1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#580 - SOMMELIER
Total Clues: 24 Total Voters: 26
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shobha Nayak | Wine expert mixed Rosé with lime and hint of mint | 32 | 14 | Def= wine expert, Anagram of ROSE + LIME + M |
- That guy needs to be disbarred from being called a "wine expert" at once (verlainex) |
| 2 | VENKATESAN P | Happy memories about Lebanon's top wine professional (9) | 25 | 13 | Definition: Wine professional. Anno: (MEMORIES*) around (L). Happy - Anagrind. Lebanon's top - L. About - Containment indicator. |
- Happy as Anagram indicator?? (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) |
| 3 | Textrous | A wine server left, consumed by drunken memories (9) | 23 | 10 | Def: A wine server; L in MEMORIES* |
- Sad would work better as anagrind (Ramki Krishnan) - Superb! Best of the lot. Take all the points. Cheers. (Pundit JEE) |
| 4 | PunMadMan | Tipsy mom relies on wine steward (9) | 22 | 9 | Anagram Clue - (MOMRELIES)*; Anagrind - Tipsy; Defn - wine steward |
- Great minds...... (Nathan Townshend) |
| 5 | Adman_i | Wine expert from East African country, reportedly (9) | 20 | 10 | Wine expert (Definition) - East African country - SOMALIA, Homophone clue |
- Lol, take 1 point for creativity (Pundit JEE) - Sommelier and Somalia aren’t homophones. (Aashirwad) - Not really homophonous (at least in the pronunciations I’m familiar with) (@qpheevr) |
| 6 | Abhay Phadnis | Wine waiter adding a sampler of Marsala to rose and lime concoction (9) | 19 | 10 | Definition: “wine waiter”; adding M (“a sampler of Marsala”) to anagram (“concoction”) of “ROSE” and “LIME”. (Apologies to oenophiles for imagining such a concoction!) | --- |
| 7 | Ramki Krishnan | Waiter is very immoderately drunk - not working today (9) | 18 | 7 | Def = waiter, SO (very) + anagram of IMMODERATELY - anagram of TODAY. drunk and working are anagrinds. | --- |
| 8 | Satyen Nabar | He tells you blend of Merlot, for the most part, is extremely memorable (9) | 14 | 7 | [MERLO(-t) IS M(emor...)E]*; semi-&lit, blend of= anag ind. | --- |
| 9 | Amrita Majumdar | Restaurant staff with nip of scotch and more lime on the rocks (9) | 11 | 6 | S + MORELIME* |
- Nice, 1 point deducted for sub-optimal definition that pulls down an otherwise excellent wordplay (Pundit JEE) |
| 10 | @LowdownCryptic | Mom relies on drugs and bottle-opener (9) | 10 | 4 | (MOM RELIES)* anagrind: on drugs; def: bottle-opener (a sommelier often opens wine bottles for diners) |
- Nicely different definition (Nathan Townshend) - Nice exploitation of structural ambiguity in “relies on drugs”! (@qpheevr) |
| 11 | --- | Restaurant employee’s brewing more lime soda from scratch (8) | 9 | 4 | Definition: restaurant employee; anagrind: brewing; anagram fodder: MORE LIME + S (soda from scratch, i.e. from the beginning) |
- I’m not convinced by “from scratch” as a first-letter selector (@qpheevr) |
| 12 | --- | Tipsy mom relies on him | 9 | 4 | Anagram semi &lit | --- |
| 13 | --- | M. Molière's engaged to be the wine steward (9) | 8 | 4 | (M. Moliere's)* engaged = anagrind; def = wine steward |
- Nice idea. Can be executed better. Take 2 point for inspiration. (Pundit JEE) - That’s a lovely anagram discovery, but not sure how engaged becomes an anagram’s indicator (Abhay Phadnis) - Engaged doesn’t work as an anagrind. (Aashirwad) |
| 14 | --- | Wine waiter spun more lies, taking the cap of Merlot (9) | 7 | 3 | Anagram (spun) of MORE LIES + M (taking cap/ first letter of Merlot); Def: Wine waiter | --- |
| 15 | --- | Student memories create wine expert | 6 | 3 | Student=L+memories, create as anagrind |
- Verb imperative anagrinds should ideally precede the fodder. (Aashirwad) |
| 16 | --- | Drinks connoisseur muddled more limes | 6 | 3 | (MORE LIMES*) Although the surface suggests a mixologist, a sommelier is a connoisseur of another type of alcoholic drink |
- Very thematically appropriate anagrind (@qpheevr) |
| 17 | --- | Infusing bit of moscato into a cocktail of rose and lime, for he who tastes it | 6 | 3 | Anagram of M (bit of moscato) + Rosé + Lime, Def on the right (Semi-&lit) | --- |
| 18 | --- | Mr. Lee, I'm so nuts about that wine master! | 5 | 3 | Anagrind Mr Lee I'm so (suggestion- nuts). Defn- wine master. | --- |
| 19 | --- | One who waits by, to get afore le eau rouge de la France, 1916 vintage, say? (9) | 4 | 1 | One who waits - LIER, (by, to get afore) - connecting prepositions, le eau de la France, 1916 vintage - cryptic definition of SOMME (WW1) , &lit! ( Le eau rouge is wine, also water made red with blood) |
- Afore means before, so wouldn’t the clue yield LIERSOMME? (Aashirwad) - Such elaborate efforts of construction but ultimately the surface reading just makes no sense, right? (verlainex) - Quite a stretch—I’ve never heard of “l’eau rouge” as an idiom for “wine”, and I don’t see how “afore” fits into the surface/&lit reading (@qpheevr) |
| 20 | --- | Does he smile more? Yes, while tasting the best wines. | 2 | 1 | Definition: wine taster=sommelier ;Anagram of " smile more" |
- What is the anagram indicator? (Ramki Krishnan) - Have you ever seen a wine taster at work? They make ugly faces and spit the wine. Hardly ever smile.. also wine taster is different from wine server... (Pundit JEE) - The anagram indicator appears to be missing…unless wine tasting implies tipsiness, which is rather indirect. (Aashirwad) - Lovely idea but needs an anagram indicator. (verlainex) - The definition identified in the annotation doesn’t actually appear in that form in the clue, and there’s no anagram indicator (@qpheevr) |
| 21 | --- | "Smile more" orders wine expert (9) | 2 | 1 | SMILE MORE * Def: WINE EXPERT |
- order as anagrind should come before the fodder IMO (Ramki Krishnan) - “ordered”, surely, given the locations of the anagram indicator (Abhay Phadnis) - “Ordered” would be an acceptable anagrind construction. (Aashirwad) - This works if "orders" means "gets into order"... but can it? (verlainex) |
| 22 | --- | Mister Mole, clumsily dropping teaspoon, is surely no teetotaller? (9) | 2 | 1 | (MIS(t)ER MOLE)*: “clumsily” = anagrind; “dropping teaspoon” = delete T; “surely no teetotaller?” = cryptic def. | --- |
| 23 | --- | Wine steward a misnomer? Wrongly spread by the French revolutionary (no name) (9) | 0 | 0 | EL (The French revolutionary) in MIS(-n)OMER*. Wrongly: anagrind. Spread by: insertion ind. Definition: Wine Steward |
- What does “(no name)” contribute to the clue? (@qpheevr) |
| 24 | --- | Some miler tumbled into a wine bar employee (9) | 0 | 0 | SOME + MILER (a runner) anagrammed (tumbled). Def: a wine bar employee. |
- The sequence of letters in the anagram is so close to the answer that this clue ends up being easier than I like (@qpheevr) |