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1ACCWC#575 - PROVIDE
Total Clues: 30 Total Voters: 30
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sampath Srinivasan | Furnish ID to participate in show (7) | 30 | 15 | Container clue; def = furnish; ID in PROVE (show); to participate in = containment indicator |
- Ok take 2 points. (Pundit JEE) |
| 2 | Abhay Phadnis | Outfit for daughter participating in contest (7) | 30 | 13 | Definition: outfit (as a verb); charade of PRO (for) + VI{D}E (daughter "participating in" contest) |
- Of would have been better suited here as connector than For. (Pundit JEE) |
| 3 | @qpheevr | Put on LGBTQ+ celebration showcasing boundless love (7) | 25 | 10 | PR(OV)IDE: “LGBTQ+ celebration” = PRIDE; “boundless lOVe” = OV; “showcasing” = containment indicator; “put on” = def. |
- There is so much Identity politics in this clue. (Pundit JEE) |
| 4 | Srivathsan S | Furnish Aadhaar perhaps in evidence (7) | 21 | 9 | PROV(ID)E |
- Sadly the scam that is Aadhar, is that it is a convenient KYC and not ID per se. Try claiming citizenship on basis of Aadhar, and see for yourself. Try your passport for that matter. Apparently we don't have ID anymore in India, only id. (Pundit JEE) |
| 5 | Textrous | Offer publicity video in a new form (6) | 20 | 9 | Def: Offer; publicity: PR, video in a new form: OVIDE* |
- Great surface, not a single extraneous element (Abhay Phadnis) - Ok take 2 points. (Pundit JEE) |
| 6 | Shobha Nayak | First deadly sin around naked love offer | 20 | 7 | Def= OFFER, first deadly sin = PRIDE around naked love - OV |
- Excellent wordplay, terrible definition match. (Pundit JEE) |
| 7 | VENKATESAN P | Arrange for video playing after Press Release (7) | 15 | 7 | Definition: Arrange for. Anno: (PR)(VIDEO*). Press Release - PR. Playing - Anagrind |
- Very Nice, says my friend Borat. (Pundit JEE) |
| 8 | Ramki Krishnan | Supply a lot of eggs to feed group of cats (7) | 15 | 6 | Def = supply, a lot of eggs = OV(-a) inside PRIDE (group of cats), a lot of = last letter deletion, to feed = insertion ind |
- Not all cats are lions, and a cat may look at the king. (Pundit JEE) |
| 9 | PunMadMan | Capital of Rhode Island loses leaders of natural clean energy supply (7) | 14 | 6 | Capital of Rhode Island = Providence; loses = deletion indicator; leaders of natural, clean, energy = n, c, e; supply = definition; => PROVIDENCE - NCE = PROVIDE |
- Love the construction, but I think specifying Rhode Island is too much of a giveaway. Something like "New England capital" or "Northeastern capital" would conceal it a bit more. (Matthew Bender) - same root (@qpheevr) |
| 10 | Amrita Majumdar | Supply priest with pirated video (7) | 12 | 6 | Supply -def, PR + VIDEO* |
- Not sure I like pirated as an anagrind (Peejay Adams) |
| 11 | --- | Make sure your children have food before taking in a poet! | 12 | 5 | Def = Make sure your children have food; before = PRE taking in OVID |
- Very imaginative construction! (Abhay Phadnis) - Very nicely done! (Good advice, too) (@qpheevr) - Why? Who's coming to dinner? And is the poet likely to eat up the children's share? (Pundit JEE) - The "a" is redundant here (Peejay Adams) |
| 12 | --- | Supply improved terribly after Mark left (7) | 12 | 5 | Supply: definition. (IMPROVED-m)*. Terribly: anagrind |
- I think remarkably works better for the surface. (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) - "improved terribly" doesn't read well IMO. Maybe a different anagrind like surprisingly... (Ramki Krishnan) - No such thing as Mark now. It's Euro. (Pundit JEE) |
| 13 | --- | Grant for short social media reel | 9 | 5 | Definition: grant |
- The annotation should explain the wordplay; the definition is the easy bit! (@qpheevr) - Anno not clear. for = pro, social media reel = vide? (should be video with a deletion indicator?) (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 14 | --- | Bear captured in GoPro video (7) | 8 | 4 | Hidden in plain sight; “bear” and “provide” both mean “yield,” as in “trees bear fruit.” |
- Good use of “bear”! (@qpheevr) |
| 15 | --- | Papers probing Trump taking the Fifth over criminal's release (7) | 6 | 4 | ID probing/inside ~P (taking the fifth) +OVER* = release. As in to release/provide information, etc. |
- I like the idea a lot, but "Trump taking the fifth" = "taking fifth letter of Trump" seems a bridge too far for me. (Abhay Phadnis) - The def is a grey area, but the wordplay is par excellence. Points only for getting both right, otherwise no points. (Pundit JEE) |
| 16 | --- | Give pleasure, cuddling love after removing clothes (7) | 6 | 3 | PRIDE around (-l)OV(-e); give= def, pleasure= pride (sense of pride/pleasure in a job well done), cuddling= cont ind, love after removing clothes= ov (ends deletion) |
- This is such a brilliant idea but pleasure is not pride. And narrative alone cannot save, it needs to be scaffolded with reliable testimony and viable interpretation both. Otherwise indirect anagrams would also be kosher. (Pundit JEE) |
| 17 | --- | Elite player's caught at extra cover | 5 | 3 | Pro- wide (extra, sounds like- caught), defn- cover, as in sponsor or finance |
- IMO "caught at extra" would suggest a homophone of "at" or "at extra", not just extra. (Abhay Phadnis) - I’m not sure about “caught at” as a homophone indicator (@qpheevr) - wide and vide don't really sound the same IMO (Ramki Krishnan) - That homophone doesn't work for me (Peejay Adams) |
| 18 | --- | Present card indicating who you are to enter show (7) | 5 | 2 | ID inside PROVE (show). Def: Present | --- |
| 19 | --- | Minister for Sports has gotten very into muscle mass enhancer . | 4 | 2 | P.E. [sports] "has gotten" (containment indicator) V(ery) "into" (ste)ROID. Definition = minister (as a verb) |
- “For” works as a link word in the direction Wordplay -> Definition, but not the other way round. (Aashirwad) |
| 20 | --- | Minister raised Billy Connolly song in class without mentioning church | 4 | 2 | Minister / raised (direction indicator) Billy Connolly song (D.I.V.O.R.C.E.) in (container indicator) class (PE) without mentioning (deletion indicator) church (CE) = P = ROVID + E |
- Love the overall structure and creativity of the clue, but I'm unfamiliar with CE representing "church." Is that a common representation that I've just missed? (Matthew Bender) - While reading the anno I felt like taking sannyas. Please 'provide' warning next time, like "not for the frail of temper". (Pundit JEE) |
| 21 | --- | May God be cut short to supply . | 3 | 1 | God =Providence, cut short =provide nce, Supply=provide |
- same root (@qpheevr) - "cut" needs to indicate clearly what letters are to be removed. By default it indicates deleting only the last letter. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 22 | --- | Keep papers inside to demonstrate (7) | 3 | 1 | Def: KEEP papers ID inside PROVE to demonstrate |
- Nice construction and I really like "papers" for ID. But I just don't see how KEEP can mean PROVIDE. Something more routine (like "offer" or" even "give") might work better with this clue. (Matthew Bender) - Kaagaz nahi dikhayenge... Nice. Evocative. The reverse of identity politics. Take points. (Pundit JEE) - Keep and provide don't really act as synonyms (Peejay Adams) |
| 23 | --- | Drove priest to collapse, bathing in bottomless outfit? | 2 | 1 | (DROVE+P)* [anag: to collapse] around (bathing) I (“in” bottomless i.e. without its last letter). To outfit = to provide. | --- |
| 24 | --- | Offer publicity by producing video (7) | 2 | 1 | Def: OFFER, PR (= publicity) next to (= by) OVIDE (VIDEO*) |
- I think “produced” would work as an anagrind, but “producing” doesn’t feel right. (Aashirwad) - Your anno would require produced not producing. The point is the clue works perfectly without your anno. 'By producing' is fine cryptic grammar in itself and adjutant indicator is not compulsory, as it's implicit by common sense. Since we read left to right in English. (Pundit JEE) |
| 25 | --- | Dispense with Ovid in first half of prelim (7) | 1 | 1 | Def = dispense. Insertion: PR(OVID)E. | --- |
| 26 | --- | Expert too needs to refer to books to prepare his thesis. | 0 | 0 | Expert = Pro, to refer = vide, prepare = provide |
- Cryptic clues should contain definition, wordplay and no extra words unrelated to those two components. (Aashirwad) - Roles of 'too' and 'his thesis'? (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) - Several of the words seem to be extraneous to the cryptic reading (@qpheevr) - Redundant words in the clue should be avoided. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 27 | --- | Tender hype video is moving (7) | 0 | 0 | Hype="PR" plus VIDEO; def is "Tender" | --- |
| 28 | --- | Expert contended differently to supply | 0 | 0 | supply(def.), expert(pro) contended(vied), differently=anagrind, (pro)(vied)* |
- This is an indirect anagram, which is generally not accepted (Aashirwad) - indirect anagram (@qpheevr) |
| 29 | --- | Give ring amid giddy drive, quietly taking the lead (7) | 0 | 0 | Definition: Give. P = quietly (p, music), taking the lead; O = ring; O inserted amid (in) an anagram ("giddy") of DRIVE → ROVIDE; P + ROVIDE = PROVIDE | --- |
| 30 | --- | Supply Puerto Rico with a broken video | 0 | 0 | Puerto Rico - P.R. Broken video -- anagram the letters of video. PR + ovide |
- The a is redundant - should really be "with broken video" (Peejay Adams) |