Thanks to everyone for indulging yet another of my hare-brained schemes. I tried to pick a word where there were lots of anagrams +1 extra letter, and most people took that route. If nothing else this should give some sense of how hard it would be to set a puzzle where
every clue has an extra letter - and in clue order, the letters spell something sensible! I really have no idea how they do that.
And, just to show that I would never ask you all to do something that I would not do myself, I wrote this clue prior to posting the contest:
Advance in algebra? It's easy! (5)
Which turned out to be the same idea as jimmyg 17. Great minds, etc.
To the judgin':
I liked the surface in chris 2, but ultimately decided that a clue with neither a definition nor wordplay was a little too outre. Perhaps in a future contest.
Nods to aristo 19 and jimmyg 10 for the BBC entries. I thought the best surfaces were jimmyg 17, jono 14, mattrom 9, mprs 7, paul 4 & 5.
But the victory goes to mprs 7, using the definition TRAIL = TRAIPSE, and for evoking memories of my hikes in the Sierras:
Head off trail to go higher (5)
To the prizin': Your main prize is to keep the extra "P" from your clue, to use as you see fit. Also:
I was just going to provide the first one, but in the second one it's interesting to see the plan in action, and the 3rd is short and wraps it all up with a bow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5I6lFFXRU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmUK3uErmIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIM1nkIwcFQ
Music bonus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK18KpCCmx0
I'm off for 2 weeks. Barring a bear (or a bar) mishap, see you mid-July.