From: asente@adobe.com (A Usenet Pal)
Subject: CWC18 entries
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 07:06:26 GMT

It appears that there were some Usenet propogation problems with this
contest, and that it didn't really get out for several days after my
posting the words on Thursday of last week.  Sigh.
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ROCKY
  Film hero acted in the Carpenter's medium is a cartoon character .... (5)

BULLWINKLE
 .... whose friend is the Carpenter's male companion with little seafood.(10)

Explanation: I've switched the order because I couldn't resist getting a 
dig at the ROCKY movies and wooden acting in the first 
(which is thus just a straightforward double definition),
and linking it to a reference to Lewis Carroll's epic
"The Walrus and The Carpenter": as a male Walrus is a BULL and the little
seafood is WINKLE (not Oysters this time) the second clue gives Rocky's
friend.

COMMENTS:  I liked the first clue better than the second.  While I love
	Lewis Carroll, "Carpenter's male companion" seems a bit obscure
	for BULL, and the surface meaning is odd.
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ROCKY
	Sly fighter, this squirrel makes errors quickly.
	def. 1         def. 2      anag  ROCKY SQUIRREL

def. 1  Sly Stallone's boxer, Rocky

BULLWINKLE
	Know-it-all moose arranged us well; I'm on bloke.
	        def.      anag     BULLWINKLE MOOSE

def.  Mr. Know-it-all, character played by Bullwinkle

COMMENTS:  First clue's not bad, but the second seems devoid of
	surface meaning (as much as I wanted to love it with a
	definition involving Mr. Know-it-all!)
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BULLWINKLE
	"Animated moose"? "Male moose"? What's the point of struggling
	over "moose"? (10)

bull (male moose) + win (what's the point of struggling) + reverse of "elk"
Bullwinkle = animated moose

ROCKY
	It's unsatisfactory - its definition is hard (5)

rocky = unsatisfactory (slang, in Chambers)
rocky = hard (i.e. like rock)

COMMENTS:  The best of the charade clues for BULLWINKLE.  ROCKY gets bonus
	points for not mentioning Sylvester Stallone, but didn't really
	grab me.
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ROCKY
	Boxing film from Stone? (5)

double definition

BULLWINKLE
	Cop flick with the French Horned cartoon character. (10)

Cop = BULL, flick = WINK, LE = the French (Horned cartoon
character = definition).

COMMENTS:  Cop = BULL?  It's listed in my dictionary, but too obscure for
	my taste!
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ROCKY
	Stallone portrays the flying squirrel. (6)

Stallone portrayed ROCKY
Rocky, the flying squirrel
Double definition

BULLWINKLE
	In bulk? We'll confuse that dim-witted moose. (10)

IN BULK WELL => bullwinkle
confuse implies anagram
Bullwinkle is a dim-witted moose

COMMENTS:  Too easy!
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BULLWINKLE
	Eye tic split 50-50 among freakish blue moose. (11)

BUL-L(wink)L-E (BLUE anag.)

ROCKY
	Sly film finds Big Bird near Kentucky. (5)

ROC + KY (Sly Stallone, that is)

COMMENTS:  First clues a bit lacking in surface meaning, but the second is
	great!  It conjures an amusing image, and "Sly film" is a nice
	way of indicating Rocky without being too obvious.
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BULLWINKLE
        Moose lodge member returned after rising to triumph (10)
        ----- ------------ -------- ----- ------ ----------
         def.=    (ELK       rev.)  after  (BULL     WIN)

(BULL means "rising" here in the sense of "a bull market")

ROCKY
        Balboa's ships avoid these waters (5)
        ------ - ------------------------
         def.  =         def.

Two meanings, or maybe two examples. (Rocky Balboa is the full name of
the "Italian Stallion").  The "'s" here is a contraction of "is" in
the literal interpretation, not a possessive as it seems to be in the
surface reading.

COMMENTS:  Wonderfully misdirecting surface meaning for ROCKY!  I had a hard
	time choosing between this clue and the one that won.  On
	a different day I might have picked this one.
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ROCKY
	Stoned and tipsy?

(Double definition)

COMMENTS:  Not cryptic enough!
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BULLWINKLE
	E's drawn from blue ink - well, sort of! (10)

[anagram of BLUE+INK+WELL less E; &lit]

ROCKY
	York upset about erotic toe picture (5)

[C in anag. of YORK; reference to Stallone's film "Rocky"]

Also refers to the Duke of York's reaction to the recently
published photographs of the Duchess of York nibbling the
toes of her `financial adviser'

COMMENTS:  I love &lit clues, and this is well done.  Also a great ROCKY clue;
	definitely in the running, but the direct definition ("picture") is
	a little too vague.
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Thank you to all the participants!

__   -paul asente
\/     asente@adobe.com   ...decwrl!adobe!asente   moo-bear@cs.stanford.edu

...suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood (she considered
him to be a footman because he was in livery:  otherwise, judging by his face
only, she would have called him a fish)