From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles.crosswords
Subject: ACC 9 Clue List (SPOILER)
Date: 29 Sep 92 11:57:54 GMT
Reply-To: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Organization: Quantime Ltd, London (software for market research)

Here are the entries for ACC 9.

The winner:
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Going outside topless and bottomless, rather nasty burns could
result in this person! (9)
    [(r)athe(r) with anag. "burns" around it; &lit.]
    Tom Deneau <tomd@cayman.amd.com>
An amusing &lit, without being simply an "anag. &lit".
My only quibble is that the comma helps the surface meaning
at the expense of the cryptic reading,
which is fairly tricky to start with.

Three very close runners-up:
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Toaster's heat burns crackers? (9)
    [anag. "heat burns"; toaster = sunbather]
    Jake Bergmann <bergmann@bl.cad.slb.com>
A good, concise, misleading use of the (obvious) anagram.
I think the question mark is entirely unnecessary, however.

Newspaper felt the girl could be topless Fergie! (9)
    [Sun (newspaper) bat (felt fabric) her; ref. photos of
    sunbathing Duchess]
    Ian Watson <ian%hpopd.pwd.hp.com@hpl.hp.co.uk>
I like clues that refer to real events.

Tanner and Ashe burn out around the middle of match (9)
    [anag "Ashe burn" including (ma)t(ch); tanner = sunbather]
    Guy Jacobson <guy@ulysses.att.com>
A fairly reasonable misleading surface reading
(I presume there's a tennis player called Tanner).

Three almost-&lits:
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She burnt a saucy tanner (9)
    [anag. "she burnt a"; &lit.;
    Saucy Tanner was an ice cream confection of the 1960's.]
    Neil Morris <morris@btcs.bt.co.uk>
This was touted as an &lit, but I don't think it is.
"She burnt, a saucy tanner" might work as a definition,
but in the cryptic reading "tanner" plays no part.

Tropical heat burns one! (9)
    [anag. "heat burns"; &lit.]
    Jeremy Pitt <jvp@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Tropical = figurative I can (just) accept as an anagram indicator.
But it's not an &lit, since "one" plays no part in the cryptic reading.

Does she lie on the beach with that man to heat her buns? Could be! (9)
    [comp. anag, "he + sunbather" = "heat her buns"; &lit.]
    Ray Steiner <steiner@andy.bgsu.edu>
Again, it doesn't really feel like an &lit.
It could be split into a querulous description:
"Does she lie on the beach?" and the subsidiary indication:
"with [HE] [it could be arranged as] HEAT HER BUNS"
The idea is good; the wording needs more work, I think.

The rest:
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Breakneck heat burns the one who tries for bronze? (9)
    [anag. "heat burns"; the one who tries for bronze? = sunbather]
    Tim Tebbe <timtebbe@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Clever combination of "heat" and "bronze".
I'm a bit doubtful of "breakneck", though,
which I think only means "fast", and not "wild".

Worshipper of Ra, deciphering runes, comprehends solution (9)
    [anag. "runes" including bath; Worshipper of Ra = sunbather]
    tovah@onion.salad.mssm.edu (Tovah E. Hollander)
This reads well, even if the definition is slightly inaccurate
(a "sun-worshipper" isn't necessarily a Ra-worshipper).

Get a shilling (one) at the bar with change from a tanner (9)
    [s(hilling) un + anag. "the bar"; tanner = sunbather]
    Roy Thearle <rt@ukc.ac.uk>
I like "with change" to indicate the anagram.
(And I'd like a pub where change of 6d includes a shilling. :-)

Boy, we hear, hit woman - she's lying outside (9)
    [homophone of son + bat + her]
    Richard Chamberlain <richard@SSD.intel.com>
I think "she's lying outside" doesn't give enough indication of
*why* a sunbather's there.

She soaks up rays beamed at her wild buns first (9)
    ["at her" after anag. "buns"; [sunbather] soaks up rays beamed]
    Ralph Kennedy <kennedy@asuvax.eas.asu.edu>
I'm not sure what to think of "wild buns". :-)

His color is natural, not cosmetics; scrub, rub, he's tan (9)
    [anag. "rub, he's tan"; &lit.?]
    Mark S. Manasse <msm@src.dec.com>
Another claimed &lit, but I read
"His color is natural, not cosmetics"
as a (wordy) description of a sunbather,
separate from the anagram part.

"Tanner loves buns" written on a bumper in rear-end collision (9)
    [anag. "[HEART] buns"; tanner = sunbather]
    Jim Graham <Jim.Graham@Eng.Sun.COM>
I think even with the "bumper" hint,
"loves" is too indirect for the anagram, which is of "heart".
And I don't think "rear-end" really does suggest
switching the order of "heart" and "buns" before anagramming.
(If I were being really picky,
I'd suggest that "in collision" doesn't suggest destruction
as much as "in crash" would.)

Ra takes shower with short female, you might see her in a tanning
salon perhaps (9)
    [Sun + bath (shower) + (h)er]
    Satish Venkatesan <svenkate@thor.ece.uc.EDU>
This falls into the trap of splitting the word
into its etymological components for the subsidiary indication,
not only with "sun" (as other clues did),
but also with "bath", whence comes "bathe".
More curiously, I've never before seen "short" used to suggest
removing the _first_ letter of a word.
I suppose you could justify it on the grounds that
length is not a directed quantity,
and can be measured from either end of the word,
but it doesn't really feel right. :-)

Rising star gets first billing and triumphs with her sleeper
"Undergoing radiation therapy" (9)
    [sun + b(illing) a(nd) t(riumphs) + her; sleeper "Undergoing
    radiation therapy" = sunbather]
Is this a Woody Allen reference? :-)

-- 
Roger Phillips                            roger@quantime.co.uk
"*cock* n. a small pile of hay, dung, etc."
-- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)