The word for the contest was 'Cacophony'.
Here are the clues in random order.I have posted my
comments for every main clue.
1)Ibha
A Pooch lost in New York City made a lot of noise.
(A + Pooch + NYC = Cacophony)
Raapi's comments : Well made clue!Good surface reading too.
2)Ravi
A pooch torn between western and eastern states produces harsh sound. (9)
pooch : anagram fodder
torn : anagram indicator
western and eastern states : CA and NY
harsh sound : synonym of cacophony
Raapi's comments : Construction wise it seems good,but then doesn't
convey a good story!
3)Aravind
Orchestrating a part of symphony with some cocaine creates dissonance (9)
Raapi's comments:Again construction wise,it seems Ok.But doesn't make
sense meaning wise.Cocaine and symphony - Any connection?
4)sreevatsan
Calcium and Cobalt mixed with a fake, to get a jarring
sound (9)
Calcium -> CA
Cobalt -> CO
Mixed -> anagram indicator
with a
fake -> Phony
Jarring sound -> is cacophony
Raapi's comments:One of the interesting clues which used something
other than NY/CA/Pooch story!But the clue could have been better
constructed on the same lines of thought.
5)Muthalagan Jeyaraj
Discord about sham cola.
sham - phony; cola - (coca) cola; 'phony coca' anagram indicator
'about' giving 'discord' which is cacophony.
Raapi's comments:Too cryptic :)!Actually I am not sure if 'about' is
an anagram indicator.
6)Balaji
Did noise madden the blue-green dogs?(9)
Explanation:
noise - caophony (Required word)
blue-green - cyan
dogs - pooch
madden - anagram indicator
Raapi's comments:Great clue.But care should have been taken not to use
the plural form of 'dog'!Nice line of thought though!
7)archana
Clue 1
Cocoa looses love and dances with a hypocrite to produce loud noise.
Explanation:
Cocoa looses love – Cocoa minus o (love)
Hypocrite – phony
Dances – anagram indicator
coca + phony – cacophony < loud noise >
Raapi's comments:Construction wise acceptable but doesnt make
sense.Cocoa looses love :)??
8)kapil
cacophony
A loud clamor when many a business is found to be a fraud (9)
Loud clamor - cacophony
many - c
a - a
business - co
fraud - phony
Raapi's comments:One of the best clues - CONTENDER FOR THE TOP SPOT!
9)vinod
Copy Chan acrobatics with empty hoo-ha
- 'acrobatics' is the anagram indicator for COPY+CHAN = CACOPHNY
- empty=O
- Copy Chan acrobatics with empty = CACOPHNY with O
- Definition= hoo-ha (http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=hoo-ha)
Raapi's comments : Simply superb!Beautiful surface reading and very
terse! - CONTENDER FOR THE TOP SPOT!
10)aravindhan
My entry for CWC 11
'Canopy company invites Hitler to make loud noise'
Explanation
CANOPY,CO,H - CACOPHONY
loud noise - CACOPHONY
Raapi's comments:Amusing clue but the story doesnt go well with me!
11)Ananth Padmanabhan
Official entry:
Noise of a fake soft drink without cola and shout at the Coach pony
Explanation:
Noise - definition of Cacophony.
1st part:
Fake - Phony
Soft drink without cola - coca (without cola)
Anagram of coca and phony = Cacophony
2nd part:
Coach phony - anagram of Cacophony
Raapi's comments:No anagram indicator at all.Also,it seems like 2
separate clues have been combined to somehow make the solver get to
the answer!
12)Kumar Ramesh
Croaks in the rainy season and traffic jam, say.
Frogs croak in the rainy season....."croaks (noun) in the rainy season"
The honks in the traffic jam
These are e.g. of cacophony.
Raapi's comments:To be frank,this clue made me go bonkers!There wasn't
any cryptic element at all.But then,such clues can also find a place
in cryptic crosswords just to mislead the solver into thinking too
deep.
13)parasuram
Shark tooth found in Sacaco phony - racket uncovered!!!
Sacaco in Peru was a place where they found a lot of fossiled tooths of shark
saCACO PHONY.
Racket = cacophony
uncovered -> hint to telescopic clue.
Raapi's comments:
Excellent clue!!
The only clue in the contest which was not an anagram clue!
Enjoyed the synonym of cacophony-racket, which really had a whole new
meaning in the clue.
-CONTENDER FOR THE TOP SPOT!
14)RVL-Kiran
fake chocolate without love is hard on the ears (phony +
cocoa - o)
CACOPHONY
Raapi's comments:As I mentioned in an earlier clue,chocolate/cocoa
without love didn't really make sense.And how is it hard on the ears?
15)Sowmya
Din emanating from apparently fake cocaine source (9)
Cryptic part of the clue:
cocaine source = COCA
apparently fake (meaning indicator) = PHONY
Meaning part of the clue:
Din = CACOPHONY
Raapi's comments:Very well constructed clue.Only clue which I felt
made justice to the using of 'fake' for the 'phony' term by the
addition of the word 'apparently'.
But then the bottomline is..the story din't go well.Din from phony coca??
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So,out of the 15 main entries,3 of them appealed to me as top-notch
clues.
Finally,the winner of CWC11 ,according to me is Vinod!!
His clue was short/simple/funny/informative(the hoo-haa part) and
mainly the anagram indicator gelled well with the main character and
the story in the clue!
Congrats Vinod!Looking forward to an exciting CWC12 from you soon.
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There were some excellent Bonus entries,which were very very
interesting!Enjoy those clues below..
I haven't commented on them but look out for
CVasi/Vinod/Parasuram/Aravind's last clue;)/Ravi's.Very very
entertaining ones.
Bonus Clues:
1)Ibha
Fake cola in market caused a lot of noise.
(phony + coca = cacophony)
2)Ravi
bonus entry
Law enforcer messing with tortilla chip and unknown creates discord. (9)
Law enforcer : cop
messing with: anagram indicator
tortilla chip : nacho
unknown: y
discord : synonym of cacophony
3)Aravind
Some cocaine in part of symphony creates unpleasant noise (9)
Jarring sound made when mixing fake, half coca-cola (9)
Jarring noise could spoil a symphony, reportedly (9)
Non-crappy version of raapi's blog site? (9)
4)Muthalagan Jeyaraj
any cop and satirist jam for discord.
any + cop + cho (satirist);
jam - anagram indicator;
gets discord - cacophony
5)Balaji
Bonus Clues:
Dissonance caused by spraying hydrocarbon on canopy (9)
Explanation:
dissonance - cacophony
hydrocarbon - HCO (organic chemistry)
canopy - anagram fodder
spraying - anagram indicator
Discordance produced when Hypnos endlessly consumed 50% Coke (9)
Explanation:
discordant sound - cacophony
Hypnos - anagram fodder
Coke - Coca Cola (50% Coke - COCA - 50% of Coca Cola)
consuming - anagram indicator
6)Archana:
Coach and Pony dance to produce loud noise
Explanation:
Anagram :- coach + pony = cacophony
7)Vinod
Some BONUS clues:-
- Oh! a NYC cop resolved the noisy riot (ana. OH+A+NYC+COP --
'resolved' is the ana. ind.)
- Coach pony to produce a harsh noise (ana. COACH+PONY -- 'to produce'
is the ana. ind.)
- OH, NY, CO and PA involved in a clash of voices
8)Cvasi
No coy chap will produce discordance
1. Noise about accountant company being fake (9)
C.A.-co.-phony
The usual spelling is "phoney" but "phony" is a variant, esp.in the U.S.
2. Disturbance caused by a rabbit scuttling around a policeman with
hooligans' leader
C(a-cop-h)ony
9)Parasuram
Noisy New York City accountant to jump confusingly.
Noisy - direct.
New York City - NYC
Accountant - AC
to jump - HOP
confusingly - anag. indicator NYC AC HOP
Oh! Cop Nancy loses her head in confusion to create pandemonium
Nancy loses her head - minus N = ancy
OH COP ANCY in confusion anagram indicator.
Pandemonium - direct clue for cacophony.
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