ordStats| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
Also listed as | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. M. Edmunds | 71 | 4 | 8 | 59 | 168 | 83 | Jul 1981 | Apr 2022 | 40y 9m | C. Edmunds |
| Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-2020 | ||||
| 2512 | OSCITATE | First | Signal need of a nap – crack Ascot tip that doesn’t finish last in race | anag. less p + e |
| 2018-2019 | ||||
| 2428 | SHEPHERDS | VHC | Shimmering seraph shed a light for them | anag. less a, & lit. |
| 2017-2018 | ||||
| 2382 | STRIPE def. HARLOT (Wrong Number) | VHC | Tracks from Abbey Road, for instance, briefly arrived at perfection | road; st + ripe |
| 2360 | VIDENDA | VHC | Do see them running, and devil … take the hindmost | anag. less l |
| 2016-2017 | ||||
| 2351 | RHAGADES | VHC | Disfiguring cracks reach along affected epidermis (the outer bits) | first & last letters |
| 2015-2016 | ||||
| 2305 | AGREE def. PATCH (Wrong Number) | VHC | Cotton backed NHS dressing leaves skin rather nodular | (sh)agree(n); dressing |
| 2291 | AVESTA (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Will fellers le/nding stump up for the wild life? | |
| 2261 | GANGSTERLAND | VHC | Don’s own backyard lacking in gardening slant? Makeover required | anag. less in; ref. Monty D. and Mafia dons. |
| 2014-2015 | ||||
| 2248 | WAISTLINE | VHC | What one fears the spread of is a new & lit craze | anag. |
| 2235 | CHOCK-A-BLOCK | VHC | In congested position, 3rd rank pawn advanced with check | c hock a + block |
| 2218 | FOREIGNER | First | Wanting a faringee or migrant? That’s me | anag. less a & lit. |
| 2013-2014 | ||||
| 2165 | OUT OF ORDER | VHC | Offending propriety? This itself may engender furore and to-do | anag. |
| 2012-2013 | ||||
| 2144 | INFERNO (Spoonerisms) | VHC | Men’s final is played with fire – number 2 scrapes home | Screwtape’s home; anag. incl. n + no.; ref. Wimbledon 2013 and C. S. Lewis |
| 2122 | NICETY | VHC | Land freshly prepared for plants takes working yet such cultivation needs precision | NIC + anag. |
| 2109 | THICKETY | VHC | Having packed trunks, exhausted elephant Nellie has taken off | e, t in thicky; take off = swallow; ref. popular song |
| 2010-2011 | ||||
| 2040 | EASTER (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Speedy clipper left Portlands shor/n in a trice | |
| 1992 | FOULARD | VHC | Costly belcher? Damage to US, primarily Florida, could make this one | anag. of U Florida less I; ref. Gulf oil spill |
| 2009-2010 | ||||
| 1971 | WATERMANSHIP | Second | One Down absorbs us all – need for stroke of genius | man in Watership; ref. Richard Adams novel and AZ comp |
| 1953 | TRAUMA (misprint of T) (Misprints) | VHC | Amateur dancing, when excess energy leaves shattered stage? | state; anag. less E |
| 1945 | PRISON | VHC | Where ‘Society’ bungs rogue element? | S in prion2, & lit. |
| 2008-2009 | ||||
| 1893 | EARTHY | VHC | Describing Set, possibly Ra – they get muddled up | anag.; ref. badgers, Egyptian deities |
| 2007-2008 | ||||
| 1884 | FREELOADER | VHC | Advantage … he takes it – Olé, Spain goes, a Federer dismantled | anag. less E |
| 1836 | POSTHASTE | VHC | Like the clappers after a movement, he’s apt to receive a bit of stick | s in anag.; ref. applause at Proms |
| 2006-2007 | ||||
| 1831 | MARGINALIA | VHC | Lollobrigida? – in Andrews Sister role? In a skirt, script notes | Gina L. in Maria; ref. Julie A. in ‘The Sound of Music’ |
| 1801 | RUSE DE GUERRE | VHC | Usurer, greed confounded by advocate’s final stratagem | anag. + e; ref. Shylock |
| 2005-2006 | ||||
| 1762 | DUDDERY | Second | Partially infected udder yields, if red, material inflammatory to bovines | hidden; ‘red rag to a bull’ |
| 1752 | MIDWINTER | VHC | Seasonal present, substantially widens trim figures (as was) | anag. incl. widen(s); figure (obs.) = form, shape |
| 1741 | LORD NELSON | VHC | Londoners’ stylite, centrally elevated | anag. incl. l, & lit.; elevated = drunk |
| 1733 | PALESTRA | First | Hardy embracing with Nelson a possibility? Disabled tar’s plea permits it | anag.; ref. ‘Kiss me, Hardy’, wrestling hold |
| 2004-2005 | ||||
| 1724 | MONEYBAGS | VHC | Well-endowed one, divine, synonymous with boobs, could so characterise ‘Playboys’ | ‘bunny mags’; ref. the Rev. Spooner |
| 1715 | RELEASE / RASPING (Right and Left) | Third | Harsh Government cancelled miserly relief on loan | (g)rasping; re lease |
| 1680 | PILLOW-CUP | VHC | Bass and Trophy after lager, all but the ultimate in drinks? | pil(s) + low + cup; beer brands |
| 2003-2004 | ||||
| 1676 | CRINGE-MAKING | VHC | God-awful bells in church – who brought up Martin Luther? | ring in CE + ma King |
| 1663 | ARMAMENTARIA | VHC | Operating gadgetry etc, the stock prerequisite for a Napoleon Solo | armament aria; ref. former TV series ‘The Man from UNCLE’ |
| 2002-2003 | ||||
| 1615 | RUGATE | VHC | Tabloid term for Carling cover-up, possibly prompting complaint about press? | i.e. RU-gate; analogy of Watergate, etc.; ref. Will C., England rugby captain |
| 2001-2002 | ||||
| 1537 | CAFTAN | VHC | Trios from café-chantant clobber ‘alla Turca’ | i.e. caf tan |
| 2000-2001 | ||||
| 1506 | BARE(-)BONES | VHC | Men like Cassius Clay’s ultimate destiny (after boxing?) | 2 mngs.; ref. Julius Caesar; clay = human body |
| 1476 | LIGNIPERDOUS | Third | A touch of rabies – is dog barking with lupine, menacing bay? | anag. incl. r; barking = mad |
| 1467 | CANAPÉ | VHC | Typically, one has spread – might one exercise? | can a PE |
| 1999-2000 | ||||
| 1450 | PRETENDANT | Third | One who presses suits (wrinkled pant tender) | anag. |
| 1441 | Word containing MM displaced by a bug (Millennium Bug) | VHC | Introduction of millennia as a signal to delete small creatures? The reverse | Emma / cimex; axe mice (all rev.); i.e. signaller’s M |
| 1998-1999 | ||||
| 1402 | PENTOSE (Definition of Anagram) | VHC | Open to sell partially licensed liquors? No! | poteens; hidden |
| 1389 | ALL-OVERISH | VHC | Violers playing with lah fretted below high doh? | anag.; see ‘up to the high doh’ |
| 1997-1998 | ||||
| 1346 | PHARISEE | VHC | A figure of sourness, one with drilling in Scripture divine | pH a RI see, & lit. |
| 1995-1996 | ||||
| 1250 | SONEOCARDIA (STENOCARDIA) (Ten to One) | Second | ER and Co., so distressed with Diana – ‘pain of hearts’ | anag.; ref. Princess D.’s self-proclamation as ‘Queen of hearts’ |
| 1220 | CASSANDRA | VHC | A girl who had vision, as saint D’Arc, but with it rejected, wasted | anag. less it |
| 1994-1995 | ||||
| 1181 | SLADE | VHC | This ground could be about right for alders | anag. less r |
| 1161 | ADIAPHORON | VHC | What’s held without bidding? A poor hand one’s dealt | anag. incl. I |
| 1993-1994 | ||||
| 1108 | GREEN | VHC | Regeneration, saving energy, helping recycling, is the answer | anag. of regen(E ration), & lit. |
| 1104 | BURYING-PLACES | VHC | Cairns, e.g., left up by all in grief? | anag. incl. I, & lit. |
| 1992-1993 | ||||
| 1095 | STINK | VHC | What can come from skunk’s rump and isn’t engaging? | anag. incl. k, & lit. |
| 1052 | AGANIPPE | VHC | What lists ‘gap’ with ‘nap’, i.e. aid for the uninspired poet | anag. |
| 1048 | GALLOPADE | Third | Relay leg – do a lap, step rapidly aside | anag. |
| 1991-1992 | ||||
| 1034 | BURLAP | VHC | Ives advanced piano, in short, tough stuff | Burl A p |
| 1024 | PRESENT (3 defs + sub. ind. of wrapping) (Parcels) | VHC | ‘Gym-sore’, being shattered, beat, tender throughout | SEM(PRE SENT)RY-GO; anag. |
| 1004 | OIL PAINTINGS | VHC | Pickled pig’s loin sandwiches are not unrefined. Bacon creations, for example, that are Art | ain’t in anag.; ref. Francis B. |
| 1990-1991 | ||||
| 987 | IRON CURTAIN | VHC | Not in RUC? IRA admits ‘error’ – a barrier of politics and bigotry | anag. |
| 1989-1990 | ||||
| 930 | SABULOSE | VHC | Gritty South African black gets universal following once free | SA + B + U + lose2; ref. N. Mandela |
| 895 | TONE DEAF | VHC | Thus fated, one pitches all over the place | anag. & lit. |
| 1988-1989 | ||||
| 868 | ROLAND (2 clues + def. of contents) (Parcels) | VHC | Steroid Ben, stripped of first, trod shakily with reason – hero Lewis, with nothing injected, gets praise (and timely praise too) | androsterone, carol; anag. less B; Car(o)l; ref. B. Johnson, Carl L., sprinters |
| 1987-1988 | ||||
| 835 | PROSAICAL | VHC | Put plainly – a first in clue slip or A’s rotten | anag. incl. c; A = Azed |
| 831 | COOLABAH (Spoonerisms) | VHC | Greed of bum in Aussie song about roving à la hobo | breed of gum; c. + anag. |
| 1986-1987 | ||||
| 779 | MISSING LINK | VHC | Being not wholly a man, thus purblind type becomes bard | i.e. blinkard missing link = bard |
| 770 | HERMITS | VHC | Marine life tires – HM’s upset | anag. |
| 1985-1986 | ||||
| 696 | ANTIMNEMONIC | VHC | One leader of morris men experiencing volte-face over performing in grotesque pageant – I’m opposed to knotted handkerchiefs, I shan’t ring any bells! | I m + men (rev.) on, all in antic |
| 688 | CUCURBITAL | Third | Badly swung club cut air, resulting in this fruity epithet (you won’t find it in my Chambers) | anag.; ref. misprint in 1983 C. |
| 1982-1983 | ||||
| 576 | TOP-NOTCH | VHC | A cut above the rest? | double mng. |
| 564 | PARAMENT | VHC | Court rejects principles of life imprisonment, good old-fashioned hanging’s the answer | par(l i)ament |
| 538 | INGRAIN | VHC | Sporting rag tipped one horse, ‘Silver it’s not but it’s fast’ (though hopefully not running) | in + anag. + I + n(Ag) |
| 1981-1982 | ||||
| 517 | IMMORTELLE | First | Blunt’s confession implicates right wing in chronic bloomer | rt el in I’m mole; ref. Anthony B. |
| 500 | BEFOOL (two extra Ds) (Extra Letter) | VHC | Diddle, fiddle of boddle | bole; anag.; sv. bodle |
2021-2022
2599 DESIDERATA
2586 BALDERDASH
2020-2021
2556 TOERAG
2543 CABRETTA
2539 TORSE (Printer’s Devilry)
2534 BOTTLE-WASHER
2532 POTLA(TSUGA)TCH (Presents Round the Tree)
2530 STUDENTY
2019-2020
2508 CHARACTER (Misprints)
2495 BUNG
2486 BRUHAHA
2018-2019
2451 CAPUT
2443 ERATHEM (Printer’s Devilry)
2438 MONTE DI PIETÀ
2417 ALTARAGE / PROPOSAL (Right and Left)
2017-2018
2395 PURITANISM
2390 POISSON D’AVRIL
2386 PENNY-A-LINER
2378 PROPOSAL
2364 COMPOST HEAP
2016-2017
2325 MASON
2318 TIMENOPENNY (TIMENOGUY) (Penny for the Guy)
2015-2016
2300 MISHMASH
2283 BARGAIN
2274 SIMPATICO
2272 SNOWMOBILE
2270 FENESTRA
2265 ESPRIT FORT
2257 BUST-UP / PIT-PAT (Right and Left)
2250 MILESTONE (with missing O) (Missing Letter)
2014-2015
2244 AVANT-GARDISTE
2013-2014
2196 SEMANTRA / TRABEATE (Overlaps)
2170 SAYONARA
2012-2013
2135 LOB
2126 DESPERATE
2105 TITANIC / ICEBERG (Overlaps)
2100 A STITCH IN TIME
2096 TRICK
2011-2012
2091 SNIFTER
2087 ROCKET
2083 BEWITCH
2078 RÉCOLLET
2074 BENNET
2062 APPLE-KNOCKER
2058 ROBUST
2053 PERISHER def. ESTIMATE (Wrong Number)
2010-2011
2036 AL CONTO
2012 BLOATING
2009-2010
1988 PERIQUE
1967 SUBORDINATELY
1962 ANADEM
1958 HANGDOG
1949 PALFRENIER
1940 SCANT def. SNEAP (Wrong Number)
2008-2009
1927 TONSURE (Spoonerisms)
1923 ELLIPTIC
1910 BARPERSON
1908 WE THREE KINGS
1906 MORSE
1897 WASH-OUT
2007-2008
1875 GOUTTE / UPREAR (Right and Left)
1866 BINGE
1862 UNALIKE (Spoonerisms)
1853 ANTIQUITARIAN
1849 AUXESIS
1845 UPBRAID
1840 W(I)NN(I)E-THE-POOH (Letters Latent)
2006-2007
1827 AMAKOSI def. DENUDED (Wrong Number)
1823 KISS
1818 POISSO(N) D’AVRIL (Letters Latent)
1810 HARE / POSEUR / SERINETTE (DLM)
1806 INEBRIANT
1804 CLOTHES SENSE (Spoonerisms)
1792 APPALOOSA / ESTAMINET (Right and Left)
1788 ETHEREAL OILS
2005-2006
1779 NEWIE (misprint of U) (Misprints)
1771 PARTERRE
1766 GEST (Printer’s Devilry)
1758 BIMBETTE
1753 DIAGONAL
1737 ANIMUS
2004-2005
1700 FIVE-O’CLOCK SHADOW
1698 CROSSTIE
2003-2004
1672 IMPASTOS (Spoonerisms)
1648 MAGIC LANTERN
1646 BLACK
1637 AMNESIC
1633 EMPATRON / WINTERLY (Right and Left)
1628 ENCOMION
1624 BELAY
2002-2003
1611 LEISLER
1598 PHRASEMONGER
1580 MARGENT def. BEETLES (Wrong Number)
1572 SHIELD-MAY
2001-2002
1563 SLYBOOTS
1559 THEOLOGASTER
1550 MEMORITER
1541 CHUPRASSY
1528 STROP (Spoonerisms)
2000-2001
1502 RAPPEL
1494 MARATHON
1489 FRONT-BENCHER
1485 BOURSE / TIFOSO (Right and Left)
1480 SAMARITAN
1999-2000
1459 GREATEST (Spoonerisms)
1437 MISTLETOE
1428 CRICETID
1998-1999
1398 PERMETHRIN
1394 BERGAMOT
1376 LOGO
1372 MASTERSTROKE
1363 MAVIN def. THONG (Wrong Number)
1997-1998
1360 BOG-ASPHODEL
1351 NEATEN (Printer’s Devilry)
1338 SMART ALEC
1336 STOCKING
1996-1997
1294 TRANSENNA
1284 STALE (3 defs. + sub. ind. of wrapping) (Parcels)
1281 ABLUTOMANE
1268 ARGIE-BARGIE
1995-1996
1255 CATAFALCO
1238 ELASTIN (Printer’s Devilry)
1232 The world is too much with us; late and soon (Anagram)
1225 CURRY
1216 CHAPERON
1994-1995
1190 DENARIUS
1180 COLD TURKEY
1169 BLITHE / URSINE (Right and Left)
1152 PARACETAMOL
1993-1994
1147 MAYDAY
1139 BENJAMIN
1134 TOVARICH
1130 AGRESTAL
1126 CHEATERY
1117 STAMNOS (3 Consecutive Letters)
1992-1993
1087 OLD SOLDIER
1084 PIERCEABLE / SALESGIRL (DLM)
1991-1992
1030 PASTILLE
1021 BEARD
1017 SCHAPSKA / PEARMAIN (Right and Left)
1008 SPORTSCASTER (Misprints)
1990-1991
982 ALMANAC
947 SHOULDER-SLIP
943 BARAGOUIN
1989-1990
934 LACE-UPS
900 (C)HARLATANIS(M) (Letters Latent)
1988-1989
882 DOSSIER
878 MOUSEPIECE
840 SONDE
1987-1988
827 MICKEY-TAKING
823 SARBACANE
814 SPOUSAGE
809 DOLCE VITA
805 LITOTES
792 DISTHENE (Printer’s Devilry)
1986-1987
764 CHILDERMAS
753 SHEEPDOG
750 SALMAGUNDY (THLMAGUY/OULMAGUY) (750 themed clue)
1984-1985
666 Any word; subsidiary indication omits an animal (Beasts)
653 INTERNUNCIO
649 AUSTRALORP
640 MACHETE
1983-1984
627 AMBIENT
618 CRETISM
590 MINEVER
1982-1983
559 EMBASE
552 NOURICE-FEE
1981-1982
482 BODY-SNATCHER
| Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 2019-2020 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2018-2019 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
| 2017-2018 | 0 | 2 | 5 | – |
| 2016-2017 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
| 2015-2016 | 0 | 3 | 7 | – |
| 2014-2015 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 2 | 1 | 25 |
| 2013-2014 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
| 2012-2013 | 0 | 3 | 5 | – |
| 2011-2012 | 0 | 0 | 8 | – |
| 2010-2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
| 2009-2010 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 2 | 6 | 27 |
| 2008-2009 | 0 | 1 | 6 | – |
| 2007-2008 | 0 | 2 | 7 | – |
| 2006-2007 | 0 | 2 | 8 | – |
| 2005-2006 | 2 (1, 1, 0) | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 2004-2005 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 2 | 2 | 22 |
| 2003-2004 | 0 | 1 | 7 | – |
| 2002-2003 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
| 2001-2002 | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
| 2000-2001 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 2 | 5 | 24 |
| 1999-2000 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 1 | 3 | – |
| 1998-1999 | 0 | 2 | 5 | – |
| 1997-1998 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
| 1996-1997 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 1995-1996 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 1 | 5 | – |
| 1994-1995 | 0 | 2 | 4 | – |
| 1993-1994 | 0 | 2 | 6 | – |
| 1992-1993 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 2 | 2 | 20 |
| 1991-1992 | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
| 1990-1991 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
| 1989-1990 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
| 1988-1989 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
| 1987-1988 | 0 | 2 | 6 | – |
| 1986-1987 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
| 1985-1986 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 1 | 0 | – |
| 1984-1985 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 1983-1984 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 1982-1983 | 0 | 3 | 2 | – |
| 1981-1982 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 1 | 0 | – |