Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
Also listed as | |
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D. Appleton | 77 | 0 | 5 | 72 | 149 | 82 | Mar 1976 | May 2022 | 46y 2m | D. R. Appleton |
Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
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2020-2021 | ||||
2564 | CLEARING | Second | Picnic spot where one might find e.g. empty lager can I abandoned? | anag. incl. l(age)r |
2551 | SPAVIN (Spoonerisms) | VHC | Originally, stalking provided a viable income, nowadays this adversely affects many a ghillie’s fate | filly’s gait; first letters |
2543 | CABRETTA | VHC | Soft leather hats, one unfinished, one usually with a pompom missing one | ca(p) + b(i)retta |
2019-2020 | ||||
2512 | OSCITATE | VHC | At Cosi teen half-stifled perplexed yawn | anag. less en |
2500 | ESPAGN(OLETTE STRENG)THENER (Half and Half) | VHC | Wielding e.g. the spanner, something that adds steel bolt | anag. |
2486 | BRUHAHA | VHC | Excited hubbub, not half, initially almost hardly anything really | anag. incl. hub and first letters, & lit. |
2018-2019 | ||||
2460 | TWEET | VHC | Go between two tenors and sing like a lintie | wee in t, t |
2434 | STONKERED | VHC | Start to souse with Willie in Perth till dead drunk | s + tonk2 ere2 d |
2017-2018 | ||||
2403 | SWALE (Spoonerisms) | VHC | Feast in Falmouth? Many feed | fenny mead2; SW ale |
2390 | POISSON D’AVRIL | VHC | In spring one had reordered provisions at deli regularly | anag. incl. alternate letters |
2016-2017 | ||||
2325 | MASON | VHC | Stoneworker starts to maintain ancient structure on Naxos – ends in media storm when portico collapses in ruins | first letters, anag. of last letters |
2313 | PERFECT | VHC | Tense finishes in Ryder cup golf gave me terrific enjoyment – thrilling, spot-on | last letters & 2 meanings |
2015-2016 | ||||
2283 | BARGAIN | VHC | Jump the queue, going from last to first for absolute snip | barge in with a for e |
2270 | FENESTRA | VHC | Hole in wall gives foreign currency – dreadful rates | fen3 + anag. |
2014-2015 | ||||
2248 | WAISTLINE | VHC | Grotesquely it’s 50″ – misery for a kiltie holding that in | anag. + L in(ches) all in wae, & lit. |
2244 | AVANT-GARDISTE | VHC | Somehow vintage ‘trad’ art’s not right for this person | anag. less rt, & lit. |
2239 | ERADIATE (Spoonerisms) | VHC | ‘Bend seems tight dear,’ I gulped | send beams; anag. + ate |
2235 | CHOCK-A-BLOCK | VHC | Start of coup: pawn has bishop in a jam with no room to manoeuvre | c + hock + b in a lock |
2222 | OBJECT LESSON | VHC | Leaders in cosmetic surgery let nose job get botched; such an experience should serve as a warning | anag. incl. c, s |
2218 | FOREIGNER | VHC | After break-up ‘good German friend’ could become ‘goddamn ——’ | comp. anag. & lit. |
2213 | SOLECISM | VHC | Awkward social mess-up with fax could bring about this faux pas | comp. anag. & lit. |
2013-2014 | ||||
2196 | SEMANTRA / TRABEATE (Overlaps) | VHC | In church we signal manse needs renovation. Built from horizontal beams, without poles, battens are warped | anag.; anag. less N, S |
2178 | PARISON | VHC | An unfinished prism, blob to be moulded? | anag. less m, incl. 0, & lit. |
2174 | CHARET (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | ‘Nock’ and ‘no’ – t/wo similar words with the same meaning but different etymologies | |
2170 | SAYONARA | VHC | Goodbye, son – for ever going abroad, defying the odds | s ay + alternate letters |
2165 | OUT OF ORDER | VHC | Too rude for me | self-referential anag. & lit. |
2157 | MELODRAMATIC | Second | Change cream to a mild yellow | anag. |
2012-2013 | ||||
2139 | DE RIGUEUR | VHC | It’s essential to be fashionable. Tailor required, upper-class, good quality not needed | anag. incl U, g, less q |
2011-2012 | ||||
2091 | SNIFTER | VHC | Blow causing skipper a few problems? Small Scotch ref isn’t allowing treatment | anag., 2 mngs. |
2045 | CATENATE | VHC | Clarke needs a neat tee shot for birdie. How are things after putting on links? | anag. incl. t for lark; ref. Darren C. |
2010-2011 | ||||
1997 | FADO | VHC | Sad folk music abroad – miss that with luck | comp. anag. |
2009-2010 | ||||
1984 | ORWEL(L)IAN (Doublethink) | VHC | ‘New Labour is missing bus’ explodes follower of Blair | anag. less bus |
1949 | PALFRENIER | VHC | I prefer essentially bland cooking; he’d curry most days | anag. incl. (b)lan(d); curry2 |
2008-2009 | ||||
1932 | NINE-TO-FIVE | VHC | If in north-east vote labour; it’s routine | anag. incl. NE |
1910 | BARPERSON | VHC | Supply —— is here, cretin can furnish neither a beer nor crisps | comp. anag. & lit. |
1906 | MORSE | Second | Real stars ——’s clues – scare us lesser mortals to bits | comp. anag. & lit. |
2006-2007 | ||||
1831 | MARGINALIA | VHC | What might fill gutters, badly alarming those who calculate insurance premiums | anag. + IA |
1827 | AMAKOSI def. DENUDED (Wrong Number) | VHC | Panda, and those of his class, like coma, stripped, as a snack | stripped; anag. incl. (l)ik(e) (c)om(a); coma2; Panda, Zulu chief and father of Cetewayo |
1823 | KISS | VHC | Might one wake a sleeping princess? If so it would make king sing | i.e. k is s |
1818 | POISSO(N) D’AVRIL (Letters Latent) | VHC | Trivial spoof one associates with special date – silly, not often funny | anag. incl. s, d less anag., & lit. |
1797 | HEART | VHC | Health Education Authority’s right. Breast – it beats bottle | HEA + rt, 3 defs. |
1784 | TEARAWAY | VHC | Daly’s second is in casual water, agreed? Drop further from the hole. Bogeys may curb his recklessness | a in anag. + ay, tear away; ref. John D., US golfer; bogeys = police |
2005-2006 | ||||
1771 | PARTERRE | VHC | Piece of theatre needs direction before Romeo enters | part + R in ere |
1750 | PLOUGHMAN | VHC | Chap with share in field wending up holm with nag | anag. |
1737 | ANIMUS | VHC | Amusing, no finish, fruity, some masculine tones in a feminine body | anag. less g; oenobabble |
2004-2005 | ||||
1719 | ANHELATION | VHC | It’s endless misery in a race | hel(l) in a nation, & lit. |
1694 | MISINTERPRET | VHC | Reprint Times in new format to unfold properly? No! | anag. |
1680 | PILLOW-CUP | VHC | Alone at ten, this could become a tipple we all count on | comp. anag. & lit. |
2003-2004 | ||||
1646 | BLACK | Third | Angry Liberal disrupts support for unofficial colour bar | L in back, 4 defs. |
2002-2003 | ||||
1611 | LEISLER | VHC | Man typically sheltered by the French resistance is a night flier | isle in le R |
1596 | GENISTA (Definition of Anagram) | VHC | Acquire a box brownie, moving from Ilford to Fuji? | easting; nis in get a; ref. makes of camera film |
1572 | SHIELD-MAY | VHC | Wild woman, Gerhilde (say) is this (‘Ring’, Wagner) | comp. anag. incl. 0, & lit. |
2001-2002 | ||||
1533 | MASTER-MARINER | VHC | Sea-captain bewitched tarries with merman | anag. |
2000-2001 | ||||
1515 | SNIDE | VHC | Dud red coins turned up with no heads nor nuffin | (r)ed (c0)ins all rev. |
1999-2000 | ||||
1459 | GREATEST (Spoonerisms) | VHC | Hirst in fight gets English art in a tizzy | flrst … height; anag. incl. E; ref. Damien H. |
1439 | JOHN CANOE | VHC | Highlight of WI Xmas party? Joan Cohen’s cooking | anag.; WI 2 mngs. |
1433 | NEANDERTHAL | VHC | What can make Handel and T. Arne very old-fashioned | anag. |
1998-1999 | ||||
1411 | LOOK-SEE | VHC | Licensee starts to open oloroso keg for nice, slightly fuddled inspection | licensee with o, o, k for anag. |
1406 | CHASSEPOT | Third | I got out of overturned post chaise and was carried in Sedan | anag. less I; ref. 1870 battle |
1380 | RAPPORT (Misprints) | VHC | Lead in Premiership is between Gunners and Borough; United kind of reeling | feeling; P in RA port |
1367 | SANBENITOS | VHC | Stricken Bosnia sent old clothes with Red Cross relief | anag. |
1997-1998 | ||||
1360 | BOG-ASPHODEL | VHC | This may try and flourish in good peaty land by marsh | comp. anag. & lit. |
1996-1997 | ||||
1281 | ABLUTOMANE | VHC | This word could spell a troubled woman in play | comp. anag. & lit.; ref. Lady Macbeth |
1995-1996 | ||||
1247 | PREDICANT | VHC | Reformed vicar, priest, dean? —— varies | comp. anag. & lit. |
1229 | GRUPPETTO | VHC | Rattle got true pianissimo for decorative figure | anag. incl. pp; ref. Simon R. |
1220 | CASSANDRA | VHC | I —— fire the troops – truly a sister of Hector and Paris | comp. anag. & lit. |
1994-1995 | ||||
1181 | SLADE | VHC | A sled slued, slid in Slochd | anag.; village near Aviemore |
1174 | DINGLE-DANGLE | VHC | Mix Double Diamonds with a Glen Elgin. How one might swing from the chandeliers | anag. incl. D, D |
1169 | BLITHE / URSINE (Right and Left) | VHC | Cheerful graduate has first in history and English – from hours in essayists like Chesterton? | BLit h E; hidden |
1165 | YAPSTER | VHC | Barking pet, Rex say | anag. incl. R; barking = mad |
1993-1994 | ||||
1130 | AGRESTAL | VHC | So is maiden pink before onset of giant spider typically leads to abandoned lunch? | a (ante) + g + rest + a, l; ref. wildflower, Miss Muffett, snooker |
1113 | EMPLASTRUM | VHC | Recipe: steam plum duff – or it could be put on to boil | anag. incl. r |
1992-1993 | ||||
1091 | SAPSAGO (Spoonerisms) | VHC | It starts in pleasure surely since it starts in a kiss. Wow! | Swiss cow; SA + p, s + ago |
1981-1982 | ||||
521 | ATTITUDINISE | VHC | Pose suited Titian’s composition | anag. |
1979-1980 | ||||
414 | UNBOSOMER | VHC | Ol’ man river was never one; was the Amazon? | 2 mngs.; “He don’t say nothin’”; Amazons reputed to amputate a breast |
1978-1979 | ||||
327 | HEMLOCK | VHC | Choke badly swallowing a little liquid – this one? | ml in anag., & lit. |
1976-1977 | ||||
243 | OLYMPIC | VHC | Heavenly moly prepared Greek character before Circe’s onset | anag. + pi + C; ref. Odysseus; see moly in C. |
2021-2022
2603 TERAS def. PRATT (Wrong Number)
2595 FIFTY YEARS
2591 GHAT
2584 GIFT-WRAPPED (Cut & Paste)
2582 ACHITOPHEL
2569 BILBO
2020-2021
2547 FILATORY
2534 BOTTLE-WASHER
2525 PLACITUM
2019-2020
2508 CHARACTER (Misprints)
2504 UPBEAT
2495 BUNG
2482 VOX POP
2473 INTERPLAY
2464 BRAINPOWER
2018-2019
2451 CAPUT
2430 CLERIHEW
2421 SPASMODICAL
2412 UBIQUARIAN
2017-2018
2399 CHARMEUSE
2395 PURITANISM
2386 PENNY-A-LINER
2378 PROPOSAL
2376 SOW(PIASTRE)ENS (Christmas Pudding)
2373 CACOGASTRIC
2016-2017
2351 RHAGADES
2338 TRUMP
2324 CELEBRATIONS
2322 VENTRICOSE
2318 TIMENOPENNY (TIMENOGUY) (Penny for the Guy)
2015-2016
2300 MISHMASH
2291 AVESTA (Printer’s Devilry)
2287 VALET
2265 ESPRIT FORT
2261 GANGSTERLAND
2257 BUST-UP / PIT-PAT (Right and Left)
2014-2015
2209 (O)CT(O)BER (Letters Latent)
2200 BRINDISI
2013-2014
2191 PLUG
2187 WEST
2183 SANGRAIL
2161 FARRAGO
2152 STUFFED SHIRT
2148 ZOLLVEREIN
2012-2013
2122 NICETY
2011-2012
2078 RÉCOLLET
2065 DERMESTIDAE
2064 COLD TURKEY
2058 ROBUST
2010-2011
2040 EASTER (Printer’s Devilry)
2031 EMBROIDERY
2027 THRENETICAL
2019 OVERAWE / HENOTIC (Right and Left)
2006 GROAN (Spoonerisms)
1992 FOULARD
2009-2010
1988 PERIQUE
1979 FAR-OUT
1975 SEPTENTRIONAL
1971 WATERMANSHIP
1967 SUBORDINATELY
1962 ANADEM
1953 TRAUMA (misprint of T) (Misprints)
1945 PRISON
2008-2009
1936 LITMUS TEST
1914 VE(S)TAL (Letters Latent)
1901 SANITISE
1897 WASH-OUT
1893 EARTHY
2007-2008
1862 UNALIKE (Spoonerisms)
1858 HUMONGOUS
1853 ANTIQUITARIAN
1849 AUXESIS
1845 UPBRAID
1840 W(I)NN(I)E-THE-POOH (Letters Latent)
2006-2007
1814 HIPSTER
1801 RUSE DE GUERRE
1792 APPALOOSA / ESTAMINET (Right and Left)
2005-2006
1779 NEWIE (misprint of U) (Misprints)
1775 ROUGH-AND-READY
1746 ENTOMIC
2004-2005
1728 EIDOLA def. NULLAH (Wrong Number)
1724 MONEYBAGS
1715 RELEASE / RASPING (Right and Left)
1711 MINUS
1702 WORDSMITHERY
1700 FIVE-O’CLOCK SHADOW
1698 CROSSTIE
2003-2004
1676 CRINGE-MAKING
1672 IMPASTOS (Spoonerisms)
1667 CLARINI
1654 CRESCENT / ENTHRALS (Overlaps)
1648 MAGIC LANTERN
1637 AMNESIC
1633 EMPATRON / WINTERLY (Right and Left)
2002-2003
1615 RUGATE
1602 FENESTRA
2001-2002
1563 SLYBOOTS
1550 MEMORITER
1546 TRANSPARENT
1544 PATROL (with jumble of RAPTORES) (Christmas Devilry)
1541 CHUPRASSY
1519 CARRY-ON
2000-2001
1506 BARE(-)BONES
1489 FRONT-BENCHER
1480 SAMARITAN
1999-2000
1463 REVERSIONAL
1454 GET-UP
1450 PRETENDANT
1446 NEWSPAPERDOM
1441 Word containing MM displaced by a bug (Millennium Bug)
1428 CRICETID
1419 SPLODGE
1998-1999
1402 PENTOSE (Definition of Anagram)
1398 PERMETHRIN
1389 ALL-OVERISH
1387 Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Anagram)
1372 MASTERSTROKE
1997-1998
1355 DIACATHOLICON
1342 ALIENS / RAPINE (Right and Left)
1334 CATACHRESTIC
1996-1997
1307 AGILE (Spoonerisms)
1300 OXFORD (extra O) (Extra Letter)
1286 CHALET
1277 NOVE(M)BER (Letters Latent)
1268 ARGIE-BARGIE
1260 OUT-AND-OUT
1995-1996
1255 CATAFALCO
1238 ELASTIN (Printer’s Devilry)
1234 AVANT-PROPOS
1207 EPOCH-MARKING
1994-1995
1186 GRISELDA
1178 BOOTLEG
1991-1992
1000 ONE THOUSAND
1986-1987
750 SALMAGUNDY (THLMAGUY/OULMAGUY) (750 themed clue)
1984-1985
644 EASY STREET (or STAPELIA)
640 MACHETE
1983-1984
615 HISTORIETTE
585 FLABELLIFORM
581 SPADROON def. MAVERICK (Wrong Number)
1982-1983
568 TETHER (Printer’s Devilry)
547 GLEEMAN
530 PROMETAL
1981-1982
508 POSTURE-MAKER
1980-1981
464 SIMKIN
456 BALADINE
1977-1978
263 ERIACH (Printer’s Devilry)
259 TRANSIRE
1976-1977
234 HOROSCOPIST
208 RALPH
Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|
2020-2021 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 2 | 3 | 28 |
2019-2020 | 0 | 3 | 6 | – |
2018-2019 | 0 | 2 | 4 | – |
2017-2018 | 0 | 2 | 6 | – |
2016-2017 | 0 | 2 | 5 | – |
2015-2016 | 0 | 1 | 6 | – |
2014-2015 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 11 |
2013-2014 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 5 | 6 | 12 |
2012-2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
2011-2012 | 0 | 2 | 4 | – |
2010-2011 | 0 | 1 | 6 | – |
2009-2010 | 0 | 2 | 8 | – |
2008-2009 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 2 | 5 | 24 |
2007-2008 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
2006-2007 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 11 |
2005-2006 | 0 | 3 | 3 | – |
2004-2005 | 0 | 3 | 7 | – |
2003-2004 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 0 | 7 | – |
2002-2003 | 0 | 3 | 2 | – |
2001-2002 | 0 | 1 | 6 | – |
2000-2001 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
1999-2000 | 0 | 3 | 7 | – |
1998-1999 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 3 | 5 | 15 |
1997-1998 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
1996-1997 | 0 | 1 | 6 | – |
1995-1996 | 0 | 3 | 3 | – |
1994-1995 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 18 |
1993-1994 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – |
1992-1993 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
1991-1992 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1986-1987 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1984-1985 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1983-1984 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1982-1983 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1981-1982 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
1980-1981 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1979-1980 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
1978-1979 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
1977-1978 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1976-1977 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |