| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
Also listed as | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. L. Strange | 15 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 22 | 16 | Nov 1953 | Oct 1969 | 15y 11m | T. Strange |
| Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1969-1970 | ||||
| 1062 | CALLING-CRAB | VHC | I flourish at the seaside: a visit’s oddly bracing | call + anag. |
| 1968-1969 | ||||
| 1039 | TEGMEN def. LEGION (Wrong Number) | VHC | A coat for example is a necessary sight in the north country draughts | sight (= a great many); e.g. in t’ men |
| 1964-1965 | ||||
| 832 | PENNY-WISE (Misprints) | VHC | Nanny required (a bit experienced) for doing up weeny pins | canny; anag. |
| 1963-1964 | ||||
| 780 | NOBLEST (and Eximenamination) | VHC | Exim: 15 | |
| 773 | FIT-OUT | VHC | Get-up—and get out of it—do! | anag. + ut1 |
| 1962-1963 | ||||
| 746 | INTERMIT (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | If men can afford novelties at £1 each, 1 cw/t. ensign may be just right for the ladies! | £1 ea., chic winter mittens, 1 gn. |
| 743 | CHEMIST | VHC | Boots for example—and one way to muddy them (sic)! | anag. |
| 738 | ANAESTHETIC | VHC | “I can see that needs drilling” … It’s guaranteed to unnerve you at the dentist’s! | anag. |
| 708 | HEARTS | VHC | Bosoms that set the pulses throbbing—have a squint at hers! | anag., 2 defs.; squint, adj. |
| 703 | SCAPEMENT | VHC | My union job in the works helps to drive the hands twenty-four hours a day! (P.S. A cement works!) | anag.; work (vb. intrans) = to be agitated |
| 700 | SOLOMON | Second | Having 300 mistresses, no wonder I was sued for an affiliation order! | cryptic def.; ref. 1 Kings 11:3 and 3:16ff |
| 1961-1962 | ||||
| 690 | ASCERTAIN | VHC | What The Observer may do—set crania in a whirl! | anag. |
| 682 | PARAMOUR / CHIN (Right and Left) | VHC | Illicit sweetheart could entail our having to get behind a pram … / … This is—for men—the hair-raising feature of wenching! | anag. + our; hidden; i.e. could, if altered |
| 1956-1957 | ||||
| 430 | GAMIN (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Is M.P.s’ fondness for tea sin/ister? Really quite proper! | |
| 1954 (1) | ||||
| 263 | We think so then and we thought so still! (Anagram) | VHC | We should think Hottentot was English! | |
Ximenes competitions
1969-1970
1080 ANDROMEDA
1966-1967
935 MALAPROP
1964-1965
834 CARRIED
821 SOMERSET
817 WYLIE-COATS
1963-1964
804 DETRUNCATE
800 Charlemagne, Emperor of the West (Anagram)
786 METAMERES (Printer’s Devilry)
782 SWELL
777 TAILOR-BIRD
760 METAMORPHOSE
1962-1963
730 ARCH-PIRATE
721 KERB-MERCHANT
1961-1962
694 OSIRIS (Printer’s Devilry)
1960-1961
638 BUREAUCRAT
624 PSYCHIATER (DLM)
1958-1959
490 CLEAR def. WEIGH (Wrong Number)
1956-1957
417 SINECURE
415 When the snow lay round about (Anagram)
1954 (2)
306 CHICANE / RAMPART (Right and Left)
285 PARALYSES
1953 (2)
257 PYROTECHNICS (Straight Clue)
| Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1969-1970 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 1968-1969 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| 1966-1967 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1964-1965 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
| 1963-1964 | 0 | 2 | 6 | – |
| 1962-1963 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| 1961-1962 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – |
| 1960-1961 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 1958-1959 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1956-1957 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
| 1954 (2) | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 1954 (1) | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| 1953 (2) | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |