Bonus Clues for CWC 100

It's hard to put this page up without admitting it's an ego trip to do so. I have included here the clues from the bonus phrase set for the 100th CWC clue writing competition on rec.puzzles.crosswords.

Below you will find a bunch of crossword clues which share the same answer, namely (ahem) `Ian Gent'.

I started the Clue Writing Competition in May 1992, and as I write this on 5th March 1998, CWC 126 has just finished. So I lay claim to two unusual achievements with this page. People from around the world have set cryptic clues to which I am the answer. And I started a thread on a newsgroup which is still going almost 6 years on.

In about September 1996, Cruciver won CWC 99 and decided to offer a bonus word for CWC 100. So Cruciver is ultimately responsible for the existence of this page.

The clues are given below with credit to the author but not their emails (if you are listed below, and want me to put your email here let me know.) I have omitted explanations although in some cases they are obscure. If you are stuck, mail me!

• Neat gin drunk by the cruciverbalist (3,4) [DW Bullock]
• Gin, neat, shaken and stirred for this puzzler (3,4) [C.P.Weiss]
• This crossword puzzle fan would truly flower in a data base! (3,4)
• Its first replaces its last at the start of tangent--man of the century (3,4) [David Hamer]
• I began an offshoot; without the first, it made the contest founder (3,4)[Clay Colwell]
• Cryptic Crusader is one stroke off the lead of Bronze Man (3,4)[Evan Whitney]
• One article by man, a newsgroup pioneer (3,4) (Edward Coulson [aka fyj])
• Glasgow puzzler is a "gifted" cavalier (3,4) [Gail Koontz]
• Upturned net gain produced crossword newsgroup pioneer (3,4) [JLundon]
• Crossword clue critic: "1 Across, no good, entire second half should be discarded" (3,4) [Greg Lawler (aka jose)]
• Neat gin cocktail is a puzzling starter (3,4) [Lee McGinty]
• Founder lays alpine flower top-to-tail (3,4) [Philip Rose]
• Creating characters after replacing inaugural charactes with escape character creates inaugural creator (3,4) [Pete Mitchell]
• Sound measure spells fellow to become a father (3,4)
• Foreign agent in a cryptic twister (3-4) [paula10s]
• A cryptic undertaker ruthlessly does in agent (3-4) [paula10s]
• Neat gin ruined me (3,4)

You should be able to deduce the author of the last clue.

Here are a couple of links. To my home page and to a list of all words used in all the r.p.c. clueing competitions, provided by the winner of CWC 100.