Cryptic Contest - Results posted

[Suspence]

It's a cryptic writing contest!

Here's how it works:
1) I assign a list of 10 words
2) We all write cryptic clues for each word and PM them to me
3) I post them here (the writer of each clue will not be revealed until after scoring is complete.)
4) We all rank them (excluding our own) via a PM to me.
5) Lowest combined score wins.

Participants:
1) Suspence
2) Vagrant
3) Jack_Ian
4) Zag
5) Amb
6) Thok
7) Elethiomel
8) novice
9) Quailman
10) groza528

The deadline for submissions will be 11:59pm (GMT-4) on July 31st.

If you haven't indicated you are in yet, you can still enter a submission, but please post here first. I'd like to cap this at 10 participants. I will bow out if needed and focus on modding the game.

Word List:
1) ALTERNATE
2) BERATED
3) CHUTZPAH
4) DECADENT
5) FORK
6) INCANDESCENT
7) MNEMONIC
8) PHILANDER
9) ZOOLOGIST
10) Pick any of the countries of the world found here, and write a clue for the name of that country.

ALTERNATE
Switch off with wings on seabird
Mad lantern swallowed other choice.
At the age of seven, Capone was told to grow older every second.
Fashionably late nurse enjoyed every second.
Take turns with backup. 
A large sea swallow swallowed its replacement. 
After a late start, second bird devoured the other.
Replacement switch -- back and forth 
Every other neat clue

BERATED
Criticized debater!
Judge, being in a flower garden, is raked over the coals.
Moderated without hesitation.
Judged by Apidae? I heard it was degrading. 
Castigated member at educational department.
Harshly criticized a flustered debater!
Told a thing or two about what will happen to these clues
Scold judge in the sack
Jumped all over bed with speed 

CHUTZPAH
Chaperone shredded corset
Famous thai meditation master overwhelms blithering idiot with unbelievable insolence. 
Obviously bold chap is confused about Lionel the lawyer
Brass hutch? Zap that mess. 
Fiendishly hatch puzzle without lesbian insolence 
Vietnamese people express disgust about zealous leader's arrogance.
Zach put hard nuts in mouth
Brass quarters (cast in the Czech Republic) used to signal disgust.

DECADENT
Becoming focused on promotion of self-indulgence!
Ten serious dings in the finish? It sounds as if decay has set in. 
Immoral spot in the 60’s, for example
Audi, oddly indecent! 
A long time after the Old Testament came the self-indulgent
Immoral books from ten years earlier
Indecent; indicative of an era.
Depraved years prior to the Greek Scriptures.

FORK
Branch provides two candidates for the Head of Billing.
Attack the king and queen at once and split
Where Frank could exchange copyright to make money or handle for trident
Attack pieces of a branch 
Tool concealed by a leaf or kilt.
Even if you rake, this tool for spearing olives is required. 
The Knight's weapon of choice? 
At this point you need to choose between a German's and a Brit's temperature scale. 
Utensil for Henry VIII or Louis XVI

INCANDESCENT
Red-hot, evil, indecent scan. 
Shiny tin can loses its lid before fall.
Red-hot South American roots. 
In lights without light, money glowing.

Shining knight trapped in Indian raid.
Extremely bright man of South American lineage.
Glowing heatedly in fire line
Brilliant! Passage to the basement in the bathroom. 
Shining example of Atahuallpa's downfall

MNEMONIC
Cappuccino men make extracts to recall and aid in remembering. 
Mind needs easily memorized orthographic notions indicates clue! 
Immersed in the reverse sequence of Fibonacci, no men master a code to remember.
Cue my first clown Nick mostly
Initials of memorable neoterism come in handy!
Ray crossed out acronym: "Mine Collapse. Lest We Forget!"
Monica follows bad men without a thing to remember 
Memorize names enlisting mechanism of newly imagined catchphrases!

PHILANDER
Flirt with the residents of Buckingham Palace
First Australian yellow jersey holder ditches kid to mess around with lots of women.
Flirt with mostly Phil and Erma
Satisfy desire to keep initiating heterosexual illicit liaisons.
Little English Prince and the Queen have an affair
Elicit ultimate pleasure from hard penile workout!
I'd plan her fooling around! 
Carry-on show's doctor with emergency room. 

ZOOLOGIST
The noise an anteater makes around melting igloos or Jack Hanna.
Eager beaver student spent a month repairing broken gizmo tools. 
Animal observer abandoned igloo, intercepting bovine crossing street.
Egg collector follows snoring to elephant keeper
Glitz, gets oddly odorous and disturbed by searches for new species 
Useless tug's oil oozes out in Darwin, for example
With unending booze, back list of data, I start, artlessly, to be a student of fauna. 
Deschanel has lost you. Old wood is taken first to vet?

Country
Newly created nation-state escaping succinct attention, typically. (7) ESTONIA
"Oh, to sell part of it back... Since our homeland is surrounded by South Africans!" (7) LESOTHO
An island in the pacific has the vista I want. (6) TAIWAN
Nation's firm refusal to harbor rebel leader (6) NORWAY
Small country dominated by mountains and sentient rocks after the corruption of Chile. (13) LIECHTENSTEIN
South of Libya is notorious for hanging. (4) CHAD
Remaining country (4) TOGO
Middle-Eastern nation launches an attack on enemy. (5) YEMEN
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I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature.

[Vagrant]

In

[Jack_Ian]

Didn't even try (2)

[Zag]

sure
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[Amb]

In.

Similar games have been a success in the past.

[Thok]

Finally, I join! (2)

[Elethiomel]

In.

[Suspence]

Let's get this show on the road. We'll give this about a week...the deadline for submissions will be 11:59pm (GMT-4) on July 31st.

If you haven't indicated you are in yet, you can still enter a submission, but please post here first. I'd like to cap this at 10 participants. I will bow out if needed and focus on modding the game.

Here is the word list:

1) ALTERNATE

2) BERATED

3) CHUTZPAH

4) DECADENT

5) FORK

6) INCANDESCENT

7) MNEMONIC

8) PHILANDER

9) ZOOLOGIST

10) Pick any of the countries of the world found here, and write a clue for the name of that country.

Please PM me with your submissions.
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I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature.

[novice]

In, naturally.

[Amb]

Hahaha I love crypticking Country names!

[Vagrant]

Questions:
Do we also send an explanation for each clue?
If I choose to clue Central African Republic do I have to provide a clue for the way it appears in that list i.e. Cen Afr Rep?

[Suspence]

I would say no explanation needed...

I'd prefer you clue the full name of any that are abbreviated...I didn't notice the abbreviations.
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[Quailman]

HEading out of town, but will try to send them tomorrow.

[Quailman]

[Suspence]

[AnonymouslyPosting*]

Bean oil produced in backwater country (7)No it is NOT a real country

[Jack_Ian]

Entry sent.

[Suspence]

Thinking of a revised scoring method for this given the number of entries...it's likely hard to be that diligent in ranking 1 through 8 or 9. I was thinking we could go with ranking our the top 3 clues for each word. All unranked entries would then be given a score of 4.

Any opposed to this idea? Any better ideas that I haven't thought of?
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[Amb]

I'm happy either way.

Mine are sent.

[Elethiomel]

I think the revised scoring method is an improvement.

[Jack_Ian]

I'd like to opportunity to reward an exceptional clue with a little bonus somehow. Maybe 5 bonus points each to distribute as we wish.

[groza528]

Ooh, if it's not too late I'd like to throw my hat in the ring. I'll start cluing up today

[Suspence]

Yes, there's still room, but let's cap it here. That will give us 10 participants.

Clues received from:
Suspence
Vagrant
Amb
novice
Jack_Ian
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[Suspence]

Let's simplify the scoring method, and play off the Olympics at the same time. After reviewing the clues, use the template below to rank them. Just copy paste the clue into the Gold, Silver, or Bronze position.

I will then tabulate the scores, awarding 3 points for Gold, 2 for Silver, 1 for Bronze, and 0 for any clues that miss the podium.


ALTERNATE
Gold -
Silver -
Bronze -

BERATED
Gold -
Silver -
Bronze -

CHUTZPAH
Gold -
Silver -
Bronze -

DECADENT
Gold -
Silver -
Bronze -

FORK
Gold -
Silver -
Bronze -

INCANDESCENT
Gold -
Silver -
Bronze -

MNEMONIC
Gold -
Silver -
Bronze -

PHILANDER
Gold -
Silver -
Bronze -

ZOOLOGIST
Gold -
Silver -
Bronze -

Country
Gold -
Silver -
Bronze -
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[3iff]

Is it ok if I don't enter but just vote?

[Suspence]

[groza528]

Next question, can I continue revising my clues after submitting or are they at that point set in stone?

[Suspence]

You can revise previously sent entries up until the deadline, or until I have received entries from all 10 participants, whichever comes first. (I'd like to get this show on the road if I get all 10 before the deadline.)

Participants yet to send are:
1) Suspence
2) Vagrant
3) Jack_Ian
4) Amb
5) novice
6) Elethiomel
7) Zag
8) Thok
9) Quailman
10) groza528
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I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature.

[Vagrant]

[Elethiomel]

Sent.

[Suspence]

[Suspence]

Just a friendly reminder...the deadline is in approximately 34 hours.

Participants yet to send are:
1) Suspence
2) Vagrant
3) Jack_Ian
4) Amb
5) novice
6) Elethiomel
7) Zag
8) Thok
9) Quailman
10) groza528
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[Zag]

Hmmm. Not quite half done. If I don't make the deadline, please don't wait.
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[Suspence]

Thanks for the update. If you don't complete all 10, feel free to submit what you have. We'll consider it your handicap...word on the street is that you are the favorite.
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[Zag]

Hardly. I would think novice would be the favorite.

But considering the other stuff I'm dealing with now on GL, plus a little chaos going on in my real life (nothing bad, just busy), I am neither feeling it nor finding the time. I just looked at what I had so far, and of the four done, one of them I dislike, so I'm really not even a third of the way done.
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[Suspence]

This is your friendly slightly-less-than-12-hours-left reminder.
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[Amb]

I'd love to see a Zag entry, as he was one I really wanted to compete with...

[Zag]

Sent. There are a few I think are pretty good, but there are a couple I don't think are my best work; but I'm out of time.
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[Thok]

Sorry, I'm out. Need some sleep.

[Amb]

I'd be in favour of a deadline extension to allow the entrants more time.

I don't know if other people would be as willing. But I entered to try and compete against good clue writers like Thok. I might not beat them, but I really would love for them (and Zag) to have more time to enter/update clues.