Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
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H. S. Tribe | 46 | 3 | 4 | 39 | 76 | 53 | Jan 1948 | Mar 1968 | 20y 2m |
Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
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Ximenes competitions | ||||
1964-1965 | ||||
847 | FRENETICAL | VHC | I felt crane wobbling—nuts needed | anag. |
834 | CARRIED | VHC | Was anxious about bit of grit in rifle bore | ri in cared; ri appears in grit and rifle |
829 | FAREWELL | First | In autumn we’re piling up the last of the leaves | anag. in fall; pile up = crash; leave, n. |
1963-1964 | ||||
760 | METAMORPHOSE | VHC | Switch to home perms, a means to give one a new look | anag.; means, vb. |
1961-1962 | ||||
686 | FEMALE | VHC | Like a bird that starts fresh every morning and lays eggs | initial letters |
678 | TESSELLATED | VHC | Jumble sale settled—with bits and pieces designed to attract | anag.; jumble (vb. imper.) |
673 | ERISTICAL | VHC | Articles I must knit to be given to fighting causes | anag. |
1960-1961 | ||||
642 | SEETHER (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Drinking with Alice n/ever ends; Iris ’as ’ad sight too many gins | Reverend, sir |
624 | PSYCHIATER (DLM) | VHC | Purchase “Y-Pit”—helps you get rid of those dark patches on the couch | |
1958-1959 | ||||
538 | BANISHING | VHC | Bidding away, I climb into a slam | I shin in bang; ref. bridge |
1957-1958 | ||||
477 | SEDATENESS | Third | As set needs to be overhauled, you won’t get much on Channel 9 | anag. |
460 | ASTONISHMENT (Misprints) | First | Open winder? Then no mats is shaken | wonder; anag. |
438 | MACARONI | VHC | A buck to see Rocky Marciano | anag.; ref. R.M., heavyweight boxing champion |
1956-1957 | ||||
421 | DOVETAIL | VHC | Wooden wedding resolves violated | anag. |
400 | Word with 400 theme (Quatercentenary) | VHC | In the place of x young virgins an assortment of big hale jades! (6-6) | Jabesh-Gilead; anag.; ref. Judges 21:12 |
1955-1956 | ||||
351 | LUSTRE | VHC | Bags of distinction—a pair will last ten years (“Sheen Advertiser”) | 3 mngs; ref. trousers |
338 | SHE-ASS | VHC | First in Steeplechasing, Haute Ecole and Summer Show? I think not! | initial letters, & lit. |
329 | HAMADRYAD | VHC | “The Green Goddess”—overacted: a barren advertisement for Lime Grove | ham a dry ad.; ref. 1930 film “The G. G.” and Lime Grove film studios |
1954 (2) | ||||
325 | MARRYING | VHC | Doubled rooks, in games dominated by the queen, look like ensuring a mate | R,R in maying; see May in C. |
316 | BATHROOM | VHC | clue not given | |
1954 (1) | ||||
279 | CRYPTOGRAM | VHC | Weep, turn over a new leaf, and end trouble—that’s the message of a good hiding | cry PTO gram3 |
277 | PRODIGALLY | VHC | How to lay out the wherewithal to build a lordly pig | anag.; pig = feast |
275 | ESTOVER (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Father must putt h/igh—tore at greens like a rabbit! | |
273 | COUSIN | VHC | Auntie’s hopeful to put us in the money—and half the coupon wrong! | us in coin, cou(pon) + sin; hopeful = promising youngster; ref. football pools |
265 | THERMAE | VHC | Where the Dipper used to be visible from 3 a.m., roughly | anag. of three am; ref. constellation |
261 | DECANTER | VHC | Take—as the doctor ordered—a decent change: what about Madeira, for example? | anag. incl. r. (= take) |
259 | AGANIPPE | VHC | Epping—A.A. detour: water rising, and may increase feet in depth | anag.; i.e. feet in poetic metre |
1953 (2) | ||||
249 | BALM | VHC | Arsenal has lost all heart and finds itself among the bottom sides—what’s the remedy? | A(rsena)l in b(otto)m |
247 | VAMPIRE | Second | Oh no, he wouldn’t stay late—but sang in execrable French while people slept | cryptic def.; undead; but sang (Fr.) = drank blood |
237 | BASTINADE | First | Lashings of toddlers? Well, you could have abstained from it | anag.; toddler = foot |
1953 (1) | ||||
217 | DEPOSIT | VHC | My lodger was allowed to stand—contrarily hoped (with suppressed aspiration) to sit | (h)oped (rev.) + sit; i.e. lodge d. to stand in election |
211 | CAROL-SINGERS or HOLLY-BERRIES | VHC | In the Street at Christmas—wait, wait, wait! Real crossing reform needed | anag.; wait1 (n.) |
207 | PAGEANT | VHC | I want the whole town to see me in the bustle model with the buttons in front | page ant; ant = model of industry |
1952 (2) | ||||
199 | HONESTY | VHC | He stony-broke? That’s what comes of not cheating | anag. |
198 | THIRD | VHC | Class of traveller who, first, will get the bird—then be turned out | the bird less be (rev.) & lit. |
1952 (1) | ||||
188 | Beware the Ides of March (Anagram) | VHC | Which fears debate more? | |
182 | MISTLETOE | VHC | Il est Moët qui produit le “hangover” à Noël | anag.; ref. champagne |
1951 (2) | ||||
172 | GARNISHER | VHC | She makes a tasty-looking dish till she changes—then you see her in rags! | anag. |
1951 (1) | ||||
165 | CABBAGE | VHC | Cole Porter’s stock-in-trade wins heart-felt approval in Housewives’ Choice | cryptic def. i.e. a cole porter transports cabbage, housewives inspect cabbage hearts |
164 | NEWTON | VHC | He observed profoundly that states of repose went on unchanged or—went on changed | anag.; N.’s first law of motion |
1950 (2) | ||||
148 | FILIBUSTER | VHC | Scotch law, so to speak: it rules F.B.I., oddly enough | anag.; scotch vb. |
143 | LAMPREY | Third | Mortally upset the king, the sucker—might have become Earl Pym otherwise | anag.; ref. John P., Parliamentarian, deaths of Charles I and Henry I |
1949 (2) | ||||
117 | LION | VHC | Had a sweet issue—a big share—a pound and a half ration! | L + (rat)ion; Judges 14:14, “Out of the strong [lion] came forth sweetness”; ‘lion’s share’ |
1948 (2) | ||||
91 | CRETONNE | VHC | No recent reform provides material on which the armchair critic can spread himself | anag. |
1948 (1) | ||||
78 | CAKE-WALK | Third | clue missing | |
75 | PETROLEUSES | VHC | They’ve been turning out sleepers since the T.U.C. began | anag.; ref. Paris uprising and Trade Union Act of 1871 |
Ximenes competitions
1967-1968
997 TREACLE
984 Word containing a first name (Anonymous)
962 PALING
958 DRY MEASURE
1966-1967
949 BROWSING
1965-1966
898 POCHARD
882 SNAPDRAGON
1964-1965
856 RODOMONTADE
851 Sire & Dam (Sire & Dam)
821 SOMERSET
817 WYLIE-COATS
808 WAGONER
1963-1964
786 METAMERES (Printer’s Devilry)
782 SWELL
769 PENNY
764 SHIMMY-SHAKE
750 SEVEN-FIFTY / CROSSWORDS (Right and Left)
1962-1963
738 ANAESTHETIC
1961-1962
676 TRELLIS (DLM)
664 MANIPULATE
647 MADCAP
1960-1961
626 WOMAN-TIRED
617 COLOPHONY
1959-1960
586 HEBDOMADARY
573 SCAPEGALLOWS
560 CONGENITALLY
1958-1959
525 MORALE (Printer’s Devilry)
519 RIDICULE (DLM)
517 CAROTID
504 LEAD-LINE
495 PARTISAN
1957-1958
469 DAISY
467 A humorous definition (Humorous definition)
464 STRAWED
1956-1957
430 GAMIN (Printer’s Devilry)
1955-1956
382 ABSTAIN
373 PRESTONPANS
364 HELLEBORE
356 METOPOSCOPY
343 EPIGONI
1954 (2)
304 ORLEANS
285 PARALYSES
1954 (1)
263 We think so then and we thought so still! (Anagram)
1953 (2)
251 UNMETHODICAL
1953 (1)
209 ELAPSION def. IMPERIAL (Wrong Number)
1952 (2)
206 PIEPOWDER
205 CANTANKEROUS
200 ACCOUNT
197 SCALES
194 KNOWLEDGE BOX
1952 (1)
192 WATSON
189 SALTIRE
186 ASHMOLEAN
1951 (2)
180 HESPER (Printer’s Devilry)
179 CADRE
170 GUINEA
1951 (1)
162 TITANESS
157 ORANGE
156 LAVEROCK
1950 (2)
147 GATHER
139 HECATOMB
135 STRIPPED
1950 (1)
130 MODERN
128 AMMETER (Printer’s Devilry)
126 RASPBERRY
119 UMBLE-PIE
1949 (2)
111 PLEASANT
108 HACKNEY
106 HELIOTROPE
1949 (1)
99 SCARABEE
97 NESTOR
96 INTERLOCK
1948 (2)
85 SERGEANT
83 BUDAPEST
1948 (1)
68 ANTIGROPELOS
67 SURFEIT (DLM)
Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
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Ximenes competitions | ||||
1967-1968 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
1966-1967 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1965-1966 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1964-1965 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 2 | 5 | 14 |
1963-1964 | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
1962-1963 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1961-1962 | 0 | 3 | 3 | – |
1960-1961 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
1959-1960 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1958-1959 | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
1957-1958 | 2 (1, 0, 1) | 1 | 3 | 9 |
1956-1957 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – |
1955-1956 | 0 | 3 | 5 | – |
1954 (2) | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
1954 (1) | 0 | 7 | 1 | 5 |
1953 (2) | 2 (1, 1, 0) | 1 | 1 | 9 |
1953 (1) | 0 | 3 | 1 | – |
1952 (2) | 0 | 2 | 5 | – |
1952 (1) | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
1951 (2) | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
1951 (1) | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
1950 (2) | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 1 | 3 | – |
1950 (1) | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
1949 (2) | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
1949 (1) | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1948 (2) | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
1948 (1) | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 1 | 2 | – |