From: msm@src.dec.com (Mark S. Manasse)
Subject: PCWC 4 Ballot
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 20:47:11 GMT


OK, folks, the clues for PCWC 4 are all in.  It's time to vote for
your favorites.  (Both clue submitters and non-submitters are allowed
to vote.)  The remaining relevant dates for PCWC 4 are:

  Wedneday  18 November 23:59 PST  Deadline for receipt of PCWC 4 votes
  Thursday  19 November            I'll post an annotated list of the
                                   best-loved clues for PCWC 4.

This post is divided into four parts.

 1) a list of all the clues for the word without explanations
 2) the same list annotated with the author's explanations
 3) instructions on how to vote, and on the scoring

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ALL CLUES, WITHOUT EXPLANATIONS

 1) Hit the ground and dive under the tag for a major victory (9)

 2) Local Area Network data symptoms: initially idle traffic, 
    then all hell breaks loose. (9)

 3) "This kind of victory is overwhelming," said Lendl gamely (9)

 4) New Deal slid a point in election blowout! (9)

 5) 500 slain horribly -- 500! -- in the French disaster (9)

 6) Country's top executives lead massive victory  (9)

 7) Touchdown with novice in team for an overwhelming majority (9)

 8) Falling rocks left crack in saddle (9)

 9) Take Left and South and tell a fib about draft initially to get big win (9)

10) Big S&L idea: move south without an upheaval (9)

11) Overwhelming victory is Saturday cover and is first in French article (9)

12) Avalanche of dirt and rocks left shifting sand covering England (9)

13) Long and short fiction about Democrat's easy win (9)



ALL CLUES FOR 'LANDSLIDE' WITH AUTHORS' EXPLANATIONS

 1) Hit the ground and dive under the tag for a major victory (9)

	"Hit the ground" indicates LAND
	"Dive under the tag" indicates SLIDE, as sliding into second base
	"A major victory" indicates LANDSLIDE
	LAND "and" SLIDE "for" LANDSLIDE
	The entire clue is supposed to have a baseball feel to it.

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 2) Local Area Network data symptoms: initially idle traffic, 
    then all hell breaks loose. (9)

        L A N D S + idle anagrammed (traffic) = landslide

        all hell breaks loose = definition

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 3) "This kind of victory is overwhelming," said Lendl gamely (9)

        "def" = SAID LENDL anag (this clue is also a workable "Tom Swifty")

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 4) New Deal slid a point in election blowout! (9)

        anag. la dslide  (N inside)  = definition LANDSLIDE

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 5) 500 slain horribly -- 500! -- in the French disaster (9)

	500 = Roman numeral D (both times)
	horribly = anagram indicator
	the French = LE
	(D SLAIN anagrammed + D) inside LE = LANDSLIDE
	disaster = straight definition

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 6) Country's top executives lead massive victory  (9)


        Country's = LANDS
        top = LID
        executive's lead = E
        
        massive victory = LANDSLIDE

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 7) Touchdown with novice in team for an overwhelming majority (9)

	Touchdown (LAND) with novice (L) in team (SIDE)
	= LANDSLIDE

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 8) Falling rocks left crack in saddle (9)

        Falling rocks = def.
        L + anag. of (IN SADDLE)

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 9) Take Left and South and tell a fib about draft initially to get big win (9)

        L + AND + S + LIE about D (draft initially);  big win = defn.

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10) Big S&L idea: move south without an upheaval (9)

	L (large) + S&L + IDEA
	move south = move "S"   -> L + &SL + IDEA = LANDSLIDEA
	without an = remove "A" -> LANDSLIDE = upheaval
	In addition, the end of the clue may appear to 
	indicate that "without an" is being anagrammed.

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11) Overwhelming victory is Saturday cover and is first in French article (9)

        "and" + "s" + "lid" inside "le"

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12) Avalanche of dirt and rocks left shifting sand covering England (9)

	Avalanche of dirt and rocks = LANDSLIDE
	left                        = L
	shifting sand = anag. SAND  = ANDS
	covering                    = LID
	England                     = E
	(Maybe a solver would try to anagram DIRTROCKS!)

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13) Long and short fiction about Democrat's easy win (9)

        L + AND + S + LI(D)E
        "l", "s", and "d" are standard abbreviations for
        "long","short", and "democrat" respectively; check a
        good dictionary, or consider "size 36L" or "Senator
	Mitchell (D - Maine)".
	"fiction" = LIE.
	"'s" - connects charade to defn.
	"easy win" - definition

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VOTING:

In this posting all the submitted clues are identified by a single
number.  To vote, send me a piece of Email that looks something like
this:

Kind moderator,

Here's how I felt about the entries to PCWC #

---------------------------------------------
3 7
5 4 1
8 2 6
---------------------------------------------

         E. Pluribus 

         e@pluribus.unum.edu


This specifies a partial ranking of the clue numbers, with

3 = 7 > 5 = 4 = 1 > 8 = 2 = 6 

The first line contains the numbers of the clues you like best; the
second line those you like second best, etc.  Within a line, list
clues numbers that you like about equally well in any order.  Any clue
numbers that don't appear in your ranking will be added at the end on
a line by themselves; all equal and worse than any that you did list.
If you are lazy, you can just send me a single number of the clue
you like best; note, however, that the greater an effort you make
to differentiate between all the clues, the more accurate the results
will be.  If you list a number more than once, you will be sent
to the farm, immediately.

Should you wish to make critical comments regarding any or all of the
clues, your comments may be sent along to the authors anonymously
provided everything is clearly divided by clue and you don't present
the kind moderator with an editing nightmare.

Please note that the lines with clue numbers in your voting should be
bracketed by lines with only dashes, to facilitate automatic
tabulation of the scores.

Both clue submitters and non-submitters are allowed to vote.  You ARE
allowed to vote for your own clue, but please try to be honest.  Of
course, one vote per person; DON'T use multiple accounts or aliases to
stuff the ballot box or encourage your cronies and cohorts to vote for
your clue just so you can win.

SCORING:

The scoring will be as in tournaments, with 1 point for each better
ranking and 1/2 point for a tie.  So, for example, based only on the
votes of E. Pluribus above, the scoring (assuming there were 8 entries)
would be

Clue  Pts.
 1     4
 2     1
 3     6 1/2
 4     4
 5     4
 6     1
 7     6 1/2
 8     1

The total scores will be the sum of the scores from all voters.  The
moderator does not vote.