1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#577 - AUXILIARY
Total Clues: 21 Total Voters: 21
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Assistant ordered X-ray urgently at first to check pelvic bones (9) | 38 | 13 | [XRAY + U(-rgently)]* around ILIA; ordered= anag ind, urgently at first= u (1st letter selection), to check= cont ind, pelvic bones= ilia, def is assistant |
- Very good. Take all the points. Excellent. (Pundit JEE) - IMO the best of the lot - surface, wordplay, conciseness - kudos to the setter (Abhay Phadnis) - Very nice! I think I can guess the setter :) (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 2 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Support a university team – struggling, fairly leaderless (9) | 29 | 11 | Definition: Support. A + U (university) + XI (eleven; sports abbreviation) + anagram (struggling) of (f)AIRLY |
- Good. Take points. (Pundit JEE) - Nice, though "fairly leaderless" sounds a bit odd! (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 3 | @LowdownCryptic | Italy's top fraudster caught by two unknowns near gold reserve (9) | 25 | 11 | AU,X(I+LIAR)Y - Italy's top = I; fraudster = LIAR; caught by two unknowns = between X & Y; near gold = beside AU; def is reserve | --- |
| 4 | Textrous | Helping unknown figures to capture one cheat chasing gold (9) | 16 | 8 | Def: Helping, unknown figures: X Y, capture: containment indicator; one: I, cheat: LIAR, chasing: going after, gold: AU | --- |
| 5 | Manish Jhaveri | Leaders left fake record about extremists in Israel to get backup (9) | 16 | 7 | leaders left fake record = (-f)AUX , (-d)IARY around I(srae)L = extremists in Israel; def = backup |
- I liked the wordplay a lot (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 6 | Veera Raghavan | Within a year, fresh failure essentially besieged team leading to emergency (9) | 9 | 5 | A(U(XI)LIAR*)Y. Fresh: anagrind. Besieged: containment. Definition: Emergency |
- I like the construction, especially "within a year", but with a mild caveat - "essentially" is perhaps not the best bet where we are retaining everything except the two ends of the word. (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 7 | Amrita Majumdar | Assistant lacking time, arranged a tux airily (9) | 8 | 5 | Assistant - DEF, ATUXAIRILY-T* | --- |
| 8 | Ramki Krishnan | Supporter is awfully disheartened about United team\'s attack getting repelled (9) | 8 | 4 | def = supporter, A-Y around U XI + RAIL (attack) << |
- Attack = rail is a bit of a stretch (Nathan Townshend) |
| 9 | Srivathsan S | B Team storms Australia's fortress with messed up middle order and patchy tail (9) | 7 | 3 | Definition - 'B' as in the prefix to indicate reserve /backup (like Plan B or B Team) ; Wordplay : Team = XI , storms (insertion indicator) , Australia = Au + fortress (LAIR) with middle 'order' messed up = LIAR + patch(Y) tail (end selection indicator) = AU (XI) L(IA)R + Y ; Surface story a call back to India's famous Test win at the Australian fortress of Gabba with a ragtag B team. |
- Ok, approved, after deep thinking. Take points. (Pundit JEE) - I don’t know enough about cricket to appreciate this one fully, but it’s nicely put together (@qpheevr) - I thought of using Au=Australia but it's not in Chambers... (Nathan Townshend) - Nice buildup of surface story. "Reserve" would work better than B as def IMO. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 10 | Nathan Townshend | A universal vote, airily abandoned for one of lower status | 6 | 4 | A + U + X + AIRILY* Def = one of lower status |
- While most clues were mediocre, and not worthy of any comment, here the definition is so evil and disgusting that I was compelled to comment (Pundit JEE) |
| 11 | --- | For example, get gold by airily doing gymnastics (9) | 6 | 3 | AU (‘gold’) + X (‘by’, in the sense of multiplication) + AIRILY* (anagrind ‘doing gymnastics’). DBE ‘for example, get’: the verb ‘get’ is used as an auxiliary in colloquial passive constructions like “It got broken” |
- "Get" might be DBE for "auxiliary verb" - not sure it works for "auxiliary" alone. (Abhay Phadnis) - Nice clue but get as DBE is an auxiliary verb and not just auxiliary? (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 12 | --- | One liar, dressed in some faux yarn, became an assistant (9) | 5 | 3 | Def. = an assistant. AUX (I + LIAR) Y | --- |
| 13 | --- | A posh team? Storyteller and unknown reserve | 5 | 3 | Charade with a, push=u, team=xi, storyteller=liar, unknown=y; definition: reserve |
- Why malign Storytelling like this? Otherwise a nice clue. Take 1 point because I have to park it somewhere. But be judicious on what association you create in the solver's mins with your implicit usage. There would be no meaning to life without Storytelling. (Pundit JEE) - "someone untrustworthy" may work better than "storyteller" for the surface. And "University" for U instead of Posh. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 14 | --- | Supplementary user experience one storyteller included in empty array | 4 | 2 | Def= Supplementary, UX + I LIAR in AY (empty ARRAY) |
- I am afraid the surface story does not make sense to me. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 15 | --- | By substituting UI, develop a luxury AI assistant (9) | 4 | 2 | UI, anagram of ALUXURYAI-U+I= AUXILIARY - def- (n) assistant, helper(chambers) // UI (user interface), a luxury AI assistant is a shelled concierge, example: Connie, Sephora |
- "substituting UI" = (-U+I) doesn't quite work IMO. (Abhay Phadnis) - I’m not quite happy with “substituting UI” as a short version of what would have to be either “substituting U with I” or “substituting I for U” (@qpheevr) - Should be By substituting U with I Or "For UI" (to be mentally read as "For U, I" :) (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 16 | --- | Chinese President Li has topless Mary pursuing gold reserve | 3 | 2 | Defn- reserve. Xi-Li-ary follows Au. | --- |
| 17 | --- | In the rough parts of London, they say aggressive types, going up and down, harass anyone trying to help | 3 | 1 | Def is "anyone trying to help" (auxiliary = a helper). The East End of London is both downmarket and known for dropping its aitches. This is a homophone of 'AWKS (war hawks advocate aggression) 'ILLY (of terrain, rising and falling), 'ARRY (harass). |
- For last homophone to work, the ending of "auxiliary" would need to rhyme with "harry". Might some synonym of "hurry" have worked better? (Abhay Phadnis) - Would anybody solve this? (Nathan Townshend) |
| 18 | --- | Excess gold and plastic riyal dividend by cricket team (9) | 3 | 1 | Definition: EXCESS . Anno: (AU)(XI)(RIYAL "). Gold - Au. Cricket team - XI. Riyal - Fodder. Plastic - Anagrind. Divided by - Containment indicator | --- |
| 19 | --- | Secondary user experience treated airily after alacrity at first (9) | 1 | 1 | Definition: “secondary”; [UX]+[AIRILY]* (anagram indicator: “treated") after [A] | --- |
| 20 | --- | From Sun to Earth, Chinese leader and storyteller at end of interplanetary emergency (9) | 0 | 0 | The distance from Sun to Earth is an Astronomical Unit, or AU; Chinese leader = XI; storyteller = LIAR; end of interplanetary = Y; def is "emergency" | --- |
| 21 | --- | Ancillary ax brandished about union leader airily, perhaps (9) | 0 | 0 | Def = Ancillary; Composite clue comprising charade with containment and anagram; AX surrounding (indicator - brandished about) U(nion leader) + (AIRILY)* anagram (indicator - perhaps) | --- |