1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#568 - TONGUE
Total Clues: 28 Total Voters: 31
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Report on Guevara's inspiring speech (6) | 39 | 16 | Hidden word, inspiring is indicator, definition is speech |
- Parses nicely ("is inspiring", or could be "has inspired"). Slight niggle with "speech", bit too distant, doesn't give pleasing click. (Guy Norman) - Great clue, nice parse: but not entirely happy with "speech", feels a bit too distant, no satisfying click. (Guy Norman) - Best of the hidden word clues IMO. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 2 | Pundit JEE | Organ felt regularly moving around the middle of mouth? (6) | 34 | 12 | &lit - letter picking OGNET - organ felt regularly, moving - anagram of TONGE*, around U (the middle of mouth) |
- Good &lit! (Aashirwad) - Good one. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 3 | Aashirwad | “EU not in recession,” admits Germany’s leader in speech (6) | 32 | 13 | G (Germany’s leader) contained in a reversal of EU NOT. The definition is “speech”, as in a way of speaking (ref: Chambers dictionary and thesaurus). “In recession” can mean the same as “receding,” which is a common reversal indicator. |
- Very nice clue: my only niggle is "speech", feels a bit too distant, doesn’t give satisfying click. (Guy Norman) - Great clue, but not entirely happy with "speech", feels a bit too distant, no satisfying click. (Guy Norman) |
| 4 | Textrous | Gun-shot interrupts the opening bits of Trump\'s ostentatious election speech (6) | 32 | 11 | def: speech, Gun-shot=GUN*, interrupts=insertion indicator, the opening bits of Trump\'s ostentatious election=TOE. TO(NGU)E [reference to https://tinyurl.com/3vk6ewsz] |
- Beautiful clue (Aashirwad) - Nice! (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 5 | @LowdownCryptic | European Union not backtracking about Greenland's first language (6) | 25 | 9 | EU NOT <-- (backtracking) about G (Greenland's first); def: language |
- Nice surface, nice parse, my top-scorer. (Guy Norman) - Excellent surface, excellent parse, gets my top score (Guy Norman) |
| 6 | Matthew Marcus | What could be for dinner? Paddington guessed sandwiches | 24 | 9 | Sandwiches = containment indicator. Tongue is an old-fashioned meat course option, Paddington prefers marmalade sandwiches. | --- |
| 7 | Ramki Krishnan | Chinese secret society starts to use encrypted language (6) | 22 | 8 | TONG (Chinese secret society) + U E (acrostic), def = language |
- Essentially same parse as my clue (TONG+UE): though you help out with "Chinese", I misdirect with "Italian"! Yours works very nicely I think. (Guy Norman) - Parse (TONG+UE) essentially the same as my own submission: though where you help out with "Chinese", I misdirect with "Italian"! Yours works very nicely I think. (Guy Norman) - Excellent use of TONG (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 8 | Sampath Srinivasan | Slice of meat on guest's palate (6) | 20 | 8 | Hidden word clue; def = palate; slice of - indicator; meaT ON GUEst's | --- |
| 9 | Amrita Majumdar | Wasted enough time after husband leaves for talk (6) | 13 | 6 | ENOUGH T -H * | --- |
| 10 | Shobha Nayak | Mainly, taste organ near glottis's upper end | 9 | 4 | Acrostic, &Lit |
- Mainly is fine as a deletion indicator for the last letter of the fodder, but it cannot be used as a first-letter selection indicator. The clue would have worked with “Primarily” as the selection indicator. (Aashirwad) - Nice acrostic. But "mainly" is not an indicator to pick 1st letters. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 11 | --- | One moved by French kissing hit on guests invited (6) | 8 | 4 | Telescopic clue – hiT ON GUEsts with invited as the hidden word indicator. Def: One moved by French kissing |
- Liked the def! But "invited" doesn't work for me as a hidden word indicator. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 12 | --- | Get in shape without initially giving up tasty meat? (6) | 8 | 3 | TON(GU)E: TONE (“get in shape”) containing (“without”) GU (“initially Giving Up”). Def. “tasty meat?” | --- |
| 13 | --- | Language leaders, this old newspaper gives us editorials | 7 | 3 | Acrostic |
- It’s not enough to have a letter selection indicator next to the fodder. There needs to be a proper grammatical link between the two, like “leaders OF this old newspaper…” (Aashirwad) - Acrostic indicator should be "leaders of" and not just "leaders" (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 14 | --- | Extract from post on guest’s speech (6) | 6 | 4 | Definition: Speech. Anno: posT ON GUEst (Telescopic). Extract from: Hidden word indicator | --- |
| 15 | --- | Clapper concealed by Hilton guest (6) | 5 | 2 | Telescopic clue - HilTON GUEst; Tel. indicator - concealed by; Defn - clapper (the tongue of a bell is called a clapper) | --- |
| 16 | --- | Get on exceptionally, having posh voice (6) | 4 | 2 | (GETON)* [anag: exceptionally] around U (=posh) / def = voice (in Chambers). Don’t we all know someone whose voice just seems to get them wherever/whatever they want? | --- |
| 17 | --- | Say, French kiss? | 4 | 2 | Double definition- french- tongue; kiss- tongue; french kiss- tongue |
- Tongue as language and tongue as "kiss" have the same root. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 18 | --- | Model near buzzing lounge removed top exposing body part (6) | 4 | 1 | Body part (Defn) - (T)(lOUNGE)*, Model - T, Buzzing - Anagrind |
- “Lounge removing top” and “lounge removed top” are both fine for OUNGE. But “lounge removed top” is grammatically debatable. “Lounge with removed top” might be ok. I’m also not sure that “exposing” should be used to link wordplay to fodder in this way. (Aashirwad) |
| 19 | --- | Thin slices of tasty offal naturally give us exquisite sandwich filling! (6) | 3 | 2 | Acrostic (thin slices of); definition: sandwich filling! |
- “Thin slices of” doesn’t mean or indicate “first letter of”. (Aashirwad) |
| 20 | --- | Language drawn is silent | 3 | 1 | Language=tongue(def.) drawn=tied, silent=tongue-tied |
- This would be a fine charade for the word “tongue-tied.” But for “tongue” you probably want a construction like “language is silent without drawn.” (Aashirwad) - Not very cryptic in my opinion. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 21 | --- | Frameless organ to primarily nourish great underlying energy. | 3 | 1 | Frameless organ=tongue ( frame=bone) to + n g u e (primarily first letters of "nourish great underlying energy". | --- |
| 22 | --- | Utterance turned out by Bantu mostly (6) | 3 | 1 | TONG(-a) (Bantu language ) + U(.......)E. &lit |
- I don’t see anything here that works as a definition (@qpheevr) |
| 23 | --- | After cycling, Rev stops to bed naked Thai? (6) | 1 | 1 | Rev = (to) gun. After cycling, gun = NGU => TO(NGU)~E~ = Thai? |
- Very interesting wordplay. (Aashirwad) - Private comment: I think even cryptic setters need to avoid offensive wording, this can come across as a joke about sexual exploitation of Thai women and girls. Hope okay to point this out! (Guy Norman) - Surface story does not sound natural. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 24 | --- | “Langue” … French, perhaps? (6) | 1 | 1 | Def: “Langue” … in English, “tongue”. “French, perhaps” also plays on the double meaning.of tongue — referencing either the organ or a language. Not strictly a DD, hence the ? | --- |
| 25 | --- | Perhaps Italian secret society with union backing? | 0 | 0 | Solution from definition [Perhaps Italian] given by TONG (secret society) + (with) UE (union EU, backing > UE) |
- European Union would be better instead of just "union" to clue EU (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 26 | --- | Voice not good basically, unless shake at the end corrected (6) | 0 | 0 | (NOT G U E)*. Corrected: anind. Definition: Voice. |
- Basically is not an ideal indicator for picking 1st letter IMO. (I've used it myself but am trying to avoid it!) (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 27 | --- | Talk's not about half of the visitors (6) | 0 | 0 | Talk is the def/ not about is ton/ visitors is Guests/ half of is GUE | --- |
| 28 | --- | Vocal organ from European Union, essentially legal, not completely backed (6) | 0 | 0 | Def.: ‘Vocal organ’, from (equivalence word) = EU (le)G(al) NOT (from the clue) all reversed (‘completely backed’ the preceding fodder) | --- |