1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#579 - INCORRIGIBLE
Total Clues: 21 Total Voters: 25
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manish Jhaveri | Hardened leaders in India regularly belittle caste & religion unfortunately (12) | 40 | 14 | Def: hardened. Anagram of I, R, B, C & RELIGION with unfortunately as the anagrind | --- |
| 2 | Satyen Nabar | Hardened and desperate, I rob nice girl (12) | 32 | 15 | (I ROB NICE GIRL)*; desperate= anag ind, def= hardened | --- |
| 3 | Ramki Krishnan | Hopeless cook boiling rice without rinsing at first (12) | 31 | 13 | Def = hopeless, anagram of BOILINGRICE around R (without is containment indicator, at first = letter-picking ind) |
- Negative marking for lacking sympathy for working class minimum wage worker (Pundit JEE) |
| 4 | Sampath Srinivasan | Dreadfully boring relic, I found, to be hopeless (12) | 17 | 9 | Anagram; anagrind : dreadfully; fodder: boring relic I; def : hopeless | --- |
| 5 | Pundit JEE | Cooking rice with boiling water? Ultimately irredeemable! (12) | 15 | 6 | Anagram (cooking) of (rice+boiling R.) , def - irredeemable p.s. please don't cook rice in boiling water. Simmer on medum flame. | --- |
| 6 | @LowdownCryptic | Hardened bit of radish thrown into boiling rice while stirring (12) | 11 | 5 | Def: Hardened; R (bit of radish) in BOILING RICE* (while stirring) |
- This is better than the rest , take points (Pundit JEE) - I don’t think “while stirring” works *after* the fodder. (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 7 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Gear stuck in damaged brine coil, beyond repair (12) | 10 | 5 | RIG (“gear”) stuck in (containment indicator) Anagram (“damaged”) of BRINE COIL; Def: beyond repair | --- |
| 8 | Adman_i | Boiling rice with water finally goes wrong and Is impossible to set right (12) | 10 | 4 | Impossible to set right (Defn) – (BOILING + RICE + wateR)*, goes wrong - anagrind |
- Self-same thinking style as mentioned, so take points in the name of brotherhood and neighbourhood (Pundit JEE) |
| 9 | Aashirwad | Lost Byzantine relic with origin outside Bulgaria’s capital (12) | 9 | 5 | Anagram of RELIC + ORIGIN (anagrind: Byzantine), going around B (Bulgaria’s capital). The definition is “lost”. Both “lost” and “incorrigible” mean “beyond redemption.” |
- Not convinced about the definition... (Pundit JEE) |
| 10 | Veera Raghavan | Husband abandoned horrible icing done as hopeless (12) | 9 | 4 | (h)ORRIBLEICING*. Done: anagrind (Clue clinic). Hopeless: Definition | --- |
| 11 | --- | Useless men blocking revised RBI ceiling (12) | 9 | 4 | Definition: Useless. Anno: (RBI+CEILING*) around (OR). Men = OR. Revised - Anagrind. Blocking - Containment indicator. |
- Ok, take points (Pundit JEE) |
| 12 | --- | Hardened criminal boiling rice without a hint of remorse (12) | 8 | 4 | Def: Hardened, anagrind: criminal, BOILINGRICE*, containment indicator: without, a hint of remorse: R |
- Nah... (Pundit JEE) |
| 13 | --- | More than 50% wrong, "biglier" wrong, never going to get any less wrong! | 8 | 3 | INCOR (5/9 of incorrect) + *BIGLIER. rest of clue is definition. |
- This is like an indirect anagram (Pundit JEE) - Kudos on a very creative clue! (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 14 | --- | Hopeless daughter bails out of dirigible, corn scattered (12) | 7 | 3 | Hopeless - Defn; daughter - D; bails out of - removal indicator; scattered - anagrind with fodder as (DIRIGIBLE-D) and CORN. Hence (IRIGIBLECORN)* | --- |
| 15 | --- | I corner big lie, concocted with no ethics to start with- hopeless! | 7 | 3 | Anagram of I CORNER BIG LIE - E, Def = hopeless |
- Nobody will ever say that sentence, except under a gunpoint to prove this clue surface plausible (Pundit JEE) |
| 16 | --- | Corporate soldier admitted to dreadful hospital goes beyond remedy | 7 | 3 | INC (corporate), GI (soldier) in HORRIBLE (dreadful) less H (hospital goes). Defn- beyond remedy | --- |
| 17 | --- | Boiling rice spilt over top of Rayburn that’s impossible to fix (12) | 6 | 3 | BOILING+RICE*, over/containing R[ayburn] = impossible to fix, i.e., beyond correction or reform (Chambers) | --- |
| 18 | --- | Hardened detective going out in my airship (9) | 6 | 3 | IN COR -(diRIGIBLE. Def: Hardened | --- |
| 19 | --- | “Change be ironic, girl” (implying she can’t ever change) (12) | 5 | 3 | Anagram BE + IRONIC + GIRL. Def. = “she (is one who) can’t ever change” |
- You should've used Alanis Morisette pop culture reference here , but points for moving towards that direction (Pundit JEE) |
| 20 | --- | Drunkenly boiling rice with a pinch of raisins is unforgiveable | 2 | 1 | BOILINGRICE + R * Drunkenly = grind, unforgiveable = def |
- Not it's not unforgivable ; it's just frowned upon (Pundit JEE) |
| 21 | --- | Trendy company runs twice, one good unopened book past saving | 1 | 1 | Trendy=IN, company=CO, runs twice=RR, one=I, good=G, unopened book=(b)IBLE | --- |