1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#569 - COCKROACH
Total Clues: 25 Total Voters: 26
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ramki Krishnan | Creature often contaminating kitchens, running over appliances, creating havoc primarily (9) | 35 | 12 | Acrostic with the whole clue being a def for cockroach |
- Nice acrostic! (Sampath Srinivasan) |
| 2 | Anne de Pimodan | Source of protein in chicken and fish (9) | 26 | 9 | Globally, two billion people eat insects, including cockroaches which are extremely high in protein. Cockroach flour is, in fact, surprisingly delicious. |
- Nice, clean clue (Aashirwad) - Trying to control my gag reflex as I vote for cockroach protein :( - what might have been routine wordplay becomes an excellent surface thanks to the inventive definition you have used. (Abhay Phadnis) - Trying to control my gag reflex as I vote for cockroach protein :) - what might have been routine wordplay becomes an excellent surface thanks to the inventive definition. (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 3 | Aashirwad | Police catch crook leaving Thailand - one regularly evading domestic SWAT operations! (9) | 25 | 9 | Anagram of CATCH CROOK, minus T (leaving Thailand), with “police” as anagrind. The cryptic definition hints at cockroaches being household pests that may be hard to swat. |
- Nice use of SWAT! (Abhay Phadnis) - I’m not sure about “police” as an anagrind (@qpheevr) - Nice def! (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 4 | Manish Jhaveri | Creepy six-footer played rock in bus [9] | 24 | 9 | OCKR* (played rock) in COACH (bus). Def: Creepy six-footer |
- For some reason, I imagined Buckethead playing 'For Mom' on a semi-acoustic in a Willie Nelson bus, and for that, take full points. I would give you all 10 points if I could. (Pundit JEE) |
| 5 | Textrous | Caught a rich cook viciously squashing one bug (9) | 16 | 8 | Def: bug, Caught:C, ARICHCOOK* - I, anagrind: viciously, del ind: squashing, one: I | --- |
| 6 | Sampath Srinivasan | Spooner's music trainer turns out to be a pest! (8) | 13 | 7 | Spoonerism of Music (Rock) and Trainer (Coach); def = pest | --- |
| 7 | Guy Norman | Get ready to shoot at heart of approaching creature | 13 | 6 | COCK (Get ready to shoot, as in cock your gun) + ROACH (at heart of appROACHing) gives solution from definition [creature] |
- Kudos on the unusual components of the wordplay! Sadly, in my view, the whole clue doesn't quite work as is - the "at" seems out of place in the wordplay. Also, "creature" by itself seems too broad a definition. (Abhay Phadnis) - Kudos on the unusual components of the wordplay! The "at" seems out of place, though. Also, "creature" by itself seems too broad a definition. (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 8 | Karol S | Prick with fancy car starts to honk – obnoxious pest (9) | 13 | 5 | COCK (“prick”, in case you didn’t know…) + (CAR H(onk) + O(bnoxious))* [anag: fancy]. Pest = def. The cockroaches best known for getting into kitchens to steal food carry diseases and are difficult to control - matching the definition of “pest”. |
- Points for the evocative pen picture! (Abhay Phadnis) - Funny! (Sampath Srinivasan) |
| 9 | Amrita Majumdar | New party bus keeps playing rock! (9) | 13 | 5 | New party = DEF, COACH (bus) around ROCK* |
- The political party in question is called “Cockroach Janata Party”, not “Cockroach”. (Aashirwad) - I don't think "new party" suffices as the definition - its name is not just "cockroach". Nice surface, though. (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 10 | @qpheevr | Spooner’s geology tutor is a real pest? (9) | 13 | 5 | “geology tutor” → ROCK COACH, spoonerizing to COCKROACH | --- |
| 11 | --- | Pest, terrible crook, endless hoard around | 13 | 4 | Anagram of CROOK in HOARD = CACHE minus E, Def = PEST | --- |
| 12 | --- | Spooner says, "Shake bus to find pest!" (9) | 12 | 4 | Spoonerism/ shake is rock/ bus is coach - rock coach is spoonerism of cockroach - Pest is the def | --- |
| 13 | --- | Dance teacher in Spooner's party (9) | 8 | 3 | Rock coach to cockroach. Definition: Party |
- The clue could work if it was rephrased “spooner’s dance teacher in party.” However, the other problem is that the political party in question is called “Cockroach Janata Party”, not “Cockroach”. (Aashirwad) |
| 14 | --- | Pestilential creature dealing out crack and hooch endlessly (9) | 7 | 3 | Definition: “pestilential creature”; anagram of “CRACK” and “HOOC(h) endlessly”; anagrind: “dealing out” | --- |
| 15 | --- | Bird with a butt that you don't want in your kitchen | 6 | 3 | COCK + ROACH Def is 'that you don't....' |
- To be grammatically undebatable, the definition could probably be phrased “one that you don’t want in your kitchen” (Aashirwad) |
| 16 | --- | Spooner says music trainer is a menace to society? | 5 | 3 | Spoonerism- rock coach. | --- |
| 17 | --- | The reverend's music teacher is a real pest (9) | 5 | 3 | Spoonerism (the reverend's) of ROCK, COACH (music, teacher) = def "a real pest" | --- |
| 18 | --- | Mike Atherton is said to be one who trains with cork balls (9) | 3 | 2 | Mike Atherton, England cricket captain, nicknamed Co(ckro)ach - coach (one who trains) containing anagram (balls) of cork |
- Can’t say that I see “balls” indicating rearrangement. (Aashirwad) - I didn't know about Atherton's nickname. With that added knowledge, I liked this clue a lot, though I am unsure about using "with" to mean "containing". (Abhay Phadnis) - 'Balls' is not an anagram indicator. (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) - I didn't know about Atherton's nickname. With that added knowledge, I liked this clue a lot, though I am unsure about "with" = "containing". (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 19 | --- | Popular creepy survivor from Hiroshima as per Spooner is a cab-driving trainer. | 3 | 1 | (spoonerism) Car coach as cockroach which is "cab-driving trainer". Popularly cockroach survived nuclear attack in Hiroshima though it may not be scientifically true in all cases. |
- In a spoonerism, the starting consonants in a (usually 2-word) phrase must get swapped, and the pronunciation of the words must be otherwise unaltered. Neither seems to be the case here. (Aashirwad) - “Car coach” would spoonerize to… “car coach” (@qpheevr) - spoonerism of cockroach would be rock coach and not car coach. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 20 | --- | Pest damaged Swiss cocoa - early signs of rotten kernel (9) | 2 | 1 | Def.: Pest; Anagram (damaged) of CH (Swiss, country code abbr.) COCOA + RK (early signs of rotten kernel) |
- (Partially) indirect anagram (@qpheevr) |
| 21 | --- | Spooner's jog trainer is an insect. | 0 | 0 | an insect=cockroach(def.), jog=rock, trainer=coach, spooner's rock coach=cockroach. |
- Too many Spooners with similar word play. Applies to other similar clues too. (Ramesh Ss) |
| 22 | --- | Bug Mr. Firangi wriggling from a rocking chair (9) | 0 | 0 | Def: Bug. CA. COCKROACH + MR FIRANGI * = FROM A ROCKING CHAIR* WRIGGLING is the anagram indicator |
- For a CA, there needs to be some indication that Mr. Firangi + Bug = wriggling from a rocking chair. I feel that connection is too implicit in this clue. (Aashirwad) - Who is Mr. Firangi? (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) |
| 23 | --- | Someone like Belichick carries crushed rock and a creepy crawly (9) | 0 | 0 | Belichick is a COACH; ROCK is anagrammed & placed inside: CO(CKRO)ACH. Def: ‘a creepy crawly’. | --- |
| 24 | --- | Company vehicle crossing Kashmir borders to get longhorn beetle (9) | 0 | 0 | Definition: Longhorn beetle. Anno: (CO)(C(K...R)OACH). Company - CO. Vehicle - Coach. Kashmir borders - KR. Crossing - Containment indicator. |
- From what I can tell, longhorn beetles are not the same as cockroaches. (Aashirwad) - Longhorn beetles and cockroaches are different types of insects (@qpheevr) - Should be "Kashmir's borders" Def does not flow with the rest of the surface (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 25 | --- | Pest pulverises rock inside coach (9) | 0 | 0 | C((ROCK)*)OACH; Defn - Pest; Anagram Ind - pulverises. |
- Surface does not sound natural IMO. (Ramki Krishnan) |