Here, in random order, are all the entries in the fifth segment
of the first Collaborative Cryptic Crossword Constructors
Championship (C5-1E).

The moderator's comments, where called for, are marked by '##'.


1. From:     John Hakemian          sailorjn@nyc.pipeline.com
 
1)  Unopened letter contained returned flower (6)
    (m)AIL + HAD reversed
 
2)   Mythical figure heard a dispatch come in (8)
     A KILL EASE homophone

## Independently reinventing the pun that concluded the witty
## Lewis Carroll essay, "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles"
## (about the paradoxes of convergent infinite series).  I
## accept Sailor's idea that 'ease into' can mean 'come in'.
## Dropping the 'into' seems too much, though.
 
3)   Shaken up at heroin broadcast (2,3,3)
     AT HEROIN anagram
 
## The surface feels that it would rather have 'by' than 'at'.



2. From:     Don Monson             dmonson@Direct.CA

1)  Flower arrangement laid had missing 'D' (6)
    LAID HAD anagram - D

2)  Great Warrior shows prominence in Masters (8)
    AC(HILL)ES

## Apparently a golf tournament played while mounted on
## polo ponies.

3)  Antihero brought down live on TV (2,3,3)
    ANTIHERO anagram

## I think antiheros are creatures of fiction, not docudrama.


3. From:     Phil Rose              pvr@wg.icl.co.uk 

1) Droop held back bloom (6)
   AIL + HAD reversed

## This is a Down clue; 'back' is a flaw.

2) Fell, surrounded by winning shots - were they aimed at his heel? (8)
   AC(HILL)ES

## In Random House II, a FELL is a highland plateau or upland pasture.
## I don't see it as a hill....  and what is 'winning' doing in the
## surface?

3) Transmitting another broadcast about me as subject (2,3,4)
   ONTHEA(I)R (ANOTHER anagram)

## Good integration of 'transmitting' and the anagram signal
## 'broadcast'.


4. From:     David W. Bullock       BULLOCK@lincoln.ac.nz

1)  Sounds like Tibetan high priest takes a flower (6)
    DAHLI (DALAI homophone) + A

##  Well, I looked it up, and "Dalai" doesn't mean "high priest"
##  all by itself; it's a qualifier meaning "ocean".  [Does
##  anyone know the significance of the "ocean" part?]

2)  Was this hero down at heel? (8)
    (play on words)

3)  How the pilot makes an announcement? (2,3,3)
    (play on words)





5. From:     Matthew Merzbacher     matthew@mills.edu


## (This was only inches behind the third-place entry in my judging.)

1) Bertie's aunt caught in verandah liason (6)
   (hidden; reference to Aunt Dahlia in the Wodehouse stories)

## Oops, misspelled 'liaison'.  Jeeves, I expect you to catch
## those things for me!

2) Pains grip sick hero (8)
   ACH(ILL)ES

## A snappy container clue.

3) Sending signals to her in a quiver (2, 3, 3)
   TO HER IN A anagram

## A professional-looking anagram.  One could discuss at length
## whether anagram signals should agree with a singular or
## plural noun ('quiver' or 'quivers'), but don't get me started.




6. From:     Kevin Wald             wald@math.uchicago.edu

## First place.

1)  The Italian had raised a flower (6)
    DAHLI (IL+HAD reversed) + A

## I agree, cryptic solvers should be able to translate A and THE
## into several languages; just which languages is for editorial
## judgment.  Thank goodness not all languages use articles.

2)   Pains gripping sick Greek warrior (8)
     ACH(ILL)ES 

## Straightforward and easy to visualize.

3)   Broadcasting is, I hear, not complicated (2, 3, 3)
     I HEAR NOT anagram

## The natural surface reading, combined with the red-herring
## homophone signal, puts this entry in first place.


7. From:     Paula Tanous           paula@interserve.com

## Second place.

1)  Flower heads don't always have leaves in autumn  (6)
    (acrostic)

2)  Hero aches outside and sick inside  (8)
    ACH(ILL)ES

## I read this as "sick with disgust and regret"; superb
## imagery.  An excellent clue.

  Bonus Clue:  Strong man; weak foot  (8)

3)  Drunken anti-hero makes radio broadcast  (2,3,3)
    ANTI-HERO anagram

  Bonus Clue:  Hear it on broken radio transmission (2,3,3)







8. From:     Bob Gregory            cullen@world.std.com (temporarily)


1)  First-class learner had to reverse - what a bloomer! (6)
    AI + L + HAD reversed

## I don't see what's "first class" about this student driver.
## Perhaps it's a driving permit classification I'm not aware of.

2)  Among the Greek heroes there are ones without eminence (8)
    AC(HILL)ES

## A little wordy.  "Without" as a container signal always
## grates with me when it appears in a preposition's position.
## I could accept   "... eminence and ones without."

3)  Another adaption I appear in that's broadcast (2,3,3)
    ONTHEA(I)R (ANOTHER anagram)

  


9. From:     Clay Colwell           eris@bga.com

## Third place.

1)  Haunt held up a flower (6)
    AIL + HAD reversed

## Needs a little work.  Hard to get from "haunt" to "ail", I
## think.  The waste word "a" is another thing to trip over
## (Cf. entry 6 in which it's part of the cryptic.)

2)  Hero wants to confine evil (8)
    ACH(ILL)ES

## Really excellent surface and clean cryptic.  Even better, if
## possible, than the ACHILLES clue given by Paula in entry 7.

3)  I got mixed up with another broadcast (2,3,3)
    ONTHEA(I)R (ANOTHER anagram)



10. From:     Gail Koontz            gail.koontz@quancon.com

1) Flowering plant Abigail had buried upside down. (6)
   (hidden reversal)

## Would be improved if the verbatim HAD and the hidden DAHLIA
## didn't have the same first (or is it last?) letter.

2) Pile, surrounded by five time victors, eliminated Hector. (8)
   AC(HILL)ES

## This sport is murky.  The victors should be part of the
## pile, methinks.

3) "Crazy Nero" a hit broadcast (2,3,3)
   NERO A HIT anagram

## Invented titles can make a clue seem artificial, but this one
## is especially apt.



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