Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
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E. R. Prentice | 32 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 49 | 37 | Apr 1949 | Aug 1966 | 17y 4m |
Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
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Ximenes competitions | ||||
1964-1965 | ||||
832 | PENNY-WISE (Misprints) | VHC | Low-priced style that’s close-fitted | fisted; pence; penny wise |
1960-1961 | ||||
612 | CARGO (Misprints) | VHC | Use driving club with back swing and energy. It’ll go into the hole! | hold; RAC (rev.) + go; ref. golf |
1958-1959 | ||||
517 | CAROTID | VHC | Describes what’s compressed when garrotted? Sounds like it with minor injury to head | i.e. changing initial ‘c’ to ‘g’ sound, & lit. |
512 | NAYLOR (Libel) | First | She can spin a yarn about love after fifty—she’s no beginner either! | L 0 in anag., nay L or |
508 | CUMBERGROUND | VHC | This might he a vegetable that’s been cropped, left lying on the soil | (cu)cumber + ground, & lit. |
504 | LEAD-LINE | VHC | For protection when compassing land at sea, I should be cast in | I in anag. of land, all in lee1, & lit. |
1955-1956 | ||||
356 | METOPOSCOPY | VHC | With the tempo so rubato follow closely the interpretation of expression marks | anag. + copy; rubato = distorted |
329 | HAMADRYAD | VHC | The serpent that beguiled the hardy Adam | anag. |
1954 (2) | ||||
289 | CISTERN | VHC | A Yank always makes me flush! | cryptic def. |
287 | MANCHESTER | VHC | Here almost an inch may fall, with Test Start abandoned: pages and pages written up about it | (i)nch (t)est in ream (rev.), & lit.; ref. rain-interrupted 1953 Ashes Test at Old Trafford |
1953 (2) | ||||
255 | SCUTTLE | VHC | Opening in the covers for a quick run, made use of by Fender | 3 mngs.; fireplace; ref. Percy F., Surrey and England cricketer |
247 | VAMPIRE | Third | One who returns to Graves after a surfeit of Claret? | cryptic def.; claret = blood |
241 | MANDOLINE | Third | My back may be arched, but I’m responsive when held by the neck and stroked | cryptic def. |
237 | BASTINADE | VHC | A foot may be cut by it and broken | anag. in base, & lit. |
1953 (1) | ||||
231 | PREAMBLE | VHC | The pros and cons of legislature distorted by a rebel M.P. | anag. |
223 | MELODRAME | VHC | Drunk as a lord, you’ll see two of me about. Hardly a sober performance! | anag. in me, me; double vision |
221 | BUNTHORNE | VHC | Think of faint lilies, he said—then burn passionately with love within | 0 in anag.; B. to maidens, Act I |
217 | DEPOSIT | VHC | First instalment for a fur coat? | 2 mngs. |
1952 (2) | ||||
202 | SPALPEEN | VHC | This rascal gets a friend to start the puzzles in Sunday Observers! | pal + p, all in S een |
196 | SHAMAN / SERIAN (Right and Left) | VHC | This wizard makes the deceptive one rise the wrong way to one—indicating a Chinaman | sham an; anag. + an; C. = left-hander’s googly (cricket) |
195 | WALLABAS | VHC | Fellow bathes without the trunks—and leaves! | walla ba(the)s [see comments] |
1952 (1) | ||||
191 | DENIGRATE | VHC | Treading carelessly onto the top of the escalator is enough to degrade any man | anag. + e |
189 | SALTIRE | VHC | X looks like an awful trial on Sunday, and there’s a bit of Everyman to finish | S + anag. of trial + E |
188 | Beware the Ides of March (Anagram) | VHC | R. A. B.’s feat—Do we cheer him? | ref. R. A. Butler, Chancellor in recently-elected government |
181 | HANGABLE | VHC | Subject to the stress of mortal coil? | cryptic def.; noose |
1951 (1) | ||||
164 | NEWTON | VHC | Down goes the current heavy-weight! He explained why! | new ton; N.’s law of gravity |
163 | LORICATE | VHC | Supply a loose coat with equal amounts of iron and lead worked in for protection | anag. of coat, ir(on),le(ad), & lit. [see comments] |
159 | SPANIEL | Second | Resort to kennel without the house. I may be seen within | spa + I in (ken)nel & lit.; ken2 |
1950 (2) | ||||
152 | SEA-LION | VHC | Fed up with fish and salt water, I can be seen somewhere in the North half of London | sea + I in Lon(don); ref. London Zoo |
143 | LAMPREY | VHC | Second note to M.P.—make a song about it—can’t say I’m not a sticker! | re MP in lay; re 2nd tonic note |
135 | STRIPPED | VHC | Tore off for a Sunday jaunt with a hamper | S trip ped |
1949 (2) | ||||
105 | SMITHEREENS | First | State of a steamship blown apart by an exploded mine: yet the waist’s there in one piece! | there in anag. of mine in SS, & lit. |
Ximenes competitions
1966-1967
916 DIAPASON
1964-1965
847 FRENETICAL
1963-1964
769 PENNY
760 METAMORPHOSE
1962-1963
746 INTERMIT (Printer’s Devilry)
708 HEARTS
1960-1961
604 APOSTROPHISE
1958-1959
519 RIDICULE (DLM)
500 MOTHERS-IN-LAW
1957-1958
482 LEASING-MAKER
1956-1957
400 Word with 400 theme (Quatercentenary)
1955-1956
360 WRINKLE / EGG-BIRD (Right and Left)
347 TELEVISOR
1954 (2)
306 CHICANE / RAMPART (Right and Left)
304 ORLEANS
302 MARTIN
297 CONTRAPUNTAL
285 PARALYSES
1954 (1)
265 THERMAE
263 We think so then and we thought so still! (Anagram)
259 AGANIPPE
1953 (2)
251 UNMETHODICAL
249 BALM
245 GLAMOUR / SOPRANO (Right and Left)
243 LODESTAR
1953 (1)
215 BUCKFASTLEIGH
1952 (2)
205 CANTANKEROUS
203 WEATHERS
200 ACCOUNT
197 SCALES
1952 (1)
192 WATSON
187 GROWLER
186 ASHMOLEAN
185 STOUT
1951 (2)
174 ANACREONTICS
173 HATCHING
172 GARNISHER
171 SERINGAS
170 GUINEA
1951 (1)
166 RACHIDES
165 CABBAGE
157 ORANGE
155 LYTERIAN
1950 (2)
145 STEWART
139 HECATOMB
1950 (1)
121 SNAPSHOT
1949 (2)
116 WATERLOO
110 LEVIGATE
1949 (1)
101 BARRACKS
Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
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Ximenes competitions | ||||
1966-1967 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1964-1965 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
1963-1964 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1962-1963 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1960-1961 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
1958-1959 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 3 | 2 | 11 |
1957-1958 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1956-1957 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1955-1956 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
1954 (2) | 0 | 2 | 5 | – |
1954 (1) | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1953 (2) | 2 (0, 0, 2) | 2 | 4 | 7 |
1953 (1) | 0 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
1952 (2) | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
1952 (1) | 0 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
1951 (2) | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
1951 (1) | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 2 | 4 | 15 |
1950 (2) | 0 | 3 | 2 | – |
1950 (1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1949 (2) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 0 | 2 | – |
1949 (1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |