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- From: kennedy@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Ralph Kennedy)
- Subject: CWC24 Clues
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.230913.16680@asuvax.eas.asu.edu>
- Organization: crosswords
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:09:13 GMT
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-
- Here are the rest of the clues submitted for CWC24.
- Pretty good clues.
-
- PRINCIPAL
- ---------
-
- This word was fairly rich in possibilities.
- For the first time since I've gotten involved in
- this newsgroup that I can remember, there were
- quite a few double-definition clues and homophonic
- clues.
-
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
- Devastating --- a crippling loss of key educator (9)
-
- [anag "a crippling", lose musical key of G; educator = principal]
-
- Reads very well.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Fund money in PR, Inc.? I pale at thought! (9)
- ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
- definition
-
- Not too keen on FUND MONEY. Also, PR is contrived, and
- two extra words to cryptic at end.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- In the main, I was between the short prince and my friend (9)
- ----------- - ------------- ----------
- definition I between PRINC(e) and PAL
-
- Not thrilled with IN THE MAIN. Good cryptic.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Chief employer of agents?(9)
- (defn)( second defn. )
-
- A much better second definition clue was submitted.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- A friend succeeds, an heir almost arouses interest (9)
- ("A friend" = I PAL, "succeeds" implies after, "an heir almost" = PRINC
- (missing E), "arouses interest" = PRINCIPAL (as in loan amount))
-
- Cute definition, but surface meaning sketchy.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Key player announced rule (9)
- (def. / sounds like "principle")
-
- Nice short clue. A bit simple, as the author admitted.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Important rule announcement (9)
-
- Important: def.
- rule announcement: homophone of PRINCIPLE
-
- A little better variation on the previous clue.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- He started a war with Albert and Victoria (9)
- ---------------- ---- ------ --- --------
- PRINCIP + AL = def.
-
- [Trivia time: Gavrillo Princip was the Serbian Nationalist
- who shot Archduke Ferdinand, touching off WWI. Victoria
- Principal is a famous TV actess (from "Dallas," I believe).
- Victoria and Albert were the Queen and Prince Consort of
- Great Britain, respectively, for much of the 19th century.]
-
- A very nice clue for trivia buffs, except that I don't like
- Victoria used as the definition. I'll buy history, but I don't
- feel solvers should know about every cheap soap opera on TV :-)
- Also, it's a bit unfair not to have a straightforward definition
- of the word somewhere in the clue, but that's probably just
- a quirk of my own. Although I'm sure many would have no
- problem putting "Victoria Principal" and "straightforward"
- together in a sentence. :-)
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- New Jersey school, not Eton, I associate with a headmaster (9)
-
- PRINC + I + PAL
- PRINCETON - ETON = PRINC
- associate = PAL
- a headmaster = defn.
-
- Very nice charade. Second place to Jake Bergmann
- (bergmann@billerica.applicon.slb.com).
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Leading pro finishes early; a friend follows
- (it's only natural) (9)
-
- Leading = principal
-
- Pro finishes early = PR
-
- A friend = I PAL follows
-
- it's only natural = IN C (Key of C Major has no
- sharps or flats)
-
- A bit too convoluted and contrived for my taste, both on the
- surface and cryptic levels.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Pile of gold or lead? (9)
- ------------ ----
- def 1 def 2
-
- def 1 = Capital amount
- def 2 = Lead, as in a play
-
- A very nice second-definition clue. PILE OF GOLD for PRINCIPAL
- is just this side of too cute for a definition, and the double
- meaning of LEAD this well-themed clue suggests is good. First
- place to Mark Manasse (msm@src.dec.com).
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Chief said to be moral (9)
-
- Defn sounds like Defn(principle)
-
- Another decent homophone.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-
- CORROBORATE
-
- This clue turned out to be a little more difficult,
- as expected.
-
-
- Verify that machine contains radium in the middle (11)
-
- [verify = corroborate; radium = atomic symbol Ra, contained by
- "robot" (machine) in "core" (the middle)]
-
- A tough clue to solve.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Confirm cab error: too far out of the way. (11)
- ^^^^^^^
- definition cab error too anagrammed (far out of the way is indicator)
-
- FAR OUT OF THE WAY is a little iffy. Reads very well, though.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Tea drunk at the end of the aboriginal meeting helped to check the facts (11)
- --- ----- ---------------- -------------
- anad ind. corroboree defn
- end of corroboree mixed with tea = defn (corroborate)
-
- Where do you get rid of the "ee"? Also, what does drinking
- tea have to do with helping to check facts?
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Provide support for a boat company error at sea.(11)
- ( defn. ) (BOAT CO ERROR anag. ind.)
-
- Not fair to expect solver to reduce COMPANY to CO before
- anagramming. Also, surface reading iffy.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Radio encapsulates two-way alternative to speak out in support (11)
- ("Radio" = CB, "two-way alternative" = OR RO, "speak out" = ORATE,
- "support" = CORROBORATE)
-
- I don't like "or" for "alternative," although I suppose that's
- some sort of standard. Surface meaning a bit contrived.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Displaced Croat or Boer gets to tell us what we already suspected (11)
-
- "Displaced" = anagram keyword
- "Croat or Boer" = anagram
- "gets" = linking word between def's, i.e. "yields" or "produces"
- "to tell us what we already suspected" = literal def.
-
- The author adds:
- The somewhat morbid surface idea is based on the
- fact that Boers and Croats have both been displaced to concentration camps in
- this century, by the English and the Serbs respectively (no political soapboxes
- here, just hard truth.) Too often it takes an enormous number of such victims
- telling their tragic tales to corroborate what the "free world" essentially
- knew already, and so on...
-
- A bit of a weird clue, but I'll buy it. Second place to
- David Franklin (david_franklin@law.uchicago.edu)
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Three alternatives: A) thick base; B) wide end; C) improved support (11)
-
- OR + OR + OR + A + (T)hick + B + wid(E) + C anag.
- Support: def.
-
- Another "or" fan! Anyway, kind of an indirect anagram.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Confirm or abort core dump? (11)
- ------- ------------- ----
- def. =OR ABORT CORE anag.
-
- Some might say DUMP is on thin ice, but I'll buy it since the clue
- reads so well.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Agree with transit system splitting, murmur a bishop's address (11)
-
- CO(RR)O + B + ORATE
- agree with = defn.
- RR (railroad) splits COO
- address (verb) = ORATE
-
- What am I missing? Where does "a bishop" come in? At any
- rate, surface meaning is too disjointed.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Make certain company trains deliverer to make speech (11)
-
- Make certain = corroborate
-
- company = CO
- trains = RR
- deliverer = OB (obstetrician)
- to make speech = ORATE
-
- Pretty good charade, and pretty good reading. Hard to tell
- which end of the clue to begin with, and fairly difficult
- to solve without being unfair. First place to Greg Lawler
- (jose@math.duke.edu).
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- In hindsight, did Hoffman (E.T.A.) rob? Or Rockefeller confirm it? (11)
-
- hid. back ^ ^ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ = def.
- corroborate
-
- Usually hidden word clues are DEFN in PHRASE, no? At any rate,
- I'm not all that happy with the surface reading.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Turned brace or root into support (11)
- ------ ------------- -------
- anag BRACE OR ROOT def.
-
- Pretty good anagram.
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Confirm or Serbo-Croat gets pointlessly dismembered (11)
-
- Defn -- anagram --- without S hint for anagram
-
- Pretty good anagram. Looks like somebody's been looking at
- the war pictures!
- +------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- --Ralph Kennedy {ames,gatech,husc6,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!kennedy
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