From: guy@ulysses.att.com (Guy Jacobson)
Subject: CWC 30 announcement
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:46:22 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

By a conspiracy of the winners all refusing, I am the moderator of

	         CLUE WRITING COMPETITION NUMBER 30

Welcome to the Clue Writing Competition 30 (devised by Ian Gent).  The
rules, and this article, are much the same as used in earlier rounds.

The dates for CWC 30 are:

  Thursday  28 January     23:59 EST   Deadline for CWC30 entries
  Friday    29 January                 I'll post the CWC30 winners
  Friday    29 January                 I'll post an annotated list of entries.

The rules:

Later on in this posting you'll find two words or phrases.  Both, in this
contest, are fairly easy to clue. Note, however, that there is a special
bonus competition, so you can submit a third clue of a special type.

You may submit clues for either or both words.  I will accept only one
clue per person for each word; If you send more than one for a word, I
will accept the first one I receive.  E-mail the clues, along with your
name and e-mail address, clear explanations of how your clues work, and
whether or not you could run the next contest, to me at the following
address:

		guy@ulysses.att.com

After the deadline, I'll pick my favorite clue for each word; thus
there will be two winning clues.  I'll pick my favorite of these two as
the overall winner, inviting its writer to set the next round of this
competition.  I'll post separately a list of runner-up clues, and all
the remaining clues, with as much commentary as I see fit.

IMPORTANT: Please DO NOT post your own clues, or anything else that
might give away the answer words!  Some readers of this group want to
try solving the winning clues; please don't spoil it for them.

The words for CWC30 follow, "rot13" encoded for extra security, but

**** note the special BONUS COMPETITION described below the words ****





























NEFRAVP

PLNAVQR


                **** BONUS COMPETITION for CWC 30 ****

Along with your regular clues for the two words above, you may submit
a "Printer's Devilry" clue for either of the two words above.  A
"Printer's Devilry" clue is *NOT* a normal cryptic clue.  Here for
example, is a (fairy crummy) P.D. clue for the word RANSOM:

  Whole wheat flour has the beaver-age diet slack (6)

To make a P.D. clue, we start with a relatively normally worded
sentence, that contains the answer we want as a hidden word:

  Whole wheat flour has the bran some average diets lack.
                             ------

we remove the hidden word, close the gap, and rearrange the
sentence's punctuation and division into words, to get our P.D. clue:

  Whole wheat flour has the beaver-age diet slack (6)

Note that there is neither a definition nor a cryptic indication of
the word RANSOM in the clue.  To be fair, P.D. clues should start from
a meaningful sentence, and there should be enough left after removing
the hidden word to give solvers a chance.  The final clue should
at least be readable, and it should be parsable is some crazy way.
The more sensible the original sentence, and the more difficult it is
to tell where the break is in the final clue, the better.

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