CCCWC April 2024 competition results
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28 clues entered. 29 votes cast (20 competitors, 9 others).
BARBERSHOP
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | Merits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | Steve Randall | Singing style that tends to shock? | D1 "singing style" D2 "that tends to shock" ref:shock of hair | 48.5 | 1 | |
| 2 | 16 | Luciano Ward | Main location of Sweeney Todd, a US composer’s ultimately ghoulish work? | (Samuel) BARBER'S + H + OP | 29.5 | 0 | |
| 3 | 13 | John Appleton | Insult Queen's dance music (10) | BARB + ER'S + HOP | 26.5 | 1 | |
| 4 | 15 | Dave Williams | It’s hard work to follow Adagio composer’s Music for Quartet | hard = H, work = OP, to follow = placed after, Adagio composer’s = (Samuel) BARBER’S. Music for quartet = def. (if unsure about the ‘It’s’, think of it as ‘The route to the answer is’) | 23.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | 12 | Ramki Krishnan | Insult pro's extremely hoarse, laboured style of singing (10) | Def = style of singing BARB (insult) + anagram of PROS H-E, laboured is anagram indicator | 20.5 | 1 | |
| 6 | 28 | Satyen Nabar | Where one has a close shave as robber starts to plunder house desperately | {AS ROBBER P(-lunder) H(-ouse)}*; starts to= select first letters, desperately= anag ind, defn= where one has a close shave | 20 | 1 | |
| 7 | 2 | Thejaswi Udupa | American composer's dance music style | Samuel BARBER'S HOP (dance). Definition – music style | 18 | 3 | |
| 8 | 8 | Peter Moore Fuller | Club bouncer’s opening posher cocktail place on high street | Club – BAR; bouncer’s opening – B; posher – fodder; cocktail – anagrind > ERSHOP; place on the high street – def | 17 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 20 | Jay | Sharper bob style at Vidal Sassoon maybe (10) | Anagram: sharper bob Anagrind: style Definition: Vidal Sassoon maybe | 15 | 0 | |
| 10 | 25 | Charlie Oakley | Unkind remark about backing terribly posh lock cutting service | Unkind remark = BARB, about = RE (reversed), terribly – anagrind, POSH*; lock cutting service – cryptic definition | 14.5 | 1 | |
| 11 | 6 | Brash probe undid clip joint | (BRASH PROBE)* | 13 | 0 | 1 | |
| 12 | 7 | Brasher beat in dance music | Brasher* in bop. Defn. = music. | 11.5 | 3 | ||
| 13 | 3 | Bishop and queen’s husband walk into a bar with a naked Pope. (This one can make your hair curl!) (10) | BAR [B ER’S H] pOPe | 11 | 1 | 2 | |
| 14 | 11 | Go from pub to pub downing ales, belting out European chiral music (10) | BAR HOP (go from pub to pub) around (drinking) BEERS(ales) – E (European). Def: chiral music | 8.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| 15 | 18 | Quartet's snub to royal establishment | Quartet = definition. snub = barb , to = link, royal = ER , establishment = SHOP i.e. (BARB + ER + SHOP). | 7.5 | 1 | ||
| 15 | 23 | Such a quartet might be rash if playing bebop's abandoned | (BARBERSHOP – BEBOP)* = RASH* | 7.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 17 | 9 | Crazy biographers remove trimmed wig and accept a little bit of Brylcreem here | (BIOGRAPHERS – IG + B)* | 7 | 0 | ||
| 18 | 10 | Figaro was to dance with Susanna at first to such music (10) | Figaro = barber , was to dance with Susanna at first = s(hop) + definition ref Marriage of Figaro | 5.5 | 1 | ||
| 18 | 19 | Samuel's dance music? (10) | Samuel BARBER'S HOP (dance). Definition is music. Ref. Samuel Barber, the famous American composer. | 5.5 | 2 | ||
| 18 | 21 | Singing quartet forbid dance involving dancing horse | BAR BOP involving HORSE* | 5.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 18 | 26 | Where locks get dealt with, robbers' path out loses time | Anagram of [ROBBERSPATH – T]; definition = where locks get dealt with | 5.5 | 1 | ||
| 22 | 24 | Type of music one can listen to for a snip? | CD | 4.5 | 0 | ||
| 23 | 17 | Not properly sharp, or be blunt? Source of concern where scissors are involved | Anag (not properly) of SHARP OR BE B(lunt – source of). concern where scissors are involved =def. | 3 | 1 | ||
| 23 | 27 | Where numbers are in harmonic progression you could get a buzz out of that | CD & DD | 3 | 1 | ||
| 25 | 4 | Bob Harper's relaxed studio that's cutting shocks | BOBHARPERS* [Bob Harper film producer]; definition: [hair] studio that's cutting shocks with [film] studio for the surface | 2 | 1 | ||
| 25 | 14 | It may have a distinctive pole, but dancing? Probably not | Double def. Ref barber's pole. Music that is not really for dancing to. | 2 | 2 | ||
| 27 | 1 | According to the rap lyrics it’s where the hirsute can expect to be in the chair for 25 cents | According to the rap (rhythm popularly used to knock on doors; or a sung ‘call and response’) lyrics it’s where (Barbershop – Def.) the hirsute (those with surplus hair) can expect to be in the (barber’s) chair for 25 cents (US slang = two bits/a Quarter, rap, “Shave and a Haircut – Two bits”!) Wordplay | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 28 | 5 | Both Rab and Johnny from the Southern United States return to retail store and form a type of acapella group | Rab/BAR + Reb/BER (ref Johnny Reb) + retail store = SHOP | 0 | 0 |