1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#571 - RESIGN (6)
Total Clues: 26 Total Voters: 28
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Finally, rebels in volatile Niger stand down (6) | 26 | 9 | Definition: Stand down; S (last letter of rebelS) inserted into (in) an anagram (volatile) of NIGER | --- |
| 2 | Shobha Nayak | Leave on cue | 25 | 11 | Def = Leave, On= RE and cue = SIGN |
- Great minds think alike, so I'll have to give you points! (Nathan Townshend) - Two identical clues! Had to give same points to both. Very neat but Resign and sign come from the same root (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 3 | Ramki Krishnan | Abdicate power, accepting mistakes finally (6) | 24 | 11 | Def = abdicate, REIGN (power) around S | --- |
| 4 | @qpheevr | Leave some fires ignited (6) | 21 | 7 | Hidden in “fiRES IGNited”; def. “leave” | --- |
| 5 | Anne de Pimodan | Tip for Starmer's boring government? Quit! (6) | 21 | 7 | RE(S)IGN |
- Very nicely done! (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 6 | Aashirwad | Abdicate one’s position and put son in command (6) | 20 | 7 | S (son) in REIGN (command); definition: abdicate one’s position | --- |
| 7 | Manish Jhaveri | Second-in-Command to quit (6) | 20 | 6 | S (second) in REIGN (command). Def : Quit |
- Old chestnut (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) |
| 8 | Veera Raghavan | Quit serving rum after five leave (6) | 15 | 6 | Definition: Quit. (SERVING-V)*. Rum: anind | --- |
| 9 | Textrous | Abandon plan to replace Democrat with Republican (6) | 14 | 5 | Def: Abandon; plan: Design, D replaced with R |
- Nice wordplay + clean surface (Arnav V Raju) |
| 10 | Nathan Townshend | Leave on cue | 13 | 7 | Def + RE + SIGN |
- Two identical clues! Had to give same points to both.
Very neat but Resign and sign come from the same root (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 11 | --- | Some regressive decision-making is eroding what we'd like many politicians to do (6) | 11 | 5 | Hidden backwards (some regressive) in "decision-makiNG IS ERoding"; def on right | --- |
| 12 | --- | Awful singer to quit (6) | 10 | 5 | Defn - quit; Anagrind - awful; Fodder - singer | --- |
| 13 | --- | Quit government, bored by what’s left of Starmer (6) | 10 | 4 | REIGN (“government”) containing (“bored by”) S (what’s left of Starmer). Starmer is widely seen as “zombie prime minster”, following high profile resignations from the government and manoeuvrings by rivals |
- The annotation should stick to explaining the wordplay mechanics — the editorial commentary about current politics isn't needed and risks nudging voters rather than letting the clue stand on its own merits. (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) |
| 14 | --- | Starts to re-tweet exhilarating slogan: “Indian girls NEVER give up!” | 9 | 4 | Acrostic (starts to); definition: give up | --- |
| 15 | --- | Spooner's Spanish affirmative for German banker\'s surrender | 9 | 4 | Spooner- Si (Affirmative in Spanish), Rhine (German banker/ river); defn- surrender (resign) |
- Points for attempting an unconventional wordplay! (Ramki Krishnan) - The spoonerism doesn’t quite work for me—‘sí Rhein’ gives ‘re-sign’ with an [s] sound in the middle (and the meaning ‘sign again’), whereas ‘resign’ in the sense of ‘surrender’ has a [z] in my pronunciation. (And ‘banker’ for ‘river’ is clever, but perhaps too indirect when combined with further manipulation) (@qpheevr) |
| 16 | --- | Realign your signature without Greek alphabet or else give up. | 5 | 2 | give up=resign. greek alphabet=tau. without tau , realign sign (atu) re |
- Anagram of synonym just doesn't cut it for me (Arnav V Raju) - Tau needs to be explicitly specified for deletion as the clue is an anagram type. (Aashirwad) - Indirect anagram to get atu from tau (Ramki Krishnan) - Tau is one Greek letter, not the whole Greek alphabet—and it also isn’t ‘atu’ (@qpheevr) |
| 17 | --- | Reconcile to release earnestly serving intern given notice at first (6) | 5 | 2 | Acrostic; at first - acrostic indicator; def = reconcile | --- |
| 18 | --- | Withdraw some fire signals | 5 | 2 | Telescopic | --- |
| 19 | --- | Leader of France chopped off fingers, forced to step down (6) | 4 | 2 | Definition: To step down, (fingers-f)* with forced and leader as respective indicators |
- Surface story does not sound plausible IMO. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 20 | --- | Step down after rule is broken by head of Senate (6) | 4 | 2 | RULE = REIGN around S |
- Def wordplay doesn't work IMO. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 21 | --- | Second-in-command to cancel 'Call of Duty' subscription? (6) | 3 | 1 | Second (s) in command (reign) - def: to cancel Call of Duty subscription (CD) |
- Nice definition (Arnav V Raju) |
| 22 | --- | Singer upset to quit | 2 | 1 | Quit=resign(def.), upset=anagrind, (singer)* | --- |
| 23 | --- | Give up son breaking rule (6) | 2 | 1 | Give up is the def/ son is S/ breaking is insertion indicator/ rule is reign | --- |
| 24 | --- | Go Republican replace democrat's plan (6) | 2 | 1 | Def: GO plan DESIGN replace D democrat with R republican |
- The replacement indicator and fodder are there, but the cryptic grammar doesn’t work. (Aashirwad) |
| 25 | --- | Son in authority to give up responsibility (6) | 0 | 0 | Definition: To give up responsibility. Anno: (RE(S)IGN). Son - S. Authority - Reign. | --- |
| 26 | --- | Give up post in government, implicated in extremely reprehensible offence (6) | 0 | 0 | G in (R...E + SIN); give up post= def, government= G, implicated in= insertion ind, extremely= ends selection ind, offence= sin | --- |