CCCWC September 2023 competition results
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48 clues entered. 35 votes cast (33 competitors, 2 others).
MUNGO
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Pete Milne | Chewed on gum and felt wasted? | Anagram of ONGUM. The wasted wool that could have become part of the felted cloth. | 37.5 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 29 | Dave Williams | Pulled from loom, ungodly mass of fibres for reuse | hidden: loo(m ungo)dly | 28 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 5 | Vinit Wankhede | Chewing gum on fabric | GUMON* | 26.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | Simon Griew | Any cycling leaves young man knackered it’s often felt | Anagram (knackered) of YOUNG MAN – YAN (ANY cycling); def = it’s often felt | 22.5 | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | 30 | Todd Konkel | Recycled bits of used gabardine – old made new? | (UGOMN)*; &lit. Mungo can refer to the waste of tightly woven fabric such as gabardine (Chambers) or material made from such waste (Collins). | 22 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | 19 | Luciano Ward | Low-quality fibre leads to one making ugly gastrointestinal noises, unfortunately | anagram ('unfortunately') of first letters ('leads'); low-quality fibre = def | 19 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | 28 | S.Sreeni | Poor young men longing to get free, cheap cloth from mill | Anagram (poor) of {YOUNGMEN – YEN(longing)}* (to get free is the deletion ind ). Def: cheap cloth from mill | 19 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | 43 | Peter Moore Fuller | Waste from ungodly trousers (5) | Waste – def; froM UNGOdly; trousers – hidden indicator | 19 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | 7 | Nathan Townshend | Fashionable young men with no desire for inferior threads | Fashionable = anagrind (Can be fashioned) young men = fodder; with no desire = delete YEN; inferior threads = def | 18 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 20 | Roger Gascoigne | Manchester United's new goalscorer's off-target headers felt substandard. | "headers" indicates initial letters of 5 preceding words (M-U-N-G-O). Substandard felt (felt substandard) is a definition of MUNGO. | 18 | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | 23 | Mug with no pants, gets cheap fabric (5) | Anagram of MUG+NO (pants is anagrind), def = cheap fabric | 17 | 2 | 4 | |
| 12 | 40 | This waste is recycled into e.g. woman's suit | Comp anag &lit, (MUNGOWASTEIS)* = (EGWOMANSSUIT)* | 16.5 | 2 | 2 | |
| 13 | 10 | Felt united by charity | Felt = definition, united = Man United, by NGO = charity | 13 | 0 | 3 | |
| 14 | 27 | Obligation to turn what's essentially wasted into new material | MUST + GO substituting N for [wa]ST[ed] | 12.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 15 | 3 | Cheap cloth manufactured under new government order, at first | Def. cheap cloth from beginning letters (at first) of Manufactured Under New Government Order | 11.5 | 3 | 2 | |
| 16 | 8 | Felt fabric salvaged out of humungous pile | Hidden word huMUNGOus | 11 | 1 | 3 | |
| 16 | 9 | Felt tawdry playing Among Us endlessly (5) | Def: Felt tawdry (Felt that is tawdry); anagrind: playing; (-a)MONGU(-s) | 11 | 0 | 3 | |
| 18 | 16 | Humungous core made from waste wool | Core of huMUNGOus | 10.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| 19 | 12 | Flock to leave behind number in retreat | def: flock(waste wool); MUN(rev. of NUM, number) GO(to leave) | 10 | 3 | 2 | |
| 19 | 21 | Mongoose family takes a moment to surround retreating wildebeest | Def = mongoose family. gnu reversed in mo = m(ung)o | 10 | 1 | 3 | |
| 19 | 46 | Waste produced by doctor eating flipping antelope ! (5) | Waste = definition , doctor = MO , eating = insertion indicator , Flipping = reversal indicator , antelope = gnu = ung | 10 | 2 | 2 | |
| 22 | 13 | Greek character heads relief program for Glaswegian patron | MU+NGO | 9.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 23 | 39 | This Glaswegian on a mission was no mug, but flawed. | St Mungo, missionary, bishop, and patron Saint of Glasgow. (NOMUG)* | 9 | 2 | ||
| 24 | 15 | Gun's shot a second round leaving residue | anag. in mo.; shot = ruined | 8 | 1 | 2 | |
| 24 | 35 | Scraps from mill, unused no good offcuts? | First letters &lit. | 8 | 1 | 1 | |
| 24 | 44 | Waste little time around lounges essentially (5) | Def: Waste, MO (little time)<<(-lo)UNG(-es) | 8 | 3 | 2 | |
| 27 | 22 | Monsieur cut a French green fabric of little worth? (5) | Monsieur cut = M: A French = UN: Green = GO: | 5.5 | 1 | 3 | |
| 28 | 31 | Recycled cloth is primarily made using nice garments only (5) | Recycled cloth = semi &lit definition; Primarily = starting letters of M[ade] U[sing] N[ice] G[arments] O[nly] | 5 | 2 | 2 | |
| 29 | 45 | Waste mill upcycles: new goods output at first. | Def: waste. First letters, with &lit overtones. | 4.5 | 0 | ||
| 29 | 48 | Young man without any letters to his name | composite anag (youngman) minus any | 4.5 | 1 | 4 | |
| 31 | 6 | Exploding gun muffled by covering of merino wool and cotton | Exploding – anagrind, GUN*- fodder; muffled by – containment indicator. covering of M(erin)O = MO. Wool and cotton – definition | 4 | 1 | 2 | |
| 31 | 34 | Reused material among us, stripped and recycled | (aMONG Us)* | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| 33 | 18 | Letter from Greek welfare group named Glaswegian saint | letter from Greek = mu, welfare group = NGO | 3.5 | 2 | 2 | |
| 33 | 41 | Um Bongo cocktail (after taking a shower) for the Glasgow man | Anagram of UM BONGO (having washed away BO); Mungo was the founder of Glasgow | 3.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| 35 | 14 | Gun shot old maiden dressed in cheap clothing (5) | ((GUN)* indicated by shot+ O (Old)+ M (Maiden, as in Cricket))* indicated by dressed; Definition: cheap clothing. | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| 35 | 26 | Not oddly, impugns good cloth wasted | iMpUgNsGoOd | 3 | 1 | 3 | |
| 35 | 33 | Recycled material produced from mill, unmistakably nondescript, generally old at first | M/U/N/G/O extended definition | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| 35 | 47 | Wool from ungodly part (5) | Hidden word with wool as definition, froM UNGOdly = fodder, part = hidden word indicator | 3 | 3 | ||
| 39 | 11 | Felt waste in beaker contains nitrogen and oxygen | MUG around N + O; defn: felt waste | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| 40 | 2 | Beano felt a waste | Bean – mung – o (wordplay) felt a waste – mungo is a waste product in the production of felt (def) | 1.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| 40 | 25 | Must travel abroad for cheap fabric ( 5 ) Travel =Go | “Mun” is old English for “Must” Travel =Go Mun+Go= cheap fabric | 1.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 42 | 32 | Recycled material once more clothes antelope from the east. | MO (=more, archaic hence the 'once') containing GNU reversed | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 42 | 36 | Scraps obtained from mill used nevertheless to manufacture waste product | & lit; (m)ill (u)sed (n)evertheless + go (urinate/manufacture waste product) | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 42 | 37 | Second loads shotgun with woollen material (5) | MO holding UNG (gun, fodder. Shot, anagrind). Woollen material, def. | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 45 | 42 | Van, hurling from New York, driven by man from Paris: an escape | Definition is "Van, hurling, from New York" (Van Mungo, a baseball pitcher on New York teams). "Driven by" is the connector. "Man" = M. "from Paris: an" = UN. "escape" as a verb = GO. | 0.5 | 1 | 3 | |
| 46 | 17 | Jerry Park? | A couple of famous Mungos | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 46 | 24 | Must broadly speaking bash on producing poor material | MUN (=must, dialect (broadly speaking)) with GO (have a go/bash at) on, producing def. Maybe there really is no point though. | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 46 | 38 | Singer of 'In the Summertime' must, locally, be ranked with others | MUN + GO | 0 | 0 | 2 |