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Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
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W. K. M. Slimmings | 186 | 15 | 20 | 151 | 279 | 221 | Jun 1946 | Dec 1994 | 48y 6m | Sir W. Slimmings W. K. Slimmings |
Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
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1994-1995 | ||||
1180 | COLD TURKEY | VHC | No kidding, it’s reaction to lack of snow (or prospect of rissoles?) | 3 mngs.; snow = heroin etc. |
1993-1994 | ||||
1122 | BASILIAN | VHC | One joining confirmed bachelors, secure in retreat? | BAs I + nail (rev.), & lit. |
1992-1993 | ||||
1095 | STINK | VHC | Scandal broke on bandying of knight’s letters | skint with Kt exchanged |
1991-1992 | ||||
1039 | TOLERABLE | VHC | Moderate unready for change when polled, clinching cry of triumph by right | ole r in (s)table |
1990-1991 | ||||
969 | BUNTER | VHC | A fatty belly disheartened eater? Not this one! | bunt e(ate)r, & lit. |
1989-1990 | ||||
939 | A-PER-SE / ESCROC (Right and Left) | VHC | Soccer playing artful dodger, a blue (Oxford?), is one without a match | anag.; a perse |
926 | NERD | VHC | One who’d gravel a shortcut to Blaydon races, say? | i.e. NE Rd; races held in Newcastle; gravel = irritate |
900 | (C)HARLATANIS(M) (Letters Latent) | VHC | It shows a liar hasn’t abandoned advocacy of snake-oil | anag. |
1988-1989 | ||||
868 | ROLAND (2 clues + def. of contents) (Parcels) | VHC | For one so expert, swimming stream to love Hero, Leander’s losing energy would be a heavy blow | maestro, lander; anag.; L(E)ander |
866 | NECTAREOUS | VHC | Bond? Drop Unknown for actor with bit of experience, versatile, delighting the gods | nexus with anag. incl. e for x |
1987-1988 | ||||
835 | PROSAICAL | VHC | Ruins of acropolis one lacking love finds unromantic | anag. incl. a less 0 |
827 | MICKEY-TAKING | VHC | A way of baiting bull, with terriers set at head | mickey TA king |
823 | SARBACANE | First | Reactionary supports a switch whose blow can mark one’s end | bras (rev.) + a cane |
805 | LITOTES | VHC | It suggests no great whopper in economics with truth | tot in lies, & lit.; ref. Sir W. Armstrong, Spycatcher, etc. |
796 | UPHOLSTERY | VHC | London bound on boys’ vacation, tyre bursting may mean curtains for some | up + hols + anag. |
1986-1987 | ||||
774 | VICTORINE | VHC | See what’s yellow, when tinned, and stuck in sorbet? | v. + or2 in tin in ice |
770 | HERMITS | VHC | Eights rowing without their no. 3 have jolly well caught crabs | RM in anag. less g |
766 | GUBBINS | VHC | Black members of party in power inferior to white man? That’s rubbish | gub + B ins |
753 | SHEEPDOG | VHC | Cast go back without recording a guide to the Cotswolds | EP in shed + go (rev.); Cotswold sheep |
750 | SALMAGUNDY (THLMAGUY/OULMAGUY) (750 themed clue) | First | A spicy jumble this type of square with happy laugh about thousand by X’s successor | T + M in anag. + Y; X = Ximenes |
735 | MALIGN | VHC | Mum’s first to dress wound, with action following words? | m + align; i.e. action for slander |
1985-1986 | ||||
731 | STRING | Second | It can sound a bit tough on runners (and runners to be?) | 3 mngs.; runner beans |
712 | PANTOMIME HORSE | VHC | It does harmonise tempo, dancing – after partner gets guidance from behind | anag.; after adj., behind n. |
701 | BALUSTRADE | VHC | American jazz package tours? It’s a feature on flights | US trad in bale |
696 | ANTIMNEMONIC | VHC | Con men fiddled over million dud coin – yet getting amnesty! | anti + anag. + m + anag. |
1984-1985 | ||||
675 | CONSTERNATE | VHC | Mess on street can make chaps fall | anag.; see chapfallen |
662 | BARGE-COUPLE | VHC | Thatcher fixes on … what? Up with English interest, and blow the French! | E grab (rev.) + coup le (Fr.) |
657 | SILLY-BILLY | Third | Butt, am I? Very close – butter | silly + billy |
631 | INTERLOCK | VHC | What zip should do? (Embarrassing for clerk, if not, with fly’s opening!) | comp. anag. incl. f |
1983-1984 | ||||
615 | HISTORIETTE | Second | Mrs T’s lot end on top, not wet, stopping turn to left. Brief writer’s work? | Tories with s to start + TT in hie; stop = plug |
600 | Into the jaws of Death / Into the mouth of Hell (Anagram) | VHC | Thou, Matthew – John, too – on His death felt life | |
590 | MINEVER | First | One gone white, does fear game is up for good | nim rev. + ever; does = rabbits |
581 | SPADROON def. MAVERICK (Wrong Number) | Second | Parry’s reactionary in this … well, eccentric rondo | eccentric; spa + anag.; ref. Hubert P. |
1982-1983 | ||||
576 | TOP-NOTCH | VHC | Worth turn for prize, not just Azed’s pat to back | pot (rev.) + not + H.C. (rev.), & lit. |
552 | NOURICE-FEE | VHC | ’Twas this L.s.d. that made up Florence’s due, was it? | comp. anag. & lit.; F. Nightingale |
543 | STAYING POWER | VHC | What a guy batting with grit – not having to score – might show? | stay in g(rit) + power, & lit. |
534 | DODGEM | VHC | George and Margaret’s return a bumper attraction? It draws fair crowds | Dod + Meg (rev.); Dod = dim. of George; ref. play |
1981-1982 | ||||
504 | SIMMENTHALER | VHC | A neat type, Swiss in origin… I’m of mind to get spliced with her | S I’m + mental overlapping her |
495 | CACOETHES | VHC | What does it bring with it – an itch, e.g. to scribe? | comp. anag. & lit.; cacoethes scribendi |
1980-1981 | ||||
469 | APLUSTRE | VHC | Real old stern dressing from St Paul, going on and on | anag. + re; on = getting drunk |
464 | SIMKIN | VHC | Unorthodox Pakistanis getting married find this apt as ‘bubbly’ | comp. anag. incl. m, & lit. |
460 | SWOOP | VHC | Case for court is maybe odds on… after police one? | woo in SP; starting price |
456 | BALADINE | VHC | He’d create a hubbub – a bit of by product from hopping about? | a din in b(y) ale, & lit. |
447 | URTICARIA / APOGRAPHS (Right and Left) | VHC | A go with partner initially and sharp mixed doubles? That’ll make you itchy, warm and dry: a lemon, maybe, cut up is the answer | anag. incl. p; air a citru(s) (rev.) |
443 | STEEPLECROWN | VHC | This, with nary a halo worn, would do for a crone’s Hallowe’en party | comp. anag. & lit. |
1978-1979 | ||||
366 | MONKEY-SHINE | Second | Boston’s semi-grand tea party … is it done to have a mug? | monkey shine; i.e. $500; have = deceive |
362 | SEA-SOLDIER | VHC | I’m jolly well tricked – i.e. taken in by catch. (A swell red herring.) | sold i.e. in sear |
354 | SHEER-HULK | First | Ark Royal, now? Gloom surrounds her being docked, and broken up | he(r) + anag. of her, all in sulk; gloom verb |
340 | BOOKSIE | VHC | Like Bunthorne? Hollow, he is knock-out with love sick | anag. of B(unthorn)e is KO 0; ref. Patience, Act I |
1977-1978 | ||||
298 | NOSER | VHC | Reason for one being K.O’d, boxing? | anag. less a, & lit.; for = but for; box = overturn |
289 | AMNESIAC | VHC | Fugal treatment of ‘Amen’ is the soul of Bach | anag. + (B)ac(h); fugue, type of amnesia |
285 | BOYFRIEND (Misprints) | VHC | Fiery scuffles within union to check I’m steady | chick; anag. in bond |
281 | DINOCERAS | VHC | Scared off investing in Ohio I became stony in Wyoming | in O in anag. |
272 | MALAGUETTA | VHC | Cause of burning sensation, initially to tongue, inside of cheek, mostly? | ague + tt in mala(r), & lit. |
263 | ERIACH (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Hot ash? I’v/e products of flue vent I’d scrub, gladly | |
259 | TRANSIRE | VHC | What finally managed to get clearance for tramp in dock? | t + ran + sire; get = beget; tramp ship |
1976-1977 | ||||
250 | Stands the church clock at ten to three? (Anagram) | VHC | Thence hatch’d CCL … Our thanks to setter | |
247 | FLIVVER | VHC | Maybe its pilot is stuck with signs of derision? | V, V in flier, & lit.; i.e. V signs |
243 | OLYMPIC | VHC | It’s uncommonly heavenly love … not quite the best ambience for a little devil, we hear | i.e. ‘limb’ in 0 pic(k) |
238 | CRAMBOJINGLE | VHC | Versed work … stuff fire should consume? | job (rev.) in cram ingle, & lit.; versed = reversed |
234 | HOROSCOPIST | VHC | Excited about Scorpios, is he? So must they be | anag. in hot, & lit. |
229 | METRICATE | VHC | In team game, English nearly all cheat: surely that’s ‘to cast stones etc. …’? | E tric(k) in anag.; game = crippled |
225 | VALETA | VHC | Its devotees head for Mecca (coming back in via Tel Aviv) | hidden rev.; ref. M. dance halls |
221 | PADDY-WHACK | VHC | What tot – why so naughty? – may have in store | add + anag. all in pack, & lit. |
216 | SCANTITY | VHC | ‘Where my charges are eating may not I?’ was prodigal’s plight | can’t I? in sty; ref. Luke 15:16 |
212 | SURCINGLES | First | They may have Lester, slipping half off, cursing freely | anag. incl. Les(ter), & lit.; ref. L. Piggott, jockey |
1975-1976 | ||||
203 | BOGY | VHC | Zip heavenward, in an unimpeded progression? Surely he wouldn’t | go (rev.) in by |
197 | CAMERA (Printer’s Devilry) | Third | Witness Be/tty, under lashings of silk and satin – a real pet | |
195 | SHILLY-SHALLY | VHC | To boggle about ‘I will’ you initially must —— | I’ll in shy1 + shall + y, & lit. |
187 | POWDERING-TUB | VHC | Where to see well-preserved bit of skirt having bath – after applying make-up? | powdering + tub; skirt, cut of meat |
178 | A(U)G(U)ST (Letters Latent) | VHC | At comprehending G and S, I’m like the Mikado… ‘all sublime’ | G S in at |
174 | EPEOLATRY | VHC | Reverence not lost for words, when you cut short prelate’s broadcast | anag. incl. yo(u) |
161 | ANCON | VHC | I’m naturally crooked… a born cheat | a n con |
1974-1975 | ||||
152 | ENAMORADO / ESCLANDRE (Right and Left) | VHC | Lover has bad name for losing head – one and the same bad name got by sect having deserted in Gaelic uprising | anag. + (f)or a do.; clan d. in erse (rev.) |
148 | BALLYHOO | VHC | Ali’s ‘sound and fury’? It exhausts youth in three rounds | y(out)h in ball O O; ref. Muhammad A. |
143 | Jingle for BALTHAZAR, MELCHIOR, CASPAR (A jingle) | VHC | Blest magi three – two white, one sable, Gift-bearers to a holy stable; Gifts that for infant King are meet, Gold, olibanum, cicely sweet | |
139 | PIEPOWDER | VHC | One whose booty might comprise footpad’s end | d in pie3 power, & lit. |
130 | EADISH (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | See that br/andy? If it sold well, use it for toast | |
123 | SCATTERGOOD | First | Namely, one never tight – therefore in the red? | sc. a TT ergo o/d, & lit. |
118 | OPERETTIST (Misprints) | Second | I produce light snores, making love – model gets up in huff | scores; 0 + sitter (rev.) in pet |
1973-1974 | ||||
95 | THUNDERCLAP | VHC | I’ll cut short picnic lunch – depart pell-mell | anag. |
79 | SLAPSTICK | VHC | Featuring Keystone Cops originally, it’s back around the circuits | laps in K C it’s (rev.), & lit. |
70 | GESTAPO (Misprints) | VHC | Hitter’s force occupies gully with uppish strokes | Hitler’s; pats (rev.) in geo |
66 | NONSENSE | VHC | Nobody’s to eat bits from a mint humbug | sens in none |
53 | ALEXANDERS | VHC | Sandy, you may infer, is one of a carrot-topped family | Alexander (dimin.)+ ’s |
1972-1973 | ||||
45 | NEMORAL | VHC | Get hands up, before examination of shady character | men (rev.) + oral |
40 | FANTOCCINI | VHC | With art, these may be jerked into frantic action | comp. anag. & lit. |
18 | EPIGONE | VHC | Emsworth’s first and greatest love has single offspring | E + pig + one; ref. Wodehouse: ‘Empress of Blandings’ |
Ximenes competitions | ||||
1969-1970 | ||||
1058 | Aragon, Boleyn, Seymour, Cleves, Howard, Parr (Anagram) | VHC | Error by group? All wed Henry—some Casanova! | |
1968-1969 | ||||
1054 | PINACOTHECA | VHC | Painter lacking finish needs coach to make it | anag. less r, & lit. |
1045 | SPLIT / MOUTH (Right and Left) | VHC | In Yugoslavia, what river makes an inlet to a gorge, visible to anyone in a plane | 2 mngs.; U in moth; one who rives; Tiger Moth aeroplane |
1041 | TEA-LEAD | Second | Spread round a field, it may save crop going to pot | a lea in ted |
1028 | SATIRE | Third | In short, it is set against what may be inflated | SA tire, & lit. |
1023 | CONSOLE | VHC | Free top of corset and loosen support for bust | anag. incl. c |
1967-1968 | ||||
971 | MAGOTPIE / ANECDOTE (Right and Left) | VHC | Mum won the prize for an old bird, I’m told, cooking a decent duck | ma got pie; anag. incl. O |
1966-1967 | ||||
945 | OBLITERATE | VHC | Extract of bitter aloe, used here as purge. | anag. |
935 | MALAPROP | VHC | The original of priceless oral bungle, found in plot | anag. incl. p in map, & lit. |
1965-1966 | ||||
902 | WINCOPIPE | VHC | Old red bloomers made me succeed in getting C.O. to whistle! | win CO pipe |
890 | DEBENTURE | Third | Security, and the supplement many an old chap needs, to live in it | be in denture; chap = jaw |
868 | DANDER / TOUPEE (Right and Left) | First | It’s shown by blasting and then turning crimson where you drive, smothering ball completely: to avoid it, keep your head down! | anag. + red (rev.) & lit.; O up in tee, down = hair |
864 | PATERNAL | VHC | Like one who gets mark of approval—nearly wagging tail off! | pat + anag. of nearl(y); gets = begets |
1964-1965 | ||||
808 | WAGONER | VHC | Team manager gives truant a caution | wag oner; c. = astonishing person |
1962-1963 | ||||
712 | RHEUMATICKY | Second | Far from athletic, yet makes a mark in running | a tick in rheumy |
1961-1962 | ||||
682 | PARAMOUR / CHIN (Right and Left) | VHC | “The Potential Co-respondent” is a knockabout affair … / … in which infidelity is the object of many cracks! | rap (rev.) + amour; hidden, ref. boxing |
1960-1961 | ||||
642 | SEETHER (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | I just can/ed Davis on the bottom. Cushion badly needs down! | ref. snooker champion Fred Davis |
600 | The Light Brigade, noble Six Hundred (Anagram) | VHC | Lords had exhibited bungling there | |
1959-1960 | ||||
578 | GATHERED def. LEVANTER (Wrong Number) | VHC | Learned to wind thread, for example, as clansmen did | wind; anag. |
564 | SHE-BEAR | VHC | Winnie? She’s barmaid in the Saracen’s Head: see she doesn’t get a crush on you! | Hebe in Sar(acen); Winnie, girl’s name and W.-the-Pooh |
560 | CONGENITALLY | VHC | Getting permission to go away with such a bad egg—and to marry—shows how idiotic one may be | congé nit ally |
551 | PITCHER | VHC | I coveted “The Passing of Ruth” by Constable, filled with that indefinable quality attributed to woman | it in PC + her; ref. Babe R. |
1958-1959 | ||||
538 | BANISHING | VHC | Wilfully forgetting prohibition, I celebrate alcoholically! | ban I ‘shing’ |
534 | RAIL-SPLITTER | VHC | Guard against leaving no children: have a big brood—one to make you pale! | rail + sp (abbr.) + litter |
521 | SOUP | Second | Though I’ve had many spills, I’m all right on a horse that’s taken to fences | so up; s. = stolen plate |
508 | CUMBERGROUND | VHC | It’s no use a doctor being involved in a cure bedevilled by what a crank’s operation did | MB in anag. + ground |
504 | LEAD-LINE | Second | It’s a feature of the pencil styling of skirts. etc., useful for coping with the more obtrusive bottoms! | lead line; line = styling, etc. |
1957-1958 | ||||
486 | BARACAN | Third | A good summer in store? You might still see me in the old overcoat | a CA in barn; summer = one who sums |
469 | DAISY | VHC | A first-rate specimen’s beginning to show in the back-yard … and what a first-rate specimen! | A1 s in yd (rev.) |
456 | PLAFOND | VHC | Fully plastered, I’m bossy: on the way to that condition, inclined to be amorous! | pla(stered) + fond; boss2 |
443 | HALF-SEAS-OVER | VHC | One may come to blether about a self-created wrong in this condition | anag. of a self + so in haver, & lit. |
1956-1957 | ||||
412 | SERVIETTE | Third | Inside so thoroughly parched I’ve scrapped being on the wagon—may finish dinner under the table! | anag. + TT, all in sere |
395 | SCALE-ARMOUR | VHC | If it is breached in rowdy carousel, get a stretcher! | arm (= stretcher) in anag., & lit. |
1955-1956 | ||||
369 | BERET | VHC | Though orphaned, without a farthing, I became a famous general | bere(f)t; ref. Montgomery of Alamein; became = suited |
356 | METOPOSCOPY | Second | This puts me first—nothing more than seconds over the record, too, judging by what the dials show | me top 0 s. copy |
343 | EPIGONI | Third | Progeny of such as the Empress of Blandings in old age, I should conclude | pig in eon + I, & lit.; ref. P. G. Wodehouse |
1954 (2) | ||||
325 | MARRYING | VHC | What put the Cockney into the clutches of such an old china? | ’Arry in Ming, & lit. |
316 | BATHROOM | VHC | clue not given | |
306 | CHICANE / RAMPART (Right and Left) | VHC | I’m an Embankment artist—one who sits drawing, for example, a segment of cheese (About all I’m able to do!) | RA + MP + art; I can in che(ese) |
297 | CONTRAPUNTAL | VHC | After Italian with gin, Aunt Lizzie’s head reels: a solitary Bass wouldn’t produce such an effect | con (= with, It.) + trap + anag. incl. L |
295 | SENSE-ORGANS | VHC | Boko’s one of those adapted to become an outsize negress | anag. incl. OS; boko (sl.) = the nose; ref. the surviving Nigerian Siamese twin, separated Dec 1953 |
291 | APAGOGE | VHC | Logically, it involves showing opposite conclusion to be gaga | anag. of op. (b)e gaga, & lit. |
289 | CISTERN | VHC | I may go bump in the night, causing disturbed rest, and panic if Father’s away | anag. incl. (Pa)nic |
1954 (1) | ||||
283 | SOBER | Third | Well, Bertie? Wanting a cravat of a pattern Jeeves would approve? | so Ber(tie) |
279 | CRYPTOGRAM | VHC | There’s a rumour—keep it quiet!—Fonteyn’s to appear in Worm’s Eye View. Bentley might tell what’s behind it | cry + p + Margot (rev.); R.A.F. Bentley’s codes; ref. film & play “W. E. V.” and Muriel Bentley, U.S. ballet dancer |
273 | COUSIN | VHC | Let us split the money equally—one of Uncle’s stock answers | us in coin; stock = family; Uncle = pawnbroker |
265 | THERMAE | Third | You want comforts in cold winters, or warm springs? The recipe? Try the soft, alluring West | the r. Mae (West) |
263 | We think so then and we thought so still! (Anagram) | VHC | Tosh? Whew, I think that old E. L.’s gone nuts! | |
1953 (2) | ||||
257 | PYROTECHNICS (Straight Clue) | VHC | Brock’s cunning, not showing up till the red setter’s gone | Brock’s fireworks; badger |
255 | SCUTTLE | First | Where you may see All Blacks do in ebullient Celts. (Wales will be sunk if you do!) | ut in anag., 2 defs.; do2 = ut1; wales = ship’s planks; ref. coal and NZ rugby tour 1953 |
249 | BALM | VHC | The soothing influence of the garden where the Queen is free from “Viva!” | Balm(oral) |
245 | GLAMOUR / SOPRANO (Right and Left) | VHC | She sings opera in a tattered bit of sarong—the merest remnant of sarong—and the French love it! | op. in anag. of saron(g); (saron)g + l’amour |
239 | GENISTA (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Could I but “swing,” like Aha/b at the ball | Walter Hagen, US champion golfer |
237 | BASTINADE | Third | Pour melted fat round a chunk of dingo, minced! Surely a cruel way of making hot dogs! | a + anag. of din(go) in baste; dogs = feet, Am. slang |
235 | ASPHETERISM | VHC | Southey’s doctrine denying a grasper his beloved sovereigns shakes the miser to the core | (GR)asp(ER) + anag.; ref. Robert S., poet and radical |
1953 (1) | ||||
231 | PREAMBLE | VHC | Bill’s first words are a signal to be quiet about the morning after! Bleary? Not half! | p re a.m. ble(ary) |
223 | MELODRAME | VHC | Mal de mer? Shocking—I’ve nothing left inside … I had the really fat part of the ham! | 0 in anag.; ham acting |
221 | BUNTHORNE | VHC | Ennui I shed and throb excitedly … “No doubt I am highly-spiced!” | anag. less I; B. to Jane, Act II |
217 | DEPOSIT | VHC | What the lodger might do is depart, leaving no address: it’s nothing unusual | dep(art) + anag. incl. 0 |
215 | BUCKFASTLEIGH | VHC | Where a famous Hunt follows hard after the deer? | buck1 fast2 Leigh & lit.; ref. Leigh Hunt, Eng. writer and critic, b.1784; Dartmoor Hunt |
207 | PAGEANT | VHC | Who’s holding up the train? One of the workers creating a scene on the platform | page ant |
1952 (2) | ||||
200 | ACCOUNT | VHC | What’s in it? Just what the Dr. ordered! | cryptic def.; Dr. = drawer |
196 | SHAMAN / SERIAN (Right and Left) | First | Keep Mum! A bloke has to be a wizard—wants all I earns, roughly, would describe the old China! | sh! a man; anag. |
194 | KNOWLEDGE BOX | VHC | Ken Wood? There’s a part that’s badly used by ramblers! | knowledge + box3 |
1952 (1) | ||||
191 | DENIGRATE | VHC | To give cause for a libel action gets the editor tearing mad | anag. incl. ed. |
187 | GROWLER | VHC | Two sovereigns to cage the blinking bird, he grumbles, and a perch would do as well! | owl in GR, ER; g. type of bass |
185 | STOUT | VHC | The best kind of man to have round, as Caesar would say | St. + O + ut2, & lit.; ref. JC I.2.194, “Let me have men around me that are fat” |
184 | MEREST / WYOMING (DLM) | VHC | Is your lawn in a state? Buy a Makehay Mowing Marvel, most simple to operate: You just steer. Makehay’ll shear | |
182 | MISTLETOE | VHC | What may cause unquiet lips to meet! | anag. less p, & lit. |
1951 (2) | ||||
178 | HIDEOUS | VHC | Fell, nothing on, in front of bus—head knocked off—horrible, very! | hide + 0 + (b)us; fell4, fell = slain |
177 | DESOLATE | VHC | If I lose my seat, I can still get the dole—that’s how the Left feel | i.e. desolate minus anag. of seat = dole; ref. imminent Gen. Election [see comments] |
175 | HAIR-LINE | VHC | Spooner takes a catch from this uppish stroke, made very fine, by Parker | 2 mngs.; angler using spoon bait, P. pen, cricketers Reggie S. and Charlie P. |
1951 (1) | ||||
165 | CABBAGE | First | One of two joint accompanists picked for a performance of Madame Butterfly! | cryptic def.; meat & two veg.; cabbage-butterfly |
160 | RASCAL (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Nothing gies as guid heat—he/ed!—on Ian’s oil | … heather as Caledonian soil |
159 | SPANIEL | VHC | “Sunday piper! Uno boss murdered!” … A shot aide is expected to recover | S.+ Pan + anag. of Lie; ref. Trygve Lie, UNO Sec. Gen.; s. may be gun dog or retriever |
155 | LYTERIAN | VHC | Making better tea in small railway buffets—postponing use of urns! | anag. of tea in Rly; buffets, vb.; i.e. urns for ashes |
1950 (2) | ||||
154 | RABBIT | VHC | One that does produce something out of a hat occasionally! | cryptic def.; i.e. poor player; does = females; ‘r. out of a hat’ |
151 | OPEN-SESAME | VHC | Scheherazade’s charm, passée with a thousand and one blemishes! | anag. incl. M; ref. Arabian Nights; blemish vb. |
146 | BELDAME | First | No wonder the old lady’s furious: she’s nothing to show but the B.E.M., and that’s tarnished | anag. of BE Medal [see comments] |
145 | STEWART | VHC | It’s simmer a’ right: order trews wi’ tartan tops for Macpherson! | stew a’ rt., anag. of trews ta(rtan); ref. S. Macpherson, 1940s host of ‘20 Questions’ |
1950 (1) | ||||
126 | RASPBERRY | VHC | It’s jammed, blow it! Have you a file? Swell! | rasp + berry (= swell), 2 defs. |
124 | BARHAM or BRAMAH | VHC | Clergyman who collected Stories and wrote articles about “Leaders of Religion and Humour” in the British Museum | R, H in a, a in BM |
121 | SNAPSHOT | VHC | Taken by a brownie down among the good men—and very warm indeed! | nap2 in SS + hot; Brownie camera |
119 | UMBLE-PIE | First | If the bird’s off, you’ll be having the doctor in most of Christmas! You certainly won’t like eating it | MB in (y)ule + pie3 |
1949 (2) | ||||
117 | LION | VHC | Take Bob now: he’s attached to the Crown, yet as a Red he opposes it | bob = shilling; Red Lion and Crown inns; lion(s) and crown appear on shilling coin |
116 | WATERLOO | VHC | Oval (Close). Great English Victory. Hammond Twists Kangaroo’s Tail | anag. of Walter + (kangar)oo, 2 defs.; ref. W. H., Glos. and England batsman; W. station close to Oval |
1949 (1) | ||||
102 | ARCHIMEDES | VHC | Coy? I’m the Home Secretary’s mentor on curves and figures generally! | arch I’m Ede’s; ref. James Ede, Home Sec. in 1949 |
101 | BARRACKS | VHC | Hoots, a wee place in the Hebrides, wi’ fivescore head o’ kye an’ sheep, wad dae me fine! | Barra + C + k, s |
100 | Word containing ADDING | VHC | Not back from the station buffet counter—still stuffing! | padding; Paddington less not (rev.); 2 defs. |
97 | NESTOR | VHC | He suggests that X. latterly has begun picking Torquemada’s brains, and his advice is usually sound | (Xime)nes, Tor(quemada) |
1948 (2) | ||||
81 | CHARADE | VHC | Daily Express supports Daily Worker leading article—Party leaders act | char a D.E. |
1947 (2) | ||||
63 | STILETTO | VHC | It fits T. S. Eliot to a T; an obvious choice for Murder in the Cathedral! | anag. + T; ref. killing of Becket in Eliot play; dagger |
58 | ECLIPSE | VHC | The darkness gathers: evidently Conservatives. Liberals, Independents—pinker Socialists even—must put their heads together | initial letters |
57 | THEORBOS | VHC | They provided the Bass in Pepys’s soirées, and were possibly not cold sober themselves | anag. of hot sober; Bass beer |
56 | SHEEP-RUN | First | It might suggest a Bach chorale, or a baa corral! (Puns here are out of place!) | 2 defs., anag.; ref. “Sheep may safely graze” |
1947 (1) | ||||
49 | ESPERANTO | First | The tongue that Shakespeare spake? Only when you analyse him literally, and not otherwise! | anag. of speare not; i.e. shake speare |
47 | GLOCKENSPIEL | VHC | Might be used for a fantasia on “Gospel Bells,” if the bells were nickel | i.e. anag. of gospel, nickel |
1946 (2) | ||||
27 | MEANDRIAN | First | Not the course a bull takes, to the discomfiture of a man in red! | anag. |
1994-1995
1178 BOOTLEG
1174 DINGLE-DANGLE
1165 YAPSTER
1156 TERPSICHOREAN
1993-1994
1147 MAYDAY
1143 DEATH (Printer’s Devilry)
1139 BENJAMIN
1126 CHEATERY
1108 GREEN
1104 BURYING-PLACES
1100 CONCORDANCE
1992-1993
1091 SAPSAGO (Spoonerisms)
1087 OLD SOLDIER
1084 PIERCEABLE / SALESGIRL (DLM)
1078 KIRBEH
1074 DEMIREP
1065 TANDOORI
1061 MAGIC
1056 ENTRAIN def. ASTHORE (Wrong Number)
1052 AGANIPPE
1991-1992
1043 PESTO (Printer’s Devilry)
1030 PASTILLE
1017 SCHAPSKA / PEARMAIN (Right and Left)
1013 ALVEARY
1008 SPORTSCASTER (Misprints)
995 STASIMA (Printer’s Devilry)
1990-1991
982 ALMANAC
978 DOUBLE-CENTURY
972 Anagram of 28 letters (Anagram)
965 EARBASH def. NECKLET (Wrong Number)
956 SPEAR-SIDE
952 STAR (Spoonerisms)
943 BARAGOUIN
1989-1990
934 LACE-UPS
930 SABULOSE
922 REFORMADO
917 HOOLIGANISM
913 ARCHIBALD
904 VOETGANGER
895 TONE DEAF
1988-1989
878 MOUSEPIECE
874 BLUESTOCKING
869 HOLD-UPS
862 OFF-AND-ON
857 REDCAP / NICETY (Right and Left)
849 VISITE
844 THEOLOGASTER (Misprints)
840 SONDE
1987-1988
818 EMBUSQUÉ
814 SPOUSAGE
809 DOLCE VITA
801 LINCHET
792 DISTHENE (Printer’s Devilry)
788 CROW
1986-1987
783 CAMPESINO
764 CHILDERMAS
762 OBELISE
757 ETHEROMANIAC (Misprints)
744 SKIRL-IN-THE-PAN / COFFEE-DISEASE (Right and Left)
740 ESCADRILLE
1985-1986
727 WELL-TO-DO
722 SUPERNACULUM
709 GINGER
705 MUSICOTHERAPY
688 CUCURBITAL
683 BANISH
1984-1985
679 ESTOVER (Printer’s Devilry)
660 Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse (Anagram)
640 MACHETE
1983-1984
622 SIMP (Printer’s Devilry)
618 CRETISM
610 DOUBLETHINK
609 LUCKY-BAG
607 CARNEY
603 FIGULINE
585 FLABELLIFORM
1982-1983
564 PARAMENT
559 EMBASE
558 MINCEMEAT (with one extra R) (Extra Letter)
556 SWEAL (Misprints)
547 GLEEMAN
530 PROMETAL
1981-1982
525 PABOUCHE
521 ATTITUDINISE
513 ETYMOLOGICON
506 ELANET (Printer’s Devilry)
486 JUMPED-UP
1980-1981
430 TEGULA
426 MISL(E)ADING (Letters Latent)
423 ACCOUTRE
1979-1980
414 UNBOSOMER
406 BOIL
404 CANDLE-HOLDER (Spoonerisms)
397 BIJOUTERIE (Misprints)
388 ALEXIPHARMIC
379 SCYTHEMAN
375 SPREATHE
371 GRADIN
1978-1979
358 UPSTART def. NON-TERM (Wrong Number)
352 FAIRY LIGHTS
349 ODDCOMESHORT
336 ELF-ARROW / CUTHBERT (Right and Left)
327 HEMLOCK
323 (C)U(C)KOO (Letters Latent)
314 MERIL (Spoonerisms)
1977-1978
306 DICKENS
301 TROLLOPISH
300 SLINK-BUTCHER
276 AMTRACK
267 MORRIS-DANCE
1976-1977
255 ROYAL SILVER JUBILEE
249 RUDOLPH THE REINDEER
1975-1976
200 The Extra Guest (minus CC) (Letters Latent)
183 PICKLE
165 Lance, pompano, bonito, porbeagle, thornback, menhaden, albacore, huso (Anagram)
156 OMBROPHOBOUS
1974-1975
110 GALLOWS-RIPE
1973-1974
97 TREBUCHET
92 BRAINWASH
88 BLOOMERY
62 SOLITAIRES
1972-1973
23 SCLERODERMIC
14 Terrapin, hermit, elephant, armadillo, rhesus (Anagram)
5 SCEUOPHYLAX
Ximenes competitions
1970-1971
1162 BEAM-ENDS
1158 ELEPHANT-SEAL
1154 CLARIONET
1140 CALLOUS
1135 HILAIRE BELLOC
1123 MAXIMIST
1119 RONDE (Printer’s Devilry)
1110 IMPERSONATE
1969-1970
1100 BEAU(C)LER(C) (Letters Latent)
1093 MARTINET
1089 ENCLOISTER
1084 ANGEL-FOOD
1071 ORACLE (Printer’s Devilry)
1062 CALLING-CRAB
1968-1969
1049 SLANGWHANGER
1039 TEGMEN def. LEGION (Wrong Number)
1036 CORONETED
1032 TENONER (Printer’s Devilry)
1015 HOAR-HEADED
1010 MOTORIST
1006 CHROME-PLATING
1967-1968
1002 PILLAGE
1000 THOUSAND
993 JONATHAN
989 GRENADINE
987 THING (Printer’s Devilry)
975 HALE
967 CREMOSIN
958 DRY MEASURE
1966-1967
941 HYPODERMIC
911 DRAGON
907 SORITES (Misprints)
1965-1966
900 PARAMECIA or PAREOEANS
898 POCHARD
894 WITENAGEMOT
885 GALIMATIAS
884 MASHER (Printer’s Devilry)
882 SNAPDRAGON
873 VETERANS
860 CORSAGE
1964-1965
856 RODOMONTADE
847 FRENETICAL
843 PRISTINE
839 GINGER (Printer’s Devilry)
834 CARRIED
829 FAREWELL
825 COACHES
821 SOMERSET
817 WYLIE-COATS
1963-1964
804 DETRUNCATE
796 STRAKE (or STRAIK) (Misprints)
790 PETER-SEE-ME (Sire and Dam)
760 METAMORPHOSE
1962-1963
738 ANAESTHETIC
734 NASALITY
728 ALDERMA(N) (N’s missing in def.) (Letters Latent)
725 SILENUS
721 KERB-MERCHANT
717 STAR-MAN (Misprints)
703 SCAPEMENT
1961-1962
686 FEMALE
678 TESSELLATED
673 ERISTICAL
660 RUBBER (Misprints)
651 NIPCHEESE
1960-1961
638 BUREAUCRAT
634 BEDSTEAD
630 STREAKY
624 PSYCHIATER (DLM)
617 COLOPHONY
604 APOSTROPHISE
595 INORNATE / OMADHAUN (Right and Left)
1959-1960
582 MARRY
573 SCAPEGALLOWS
571 PESTER
543 NUTRIA / ERMINE (Right and Left)
1958-1959
529 BUTTY-COLLIER
519 RIDICULE (DLM)
500 MOTHERS-IN-LAW
490 CLEAR def. WEIGH (Wrong Number)
1957-1958
482 LEASING-MAKER
477 SEDATENESS
473 LISSOME (Printer’s Devilry)
451 MEGAPODE
447 TOUSLE
438 MACARONI
1956-1957
430 GAMIN (Printer’s Devilry)
425 TRAVERSE
421 DOVETAIL
417 SINECURE
408 BILLET
400 Word with 400 theme (Quatercentenary)
390 HESITATE (Printer’s Devilry)
386 CLEITHRAL
1955-1956
377 MALISON
373 PRESTONPANS
364 HELLEBORE
351 LUSTRE
338 SHE-ASS
334 CHEROOT
329 HAMADRYAD
1954 (2)
304 ORLEANS
302 MARTIN
1954 (1)
277 PRODIGALLY
275 ESTOVER (Printer’s Devilry)
271 TRIPLET
261 DECANTER
259 AGANIPPE
1953 (2)
251 UNMETHODICAL
241 MANDOLINE
1953 (1)
229 MASCOT
227 CATEGORIES
225 TOUCHSTONES
219 SOCIALIST
213 LEMONADE
1952 (2)
204 ROSTER (Printer’s Devilry)
203 WEATHERS
201 AMETHYST
199 HONESTY
198 THIRD
197 SCALES
1952 (1)
193 TRADUCER
192 WATSON
190 CHEQUERS
186 ASHMOLEAN
183 SAUSAGES
181 HANGABLE
1951 (2)
180 HESPER (Printer’s Devilry)
176 SPIGOT
170 GUINEA
168 PIPS (Misprints)
1951 (1)
167 PARMESAN
166 RACHIDES
157 ORANGE
156 LAVEROCK
1950 (2)
149 DOMESTIC
147 GATHER
135 STRIPPED
1949 (2)
114 TAPPIT-HEN
109 PERI
106 HELIOTROPE
105 SMITHEREENS
1949 (1)
104 STARE (Printer’s Devilry)
103 MOSES
94 SARDELLE
1948 (2)
90 ROTHER
88 BRISTOL
85 SERGEANT
83 BUDAPEST
82 CURARE
1948 (1)
73 RHODESIA
71 MITRAILLEUSE
70 GARBAGE
1947 (2)
61 CREASY
53 SHIN
Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|
1994-1995 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
1993-1994 | 0 | 1 | 7 | – |
1992-1993 | 0 | 1 | 9 | – |
1991-1992 | 0 | 1 | 6 | – |
1990-1991 | 0 | 1 | 7 | – |
1989-1990 | 0 | 3 | 7 | – |
1988-1989 | 0 | 2 | 8 | – |
1987-1988 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 4 | 6 | 8 |
1986-1987 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 5 | 6 | 11 |
1985-1986 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 3 | 6 | 11 |
1984-1985 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 3 | 3 | 10 |
1983-1984 | 3 (1, 2, 0) | 1 | 7 | 6 |
1982-1983 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 20 |
1981-1982 | 0 | 2 | 5 | – |
1980-1981 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 8 |
1979-1980 | 0 | 0 | 8 | – |
1978-1979 | 2 (1, 1, 0) | 2 | 7 | 11 |
1977-1978 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 10 |
1976-1977 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 9 | 2 | 1 |
1975-1976 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 6 | 4 | 4 |
1974-1975 | 2 (1, 1, 0) | 5 | 1 | 2 |
1973-1974 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
1972-1973 | 0 | 3 | 3 | – |
Ximenes competitions | ||||
1970-1971 | 0 | 0 | 8 | – |
1969-1970 | 0 | 1 | 6 | – |
1968-1969 | 2 (0, 1, 1) | 3 | 7 | 4 |
1967-1968 | 0 | 1 | 8 | – |
1966-1967 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
1965-1966 | 2 (1, 0, 1) | 2 | 8 | 10 |
1964-1965 | 0 | 1 | 9 | – |
1963-1964 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
1962-1963 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 0 | 7 | – |
1961-1962 | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
1960-1961 | 0 | 2 | 7 | – |
1959-1960 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
1958-1959 | 2 (0, 2, 0) | 3 | 4 | 5 |
1957-1958 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 3 | 6 | 9 |
1956-1957 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 1 | 8 | – |
1955-1956 | 2 (0, 1, 1) | 1 | 7 | 10 |
1954 (2) | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
1954 (1) | 2 (0, 0, 2) | 3 | 5 | 5 |
1953 (2) | 2 (1, 0, 1) | 5 | 2 | 2 |
1953 (1) | 0 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
1952 (2) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 2 | 6 | 13 |
1952 (1) | 0 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
1951 (2) | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
1951 (1) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 3 | 4 | 10 |
1950 (2) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 3 | 3 | 10 |
1950 (1) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 3 | 0 | 5 |
1949 (2) | 0 | 2 | 4 | – |
1949 (1) | 0 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
1948 (2) | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
1948 (1) | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1947 (2) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 3 | 2 | 8 |
1947 (1) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 1 | 0 | – |
1946 (2) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 0 | 0 | – |