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From: quinn@EE-CF.Stanford.EDU (Christine A. Quinn)
Subject: ACC21 - My right to vote has been exercised
Message-ID: <1993Apr19.184441.13274@EE.Stanford.EDU>
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 18:44:41 GMT
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Dear ACC21 Participants (and others):

A lot of very high quality clues for enfranchise - you all must
be reasonably *mature* cluers to do so well (only one person
claimed to be under 21!).  It made it very tough to choose a winner!  
I decided to go for the neatest clue (sorry I didn't indicate 
that's what I like in the announcement, but I didn't know until 
I saw them all).

I hereby *free* you from further distress to announce the winner
of ACC21:

French anise, ground for free (11)

Which was penned by Sid Chatterjee, a name I, at least, have not
seen much in these contests before.  Congratulations Sid.

Unfortunately Sid is unavailable for the next round, so the
next in line is:

Authorize to make a new selection, since her fan broke (11)

by Brian Spollen, who says he is available to moderate.

Have fun Brian!

-chris quinn

All of the clues, and my comments (for what they're worth):

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Liberate the wretched hen-fanciers! (11)

  The "the" appears to be extraneous.  The surface reading is a 
  little weak:  not sure why one would be a hen-fancier or why one 
  would be locked up for it.

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Poles join free China movement to give power to the people  (11)

  I liked this one - it has a good overall reading and the
  double meaning of 'poles' is clever.  

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Permit to vote in French before his entry into France (11)

  "Entry into" is a bit wordy and not sure why 
  one would vote "in french" before being allowed into France. 

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In France he's curiously free (11)

  Another french fellow - someone who feels liberated (perhaps
  their national motto helped?) Pretty cute.  Compact, I 
  like it.  

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Give the short receiver the team (11)

   The theme is there, but the sentence is not as meaningful
   as one would hope - why would the short receiver get the
   team?  Also, with words like short one never knows how much 
   of the affected word to take, in this case we had to know 
   to take d from end. Also, the first "the" is extraneous.

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Endows leader with authorization to sell the party's stand on voting rights(11)

   Good concept - nice theme, but again "leader" as an indication of 
   taking en (as opposed to just e) from endow makes this a little 
   sloppy.  Also, lots of extra words take away from the clue.

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French anise, ground for free (11)

   I thought this was quite good.  Very succinct and using ground
   for anagram indicator is nice.  I liked the fact that one
   might actually see this on a sign at a store.

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Free Anne Fischer! (11)

   Free is to be the definition and the anagram indicator -
   so I guess that makes this an &lit (at least by the
   definitions I've been reading posted to the group).
   I have a slight problem with free being an anagram
   indicator, though, I do see floating letters as being
   "free" I guess.  

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Authorize to make a new selection, since her fan broke (11)

   This is quite good, and although the anagram indicator
   is one of those standard words, it's sufficiently well
   placed within the clue to not be over-obvious.  I like
   the slightly different definition of enfranchise.

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Enchain serf, otherwise set free (11)

   Very good - excellent use of an anagram indicator.  The
   whole thing has the flavor of the word, too, although
   not strictly an &lit.

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Remove chains, free, and admit citizen's right! (11)

   A good &lit - though it's too bad it had to 
   be slightly redundant (removing chains = freeing).
   Re-move to indicate an anagram is nicely oblique.
   Wish 'admit' could have been a different word, though
   I know it's part of the definition it sounds a little
   weird to me.

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Askew finances her permit to be a citizen (11)

   I kept reading this wanting it to say:
    Askew finances permit her to be a citizen!
   using the first word as an adjective insted
   of a person's name, finances as a noun instead
   of a verb, and permit as a verb instead
   of a noun.  Weird, eh?  Anyway, I didn't know
   but was told by the sender, that Askew was or is
   the governor of Florida, so it makes sense once
   you know that.  If you don't know that, perhaps
   you try to read it like I did.

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Allow to pick wild French anise (11)

   Another French entry, "allow to pick" is a different
   way of defining enfranchise, which makes it nice.
   
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