1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#574 - AMBULANCE
Total Clues: 27 Total Voters: 30
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @LowdownCryptic | Ultimately, you can blame damaged vehicle for sending you to hospital (9) | 43 | 15 | (yo)UCANBLAME* - 'ultimately' indicates last letter, 'damaged' indicates anagram, def on right |
- "faulty" would fit better as an anagrind than "damaged" to suit the surface story IMO. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 2 | Anne de Pimodan | Cuban meal ordered as an emergency takeaway? (9) | 30 | 15 | CUBANMEAL*. Order = to arrange, to set in order (Chambers). QM for the whimsical def. |
- Ok 1 point for being inoffensive (Pundit JEE) - A point for the creative whimsical definition (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 3 | Ramki Krishnan | A fast carrier for those who don't want to be late? (9) | 27 | 14 | Cryptic def, late = dead | --- |
| 4 | Nitish Asthana | A siren is atop this excited Cuban male? | 26 | 10 | Defn- a siren is atop this... Ambulance generally has one. Anagrind Cuban male. |
- Most evocative clue. Take 4 points. (Pundit JEE) - Best of the Cuban anagrams! (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 5 | Manish Jhaveri | Hospitals use this to clean a bum wound (9) | 21 | 9 | Definition: Hospitals use this; anagram of ‘clean a bum’; wound (when read as turned) serves as an anagram indicator and in the surface reading it works as injury |
- Very evocative, take 3 points. (Pundit JEE) - Wonderful! (Arnav V Raju) |
| 6 | Aashirwad | MBA, struggling to make rent after university, becomes life coach! | 19 | 7 | AMB (MBA struggling) + U (University) + LANCE (make rent, meaning pierce through), with “life coach!” As cryptic definition. “To” is simply a juxtaposition indicator. |
- Nice def (Ramki Krishnan) - ‘make rent’ for LANCE is a bit tenuous (@qpheevr) - Interesting definition! (Abhay Phadnis) - Lovely definition and misdirection! (Arnav V Raju) - Amazing, creative, believable surface! (@LowdownCryptic) |
| 7 | Shobha Nayak | Medical transport for headless ram and tailless bull with horrible acne | 16 | 6 | AM + BUL + anagram of ACNE, Def= Medical transport | --- |
| 8 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | A lame cub finally taken, treated in emergency vehicle (9) | 15 | 7 | Definition: Emergency Vehicle; Anagram of (“treated”) of A LAME CUB + N (last letter of taken) | --- |
| 9 | Abhay Phadnis | First of all, Andrew Murray Burnham unified Labour activists, neatly channelling enthusiasm to create a vehicle to rescue ailing party (9) | 14 | 6 | Acrostic; indicator: "first of all"; definition: “a vehicle to rescue ailing party”. Andy Burnham’s full name made the start of the acrostic easy! :) |
- Nice def.! (@qpheevr) - Nice and unique take (Arnav V Raju) |
| 10 | Satyen Nabar | One heading to hospital with injured Cuban male (9) | 13 | 7 | (CUBAN MALE)*, injured is ang ind, def is one heading to hospital |
- The best of the "Cuban male" set for me! (Arnav V Raju) |
| 11 | --- | Male cub, injured, put in an emergency vehicle | 12 | 6 | Anagram of MALE CUB around AN ; Anagrind INJURED; PUT IN as containment indicator;Def EMERGENCY VEHICLE |
- Won't "...put in an" mean AN going around the fodder? (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 12 | --- | Bad cuban meal makes one travel in this? (9) | 9 | 4 | CUBANMEAL* | --- |
| 13 | --- | Mobile blue van, heading off frantically carrying a corpse, primarily (9) | 9 | 4 | #down. M+Anagram (frantically)of (BLUE -vAN)* below (carrying) A+ C. Def: &lit |
- Good effort. Take 2 pts. (Pundit JEE) - Is M a standard abbreviation for Mobile? Nice clue otherwise. (Ramki Krishnan) - Two issues with the &lit tag - I don't think any country has blue ambulances, and ambulances typically carry living people rather than corpses. (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 14 | --- | One carrying medic and ulna needing treatment? (9) | 7 | 3 | ACE [=one] around MB [Bachelor of Medicine = medic] + ULNA*. &lit definition by example, indicated with ? |
- Beautiful clue (Arnav V Raju) |
| 15 | --- | Can you blame wrongly a car carrying patient ? | 5 | 3 | * can u blame, wrongly is anagrind, Definition: a car carrying patient. |
- A partly indirect anagram, in that there’s nothing to indicate abbreviating ‘you’ to U (@qpheevr) |
| 16 | --- | Initially losing stability, drunk bum is in vehicle going to hospital (9) | 5 | 3 | Vehicle going to hospital (Defn) - b(A)(BUM*)(LANCE), Stability - Balance, Drunk - Anagrind, Is in - Insertion ind | --- |
| 17 | --- | Injured Cuban male summons emergency vehicle (9) | 5 | 2 | (CUBANMALE)* with 'Injured' as the anagram indicator and 'emergency vehicle' as the definition. | --- |
| 18 | --- | Glaring lacunae involving doctor or patient transport (9) | 4 | 3 | Def: patient transport; Anagrind: Glaring, involving: containment indicator, Doctor: MB => LACUNAE* about MB |
- I don't see "glaring" working as an anagram indicator. It is not listed as an anagrind in any of the standard references too. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 19 | --- | Accidental ride? (9) | 4 | 2 | CD/DD | --- |
| 20 | --- | Unionist entered agitating cableman's emergency vehicle (9) | 3 | 2 | Definition: Emergency vehicle. Anno: (U) in (CABLEMAN*). Unionist - U. Agitating - Anagrind. Entered - Insertion indicator | --- |
| 21 | --- | Rumba, drop your rear, writhe … pick a transport to the hospital (9) | 3 | 1 | RUMBA - R anagram (writhe) remainder to get AMBU + LANCE (pick as select or stab). Def. = a transport to the hospital. |
- “Your rear” for R doesn’t work grammatically imo (Aashirwad) |
| 22 | --- | University lecturer invested in environment not independent - only call them in an emergency! | 2 | 1 | UL in AMB(i)ANCE |
- Surface does not make much sense to me. (Ramki Krishnan) - Good to see a non-anagram/acrostic. Surface grammar should be "one" instead of "them"? Anyway given a point (Avtaar) |
| 23 | --- | A distraught Uncle Sam, carrying boy, not small in emergency vehicle (9) | 2 | 1 | A + UNCLE SAM - S * around B boy. Def: EMERGENCY VEHICLE | --- |
| 24 | --- | A doctor starts to understand lives and notes critical examinations chased by a nasty lawyer (9) | 0 | 0 | (A(MB)(U)(L)(A)(N)(C)(E)). Doctor = MB. Acrostics [indicator = "starts to" for "understand lives and notes critical examination". Def = "chased by a nasty lawyer" |
- POS mismatch in the definition, I think (Karol S) |
| 25 | --- | Composed by Blur, mostly name a #1 classic! (9) | 0 | 0 | Anagram of (Blu- name a c.), andlit with curtailment and acrostic, Blur rock band composed UK #1 single Ambulance with their album Think Tank. Cos I love you. |
- #1 classic for C doesn’t work grammatically imo (Aashirwad) |
| 26 | --- | Axemen initially club man close to home, transported in hospital wagon (9) | 0 | 0 | (A CLUB MAN E)* Transported: anind. Def: Hospital wagon | --- |
| 27 | --- | Mess up a clean bum and get a ride to the hospital? (9) | 0 | 0 | (A CLEAN BUM)*; ‘mess up’ = anagrind; ‘a ride to the hospital?’ = def. | --- |