - Sorry, the surface doesn’t really make sense to me (Guinevere) |
| 19 | --- | Heads of local army regiments take up residence in Cambridge, perhaps to obtain enlightenment (7) | 5 | 2 | Wordplay: acrostic, insertion, DBE. C(LAR)ITY. Def: enlightenment. | --- |
| 20 | --- | Lucidity in article edited without energy? Yes! | 5 | 2 | Anagram (suggested by edited) of ARTICLE - E, followed by Y (Yes) | --- |
| 21 | --- | Edited racy lit for explicitness (7) | 4 | 2 | (RACY LIT)*; anagrind “edited”; def. “explicitness” | --- |
| 22 | --- | Left for husband, something greater than Hope Diamond's quality (7) | 3 | 1 | def: Diamond's quality (along with cut, color, carat, etc, the "5 C's"). In the Bible, of "faith, hope and charity", "the greatest of these" is the latter (aka love). CHARITY needs to be amended L->H ("left" for "husband"). |
- Grammatically, substitution can be clearly indicated by constructions like “X for Y in [word]”. But “X for Y [word]” is debatable. (Aashirwad) - Each week, some clues are accompanied by unnecessary setter’s notes that attempt to steer how solvers interpret the surface. This practice undermines fairness, since the clue should stand on its own without external influence. (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) |
| 23 | --- | Definition of a flawless surface seen in grid-based stuff of hardest kind? (7) | 2 | 1 | Cryptic Definition, diamond is hardest natural mineral with crystal lattice grid, clarity is a defining quality measuring flawlessness of surface | --- |
| 24 | --- | Beginnings of comprehension - lucid and rational - in true transparency at last? | 2 | 1 | Acrostic: Comprehension Lucid And Rational In True + transparencY (&lit) | --- |
| 25 | --- | Clearness of crooked trail within city limits (7) | 0 | 0 | Clearness=Defn; crooked trail => (TRAIL)*; city limits => CY; within = containment indicator. Therefore, C(TRAIL*)Y |
- I suppose a trail could be described as being clear of obstacles. Still, it feels a bit unnatural to talk about the “clearness” of a road or path. Additionally, “limits of city” or “city’s limits” are grammatically undebatable for indicating CY, whereas “city limits” is debatable. (Aashirwad) - Root problem - clarity and clear have the same Latin root. (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) |
| 26 | --- | Love originally assigned secondary position in philanthropy's definition (7) | 0 | 0 | The letter L (Love originally) assigned secondary position in CHARITY (philanthropy) gives ('s = is) solution CLARITY from definition 'definition'. |
- "assigned secondary position" seems inadequate to indicate the replacement of the second letter (Abhay Phadnis) - I’m just not sure this tells the solver to remove the H clearly enough (Guinevere) |
| 27 | --- | Endowment loses hood for light to get brightness | 0 | 0 | Brightness=clarity (def.), (charity-h+l) |
- Good = G is a standard abbreviation. But Hood = H does not appear to be standard. (Aashirwad) - Not sure if H for Hood is a standard abbreviation. (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) - Is H a conventional abbreviation for “hood” in some context? I think this needs an initial letter selection indicator (@qpheevr) |
| 28 | --- | City overwhelmed by the French Royal's lucidity (7) | 0 | 0 | The French LA + R Royal in CITY. Def: LUCIDITY | --- |
| 29 | --- | Town incorporates Recommended Allowable Limit primarity about visibility (7) | 0 | 0 | Def: Visibility; Town = City; Recommended Allowable Limit primarily is RAL, about is reversal indicator making it LAR; incorporates is insertion indicator |
- I don’t understand what the surface reading is supposed to mean (@qpheevr) |
| 30 | --- | Flawless , perhaps ? | 0 | 0 | Definition by example. Flawless is a type of clarity used in diamonds grading |
- Too indirect a definition IMO (Abhay Phadnis) - This is not really a cryptic clue - the def is fine but needs some wordplay or something :-) (Guinevere) - not cryptic (@qpheevr) |
| 31 | --- | Criminality cleared surrounding mishandled trial, but yielded conviction (7) | 0 | 0 | CY (CriminalitY cleared) outside (surrounding) anagram of trial (suggestion mishandled); defn- conviction. The wordplay suggests a trial that cleared the accused of the charge, but still got convicted. |
- Each week, some clues are accompanied by unnecessary setter’s notes that attempt to steer how solvers interpret the surface. This practice undermines fairness, since the clue should stand on its own without external influence. (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) |
| 32 | --- | City storing liquid argon results in transparency (7) | 0 | 0 | Storing (container indicator), liquid argon (L + Ar, L in chemistry means liquid and Ar is the chemical symbol for argon), results in (link word between definition and wordplay) --> C(LAR)ITY--> CLARITY-->meaning transparency |
- The clue’s surface reading is incoherent. (Aashirwad) |