Cryptic Voting - HYDRANT posted

[Thok]

SAKE:Reason for odd sparkle.

[Suspence]

SAKE:
Good alcohol from Japan
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[novice]

SAKE:
It's a drink made in the Far East!

(Explanation: Far eastern characters of it'S A drinK madE)

[Zag]

SAKE: Within a week, a surprising return of interest.

[Elethiomel]

I'll be surprised if this hasn't been suggested already, but here goes:

SAKE:

A reason to drink? (4)

[DejMar]

SAKE: Not taking sides is a key benefit. (4)

[Amb]

Sake: "Keas shot, for heaven's ...."

But I don't expect it to win, because there are much better entries already

[Suspence]

I'd like to post the poll for SAKE, but the best-so-far is deadlocked once again. I'll give it another day, if we don't have a deciding vote, we'll call it a draw.

TRIVIAL PURSUIT - Six getting into trouble following a board game.
50% [ 4 ]

COPPICE - Copulation ends prematurely - epic failure in the bushes.
50% [ 4 ]
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[Zag]

I rather felt that two choices was too few for a best-so-far poll, anyway.

[Scurra]

SAKE: My intention was to get drunk in Japan (4)
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[Elethiomel]

[Suspence]

That's correct. See last page, post 259 for the results of that poll, which had all 10 winners.
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[Suspence]

Here's the winner for Best-So-Far:

What is the best cryptic clue we've created so far?

TRIVIAL PURSUIT - Six getting into trouble following a board game.
55% [ 5 ]

COPPICE - Copulation ends prematurely - epic failure in the bushes.
44% [ 4 ]

SAKE poll is now up!
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[3iff]

Some interesting entries for SAKE. I just couldn't come up with anything I liked...and nothing I had was as good as some of these...

[Elethiomel]

I was thinking of submitting this instead, but too late:

It makes you drunk as a kettle, when it's concentrated.

[3iff]

Do kettles make you drunk?

[Elethiomel]

No... I just thought "drunk as a kettle" had a nice ring to it, as a synonym for "severely inebriated".

[3iff]

I've not heard that saying before...

[Elethiomel]

Admittedly, it would work better if sake made you black instead of drunk.

[Suspence]

Still deadlocked here. Who voted for DejMar's "Not taking sides is a key benefit"?

Would you care to select one of the two tied for the top spot, to decide this one?
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[novice]

I think that was me, so I'll have to break the tie in my own disfavor then and vote for Thok's clue.

[Thok]

Well then, the next word is TWILIGHT

[Zag]

TWILIGHT: Rogers stopped short of drunk in the evening.

Will (Rogers), stopped short = WIL
in
drunk = TIGHT

[3iff]

TWILIGHT: Time of day with gilt transmutation.

[Suspence]

SAKE results:

What is the best cryptic clue for SAKE?

Reason for odd sparkle.
44% [ 4 ]

Good alcohol from Japan.
0% [ 0 ]

It's a drink made in the Far East!
44% [ 4 ]

Within a week, a surprising return of interest.
0% [ 0 ]

A reason to drink?
0% [ 0 ]

Not taking sides is a key benefit.
11% [ 1 ]

"Keas shot, for heaven's ...."
0% [ 0 ]

My intention was to get drunk in Japan.
0% [ 0 ]

Tiebreaker went to Thok's "Reason for odd sparkle."

New word is TWILIGHT
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[DejMar]

TWILIGHT
Close embraces will cut short the evening. (8)

T(WIL[l])IGHT = the evening
TIGHT = close
containment indicator : embraces
WIL = will, cut short

[Scurra]

TWILIGHT : Spattered with gilt?! (8)

(Since sunset gilds the horizon like the dawn does...)
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[bgg1996]

TWILIGHT:
Dusk, with light; take hydrogen: fuse. (8)

Dusk is the synonym.
"with light", taking an H away, is wit light, fuse indicates to mix the letters, receiving twilight.
Almost an &lit, since twilight is dusk, but with some light still left, which the sun makes by fusing hydrogen is how the sun makes light during twilight.
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[3iff]

Welcome back bgg1996, you've been away for some time!

[novice]

TWILIGHT: Gloomy story about a beautiful swan?

[Scurra]

And there I was hoping that everyone would resist that particular line of approach.

Side-discussion for later: I think that "Swan" needs to be capitalised, but that would stop the clue from working....
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[3iff]

I see what you mean. Makes my voting choice easier...sorry novice.

[Elethiomel]

This was a hard word to clue. Here's my attempt:

Obscure firm takes up work to identify Israeli sites. (8)

Obscure = Twilight (adj.)
firm = tight
takes up = containment indicator
work = W
to identify Israeli (web) sites = IL

[Elethiomel]

I see I had the same idea for structure as Zag and DejMar. I think DejMar's clue is pretty nice.

I disagree with Scurra's criticism of Novice's clue. I think that's fair, and clever.

[3iff]

Elethiomel, I can't decode your clue, even when I know the answer. The fault is almost certainly mine...

[Elethiomel]

I edited in an explanation.

[3iff]

Thanks.

[Amb]

Before midnight (starting and finishing tomorrow) - one is thin.

[Suspence]

Poll is up.
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[Suspence]

We can call this one:

What is the best cryptic clue for TWILIGHT?
Rogers stopped short of drunk in the evening. - 0% [ 0 ]
Time of day with gilt transmutation. - 25% [ 2 ]
Close embraces will cut short the evening. - 62% [ 5 ]
Spattered with gilt?! - 0% [ 0 ]
Dusk, with light; take hydrogen: fuse. - 0% [ 0 ]
Gloomy story about a beautiful swan? - 0% [ 0 ]
Obscure firm takes up work to identify Israeli sites. - 0% [ 0 ]
Before midnight (starting and finishing tomorrow) - one is thin. - 12% [ 1 ]
DejMar, the next word is up to you.
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