1ACCWC - Results
1ACCWC#590 - UNKNOWN
Total Clues: 26 Total Voters: 27
✓ Contest Closed - Final Results
| # | Name | Clue | Points | Voters | Anno | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ramki Krishnan | Alien in Britain keeping name and number private (7) | 37 | 16 | Def = alien, UK (Britain) around N (name) + N (number) + OWN (private) |
- Very smooth construction - take points. (Pundit JEE) |
| 2 | Shobha Nayak | Mysterious hunk in town, all topless | 28 | 11 | Def= Mysterious, first letters of following words removed | --- |
| 3 | Ganesh Raman | Obscure, funny kind of wand regularly used | 26 | 11 | Def OBSCURE, Alternate letter picking Ind REGULARLY USED |
- Why is it obscure if it is regularly used? Nevertheless, take points, because such clues are probably the toughest to make, because of all the hard work. Hard work is also genius. (Pundit JEE) - Great attempt at a letter-picking wordplay (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 4 | Nitish Asthana | Essentially anonymous? | 23 | 10 | &lit clue... Essentially anonYmous is Y. |
- Innovative! (Ramki Krishnan) - Very clever! (@LowdownCryptic) |
| 5 | Satyen Nabar | Mysterious topless stud, playing around with women on vacation (7) | 22 | 11 | (-h)UNK + ON rev + W(ome)N; topless= 1st letter del, stud= hunk, playing= on, around= rev, on vacation= ends sel, def= mysterious |
- Take a point for telling a naughty tale. (Pundit JEE) |
| 6 | Abhay Phadnis | Covert international group protecting new king for the time being (7) | 20 | 11 | Definition: covert; charade of UN (international group) “protecting” [N+K+NOW] | --- |
| 7 | Manish Jhaveri | More than 50% of Punk now nearly forgotten (7) | 16 | 8 | Telescopic clue. UNKNOWN is 7 letters within pUNK NOW Nearly hence more than 50%. A comment on the death of rebel music. |
- Role of forgotten? (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) |
| 8 | @qpheevr | Drunk, having spurned doctor, now leader of Narcotics Anonymous (7) | 15 | 8 | UNK (=DRUNK minus DR) + NOW + N (leader of Narcotics); def. “anonymous” |
- Njce lift and separate - take points. (Pundit JEE) |
| 9 | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | Perhaps role of Y-fronts in underwear - notionally keeping nudity personal (7) | 10 | 5 | Fronts (first letters) in Underwear Notionally Keeping Nudity = UNKN; + OWN (personal). Definition: perhaps role of Y (an unknown); "Y-fronts" is a lift and separate (Y | fronts). |
- Nice surface. But having one word in the clue to be split as part def and part wordplay is iffy IMO. (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 10 | VENKATESAN P | Debunk now Neptune's hidden secret (7) | 9 | 5 | (debUNK NOW Neptune's ) (T). Hidden - Indicator. Definition : Secret. | --- |
| 11 | --- | Nobody has heard from Rev. Spooner? Nobody? (7) | 8 | 5 | Spoonerism (heard from Rev. Spooner) of "none own" (meaning "nobody has"); Def: Nobody (e.g. a complete nobody/unknown) | --- |
| 12 | --- | Part of trunk now needs to be concealed (7) | 7 | 6 | Def: concealed, connector between subsidiary indication and def: to be, part of trUNK NOW Needs | --- |
| 13 | --- | Kelvin presently hiding behind a French name, strange ! | 7 | 4 | Kelvin = K, presently = now, a French = un, name= n, behind is position indicator for un. Definition: strange | --- |
| 14 | --- | Troubled nun hides king at this time - mysterious | 6 | 3 | K (King) + now (at this time) in nun* (anagrind troubled); definition - mysterious | --- |
| 15 | --- | Mysterious present found in junk essentially outside Kremlin (7) | 6 | 2 | NOW ( PRESENT) inside -j(UN)-k K(-remli)N |
- Should be "outside of Kremlin" to get K-N IMO (Ramki Krishnan) |
| 16 | --- | Mystery drunk now needs unmasking | 5 | 3 | Hidden | --- |
| 17 | --- | Drunk? Now, now, withhold a secret (7) | 5 | 2 | Telescopic (drUNKNOWNow), def - a secret | --- |
| 18 | --- | See nun rolling around. It's novel (7) | 4 | 2 | Novel (Definition) - NU(KNOW)N*, See - know, Rolling - anagrind | --- |
| 19 | --- | X may be funny, but it's not edgy. It's a wrapper for Grok. | 3 | 3 | Def: X, maybe. fUNNy (not edgy). Grok = KNOW (Heinlein). |
- You should not rely on deep inside knowledge of pop culture. But take a point for bringing it to surface. (Pundit JEE) |
| 20 | --- | Dark sister cycling around Kelvin at this moment (7) | 3 | 1 | Dark is the def/ sister is Nun/ cycling around Kelvin K/ At this moment is now (7) | --- |
| 21 | --- | Nun knows to cut short revealing the x factor. | 3 | 1 | nun plus knows-n (cut short knows) , x factor is unknown |
- Missing an anagram indicator (Sohil) - Wordplay delivers NUNKNOW (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay) |
| 22 | --- | Alien, heartily drunken, got back by mid-morning (7) | 3 | 1 | Definition: Alien. (dr)UNK(en) NOW<- (mor)N(ing) Got=won | --- |
| 23 | --- | French article about Northern nerd returning, unidentified (7) | 2 | 1 | Unidentified - Defn; French article - UN; about - container indicator => U and N are the 1st and 7th letters; Northern - N; nerd = WONK, returning - reversal indicator => KNOW; So U(N+KNOW)N i.e. UNKNOWN | --- |
| 24 | --- | Nameless nerd repulsed by Sister cycling around (7) | 1 | 1 | def = nameless (ref Chambers); nerd repulsed = WONK << (reversal); Sister (NUN) cycling = UN-N (letter shifting); around = containment. | --- |
| 25 | --- | Stranger currently tucking into Tuna King’s prime cuts (7) | 1 | 1 | Def: Stranger. NOW(Currently) in UNKN (letters in prime positions of tUNaKiNg) | --- |
| 26 | --- | Foreign trunk now neat to box (7) | 0 | 0 | def: Foreign; to box: container indication, Telescopic clue | --- |