1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#585 - TOURNEY
Total Clues: 25 Total Voters: 25
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Surprisingly, you’re not forsaking love for sports event (7) | 25 | 14 | Anagram (‘surprisingly’) of YOURE NOT (fodder) without O (love, deletion indicated by ‘forsaking’), Def.: sports event | --- |
| 2 | verlainex | After catastrophic rout, desire to return to battle | 25 | 14 | (ROUT*) + YEN reversed. To tourney (v.) = to battle | --- |
| 3 | Adman_i | Fantastic run-out ! Finally, Pakistan secure victory in the championship (7) | 22 | 11 | Championship(Defn) – (R OUT)*(pakistaN securE victorY), Run-R, Fantastic - anagrind, Finally - last letters | --- |
| 4 | Ramki Krishnan | Model to go topless in competition (7) | 22 | 10 | T (model) + JOURNEY (go) -J (topless), def = competition | --- |
| 5 | Manish Jhaveri | Rout galvanised desire to bounce back in competition (7) | 17 | 7 | ROUT* (galvanised is anagrind) + NEY (yen = desire bouncing back) | --- |
| 6 | VENKATESAN P | Adjust your net for Australian Open, say(7) | 16 | 8 | (YOUR+NET)*. Adjust - Anagrind. Australian Open, say - Definition. | --- |
| 7 | Textrous | Our net got damaged by the end of hockey tournament (7) | 15 | 8 | OURNET* ("got damaged" is the anagrind) + Y (the end of hockey); def: tournament |
- Good surface and wordplay, but it would be better not to use "tournament" in the clue as definition for its short form "tourney" (@LowdownCryptic) - I like the hockey angle, but the definition is too similar to (and etymologically derived from) the word being clued (@qpheevr) |
| 8 | Shobha Nayak | Contest ruined routinely, leaders of Israel and Lebanon not participating | 15 | 6 | Def= CONTEST, Anagram of ROUTINELY - IL | --- |
| 9 | Nitish Asthana | Open your ten bananas! | 14 | 7 | Anagram of your ten. Defn- Open | --- |
| 10 | @LowdownCryptic | Indian Crossword League is one time my group's craving returns (7) | 14 | 6 | T (time) + OUR (my group's) + reversed YEN (craving returns); Definition: IXL is one (def by example) |
- Perhaps this is pandering to the voters’ interests… but it works! Very nice (@qpheevr) |
| 11 | --- | Longing to return after trip to Wimbledon, say (7) | 9 | 5 | Charade: TOUR (trip) YEN (longing) << (to return) def = Winbledon, say |
- Tour and Tourney share the same rooy (Manish Jhaveri) |
| 12 | --- | Hankering to return after travel for World Cup? (7) | 9 | 5 | Reversal of YEN (hankering) after TOUR (travel), with definition by example | --- |
| 13 | --- | Time for Jack to go and fight (7) | 9 | 4 | T for J (jack) (in) Journey = to go (verb). Def = fight (Collins) | --- |
| 14 | --- | Clash turned unrestrained during play (7) | 8 | 5 | Clash: definition. (t)URNE(d) in TOY TO(URNE)Y | --- |
| 15 | --- | Championship journey begins with new, excellent players essentially(7) | 7 | 3 | Definition is championship; journey is tour, n e (begins with), pla(y)ers essentially |
- JOURNEY is already very similar to TOURNEY, but then you send the solver the long way round (@qpheevr) |
| 16 | --- | Contest to run all over the place on first of every year (7) | 6 | 4 | Def: contest; To = TO (suggested in clue); Anagram: (RUN)* = URN; All over the place = anagram indicator; On = position indicator (down clue); First of every = E(VERY) = E; Year = Y; TO-URN-E-Y | --- |
| 17 | --- | Treacherous, shortened New York route for competition (7) | 3 | 2 | (NYROUTE)*; Treacherous = Anagrind; shortened New York = NY; competition = Definition. | --- |
| 18 | --- | Time travel journal missing in encounter (7) | 3 | 2 | T JOURNEY (travel) -J (journal), Encounter-def |
- Not sure if J is a standard abbreviation for Journal. Needs a letterpicking indicator IMO. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 19 | --- | Your networking lists? (7) | 3 | 2 | (YOUR NET)*; anagrind “working”; def. “lists” (mediaeval joust); ? to acknowledge funny business (the lack of a space between fodder and anagrind) | --- |
| 20 | --- | Give support our Neyveli athetes for winning the contest. | 3 | 1 | HIPS. suppor. t our Ney veli. Contest=tourney |
- “Give” contributes nothing to the cryptic reading, and it also messes up the surface grammar (@qpheevr) |
| 21 | --- | Two empty cities holding Europe's last event? | 2 | 2 | Two empty = TO; cities = UR & NY, holding E; event = def |
- “Cities” seems pretty vague; can the solver really get from there to the full name of an ancient Mesopotamian city and an abbreviation for a modern American one? (@qpheevr) |
| 22 | --- | Fight to broadcast “24” after removing scattered bits of profanity (7) | 2 | 1 | Defintion: fight; anagram of [TwENtY fOUR] after removing [w,t,f] (scattered bits of profanity); anagram indicator: broadcast |
- Too indirect to be fair to the solver—“scattered bits of profanity” doesn’t point clearly enough to the letters WTF (especially since only the last of them is really a “bit of profanity”) (@qpheevr) |
| 23 | --- | Ride from opposite sides to joust, dismantling each other? (7) | 1 | 1 | Ride - Journey, opposite sides to JousT - J & T, dismantling J with T, journey becomes tourney &lit! |
- Very clever clue but IMO “dismantling each other” makes it sound like J and T are exchanging places rather than T replacing J. (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 24 | --- | Rout toyed with the heads of nearly every Yankee in the ALCS, it seems (7) | 0 | 0 | Def: the ALCS, it seems. TOUR (“rout toyed with”) + N + E + Y (“heads of nearly every Yankee”) | --- |
| 25 | --- | Demolished one yurt for curling event, maybe | 0 | 0 | Oneyurt* with demolished anagrind | --- |