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. Arthur | 51 | 1 | 1 | 49 | 98 | 53 | Sep 1978 | Sep 2010 | 32y 0m | D. W. Arthur |
Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
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2009-2010 | ||||
1988 | PERIQUE | VHC | Salute this twist, perhaps giving quiet pleasure | comp. anag. & lit. |
1975 | SEPTENTRIONAL | VHC | Northern seaport with inlet developed to harbour navy | N in anag. |
1971 | WATERMANSHIP | VHC | Hit fencing master hard in developing skill with blades | anag. incl. H in wap |
1962 | ANADEM | VHC | Marinade’s not recipe I fancy for fillet | anag. less r I |
1958 | HANGDOG | VHC | Get so frustrated with Inland Revenue – it’s hard going | comp. anag. incl. IR |
1953 | TRAUMA (misprint of T) (Misprints) | VHC | Drug now used for amateur suffering injury | not; anag. less E |
2008-2009 | ||||
1927 | TONSURE (Spoonerisms) | VHC | What’s to blame – lacking Chancellor of the Exchequer called Brown? | bald crown; to (CE)nsure |
1923 | ELLIPTIC | VHC | Explicitly avoiding unknown factors? Not exactly so | anag. less x, y, & lit. |
1906 | MORSE | VHC | Recipe involved in cooking some sea creature, could be accompanied by chips | r in anag.; ref. ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ |
1897 | WASH-OUT | VHC | Wall Street, a majority of the House admitted, is a fiasco | hou in wa’ St |
1893 | EARTHY | VHC | Vulgar man cultivated dropping aitch | he arty with h dropped |
2007-2008 | ||||
1884 | FREELOADER | VHC | This bum and gut spread warrants feed regulator | comp. anag. |
1875 | GOUTTE / UPREAR (Right and Left) | VHC | Must timeless rapture raise a tear say, almost under a spell? | anag. less t; go + utte(r); must4 = frenzied |
1858 | HUMONGOUS | VHC | Huge stink about America’s consumption of energy | hum + go in on US |
1849 | AUXESIS | VHC | Article I sex up to feed under-secretary extravagant claims | a + I sex (rev.) in US |
2006-2007 | ||||
1827 | AMAKOSI def. DENUDED (Wrong Number) | VHC | African leaders running amok in oasis, stripped | stripped; anag. in (o)asi(s) |
1823 | KISS | VHC | X mark is showing hoard | hidden |
1797 | HEART | VHC | ‘Dear’ sounds like ‘deer’ | ‘hart’ |
2005-2006 | ||||
1779 | NEWIE (misprint of U) (Misprints) | VHC | Underwriter regularly discloses debit item | debut; alternate letters |
1775 | ROUGH-AND-READY | VHC | Reach hundred having been dropped, with a dodgy run in a scramble – crude but effective | anag. less C |
1762 | DUDDERY | VHC | Not exactly dude’s formal clothing! | anag. in dry, & lit. |
1753 | DIAGONAL | VHC | A line doing a move obliquely? | anag. incl. l, & lit. |
1737 | ANIMUS | VHC | Such hostility requires members of UNO to be in complete agreement | (UN)anim(O)us |
2003-2004 | ||||
1672 | IMPASTOS (Spoonerisms) | VHC | They’ve hatched clues, on retirement: a drunk, an idiot, and me! | clatched hues; sot sap mi (all rev.); me2 |
1648 | MAGIC LANTERN | VHC | This could display still calm, retaining not one ripple | anag. less I |
2002-2003 | ||||
1611 | LEISLER | VHC | This bat and pad if together confuse a slip fielder | comp. anag. |
1596 | GENISTA (Definition of Anagram) | VHC | Joshing is primarily tongue in cheek | teasing; is t in gena |
2001-2002 | ||||
1567 | QUEEN | VHC | Rock Group: one with R & B capabilities | 2 mngs.; ref. chess |
1533 | MASTER-MARINER | VHC | Chopped meats take a day spent in pickle: recipe for Cook, perhaps | anag. + r + marin(ad)e + r; Captain C. |
1519 | CARRY-ON | Third | A cloned Harry Potter to be held a ——? | comp. anag. & lit.; potter verb |
2000-2001 | ||||
1511 | DEEP-SEATED | VHC | Plutonic: located like Neptune? | 2 mngs. |
1502 | RAPPEL | VHC | Use of snare drum perhaps, with no hint of truce on either side | (t)rap pel(t), & lit. |
1989-1990 | ||||
904 | VOETGANGER | VHC | What, getting old, could manage a gorge on veldt | comp. anag. & lit. |
891 | CAT | VHC | I’m musical, but no square | Cat(S), & lit. |
1988-1989 | ||||
887 | MONSTER | VHC | ‘Dr’, new recipe set out, becomes ‘Mr’, on changing to one | MO + anag. incl. n r, monster with I for on = mister, & lit.; ref. Jekyll and Hyde |
882 | DOSSIER | VHC | Notes the ‘Branch’ built up? | dos + reis (rev.), & lit.; ref. Special Branch |
878 | MOUSEPIECE | First | Sumo wrestling – epic struggles needing energy on both sides, and a bit of beef! | anag. + anag. in E E |
1986-1987 | ||||
744 | SKIRL-IN-THE-PAN / COFFEE-DISEASE (Right and Left) | VHC | This could devastate Brazil – out of condition English team, making comeback in end, thwart their plan and slip away at wings – sizzling! | off E + side (rev.) in cease; anag. in skin |
1985-1986 | ||||
692 | FIDIBUS def. PRICKET (Wrong Number) | VHC | Paper spike, when fanned with rage becomes fire-bug’s aid | spike; comp. anag. |
683 | BANISH | VHC | Arrest following overthrow and ship off bereft of power | nab (rev.) + anag. less p, & lit. |
1984-1985 | ||||
670 | TURNIP-FLEA | VHC | Verminous creature involved in something akin to rape following orgy of ale | turnip f + anag. |
666 | Any word; subsidiary indication omits an animal (Beasts) | VHC | I’m a money-grubber – notes or a small coin will do! | m(ammon)ite; mi te, mite |
657 | SILLY-BILLY | VHC | Basil FawIty? His wife goes about cross, heartless lady | ill in Sybil + l(ad)y; ref. TV series |
1983-1984 | ||||
615 | HISTORIETTE | VHC | Novel – short title, i.e. 50 leaves? | anag. less L, & lit. |
600 | Into the jaws of Death / Into the mouth of Hell (Anagram) | VHC | Halt the mad hot hoof, just too few in the line | |
590 | MINEVER | VHC | Ermine, in camouflage around end of Nov. | v in anag., & lit. |
581 | SPADROON def. MAVERICK (Wrong Number) | VHC | SDP ran all-out to pinch the Centre from Foot in cut-and-thrust contest | pinch; oo in anag.; ref. Michael F. |
1982-1983 | ||||
547 | GLEEMAN | VHC | With tone and rhimes he could make me gentle harmonies | comp. anag. & lit. |
1980-1981 | ||||
464 | SIMKIN | VHC | You’ll find me served up in society family | mi (rev.) in S kin, & lit.; me2 |
452 | DISSENTERISM | VHC | The attitude of the ‘Wets’ could require a shake-up of D.E.S. Ministers | anag. |
426 | MISL(E)ADING (Letters Latent) | VHC | Intelligence service gets faulty signal about the start of Doomsday, causing false alert? | MI + D in anag.; ref. Pentagon computer failures |
2010-2011
2000 TWO THOUSAND
1997 FADO
1992 FOULARD
2009-2010
1984 ORWEL(L)IAN (Doublethink)
1967 SUBORDINATELY
1949 PALFRENIER
1945 PRISON
1940 SCANT def. SNEAP (Wrong Number)
2008-2009
1936 LITMUS TEST
1932 NINE-TO-FIVE
1910 BARPERSON
1908 WE THREE KINGS
1901 SANITISE
1888 RASTER (Printer’s Devilry)
2007-2008
1879 LITTER BASKET
1871 FAIRY GOLD
1853 ANTIQUITARIAN
1845 UPBRAID
1840 W(I)NN(I)E-THE-POOH (Letters Latent)
1836 POSTHASTE
2006-2007
1831 MARGINALIA
1818 POISSO(N) D’AVRIL (Letters Latent)
1814 HIPSTER
1806 INEBRIANT
1784 TEARAWAY
2005-2006
1771 PARTERRE
1766 GEST (Printer’s Devilry)
1752 MIDWINTER
1733 PALESTRA
2004-2005
1728 EIDOLA def. NULLAH (Wrong Number)
1724 MONEYBAGS
1719 ANHELATION
1707 GALENA (Definition of Anagram)
1698 CROSSTIE
1694 MISINTERPRET
1689 SYNOD
1685 MINO (Printer’s Devilry)
2003-2004
1667 CLARINI
1659 SCAREDY-CAT
1654 CRESCENT / ENTHRALS (Overlaps)
1650 SAPHENA
1646 BLACK
1641 GADGETEER
1633 EMPATRON / WINTERLY (Right and Left)
1628 ENCOMION
2002-2003
1619 GISMO (Printer’s Devilry)
1606 TEOSINTE / INTELSAT (Overlaps)
1576 FACADE
2001-2002
1546 TRANSPARENT
1541 CHUPRASSY
1537 CAFTAN
1528 STROP (Spoonerisms)
1524 INGRATITUDE
2000-2001
1515 SNIDE
1494 MARATHON
1989-1990
926 NERD
920 CHRIST-CROSS-ROW
917 HOOLIGANISM
913 ARCHIBALD
895 TONE DEAF
1988-1989
874 BLUESTOCKING
1987-1988
831 COOLABAH (Spoonerisms)
823 SARBACANE
809 DOLCE VITA
792 DISTHENE (Printer’s Devilry)
1986-1987
779 MISSING LINK
766 GUBBINS
764 CHILDERMAS
757 ETHEROMANIAC (Misprints)
740 ESCADRILLE
1985-1986
731 STRING
718 FLO(GG)IN(G) (Letters Latent)
712 PANTOMIME HORSE
709 GINGER
705 MUSICOTHERAPY
701 BALUSTRADE
696 ANTIMNEMONIC
1984-1985
675 CONSTERNATE
660 Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse (Anagram)
649 AUSTRALORP
644 EASY STREET (or STAPELIA)
1983-1984
622 SIMP (Printer’s Devilry)
618 CRETISM
610 DOUBLETHINK
607 CARNEY
1982-1983
572 SNAKE-OIL
1981-1982
521 ATTITUDINISE
508 POSTURE-MAKER
491 SEVENTY-EIGHT
482 BODY-SNATCHER
1980-1981
469 APLUSTRE
443 STEEPLECROWN
434 JARDINIÈRE
430 TEGULA
1979-1980
419 RAMILLIES
414 UNBOSOMER
1978-1979
358 UPSTART def. NON-TERM (Wrong Number)
336 ELF-ARROW / CUTHBERT (Right and Left)
Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
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2010-2011 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
2009-2010 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
2008-2009 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
2007-2008 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 24 |
2006-2007 | 0 | 3 | 5 | – |
2005-2006 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
2004-2005 | 0 | 0 | 8 | – |
2003-2004 | 0 | 2 | 8 | – |
2002-2003 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
2001-2002 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 2 | 5 | 22 |
2000-2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
1989-1990 | 0 | 2 | 5 | – |
1988-1989 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 2 | 1 | 22 |
1987-1988 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
1986-1987 | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
1985-1986 | 0 | 2 | 7 | – |
1984-1985 | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
1983-1984 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 22 |
1982-1983 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
1981-1982 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1980-1981 | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
1979-1980 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1978-1979 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |