Clue contest No 21
Sun 1 Sep 2024, set byFez
Introduction
September has to be Earth, Wind & Fire ... but as that's a bit too long for a regular grid, let's go for ELEMENTS. Good luck all!
Submit your best cryptic clue for
ELEMENTS
Results
# | Setter | Clue | Pts | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small amounts of semen let out (8) Def= ‘Small amounts’, SEMENLET* | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 14 | ||
| 2 | Concubine finally lets men inside parts of the compound (8) E (concubinE finally) + LE[MEN]TS (lets men inside). Def: Parts of the compound | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 13 | ||
| 3 | Pieces found in manufactured steel components (8) MEN ('pieces') inserted into ('found in') anag. of STEEL ('manufactured steel') = ELEMENTS ('components'). Semi-&lit. | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 11 | ||
| 4 | Devices for heating precious metals? (8) Definition + definition by example | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 9 | ||
| 5 | Picks out guys to replace Conservative constituents (8) ELE(C-MEN)TS. Def:constituents | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 6 | Features gold and silver, but not bronze? (8) def. consisting of DBEs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | ||
| 7 | He and I are members? (8) Helium and iodine +/= members | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | ||
| 8 | He’s with Au Pair providing examples periodically? (8) CDBE: He and Au are a pair of elements from the periodic table | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | ||
| 9 | Wind and rain and sleet crashes over people (8) Def: Wind and rain. Anagram (crashes) of SLEET containing (over) MEN (people) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 10 | Dentist regularly grabbing the French men's parts (8) [d]E[n]T[i]S[t] (regularly) around LE (the French) MEN | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 11 | Three letters spelt out Eliot’s principles (8) L, M & N spelt out + TS; def = principles | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | ||
| 12 | drunk steel workers consumed chemicals (8) def: chemicals => STEEL* (drunk) around MEN(workers) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 13 | He and I are working steelmen (8) Helium+Iodine, anag of steelmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | ||
| 14 | Inclement weather features parts of mercury and gold, say (8) Def: quadruple def (Inclement weather / features / parts of / eg mercury and lead) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 15 | He is second in the table. No! Am I also there? Yes! (8) He, No, Am and I are all in the periodic table of elements | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | ||
| 16 | Parts of a cooker, they're laid out on the table (8) DD/CD | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | ||
| 17 | Boron, Iodine and Tennessine, literally or figuratively? (8) Literally three elements or figuratively (symbolically) B + I + Ts = bits (elements) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | ||
| 18 | Table contents the Spanish cooks sent me (8) EL (the in Spanish) + EMENTS (anagram - cooks - of 'sent me') | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 19 | During ecowarriors' marches deplore a change to Earth's weather (8) Deplore (LaMENT) with A changed to (E)arth inside (during) marches (in the sense of boundaries) of (E)cowarrior(S) = weather (ELEMENTS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 20 | Components neatly arranged on table in the science lab (8) Sort of CD + DD - Elements can be considered component parts, and every science lab will have (or used to) a Periodic Table Of the Elements wall chart where the elements are indeed neatly arranged. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 21 | People stuck in wild sleet, wind etc? (8) MEN in SLEET* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 22 | Men with steel broke different parts of compounds (8) Definition: Different parts of compounds, Men with Steel = MEN STEEL => ELEMENTS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 23 | Sections climbing monumental stone slab thwarting guys (8) def : sections climbing(reversal) monumental stone slab>STELE thwarting(container) guys>MEN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 24 | Mega eel nest writhing into earth and water (8) Def: earth and water as two of the four elements / Anagram (writhing) of M (mega) + EELNEST | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 25 | At number 26, they put the iron on this table (8) Misleading def: Iron is number 26 on the Periodic Table | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 26 | Is it under Moe's leek even if back on fire, E.G? (8) Def: Fire, E.G iSiTuNdErMoEsLeEk regular letters [Even] reversal [back]= Elements I am new to this | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 27 | Primarily essential list with, say, manganese and tennessine (8) EL ('primarily Essential List') + EM+EN, homophone ('say') of Mn (chemical symbol of manganese) plus TS (chemical symbol for 'tennessine') &lit. If only Livermorium was Lm, we could just have 'Say: livermorium, nitrogen, tennessine' - EL+EM+EN homophones of Lm+N, then just TS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 28 | Essentially elections begin with the end of parliaments (8) def: essentially; ELEctions (begin with) + parliaMENTS (the end of) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 29 | Po? No ta. Be as I am with Al & co? (8) cryptic def. (list of elements) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |