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1ACCWC #570 – OUTRAGE – Results

We ended the contest with 32 votes. All but one of the setters voted, thank you. Most clues used the wordplay of OUTAGE outside R or vice versa, or anagrams. Here are the results. Tied at 5th place, with 15 points Venkatesan P about the power situation in Bucharest: Power failure around capital of Romania…

1ACCWC #567 – CLARITY – Results

Thanks for the enthusiastic participation and voting. There are also a lot of non-anonymous comments from the voters – please go through them! Here are the results. 1) 5th place. Manish Jhaveri gets 15 points for his clue on how to navigate through Mumbai 🙂 One going through directions in metropolis for better understanding (7)…

1ACCWC #555 – FREEBIES – Results

Thanks to Ramki Krishnan for hosting the contest. The contest elicited some clever ties in common cryptic surfaces: “on the house”, “giveaways,” “handouts,” “no charge,” etc. were often used definitions. Wordplay in several clues used beer/fries), insects (BEE), chips/fries, or anagrams/containers involving those elements. Voter comments focused on indirect anagrams, same-root issues (using “free” directly…