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- From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern)
- Subject: PCWC 9 Ballot
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.173106.24543@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Keywords:
- PCWC 9 Ballot
- Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu (USENET Maintenance)
- Organization: NCAR/UCAR
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:31:06 GMT
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-
- OK, folks, the clues for PCWC 9 are all in. It's time to vote for
- your favorites. (Both clue submitters and non-submitters are allowed
- to vote.) The remaining relevant dates for PCWC 9 are:
-
- Monday 1 February 23:59 MST Deadline for receipt of PCWC 9 votes
- Tuesday 2 February I'll post an annotated list of the
- best-loved clues for PCWC 9.
-
- MODERATOR'S NOTE: I'd like to point out that even though many cluers
- grumbled and groaned about the difficulty of the word, I received what
- may be a record number of entries. So there.
-
- Also, please note that I've made a bit of a change to the normal
- procedure for recording comments. If you want me to pass a comment
- to a cluer, please follow the format I've requested.
-
- This post is divided into three parts.
-
- A) a list of all the clues for the word without explanations
- B) the same list annotated with the author's explanations
- C) instructions on how to vote, and on the scoring
-
- ALL CLUES, WITHOUT EXPLANATIONS
-
- 1) Mysteriously augur in tea leaves - begin anew. (10)
-
- 2) In early Australia, guru ate too many sheep to start things properly (10)
-
- 3) To start the ceremony, you must be hidden in gold framework (10)
-
- 4) Prophet, amid wild reaction, cedes unbounded force to initiate
- a new ruler (10)
-
- 5) To induct guru, I ate an oddness (10)
-
- 6) In short, August uranium price is set up (10)
-
- 7) Open two universities in a great turmoil (10)
-
- 8) Begin, in forecast, with what sounds like an octet (10)
-
- 9) Begin in first 2/3 of month, and be worth something at end (10)
-
- 10) Gone North from New Guinea - a turn to start with (10)
-
- 11) Begin to ruin French cake mix (10)
-
- 12) In Rome, soothsayer stirred tea for initiate (10)
-
- 13) The soothsayer lunched in front of the ceremony (10)
-
- 14) Drunk iguana, true initiate (10)
-
- 15) Dedicate after July with universal esteem (10)
-
- 16) Institute in state dropped from August rank (10)
-
- 17) Invest in gold and uranium-filled jar (10)
-
- 18) Dedicate to thankless one hoarding gold and uranium (10)
-
- ALL CLUES FOR 'INAUGURATE' WITH AUTHORS' EXPLANATIONS:
-
- --------------------------------------------------
- 1) Mysteriously augur in tea leaves - begin anew. (10)
-
- mysteriously = anagram indicator
- augurintea anagrammed = inaugurate
- leaves = makes
- begin anew = definition
- --------------------------------------------------
- 2) In early Australia, guru ate too many sheep to start things properly (10)
- -------------- ------------------------
- IN AU GURU ATE -U definition
- --------------------------------------------------
- 3) To start the ceremony, you must be hidden in gold framework (10)
-
- To start the ceremony - definition
- you - indicates U
- must be hidden - hide the U in the following
- in gold framework - IN AU GRATE --> IN+AU+G(U)RATE
- --------------------------------------------------
- 4) Prophet, amid wild reaction, cedes unbounded force to initiate
- a new ruler (10)
-
- Prophet = AUGUR
- amid = container follows
- wild reaction = anag(reaction) = IN ATE ORC
- cedes unbounded force = remove (f|orc|e) = remove ORC
- (You can remove the ORC before anagramming reaction if you like)
- initiate a new ruler = def.
- --------------------------------------------------
- 5) To induct guru, I ate an oddness (10)
-
- ["guru, I ate an" anag.]
- --------------------------------------------------
- 6) In short, August uranium price is set up (10)
-
- IN+AUG(short August)+U+RATE = "set up"
- --------------------------------------------------
- 7) Open two universities in a great turmoil (10)
-
- Open = defn
- two universities = UU
- turmoil = anagram indicator UU + INAGREAT = INAUGURATE
- --------------------------------------------------
- 8) Begin, in forecast, with what sounds like an octet (10)
-
- "Begin" = inaugurate; "in" = "in", "forecast" = "augur",
- "octet" = "eight" (homophone)
- --------------------------------------------------
- 9) Begin in first 2/3 of month, and be worth something at end (10)
-
- Begin = INAUGURATE
- in = IN
- first 2/3 of month = AUGU(st)
- be worth something = RATE
- and ... at end = place RATE after IN AUGU
- --------------------------------------------------
- 10) Gone North from New Guinea - a turn to start with (10)
-
- ANAG " Guinea - a turn " less " N " (Gone North)
- ANAG TRIGGER - " New "
- Defn INAUGURATE - " To start with <something> "
- --------------------------------------------------
- 11) Begin to ruin French cake mix (10)
-
- BEGIN = defn
- RUIN +
- GATEAU (French cake)
- mix (i.e. anagram) = INAUGURATE
- --------------------------------------------------
- 12) In Rome, soothsayer stirred tea for initiate (10)
-
- Initiate: definition
- in: IN
- Rome soothsayer: AUGUR
- stirred tea: TEA anag.
- IN + AUGUR + ATE
- --------------------------------------------------
- 13) The soothsayer lunched in front of the ceremony (10)
-
- soothsayer=AUGUR lunched=ATE in=IN
- front(placement clue for IN) ceremony=INAUGURATE
- --------------------------------------------------
- 14) Drunk iguana, true initiate (10)
-
- Drunk iguana true = INAUGURATE (anagram)
- initiate = defn
- --------------------------------------------------
- 15) Dedicate after July with universal esteem (10)
-
- dedicate = definition
- after July = IN AUG
- universal = U
- esteem = RATE
- --------------------------------------------------
- 16) Institute in state dropped from August rank (10).
-
- Institute = defn; IN + (AUGUST-ST) + (RATE = rank)
- --------------------------------------------------
- 17) Invest in gold and uranium-filled jar (10)
-
- def. = IN + AU + [U inside GRATE]
- "Invest" means INAUGURATE in the sense of "induct into office";
- AU and U are the chemical symbols for gold and uranium;
- "jar" means GRATE as in "make a harsh sound"
- --------------------------------------------------
- 18) Dedicate to thankless one hoarding gold and uranium (10)
-
- INGRATE (thankless one) hoarding AU (gold)
- and U (uranium) = IN(AU)G(U)RATE = dedicate
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- VOTING:
-
- In this posting all the submitted clues are identified by a single
- number. To vote, send me a piece of Email (please make sure the string
- "PCWC" or "pcwc" appears in the subject, to make life easier for me) that
- looks something like this:
-
- Kind moderator,
-
- Here's how I felt about the entries to PCWC 9
-
- ---------------------------------------------
- 3 7
- 5 4 1
- 8 2 6
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- W. J. Clinton
-
- bill@ovaloffice.whitehouse.gov
-
-
- This specifies a partial ranking of the clue numbers, with
-
- 3 = 7 > 5 = 4 = 1 > 8 = 2 = 6
-
- The first line contains the numbers of the clues you like best; the
- second line those you like second best, etc. Within a line, list
- clues numbers that you like about equally well in any order. Any clue
- numbers that don't appear in your ranking will be added at the end on
- a line by themselves; all equal and worse than any that you did list.
- If you are lazy, you can just send me a single number of the clue
- you like best; note, however, that the greater an effort you make
- to differentiate between all the clues, the more accurate the results
- will be. If you list a number more than once, you will be sent
- to the farm, immediately.
-
- Should you wish to make critical comments regarding any or all of the
- clues, your comments will be sent along to the authors anonymously
- provided that you preceed *each* line of your comments with the
- clue number and right parenthesis, as in the following example:
-
- 12) I thought that the obscure meaning of the word used made this
- 12) clue much too difficult for a dumb solver such as myself.
-
- Please note that the lines with clue numbers in your voting should be
- bracketed by lines with only dashes, to facilitate automatic
- tabulation of the scores.
-
- Both clue submitters and non-submitters are allowed to vote. You ARE
- allowed to vote for your own clue, but please try to be honest. Of
- course, one vote per person; DON'T use multiple accounts or aliases to
- stuff the ballot box or encourage your cronies and cohorts to vote for
- your clue just so you can win.
- SCORING:
-
- The scoring will be as in tournaments, with 1 point for each better
- ranking and 1/2 point for a tie. So, for example, based only on the
- votes of Mr. Clinton above, the scoring (assuming there were 8 entries)
- would be
-
- Clue Pts.
- 1 4
- 2 1
- 3 6 1/2
- 4 4
- 5 4
- 6 1
- 7 6 1/2
- 8 1
-
- The total scores will be the sum of the scores from all voters. The
- moderator does not vote.
-
- --
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