| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L. E. Eyres | 43 | 3 | 6 | 34 | 68 | 52 | Oct 1945 | Oct 1965 | 20y 0m |
| Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1965-1966 | ||||
| 873 | VETERANS | VHC | Old soldiers, or perhaps airmen, or possibly even tars | anag. |
| 1964-1965 | ||||
| 843 | PRISTINE | First | “Enspirit” is wrongly spelt: that’s archaic | anag.; ref. OED, latest example 1658 |
| 1962-1963 | ||||
| 708 | HEARTS | Third | They’re more valuable than diamonds: one kind is worth more than a whole tiara | 2 mngs.; suit rank; i.e. one that is kind; ref. Tennyson, “K. h. are more than coronets” |
| 1961-1962 | ||||
| 669 | DRUM | Third | Melodious at a distance, O.K.—a feature of well-fed ruminants | hidden; ref. Omar Khayyam, XIII, “rumble of a distant d.” |
| 1960-1961 | ||||
| 626 | WOMAN-TIRED | VHC | Cut up and truly blue, like poor Dr. Proudie | mow (rev.) + anti-red; ref. Barchester Chronicles |
| 1959-1960 | ||||
| 573 | SCAPEGALLOWS | VHC | Family severs connection with ne’er-do-well—sends remittance instead: thus he becomes an utter criminal | scapeg(race) allows |
| 1956-1957 | ||||
| 400 | Word with 400 theme (Quatercentenary) | VHC | Mother’s up against x: she’s got an ’orrible temper too—all too ready to “lay on” (7) | Macduff; ma + CD + (h)uff; ref. Macbeth V.8 |
| 386 | CLEITHRAL | VHC | Even poor men would dislike a home that was not so, and to nearly all the rich it would be shattering | anag. less h |
| 1955-1956 | ||||
| 334 | CHEROOT | VHC | Churchill, for instance, in a small bed: he’d prefer a longer one! | hero in cot, & lit. |
| 1954 (2) | ||||
| 306 | CHICANE / RAMPART (Right and Left) | VHC | X must get the stick for this piece of duplicity, fraud and guile: that sort of thing is no longer defensible | chi cane; ramp art |
| 291 | APAGOGE | VHC | This should lead to a conviction, and you’ll find one of the servants has to go inside | go in a page2 |
| 289 | CISTERN | VHC | This ought to hold water: if A = 1, B = 2, etc., presumably ——! | i.e. C is tern2 |
| 1954 (1) | ||||
| 261 | DECANTER | VHC | Flagon calling (not in vain!) for a Horatian Ode | decanter (L.) = let me be sung, & lit. |
| 1953 (1) | ||||
| 223 | MELODRAME | Second | One could easily be made out of a Romance about Rommel | anag. of a de Rommel, & lit.; de = about in Romance (= Fr.) |
| 1952 (1) | ||||
| 192 | WATSON | VHC | D’you hear what play’s running? What a chorus! Quite Boeotian—M.D., in fact! | ‘what’s on’; for W. as chorus see R. A. Knox ‘Essays in Satire,’ pp. 163-4 |
| 187 | GROWLER | VHC | “Your pint-stowp,” Mr. Jarndyce. Does that convey anything? It used to! | 3 mngs.; i.e. US pron. of ‘stoup’; one found in growlery; ref. John J. in ‘Bleak House’, ch. 8 |
| 185 | STOUT | VHC | Do I stand that?, said Caesar. Yes, it was the opposite sort he couldn’t stand! | sto ut, Latin; ref. JC I.2.194, “Let me have men around me that are fat” |
| 1951 (2) | ||||
| 176 | SPIGOT | Second | Childless at first, in the end my wife presented me with Peg | sp, I got |
| 1951 (1) | ||||
| 160 | RASCAL (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | There’s nought so dea/f, love, to a neat mamma | neat = bovine |
| 158 | RATING | VHC | Fault-finding, wherein a fastidious girl takes delight | 2 defs.; ref. song “Ship Ahoy”; “All the nice girls love a sailor” |
| 1950 (2) | ||||
| 154 | RABBIT | VHC | Master at tennis? No, indeed, he’s not got beyond the initial stage | Rabbi + t(ennis), & lit. |
| 143 | LAMPREY | VHC | Set light to King of Spain; finally extinguished King of England | lamp rey (= king, Sp.); ref. death of Henry I |
| 139 | HECATOMB | Second | When a couple of toms come to grips, and biting begins, there’s bloodshed galore | he-cat/tom overlapping + b [see comments] |
| 1950 (1) | ||||
| 130 | MODERN | VHC | This kind of German is absorbed in die Wacht am Oder nowadays | hidden; R. Oder, post-war German border [strictly, ‘an der Oder’]; cf. song ‘Die Wacht am Rhein’ |
| 1949 (2) | ||||
| 111 | PLEASANT | VHC | Excuses aren’t acceptable | pleas an’t |
| 108 | HACKNEY | VHC | It’s sometimes wicked to use too much | 2 mngs.; H. Wick |
| 1949 (1) | ||||
| 104 | STARE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Mu/d in your eye, Mr. Stalin! Always be a hero! | |
| 1948 (2) | ||||
| 81 | CHARADE | First | Means employed to indicate that Mr. Elton would house Miss Woodhouse | cryptic def.; ref. ‘Emma’, Ch. IX, courtship charade |
| 1948 (1) | ||||
| 66 | CHRISTMAS PIE or TURKEY CARPET | VHC | Various types of feast provide rich fare and equally rich pastimes | i.e. Christmas pie (= mixed types of); anag. |
| 1947 (2) | ||||
| 61 | CREASY | First | Historian describing the rout of the Armada gives the credit to a midshipman | cr. Easy; ref. Sir Edward Shepherd C., and fictional character Midshipman Easy |
| 60 | HEEL | VHC | Where does gin catch the wicked? In the elbow | Job 18:9 and hidden |
| 1947 (1) | ||||
| 52 | RATION | Third | To exceed this allowance by a bare fraction is a sin | aberration is anag. of bare ration |
| 47 | GLOCKENSPIEL | VHC | Instrument which always has a lock, but not always a key | cryptic def.; lock hidden |
| 1946 (2) | ||||
| 39 | GNATHIC | VHC | Little Gaius, hating being chewed up, coins an uncomplimentary epithet for Orbilius | anag. incl. C; ref. O. Pupillus, strict teacher of G. Catullus |
| 35 | RIFE (DLM) | VHC | My old friend, and too ample of girth.” | |
| 32 | TEMERAIRE | VHC | H.M.S. Three Rivers | Teme R Aire |
| 29 | RATAN | VHC | Cane used by headmaster at an “execution” | hidden |
| 1945 (2) | ||||
| 26 | HAWSER (Misprints) | VHC | Victory was once secured by this warning cable | warping; cryptic def.; HMS Victory |
| 25 | WERGILD | VHC | What price the life of a working unit in the Desert? | erg in wild |
| 15 | ARRANGES | VHC | Orders rang out: Behold the god of war! | rang in Ares |
| 1945 (1) | ||||
| 13 | IPOMAEA | VHC | Sell the fruit of this plant for a penny? The idea! | poma (L.) for d in idea |
| 11 | IMMANACLE | VHC | How to confine Cpl. Rind to barracks? | cryptic def.; ref. Milton, ‘Comus’: “this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled” |
| 10 | ACROSS | VHC | clue missing | |
Ximenes competitions
1964-1965
856 RODOMONTADE
851 Sire & Dam (Sire & Dam)
812 ABRUPT / TISANE (Right and Left)
1963-1964
800 Charlemagne, Emperor of the West (Anagram)
782 SWELL
773 FIT-OUT
769 PENNY
1962-1963
743 CHEMIST
728 ALDERMA(N) (N’s missing in def.) (Letters Latent)
725 SILENUS
717 STAR-MAN (Misprints)
1961-1962
682 PARAMOUR / CHIN (Right and Left)
1960-1961
604 APOSTROPHISE
1959-1960
582 MARRY
571 PESTER
569 PROPOSAL
551 PITCHER
1958-1959
521 SOUP
519 RIDICULE (DLM)
500 MOTHERS-IN-LAW
1957-1958
486 BARACAN
467 A humorous definition (Humorous definition)
460 ASTONISHMENT (Misprints)
1956-1957
430 GAMIN (Printer’s Devilry)
412 SERVIETTE
408 BILLET
1955-1956
377 MALISON
1954 (2)
325 MARRYING
302 MARTIN
1954 (1)
283 SOBER
271 TRIPLET
269 ASCENT
259 AGANIPPE
1953 (2)
257 PYROTECHNICS (Straight Clue)
251 UNMETHODICAL
237 BASTINADE
1953 (1)
231 PREAMBLE
227 CATEGORIES
211 CAROL-SINGERS or HOLLY-BERRIES
209 ELAPSION def. IMPERIAL (Wrong Number)
1952 (2)
205 CANTANKEROUS
200 ACCOUNT
198 THIRD
196 SHAMAN / SERIAN (Right and Left)
1952 (1)
191 DENIGRATE
190 CHEQUERS
181 HANGABLE
1951 (2)
175 HAIR-LINE
169 HOUSE
1951 (1)
165 CABBAGE
164 NEWTON
163 LORICATE
1950 (2)
153 SAMISENS
152 SEA-LION
146 BELDAME
1950 (1)
128 AMMETER (Printer’s Devilry)
1949 (2)
115 MISNOMER
106 HELIOTROPE
1949 (1)
95 SPOONER
92 PARTRIDGE
1948 (2)
88 BRISTOL
87 SISKIN
86 ODOMETER
85 SERGEANT
84 SHINGLE / THIRSTY (Right and Left)
1948 (1)
67 SURFEIT (DLM)
1947 (2)
65 PIVOT
59 TAME
| Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1965-1966 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| 1964-1965 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 0 | 3 | – |
| 1963-1964 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 1962-1963 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 0 | 4 | – |
| 1961-1962 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1960-1961 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 1959-1960 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
| 1958-1959 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 1957-1958 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 1956-1957 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
| 1955-1956 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 1954 (2) | 0 | 3 | 2 | – |
| 1954 (1) | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
| 1953 (2) | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 1953 (1) | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 0 | 4 | – |
| 1952 (2) | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 1952 (1) | 0 | 3 | 3 | – |
| 1951 (2) | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 0 | 2 | – |
| 1951 (1) | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
| 1950 (2) | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 2 | 3 | 18 |
| 1950 (1) | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 1949 (2) | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
| 1949 (1) | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
| 1948 (2) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 0 | 5 | – |
| 1948 (1) | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 1947 (2) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 1 | 2 | – |
| 1947 (1) | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 1 | 0 | – |
| 1946 (2) | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 1945 (2) | 0 | 3 | 0 | – |
| 1945 (1) | 0 | 3 | 0 | – |