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From: tomd@cayman.amd.com (Tom Deneau)
Subject: ACC79 Full Clue List
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:51:27 GMT
 
The following is the complete clue list for ACC79.  Apologies for the
delay in getting this out.  I hope everyone enjoyed the clues.  I know
I did.  Although the turnout was light, I think the quality of the
clues was unusually high.
 
As a reminder, for ACC79, cluers were asked to write a clue whose
surface is appropriate to one of the following "romantic" themes:
	- a message from a valentine's day card,
	- general advice on improving the relationship with one's partner
 
-- Tom Deneau
 
 
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From Merlyn LeRoy (merlyn@digibd.com)
 
Just a note to say "I love you" (3)
 
   IOU
   Just a note = definition of IOU
      ("Just" a promisory note, not as good as a check)
   to say = homophone indicator
   "I love you" = I Oh you (love = 0, can be read aloud as "Oh")
 
   You can change the (3) to (1-1-1) or (1.1.1.) if you don't
   like "IOU" to be clued as a 3-letter word.
 
 
[This was nice and short but I felt the "to say" homophone indicator
 should only have gone with "you".  "O" is not a homophone for "love".]
 
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From: Kevin Wald (wald@math.uchicago.edu)
 
 
Say, "Roses are red,
And sand grains are wee,"
Turned in musical tones,
For to say you love me (6)
 
	GNOMES
 
      Say, "Roses are red, and sand grains are wee" = GNOMES
        ("Gnome" not in the sense of "a small magical creature", but in
         the sense of "a statement of an eternal verity". "Say" in the
         cryptic reading is used in the sense of "for example".)
 
      in musical tones = SUNG
      Turned = reversal indicator
      SUNG (reversed) = GNUS
      to say = homonym indicator
      you = homonym of U
      love = O
      For U O+ME = replace U (in GNUS) with OME = GNOMES
 
[I liked the verse idea but the definition was too long
 and the cryptic part too complicated]
 
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From: Matthew A. Merzbacher (matthew@ella.mills.edu)
 
 
Matthew loses his heart for innocent quartet on TV cruise ship (6)
 
  Matthew          = fodder (and it's me!)
  loses his heart  = charade indicator -> M(atthe)W
 
  I think the word "entirely" could be added after heart to make the clue
  a bit easier here, but I'm not sure it's better.  Add it, if you think so.
 
  for              = replacement indicator
  innocent quartet = INNO (first four letters of innocent)
		   => M(INNO)W
  TV cruise ship   = defn. (from Gilligan's Island)
 
  I'll plea extra points for misdirection, as "TV cruise ship" hints at 
  "The Love Boat".
 
 
[ Cute surface, and I agree it could misdirect the solver.
  It didn't really fit as a "valentine's card line" or an "romantic
  advice" category, though. Also, I thought "innocent quartet" should
  have been more explicit to indicate the first four letters]
 
 
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From: Brian C. Spollen (bcs@sc.harris.com)
 
 Put in a tight spot, she'll admit passion (7)
 
    "put in a tight spot" = def. of "sheathe"
    "she" = "she"
    "'ll admit" = inclusion indicator
    "passion" = "heat"
 
[Nice "tightly" constructed charade with a good romantic surface reading.
 An honorable mention]
 
 
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From: Edward Coulson <fyj@psu.edu>
 
Give a modern woman arrangement for rest, first -- THEN get flowers.  (7)
 
    the solution is STREAMS:
 
    a modern woman= A MS
    arrangement for= anagram indicator
    rest=anagram fodder=>STRE
    and the whole is rendered as STREAMS, which are flowers,
    i.e. things that flow.
 
[Great surface reading in the "romantic advice" category.
 Good cryptic construction and I'm a sucker for
 the punny definition.  First place]
 
 
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From: Paula Tanous (paula@interserve.com)
 
Arrange dreamy greeting  (2,4)
 
SOLUTION:  My dear
EXPLANATION: 
arrange = anagram indicator
dreamy = anagram of my dear
greeting= definition
 
[ I guess this was in the "romantic advice" category although
  I'm not sure how successful this advice would be.
  As a cryptic, probably too easy to solve.]
 
 
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From: Alan_Waldock (Alan_Waldock@ccm.jf.intel.com)
 
My love is false -- 'tis why I ache inside (8)
 
It's the "greeting" from a Valentine card intended to be sent by a jilted swain.
Probably not by Hallmark, since it has the merit (or at least the property) of 
being a perfect iambic pentameter.
 
     My  love  is false  'tis  why I ache inside
     --  ----  --------  ----  -----------------
     MY    O      SI      TIS        defn.
 
 
[I give this one tops in the "valentine card" category,
 The iambic pentameter being a nice touch.
 My only quibble was using "false" to indicate reversal.]
 
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From: Phil Rose (pvr@wg.icl.co.uk)
 
Dressed in denim as sacred deed on St Valentine's Day (8) 
 
	Dressed in     - container indicator
	deniM AS SACREd => MASSACRE
	deed on...     - referring to Capone's St. Valentine's Day massacre
 
	Some people are leather fetishists, but others...
 
 
[Nice kinky way to work Valentine's Day into a clue but didn't really
 fit either of the requested categories.]
 
 
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From: Yap Yok Foo <yfyap@pop.jaring.my>
 
Love, send last gram back to her (1,6)
 
 O                 M      OT HER  = O MOTHER
 
 
[I wasn't sure how gram fit in the surface
 and I didn't like the "O" in the answer]
 
 
 
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