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- From: msm@src.dec.com (Mark S. Manasse)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles.crosswords
- Subject: Silver CWC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.004413.16106@src.dec.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 00:44:13 GMT
- Sender: msm@enet.dec.com (Mark S. Manasse)
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- Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
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- CLUE WRITING COMPETITION NUMBER 25
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- Welcome to the Clue Writing Competition's silver event (devised by
- Ian Gent). The rules, and this article, are much the same as used
- in earlier rounds.
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- The dates for CWC 25 are:
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- Thursday 26 November 23:59 PST Deadline for CWC25 entries
- Friday 27 November I'll post the CWC25 winners
- Friday 27 November I'll post an annotated list of entries.
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- The rules:
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- Later on in this posting you'll find two words or phrases. The first
- is chosen to be fairly easy to write a clue for; the second is intended
- to be more awkward.
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- You may submit clues for either or both words. I will accept only one
- clue per person for each word; If you send more than one for a word, I
- will accept the first one I receive. E-mail the clues, along with your
- name and e-mail address, clear explanations of how your clues work, and
- whether or not you could run the next contest, to me at the following
- address:
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- msm@src.dec.com
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- After the deadline, I'll pick my favorite clue for each word; thus
- there will be two winning clues. I'll pick my favorite of these two as
- the overall winner, inviting its writer to set the next round of this
- competition. I'll post separately a list of runner-up clues, and all
- the remaining clues, with as much commentary as I see fit.
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- IMPORTANT: Please DO NOT post your own clues, or anything else that
- might give away the answer words! Some readers of this group want to
- try solving the winning clues; please don't spoil it for them.
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- The words for CWC25 follow, "rot13" encoded for extra security,
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- CVREPVAT
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- FGNGR BS TENPR
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- The second phrase isn't that hard to clue, so I'm looking for extra
- nasty, humorous, twisted clues.
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- Mark S. Manasse (msm@src.dec.com)
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