CCCWC March 2008 competition results
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DINNER-TIME
MARCH CLUE WRITING COMPETITION – DINNER-TIME (6-4) – THE RESULTS
Finally I am back in circulation. I will tidy up the outstanding and then
update you on the developments for future competitions in a separate email.
Thanks for your unending patience, and here we go…
Much clearer winner for this competition. The winning clue surged ahead
early on and never looked like being caught. Congratulations to John for
his second win in 3 months, and to all the others who reached the podium.
THE RESULTS
| Pos | No. | Name | Clue | Explanation | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 | John Tozer | Fast reaching conclusion now entire mind's made up | Anagram | 61.5 | 6 |
| 2 | 47 | Margaret Irvine | When to start start serving sentence after daughter gets shot? | Def: when to start serving; TIME after D + inner (archery shot) | 32 | 1 |
| 3 | 4 | Luciano Ward | After work, tired men will eat at home when? | IN ('at home') inside TIREDMEN* ('after work') | 28 | 6 |
| 4 | 9 | Trevor Crowther | Big noise not to get Order of Merit? A gong is surely due now | DIN + NE + anag of MERIT | 27 | 5 |
| 4 | 32 | Pete Milne | Out to lunch, then? No, entire mind's active! | ENTIREMIND* | 27 | 1 |
| 6 | 2 | Tim Moorey | After Darling’s latest lapses, Labour determining announcement of a gong? | anag less g | 22.5 | 5 |
| 7 | 5 | Brian Dungate | Afternoon and evening peak fare period | Dinner can be a midday or evening meal; fare=food | 20 | 3 |
| 7 | 10 | Dave Parfitt | Bill ends it with shockingly dim interne | DIMINTERNE*; ref. Bill Clinton | 20 | 4 |
| 7 | 39 | Mick Hodgkin | What gong conveys in merited letters displayed before and after name | (IN MERITED* around N) | 20 | 3 |
| 10 | 23 | Rod Harling | Inn merited liquid lunch break | Inn merited* | 19 | 2 |
| 11 | 25 | Mine-ridden time for beginner of diet? Awfully | t for d in anag. & lit. | 18 | 1 | |
| 12 | 21 | If eating dodgy naan, this could end with mint and a Rennie, possibly | Anag (naan+dinnertime)= mint and a rennie | 16 | 4 | |
| 13 | 36 | There'll be a piece of dessert and more in me after it's over | D + INNER [compar. of 'in'] + IT [rev] + ME, and lit | 15.5 | 4 | |
| 14 | 48 | When you eat for nine, Mr., diet goes all to hell | When you eat = DEFINITION / nine Mr diet* = FODDER | 15 | 1 | |
| 15 | 3 | After tea's cleared away, indeterminate otherwise | inde(TE)rmin(A)te* + &lit (ie timing varies from hotel to hotel) | 14 | ||
| 15 | 14 | Convivial occasion? Mostly men, tired, drunk, staggering around small hotel | INN in *ME(N) TIRED | 14 | 2 | |
| 17 | 46 | When to serve roast deer in mint, perhaps | anag., ‘DEER IN MINT’ | 13 | 1 | |
| 18 | 49 | When service is due, use a scruffy rented Mini | Anagram RENTED MINI | 12 | ||
| 19 | 44 | When out to lunch, it may be indeterminate (but not tea, anyhow!) | indeterminate* – tea* & lit | 11 | 3 | |
| 20 | 33 | Possibly before high tea – it’s indeterminate | dinner-time* + tea* = indeterminate; &lit. | 10 | ||
| 21 | 34 | Roughly determining almost the hour for meal | Anag less G | 9 | 2 | |
| 22 | 11 | Burg? | GRUB's up | 8 | 2 | |
| 22 | 31 | Occasion for celebration – private session lined up with leader of Democrats | D(emocrats) inner time | 8 | ||
| 24 | 35 | Shed tear over province returning to table now | emit ren(N.I.)d (reversed) | 6.5 | ||
| 25 | 30 | Now there's start of digging in – that's ere mint being chewed | d + in + anag & lit | 6 | ||
| 26 | 12 | Call to the table | cryptic def | 5 | 1 | |
| 26 | 16 | Eight, say. I did! | Eight, say, used twice – Typical starting time for a dinner – homophone of "ate" | 5 | ||
| 26 | 41 | When disinclined to move, about 6 in evening, breaking bread? | (eveniNg in INERT) in DIME &lit | 5 | ||
| 29 | 43 | When Mr. Wolf calls, Red Ridin' and me (holding net!) lose colour and tremble | * Red Ridin + me + net – red. Mr. Wolf comes (calls) at dinner-time in the popular tag game | 4.5 | 2 | |
| 30 | 13 | Cash (a small coin) proffered as Spooner forks out for fare on board? | TIN, A DIME proffered in the manner of Spooner = "Dinner time" + CD of dinner time (forks at the ready for food on table) | 4 | ||
| 30 | 22 | Inn merited dressing up then? | Anagram | 4 | 1 | |
| 30 | 28 | Noon, not six, in Bishop's Mitre – possibly we'll be eating then? | n for vi in Divine + anag.; 's = has | 4 | ||
| 30 | 40 | When a family might gather to eat, having Nana's left-over joint | DIN(Nana+ERTIM)E (mitre rev.) | 4 | ||
| 34 | 15 | Deer in mint served up now? | DEERINMINT* | 3 | 1 | |
| 34 | 24 | Merited confusion about boozer when main meal's served | Anag about "inn"/def. | 3 | ||
| 36 | 7 | Angry red mite eats inn's evening repast | Anagram of RED MITE surrounds INN | 2 | 1 | |
| 36 | 18 | Family goes back to arrange short meeting about recipe and the occasion it 's for | NID(=Brood) backwards + MEETIN arranged about R(=recipe) then definition | 2 | ||
| 38 | 37 | This tried in men conditioned as part of Pavlovian experiment? | Anag. 'tried in men', dinner-time being part of the famous 'Pavlov's Dogs' bell + meal-time (stimulus/response) experiment | 1.5 | 1 | |
| 39 | 8 | Ate from indeterminate mess at midday? | (INDETERMINATE -ATE)* The question mark indicates that the usage of midday as the definition is not usual (according to Chambers). | 1 | ||
| 40 | 1 | About noon – to René “midi” – gone (long gone) 11 anyhow? | (TORENEMIDI – O)* around N(oon). O = medieval Roman numeral 11 (Chambers). For many, dinner is midday meal. | 0 | ||
| 40 | 6 | An event to measure at break of day? | dinner = (formal) event; time = to measure. (Meal)break | 0 | ||
| 40 | 17 | Essential small boy in Delaware "Eat now!" | Inner Tim (Tiny Tim) in DE | 0 | ||
| 40 | 20 | Following, an evening emit-tance is only polite | no explantion offered | 0 | ||
| 40 | 26 | N-noble about being in a bar when you should be sat at the table! | Noble=inert (gas), about n, inside dime (dime bar) | 0 | ||
| 40 | 27 | Noise leads confused, lazy me to supper | DIN + INERT* + ME | 0 | ||
| 40 | 29 | Norwegian currency lacks ability to move when the bell sounds | N + dime + inert (anag) | 0 | ||
| 40 | 38 | Vi often cooked me tinned tripe: "Pet, we must divorce." | (me tinned tripe anag. with pet del.) [vi – 6 p.m. – is often dinnertime] | 0 | ||
| 40 | 42 | When midinette arranged noon for tryst’s commencement around the centre of Paris? | Anag midinette (less t) n r; &lit | 0 | ||
| 40 | 45 | When to put away "The Beano"? Before "Batman"! | Beano = Employees' dinner: From the theme tune- "Dinner dinner dinner dinner, dinner dinner dinner dinner, Batman! | 0 | 3 |