ordStats| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
Also listed as | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs A. Terrill | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 35 | 13 | Dec 1997 | Oct 2014 | 16y 10m | Ms A. Terrill |
| Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-2014 | ||||
| 2191 | PLUG | VHC | Dog holding lead in ‘Lassie’ advert | L in pug |
| 2012-2013 | ||||
| 2135 | LOB | VHC | Ball hit high in the air and opener’s gone for a duck | (b)lob |
| 2122 | NICETY | VHC | Fine point made by indiscreetly ignoring the odds | alternate letters |
| 2105 | TITANIC / ICEBERG (Overlaps) | VHC | Film person of exceptional importance, English composer, one with a reserved manner | titan; E Berg |
| 2011-2012 | ||||
| 2083 | BEWITCH | VHC | Charm school’s number two brought in to chaperone? | c in be with |
| 2009-2010 | ||||
| 1960 | NGANA (3 defs + letter mixture) (Parcels) | VHC | Tsetse disease researcher manhandling beast – a gnu, say – in lab | ABUSING ANALYST |
| 1958 | HANGDOG | VHC | The sort of look one might have having put up with Gordon’s leadership stifling party? | do in hang G; ref. G. Brown |
| 2008-2009 | ||||
| 1923 | ELLIPTIC | VHC | Oval capsule popped by name in need of a lift | pill in cite (all rev.) |
| 2007-2008 | ||||
| 1858 | HUMONGOUS | VHC | Exceptionally bad university crowd filling pub that doesn’t close | U mong in hous(e) |
| 2006-2007 | ||||
| 1831 | MARGINALIA | VHC | Editorial comments, perhaps, in ‘Mail’, a rag needing editing! | anag. |
| 1806 | INEBRIANT | VHC | Edna often had one in bar? Ten, I suspect | anag.; ref. TV play ‘Edna the Inebriate Woman’ |
| 2005-2006 | ||||
| 1779 | NEWIE (misprint of U) (Misprints) | VHC | Word ‘pet’ in C, say for the first time gives n ‘sheep one’s brought inside’ | put; n + I in ewe |
| 1775 | ROUGH-AND-READY | VHC | Crude, but effective from Hoylake’s long grass, Funk holes one | rough + dread in any; ref. Fred F., US golfer |
2014-2015
2209 (O)CT(O)BER (Letters Latent)
2200 BRINDISI
2013-2014
2187 WEST
2161 FARRAGO
2157 MELODRAMATIC
2152 STUFFED SHIRT
2012-2013
2131 DIVES / MALIK (Right and Left)
2126 DESPERATE
2109 THICKETY
2011-2012
2087 ROCKET
2074 BENNET
2070 MISTREATMENT
2049 PARTY-POOPER
2045 CATENATE
2010-2011
2019 OVERAWE / HENOTIC (Right and Left)
2012 BLOATING
1992 FOULARD
2009-2010
1988 PERIQUE
1967 SUBORDINATELY
1962 ANADEM
2008-2009
1918 PALAMPORE
1914 VE(S)TAL (Letters Latent)
1901 SANITISE
1897 WASH-OUT
2007-2008
1884 FREELOADER
1879 LITTER BASKET
1871 FAIRY GOLD
1866 BINGE
1862 UNALIKE (Spoonerisms)
1856 LITAS (Printer’s Devilry)
1836 POSTHASTE
2006-2007
1788 ETHEREAL OILS
2005-2006
1762 DUDDERY
1752 MIDWINTER
1997-1998
1334 CATACHRESTIC
| Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-2015 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2013-2014 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
| 2012-2013 | 0 | 3 | 3 | – |
| 2011-2012 | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
| 2010-2011 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2009-2010 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
| 2008-2009 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
| 2007-2008 | 0 | 1 | 7 | – |
| 2006-2007 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – |
| 2005-2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
| 1997-1998 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |