From: guy@ulysses.att.com (Guy Jacobson)
Subject: PCWC 1 Ballot
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:19:26 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

 			PCWC 1 Ballot

OK, folks, the clues for PCWC 1 are all in.  It's time to vote for
your favorites.  (Both clue submitters and non-submitters are allowed
to vote.)  The relevant dates for PCWC 1 are:

  Tuesday    6 October 23:59 EDT   Deadline for receipt of PCWC 1 votes
  Wednesday  7 October             I'll post an annotated list of the
                                   best-loved clues for PCWC 1.

This post is divided into three 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) By popular demand, madcap comedy is terminated prematurely by initial
    reviews:  "Act 1 is horrendous" (10)

 2) Representative destroys 500 mice, or cat (10)

 3) To America, being leaderless is horrible.  Where Washington is
    taking that on board is popular (10)

 4) Fair use of comic trade! (10)

 5) Nervous disorder finishes disturbed comrade of the people (10)

 6) Wrecked car in a Greek style kind of party (10)

 7) The party that overthrew the king conceals it -- come in (10)

 8) Popular comeback in acrid, damaged environment needs tea break (10)

 9) Popular comedic art: Twister (10)

10) Evil spirit is tyrannical, destroying all that is not gold with no
    regard for class (10)

11) Addled Dr. came to one hundred asses party (10)

12) Crass trio came as insiders to Washington Party (10)

13) The opposite of me and the converted actor I succeeded in Washington! (10)

14) Sounds like endless Mac doctrine ruined PC party (10)



ALL CLUES FOR 'DEMOCRATIC' WITH AUTHORS' EXPLANATIONS

 1) By popular demand, madcap comedy is terminated prematurely by initial
    reviews:  "Act 1 is horrendous" (10)

        DEMOCRATIC ("By popular demand") = anag. COMED(y) +  R(eviews) +
	anag. ACT I

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 2) Representative destroys 500 mice, or cat (10)

        "Representative" is a synonym of 
        "democratic"; "destroys" means to
        anagramize the next set of letters;
        500 = Roman numeral D, which, 
        combined with the anagram of "mice
        or cat" produces "democratic"

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 3) To America, being leaderless is horrible.  Where Washington is
    taking that on board is popular (10)

        D.C. (where Washington is) containing anagram "to (A)merica";
        popular = democratic

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 4) Fair use of comic trade! (10)

		Fair=democratic + anagram

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 5) Nervous disorder finishes disturbed comrade of the people (10)

        democra + tic = of the people

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 6) Wrecked car in a Greek style kind of party (10)

	Wrecked car = CRA (in a)
	Greek style = DEMOTIC
	DEMO (CRA) TIC = DEMOCRATIC = kind of party

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 7) The party that overthrew the king conceals it -- come in (10)

        king=card;  C(IT)ARD = CITARD;
        CITAR(COME)D "overthrown" = DEMOCRATIC

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 8) Popular comeback in acrid, damaged environment needs tea break (10)

        Popular = of the people = DEMOCRATIC.
        Comeback = COME backward = EMOC
        Acrid damaged = ACRID anagrammed = DRAIC
        In...environment = surrounded by; hence D(EMOC)RAIC
        Tea = T
        Needs...break = break letters apart and insert T; hence DEMOCRA(T)IC.

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 9) Popular comedic art: Twister (10)

        Popular = democratic.
        anagram of comedic art.

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10) Evil spirit is tyrannical, destroying all that is not gold with no
    regard for class (10)

        DEMON (evil spirit) + AUTOCRATIC (tyrannical) - NAUTO (= NOT
        AU, destroying all that is not gold) = DEMOCRATIC (with no
        regard for class)         

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11) Addled Dr. came to one hundred asses party (10)

        Anagram DRCAMETO before one (I) hundred (C); the donkey
        is the symbol of the Democratic party.

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12) Crass trio came as insiders to Washington Party (10)

        Crass : anagram indicator
        trio came -> emocrati
        as insiders to : letters contained in
        Washington : DC
        Party : definition
        Also, Washington Partly is a partial &lit

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13) The opposite of me and the converted actor I succeeded in Washington! (10)

        (ME reversed + ACTOR anagrammed + I) inside DC =  D(EM+OCRAT+I)C
        defn = &lit (with me = Bush and he and Reagan being Republican).

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14) Sounds like endless Mac doctrine ruined PC party (10)

	sounds like endless = 'n'less
	macdoctrine 'n'less = macdoctrie
        ruined (anagram) = democratic
	PC party = politically correct party = democratic
	of course PC depends on which side of the politics 
	you're on.  

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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:

Yo,

Here's how I felt about the entries to PCWC 1

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3 7
5 4 1
8 2 6
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         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.
So if you are lazy, you can just send me a single number of the clue
you like best.  If you list a number more than once, you will be sent
to the farm, immediately.

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.

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