1ACCWC - Vote

1ACCWC#570 - OUTRAGE

Voting ends on Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM GMT+3

Note: All times are in GMT+3 (matching your WordPress account timezone).

Points: 0/10 | Clues: 0/4
  • All participants who set clues are expected to vote. You are not allowed to vote for your own clue
  • Click on clues to shortlist them, click on the 'Shortlisted' Button to see shortlisted clues only
  • Use arrows to move clues up or down the list if you wish to. Clicking on the buttons moves the clue right to the Top or Bottom of the list.
  • Allocate a total of exactly 10 points across exactly 4 clues (e.g. 4,3,2,1 or 3,3,3,1). A running total is visible on the top of the page to help you see what you have allocated.
  • Click Submit votes before the deadline (Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM GMT+3). Submitting again replaces your earlier ballot.
  • Comments without voting: You may leave a comment on any clue even if you give it 0 points. If your vote ballot is not complete, you can still submit comments only.
  • Public comments appear on the Results page after the contest closes, shown as your comment text (Your Name).
  • Private comments are visible only on the host dashboard (Comments tab) — they never appear on the public Results page.
  • Votes from voters whose names are not recognised from FB/Twitter/Bluesky will be disallowed. Please use your login IDs.
  • Participants who do not vote will lose 10 points for the round
PLEASE ENTER YOUR NAME
# Order Clue Voting
1 Clue: Appalling ragout initially elicits disgust, then fury (7)
Anno: Anagram RAGOUT, add E. Def: disgust + fury.

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
2 Clue: Barbarism beginning to thrive in the time we live in (7)
Anno: Beginning to thrive = T, in = insertion Ind, the time we live in = our age, Def = barbarism

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
3 Clue: Unfashionable anger?
Anno: Unfashionable = OUT/ Not the rage, Anger= Rage and Def= ANGER

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
4 Clue: Right and left leave regulator seething with anger
Anno: REGULATOR - RL seething = anagram indicator

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
5 Clue: Power failure around capital of Romania causes anger (7)
Anno: Definition: Anger. Anno: (OUT(R)AGE). Power failure - Outage. Capital of Romania - R.

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
6 Clue: Scandal involving topless character embracing model (7)
Anno: T [model] contained in (-c)OURAGE [topless character]; Per Chambers dictionary, “character” can mean “strong admirable qualities such as determination, courage, honesty, etc.” Collins dictionary also supports the use of “character” to mean “courage.” Dictionary.com is a third supporting source, which gives the example “It takes character to face up to a bully.”

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
7 Clue: Gear shock! (7)
Anno: RA

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
8 Clue: Anger initially rises during a power blackout (7)
Anno: Def: Anger, initially rises: R, a power blackout: OUTAGE, during: insertion indicator

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
9 Clue: Whacky wraps wingless wags whipping up wrath (7)
Anno: def = wrath; Whacky (OUTRE); wraps = containment indicator; wAGs wingless - drop extreme letters indicator; whipping up - link words

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
10 Clue: Abandoning great tour in the middle causes anger (7)
Anno: (GREAT OU)* Abandoning: anind. Definition: Anger

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
11 Clue: Dismissed! Basically, Root appeals, Gill exits in shock (7)
Anno: Definition=shock,Dismissed = out, first letters selection ind.=basically, in=connector

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
12 Clue: Stir to argue injustice (7)
Anno: Stir (in nounal form) works as a low-key revolt in surface reading. It also works as the anagram indicator as a verb. Anagram of TO ARGUE = OUTRAGE (def is injustice). The clue is a comment on the anger among Gen Z

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
13 Clue: Shock of robust triangle regularly missing points (7)
Anno: Def: SHOCK. Alt ltrs of Robust triangle

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
14 Clue: Damaged our gate in wanton mischief (7)
Anno: Wanton mischief (def) = OUTRAGE; Damaged our gate = wordplay; Damaged = anagram indicator; Anagram: (OUR GATE)* = OUTRAGE

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
15 Clue: Anger over misplaced laughter after ends of loincloth fall out (7)
Anno: Definition: anger; O(ver)+[(-l)AUG(-h)TER]*; anagram indicator: misplaced; deletion indicator: "ends of" L(oinclot)H "fall out"

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
16 Clue: Trump’s third term in power? America, love—get lost! That’s barbarism! (7)
Anno: URAOGET* / U (trUmp’s third) + R (term in poweR) + A (America)+ O (love) + GET* [anag:lost]. [Term = "an end” (Chambers)]

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
17 Clue: Loss of power inspiring Republican's appalling behaviour (7)
Anno: OUT (R) AGE Outrage = an atrocious act (Chambers)

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
18 Clue: Scandal leads to overwhelming uproar to retaliate against goofed-up examination
Anno: Acrostic (leads to..), definition scandal

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
19 Clue: Cultivating regulation leads to nil anger (7)
Anno: Anger (Definition) - (NIL + OUTRAGE) = (REGULATION)*, Cultivating - Anagrind, Composite Anagram

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
20 Clue: Shock of Queen crushed by loss of power (7)
Anno: Shock- def, R (Queen) inside OUTAGE( loss of power)

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
21 Clue: Leaders of offensive units truly ruin a guerrilla encampment, invoking strong reaction
Anno: Acrostic

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
22 Clue: Even voluntary senescence is something that cannot be tolerated (7)
Anno: OUTR = even letters in vOlUnTaRy; AGE = senescence; def. ‘something that cannot be tolerated’

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
23 Clue: It's a disgrace to argue with evolution (7)
Anno: Def: It's a disgrace; (TO ARGUE)* anagrind: "with evolution"

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
24 Clue: Scandal from pullout rag erotica (7)
Anno: Def. Scandal; Hidden word OUTRAGE in pullOUTRAGErotica, indicated by ‘from’

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
25 Clue: Anger at rogue rogue (7)
Anno: Definition: Anger, rogueat* with rogue as the indicator

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
26 Clue: Shock over king's loss of power (7)
Anno: [Out(R)age]. King = R. Loss of power = outage. Over = container ind [Over A, is B]

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
27 Clue: Exasperation from blackout around end of winter (7)
Anno: Blackout is outage/ around is container indicator/ end of winter is R

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
28 Clue: Alarmed at rogue's atrocity (7)
Anno: (AT ROGUE)*, alarmed= anag ind, def= atrocity

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
29 Clue: After retirement, I will be filming Universal Pictures' retrospective "Fury' (7)
Anno: EGO<< around (filming) U,ART<< .O(U TRA)GE. Def: Fury

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
30 Clue: To argue atrociously is a gross offence (7)
Anno: anagram (indicator= Atrociously, fodder= To argue), definition=a gross offence

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility:
31 Clue: Indignation at leaders of out-of-touch urbanites talking rubbish about Greta's environmentalism (7)
Anno: Acrostic clue. Defn - Indignation; Acrostic Ind - leaders of ; fodder - Out-of-touch Urbanites Talking Rubbish About Greta's Environmentalism. Hope 'out-of-touch' counts as one word for acrostic purposes!

Comment (optional — no vote required):
Visibility: