1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#576 - ODYSSEY
Total Clues: 25 Total Voters: 27
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aashirwad | Essential part of everybody’s Seychelles trip (7) | 48 | 19 | Hidden in plain sight, with “trip” as definition |
- Nice! (Ramki Krishnan) - "essential" seems superfluous and a bit problematic - IMO it would require the selected part to be at the exact centre of the fodder, which is not the case here. (Abhay Phadnis) - Not an easy word to hide in plain sight—well done! (@qpheevr) - Nice -- I actually played with a hidden word concept for my clue but couldn't fine a good one and gave up. Yours is great. (Matthew Bender) - Cool. Take a point. (Pundit JEE) |
| 2 | Satyen Nabar | Poem about leader of yore on ship getting back from Troy (7) | 37 | 14 | {ODE around Y(-ore) + SS} + (-tro)Y; &lit |
- Lovely! (Ramki Krishnan) - Whose clue this is, I think I know His house is in the village though Just take all the points. We can split them later. (Pundit JEE) |
| 3 | Karol S | Poem about Ulysses’s focus and tenacity, ultimately | 26 | 12 | ODE (poem) around (ul)YSS(es) + Y (tenacity ultmately). &lit. |
- You can't use Ulysses in the surface to clue Ulysses , that's just not cricket (Pundit JEE) |
| 4 | Shobha Nayak | Journey of love, days without a yes being returned | 18 | 9 | Def= JOURNEY, Love= O + Days without a = DYS + Yes being returned = SEY |
- Nice composition! (Matthew Bender) - Perfect! Take all the points. (Pundit JEE) |
| 5 | Abhay Phadnis | Picking up classical dance form is a difficult journey (7) | 17 | 7 | Homophone ("picking up") of Odissi ("classical dance form"); definition: "a difficult journey" |
- The homophone indicator should be “picked up” (Aashirwad) - I think you also need to specify the accent here. (Pundit JEE) |
| 6 | Amrita Majumdar | Poem capturing the essence of Ulysses at the end of lengthy journey (7) | 16 | 7 | ODE around (-UL) YSS (-ES) Y, Journey -def |
- "Essence of Ulysses" sounds odd in the surface reading IMO. (Ramki Krishnan) - Nice one! Great flow. (Matthew Bender) - Who is Ulysses in the Greek, and isn't there a root issues here, conspicuous enough for negative marking? (Pundit JEE) |
| 7 | Ramki Krishnan | Goodbyes regularly said primarily at the beginning and end of every long journey (7) | 13 | 7 | ODYS (gOoDbYeS regularly) + S (said primarily) + E Y (the beginning and end of EverY), def = long journey |
- Primarily, at the beginning, .... Feels like hon'ble PM reading from teleprompter when it stops functioning suddenly (Pundit JEE) |
| 8 | verlainex | As often as not, Monday is a seedy slog | 12 | 4 | "As often as not" - take exactly every second letter from mOnDaY iS a SeEdY - an odyssey is a long arduous endeavour = a slog |
- Great surface and wordplay! (Abhay Phadnis) - Very nice! (@qpheevr) - Nah (Pundit JEE) |
| 9 | Nilesh Parmar | At first only diligent youths survive severe exam years’ eventful journey | 11 | 6 | Acrostic |
- I hate these kinds of clues, but take 1 point for relevance (Pundit JEE) |
| 10 | Veera Raghavan | In the absence of leader, group initially says yes about expedition (7) | 9 | 4 | (B)ODY S SEY<-. About: reversal indicator. Definition: Expedition | --- |
| 11 | --- | Poem about years on ship steaming back from Troy (7) | 7 | 5 | ODE about Y (years) + SS (steamship), ~Y. “Steaming” as in “racing” for the surface. Sure, it took Odysseus 10 years to get home but he was going as fast as he possibly could! |
- Steaming is not required IMO (Ramki Krishnan) - To extract SS, I think you need to actually specify "steamship" in the clue, rather than just "ship." (Matthew Bender) - So close, but no cigar (Pundit JEE) |
| 12 | --- | Not even on the ocean might you hear of such a long journey (7) | 7 | 4 | Homophone: ODD (not even) + ASEA (on the ocean), might you hear "of" (i.e. from the word) ODYSSEY = such a long journey |
- A point for originality... but can you find a way to tighten "might you hear of such a"? (Matthew Bender) |
| 13 | --- | Long wandering in Sydney, so confused losing direction (7) | 7 | 4 | Long wandering = Definition, Anagram (confused) of SYDNEYSO - N (compass direction) |
- “Losing direction” seems a bit too vague as an indicator to drop the N (since it could just as easily mean S or E) (@qpheevr) |
| 14 | --- | Epic journey (7) | 7 | 4 | Double definition |
- The two meanings are too closely connected for this to be a really satisfying DD clue (@qpheevr) - I went back and forth on this one. I loved it at first, but doesn't the "journey" definition of odyssey actually come from the poem itself? So I feel like this is kinda the same definition twice, rather than being a traditional double definition. But honestly I'm not even sure... so I still gave a point :-) (Matthew Bender) - Doesn't work for the same reason as following clue: Problem Child (5) (Pundit JEE) |
| 15 | --- | At Borders, Ovid and Yeats -- and even Ashe -- foreshadow your first epic poem (7) | 5 | 3 | "Borders" (first and last) of Ovid and Yeats = ODYS, plus "even" letters of Ashe = SE, "foreshadow" signals before, "your" first = Y, def is "epic poem" [Note to those outside U.S.: Borders was a national bookstore chain] |
- It should be “first of your” or “your’s first” to indicate the letter Y. (Aashirwad) |
| 16 | --- | Yes, returning after alternate goodbyes makes for a long journey (7) | 5 | 3 | gOoDbYeS + YES← |
- “Alternate goodbyes” as indicator for ODYS doesn’t work for me. (Aashirwad) - Alternate goodbyes? (Pundit JEE) |
| 17 | --- | Mischievous synods omit final hymn before clearing out early for an epic poem (7) | 5 | 3 | Anagram SYNODS, delete N, get ODYSS and add EY. Definition = an epic poem. |
- It should be “hymn’s final” or “final of hymn” to indicate the letter N. (Aashirwad) - Very nice ideas in here. (verlainex) |
| 18 | --- | Trip on Indian classical dance in the auditorium (7) | 4 | 3 | Trip - Definition, Indian classical dance - Odissi, Auditorium - HP indicator |
- Again, I think accent needs to be specified (Pundit JEE) |
| 19 | --- | Abroad, do say yes to avoid a long journey (7) | 4 | 2 | Def: long journey; Anagrind: Abroad, DOSAYYES*-A |
- Nice composition, but I think "abroad" is too abstract as an anagrind (Matthew Bender) |
| 20 | --- | Epic dance form for the Indian audience (7) | 3 | 2 | Homophone Odissi / Odyssey , accent on Indian English | --- |
| 21 | --- | Odes composed about mythical coastal city that sank before Yermak\'s first expedition (7) | 3 | 1 | Definition: Expedition. Anno: (OD(YS)ES*)(Y). Odes - Fodder. Composed - Anagrind. Mythical coastal city that sank - Ys. Yermak\'s first - Y. About - Containment indicator |
- Aakhir kehna kya chahte ho? (Pundit JEE) |
| 22 | --- | Epic about deep rift - with a boy getting abandoned - has happy ending | 2 | 1 | ODE (epic) around YSS [ABYSS - AB (deep rift with a boy getting abandoned)] plus Y (happy ending) |
- Manjummel boys story! (Ramki Krishnan) - It should be “ending of happy” or “happy’s ending” to indicate Y. (Aashirwad) - Odes and epics are two very different genres of poem (@qpheevr) |
| 23 | --- | Yes, do, recycling and reusing components is an arduous but worthwhile undertaking | 2 | 1 | YES DO = fodder; recycling and reusing = letterbank indicator; an arduous....undertaking = definition |
- Nice idea, but note that convention for a Letter Bank clue is the expansion should be at least 3 letters longer than the bank (@LowdownCryptic) |
| 24 | --- | Oppenheimer\'s Delhi connections principally called out for pilgrimage | 2 | 1 | Acrostic ODC pronounced (called out). Defn- pilgrimage | --- |
| 25 | --- | A quest heard as a dance form | 0 | 0 | quest=odyssey (def.), dance form=odissi, odyssey ~odissi (homophones) |
- Accent...Other people are not hell. And they don't say it like we do. (Pundit JEE) |