CCCWC May 2016 competition results
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55 clues entered. 47 votes cast (44 competitors, 3 others).
DISMAYED
Congratulations to Steve Randall who returns to top spot after his win at the end of last year – a super smooth surface reading to his winning clue.
John Appleton gains his second podium finish of the year following his win in February – with the first of the clues to give poor old Dad a bit of a beating! This pushes John a little higher up the Annual Honours list so well done to him.
A big warm welcome to Colin Thomas who graces the top 5 for the first time! A neat bit of simple arithmetic!
Tobias claims 4th spot with a rare beast of a homophone clue. Tobias's first podium for a couple of years so well done for that.
"Where's Dave Parfitt?" I hear you ask – well, once again he has squeezed into the placings – another to give Dad a hard time!
Well done to everyone for another enjoyable selection of clues for us to savour.
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 | Steve Randall | Dragons originally turned my ideas down | anagram of D[ragons] my ideas | 56 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 28 | John Appleton | Horrified homophobe's conclusion: "My dad is queer!" | Def = Horrified; ([homophob]E MY DAD IS)*. Chambers Thesaurus has "horrify" = "dismay". | 46.5 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | Colin Thomas | 500 added to 500 is 1000 – are you shocked? | (D+IS+M+A+YE)+D ; definition = shocked? | 34.5 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | 7 | Tobias Hanbury | Audible jeer caused upset | Audible = homophone indicator, Jeer = Diss, sounds like DIS, Caused = Made, sounds like MAYED, Upset = definition. | 27.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 35 | Dave Parfitt | My dad is out taking ecstasy – I'm appalled! | MYDADIS anag. around E; "I'm" ie "the answer is" | 25.5 | 3 | 1 |
| 6 | 36 | David McKie | New dad? Yes, I'm overwhelmed! (8) | DAD YES IM* | 24 | 6 | 4 |
| 7 | 9 | Don Manley | Blue dye? Madder is wrong — you don't want red, silly! | anag. less anag. | 22.5 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | 32 | Teyrnon Powell | I'm 'sorry', 'gutted', 'dead upset' | I'M S()Y, DEAD: anagram + 3 self-ref. defs | 21.5 | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | 49 | Bhalchandra Pasupathy | Upset am I? Yes, extremely disturbed! | (AM I YES + D…D)anag. and &lit | 21 | 0 | |
| 9 | 54 | Todd Konkel | Yes, Dad, I'm confused and afraid | anagram of (YES DAD IM) | 21 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | 26 | Hopping mad, yes I'd be disappointed! | MADYESID* with extended definition | 20 | 1 | 4 | |
| 12 | 10 | Change for midday sun to keep English inside, discouraged | E in *MIDDAY S; def. discouraged | 19.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 12 | 22 | Having stained clothing is Mother bothered? | DY(IS MA)ED | 19.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 14 | 30 | Horrified scholar catches couple at end of Kingsley Amis novel | ref. ending of Lucky Jim; ([kingsl]EY AMIS)* in DD (Doctor of Divinity) | 18.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | 17 | Discouraged? Time to adopt a philosophy, Miliband | D(ISM)AY+ED | 17 | 1 | 2 | |
| 16 | 55 | Yes, I am in a panic, beset by extremes of dread, stricken with anxiety. . . | YESIAM* beset (surrounded) by DD (extremes of DreaD); def = stricken with anxiety | 16 | 2 | 2 | |
| 17 | 2 | 'A doctrine, indeed!', theologian scoffs, appalled | ism aye in DD | 15.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 18 | 6 | Appalled – sweet potatoes sent back – inside perished | DIED around YAMS (reversed) | 15 | 2 | 1 | |
| 19 | 12 | Depressed princess made society extremely uncomfortable (8) | DI + (MADE + SY)* | 14.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| 20 | 29 | Horrified Midas' unfortunate final solitary embrace – ending in terminal gold. | def=horrified +anag(unfortunate)midas +y+e+d (ref to King Midas giving his daughter a hug, thus turning her to solid gold forever.) | 13 | 1 | 2 | |
| 20 | 44 | Slovenly Dad? Yes, I'm appalled! | Anagram of DAD YES IM; anagrind = slovenly; def = appalled | 13 | 2 | ||
| 22 | 11 | Declined to eat up veg, far from happy | <yams in died (down clue) | 11.5 | 3 | 1 | |
| 23 | 23 | Heard to insult servant girl? One is appalled! | "Dis maid" =insult servant girl, then def. | 10 | 0 | 3 | |
| 24 | 43 | Shocked to see the tubers uprooted and perished all around. | Shocked (definition)…..the tubers uprooted (YAMS reversed)…..perished (DIED) all around | 9 | 0 | 1 | |
| 25 | 31 | I'm sad d'ye fancy? | anag &lit, with "I" referring to the answer sought | 8 | 1 | 2 | |
| 26 | 42 | Shocked by insult, girl cried (8) | Def = shocked, by = positional ind, insult = dis (verb form), girl = maid, cried = hp indicator DIS + MAYED (maid hp) => DISMAYED | 7.5 | 1 | ||
| 27 | 18 | Do enemy aids make one this? | &lit comp. anag. (make) *DO ENEMY AIDS -ONE | 6.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | Horrified diners insipidly served messy and yucky egg dip starters | Inial letters of Diners Insipidly Served Messy And Yucky Egg Dip | 6.5 | 1 | 4 | |
| 27 | 40 | Ridiculing my ideas after start of debate made me sad. | (d)ebate + my ideas (anag) | 6.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 27 | 45 | Son might have passed out in fear (8) | Def:IN FEAR; son=S, might=MAY, passed=DIED => DI(S MAY)ED | 6.5 | 1 | ||
| 31 | 14 | Designated driver carries a single seamy drunk in disarray. | dd holds anagrind (drunk) of i+seamy; def = in disarray | 6 | 0 | 2 | |
| 31 | 20 | Feeling distressed that my tailless ass died wandering | Feeling distressed = DISMAYED = anagram of MY + AS (tailless ass) + DIED, wandering being anagram indicator | 6 | 1 | 5 | |
| 33 | 13 | Depressed,took a month off ? | Depressed=definition. Dis(may)ed= play on words =removed May= took a month off. | 5.5 | 2 | 4 | |
| 33 | 38 | Perhaps turned color, as I'm upset inside?! | And Lit. using a container – D(ISMA)YED. Upset = anagram indicator for "as I'm" | 5.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 33 | 50 | Upset as rejected vegetables perished outside | rev. of yams in died | 5.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| 36 | 48 | Taken aback one's mother put in shade by daughter | i's ma in dye + d=daughter | 5 | 0 | ||
| 37 | 34 | Mashed yams died broken hearted | Mashed – anagram indicator; yams died = dismayed; broken hearted = definition | 4.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 38 | 3 | A month inside, upset and dead unhappy. | A month – MAY , in(SIDE), upset* >> DIS(MAY)E , and dead (D) + def. | 3.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| 38 | 21 | Gloomy dacoit leader is crazy about you (8) | Definition: gloomy Wordplay: D (dacoit leader) IS MA(YE)D (crazy {mad} about you {ye}) | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 38 | 24 | Hell! The old girl's got Ed in a right state. | Dis + May (archaic form of maiden) + Ed, def. 'in a right state'. | 3.5 | 2 | ||
| 41 | 33 | Intimidated, Sid left yapping maid (8) | Direct = intimidated. Sid = dis (left = inficator), maid = mayed (yapping = indicator) | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| 41 | 41 | Shaken (or stirred initially) when darling buds are withered all around | Def: shaken. s + may (= when darling buds are) both surrounded by died – ref Shakespeare & H E Bates | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| 43 | 8 | Back inside you made yams – I devoured with alarm | It is a reversal indicated by 'Back inside' contained within 'made yams – I devoured'. 'With alarm' meaning dismayed | 1.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 43 | 53 | Upset when Southern girl stopped to drop off diamonds (8) | upset = dismayed, di{S+May}e+D | 1.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| 45 | 46 | Spenser's distressed by misprinted "did ysame" | Uses distressed as Spenser's definition of dismayed, as well as another of Spenser's words in the anagram. | 0.5 | 2 | ||
| 45 | 51 | Upset in one of the Norfolk Broads spoken of | Diss maid homophone broad = young woman | 0.5 | 1 | 3 | |
| 45 | 52 | Upset? Onset of much existentialist despair, and I'd say. | Def/anag (m+e+d + I'd say). | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 48 | 4 | Alarmed that Diana, the first is perhaps chief (8) | Diana, the first=D is=IS perhaps=MAY chief=ED | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
| 48 | 5 | Appalled old maid educated following Diana Dors' finale | Appalled = defn, MAY + ED following DI + S | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 48 | 15 | Dis May Ed was saddened. (8) | Dis (slang term for the word "THIS") + MAY + ED gives the word DISMAYED (saddened). | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
| 48 | 16 | Disappointed in yob, girl and boy. | Disappointed defn., then yob = boy backwards : dis = sid backwards; girl = may; boy = ed | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
| 48 | 25 | Homework includes review of an original paper on drugs. Daughter's not impressed (8) | rev (A MS) in DIY E D – a down clue if you only like "on" that way. | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 48 | 37 | Once heart-stricken, I'm sad, edgy, upset. Not good. | (IM SAD ED[G]Y)* – Chambers def. 'heart-strike' – 'once' indicates archaic use & 'when'. | 0 | 1 | ||
| 48 | 39 | Perhaps with this applied, could be sad (8) | maybe minus may i.e. maybe dismayed = be | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 48 | 47 | Syrian leader might be going into breakdown! Is Assad finally horrified? | S(yrian) + MAY(might) in DIE(breakdown) + (assa)D | 0 | 1 | 1 |