1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#586 - COLORADO
Total Clues: 24 Total Voters: 27
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Trouble after Republican starts to order leader of Canada about becoming a US state (8) | 24 | 11 | ADO after [R + O(rder) + L(eader) + O(f) + C(anada)] reversed; trouble= ado, after= positional ind, Republican= R, starts to= 1st letter selections, about= rev ind, def= a US state | --- |
| 2 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Protocol or a doctrine inspiring US state (8) | 24 | 9 | Hidden word (indicated by inspiring); Def. US State | --- |
| 3 | Pundit JEE | State of Mohenjo-daro located between borders from East to West (8) | 22 | 11 | Of-Mohenj(ODAROLOC<<)ated reverse (from East to West) hidden (between borders), def - state |
- Good find! (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 4 | Shobha Nayak | State with canyons or landscape of rocks and desert outcrops, originally | 22 | 10 | Acrostic |
- Easy, but I liked the geographic theme. (N. S. Harvey) |
| 5 | Ramki Krishnan | Pass over winding road in US state (8) | 19 | 13 | COL (pass) + O (over) + anagram of ROAD, def = US state | --- |
| 6 | Aashirwad | State of ordinary old car manufactured by Opel originally (8) | 16 | 7 | Anagram of O (ordinary) + OLD CAR, followed by O (Opel originally) |
- Very nice - and it revived memories of my late and much lamented Opel Swing car! :) (Abhay Phadnis) |
| 7 | Nitish Asthana | Toxic gas in its expanded state? | 16 | 7 | Toxic gas is CO, also expanded to Colorado (state) |
- Great thought, but not sure the construction works - it is not &lit, and separating the definition (state) leaves the wordplay incomplete. (Abhay Phadnis) - My favourite clue of the set. Concise, coherent, not an anagram, and a satisfying solve. (N. S. Harvey) - This is a clever and creative approach, but given the unconventional wordplay, I think it would be fairer to give the solver “carbon monoxide” to work with rather than just “toxic gas” (@qpheevr) |
| 8 | Adman_i | Dynamic, cool Republican joins a party in state (8) | 14 | 9 | State (Defn) - (COOL)*(R)(A)(DO), Dynamic - anagrind, Party - Do |
- Fine. (Pundit JEE) |
| 9 | Textrous | Time spent in moving to a cold or stormy place in the US (8) | 14 | 7 | toacoldor* - t; deletion indicator: spent, anagrind:stormy, def: place in the US, |
- If the anagrind is "stormy", then what is the role of "moving"? (Abhay Phadnis) - Role of 'in moving' in the clue? (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) - Wow (Pundit JEE) - What is the role of "moving"? (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 10 | Manish Jhaveri | State officer demolished a door [8] | 13 | 8 | COL (short form of Colonel) is Officer + anagram of ADOOR. Def = state. Surface echoes bulldozer justice that's unfortunately very popular in these intolerant times |
- Does the abbreviation of COLONEL need an indicator? (Abhay Phadnis) - Quite neat. I can imagine this clue in the Telegraph (N. S. Harvey) |
| 11 | --- | Pass over bad road in city (8) | 12 | 4 | (COL)(O)(ROAD*). Pass - Col. Over - O. Road - Anagram fodder. Bad - Anagrind. Definition: City. |
- Colorado is not a city! (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) - Wikipedia lists a few municipalities named either “Colorado” or “Colorado City”; the largest, in Brazil, has a population of around 25,000. I don’t think any of them is prominent enough to be clued this way (@qpheevr) - Is Colorado a city? (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 12 | --- | Protocol, or a doctrine, circumscribes western border of Arizona (8) | 11 | 4 | Telescopic (“protoCOL OR A DOctrine”). Def. (“western border of Arizona”) describes the Colorado River, which marks the boundary between Arizona and California and part of the boundary between Arizona and Nevada | --- |
| 13 | --- | Lively, cool, awesome - love creates this state (8) | 10 | 5 | Charade of [COOL]*+RAD+O; anagram indication: “lively”; definition: “state" |
- Cool. Rad. Lovely. (Pundit JEE) - A fun surface here. (N. S. Harvey) |
| 14 | --- | Intestine cut endless gas -- what a rocky state! | 8 | 4 | COLO(n) + RADO(n) |
- Funny! Needs a bit of a neater definition, but funny. (N. S. Harvey) |
| 15 | --- | Icy love hiding stripped moral state | 7 | 3 | Icy=cold + love=o, hiding ad insertion indicator, stripped moral=ora |
- Nice (Pundit JEE) |
| 16 | --- | The Avalanche can be seen here: tubular, submerged in company toilet (8) | 7 | 2 | "The Avalanche can be seen here" = definition (Colorado Avalanche is an NHL franchise); "tubular" = RAD (tubular being 80s US slang for excellent), which is included within ("submerged in") CO ("company") LOO ("toilet). So RAD in CO LOO = COLORADO. | --- |
| 17 | --- | Pass over road collapses in US state (8) | 6 | 4 | COL( pass) O (over) ROAD* | --- |
| 18 | --- | Company starts to lay out the odds of real doom: 1 out of 50 (8) | 6 | 3 | CO + starts to L(ay) O(ut) + the odds of R(e)A(l) D(o)O(m) = 1 out of 50 (US states) | --- |
| 19 | --- | Look after firm heading for race trouble in part of the USA | 6 | 3 | LO after CO + R + ADO | --- |
| 20 | --- | Pass rocky road over Boulder's state (8) | 5 | 3 | Charade with anagram and abbreviation - COL (pass) (ROAD)* (anagrind rocky) O(ver) def = Boulder's state | --- |
| 21 | --- | Firm at Orlando (not new), starts in another state (8) | 3 | 2 | CO (ORLANDO-n)*. Starts: anagrind (Clue clinic). Definition: (Orlando is in Florida, so..) Another state | --- |
| 22 | --- | Cool ! Road to a confused State in the U S | 3 | 1 | Anagram of cool road: confused is anind . State in U S is Colorado |
- The “to a” between the anagram fodder and the indicator disrupts the cryptic reading (@qpheevr) |
| 23 | --- | Nothing in the wake of smashed-up oar, in icy river | 2 | 1 | O (nothing) follows (in the wake of) OAR* in COLD (icy); def “river” |
- Awarding points here for clueing with "river" instead of "state" and pairing it with a nice, related surface reading. (N. S. Harvey) |
| 24 | --- | Dodgy cola odor? You’re in a state (8) | 0 | 0 | Anagram COLA + ODOR. Def: “a state” | --- |