Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
L. Ward | 60 | 2 | 6 | 52 | 107 | 68 | Jan 1988 | Mar 2022 | 34y 2m |
Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
---|---|---|---|---|
2021-2022 | ||||
2595 | FIFTY YEARS | VHC | Golden period in cryptic art starts in seventy-two, impresses, fittingly extends for yonks and yonks | anag. incl. first letters |
2582 | ACHITOPHEL | VHC | A renegade adviser primarily had optical worries, he claimed | he in anag. incl. h; ref. D. Cummings |
2573 | HANDS-ON | Second | Massage is so lovely yours truly drops off at end of session | handso(me) + n |
2020-2021 | ||||
2539 | TORSE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | The New Testamen/t is a tough challenge for a child | |
2530 | STUDENTY | VHC | If not seeing page right, it’s wise to probe optical disorder involving pupils | (p, r)udent in sty |
2525 | PLACITUM | VHC | I clap wildly at the first indications of the USA’s momentous decision | anag. + t, U, m |
2019-2020 | ||||
2504 | UPBEAT | VHC | Buoyant United lead with penalty (nothing odd, there) | U + Pb + even letters |
2473 | INTERPLAY | VHC | Reciprocity certainly loses the merest trace of credibility when it’s contrived to secure power | P in anag. less c |
2018-2019 | ||||
2460 | TWEET | VHC | Songbird when teeny squeezes one out? | tit with wee for I, & lit. |
2428 | SHEPHERDS | VHC | More than one husband intermittently has poorly pressed clothing; do they mind those often disorderly folds? | anag. incl. h, h |
2017-2018 | ||||
2395 | PURITANISM | Second | Trundling up stair in courtroom ultimately gets you thinking of Ironside | anag. + m; ref. former TV series starring Raymond Burr as a wheelchair-bound lawyer |
2386 | PENNY-A-LINER | Second | Writer turning out any taradiddle to secure a bit of necessary? Right! | pen + anag. + n in lie + r, & lit. |
2364 | COMPOST HEAP | VHC | Trill a bit of Catullus and Sappho to me … it might help solve our problems in bed | anag. incl. C; ref. erotic poets |
2016-2017 | ||||
2343 | RESTORE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Prospector successfully extracted pu/s from scar | |
2324 | CELEBRATIONS | VHC | Masses possibly lacking any recollection of beanos? Certainly! | anag. less any |
2313 | PERFECT | VHC | Consummate forward pounds three headers in for exhilarating comeback | first letters in pert |
2015-2016 | ||||
2300 | MISHMASH | VHC | Going by moppet’s face, I’m assuming mum has prepared macaroni | m + sh in I’m + anag. |
2291 | AVESTA (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | The inept baker’s lo/st every tart and crumble | |
2261 | GANGSTERLAND | VHC | Where a collection of stories involving criminal gents takes place? | anag. in garland, & lit. |
2257 | BUST-UP / PIT-PAT (Right and Left) | VHC | No energy at all … reduced appetite … palpitating chest: first signs of ulcerative pulmonary disorder | anag. les e e; bust + u, p |
2250 | MILESTONE (with missing O) (Missing Letter) | VHC | Landmark (in delightful setting) Monet reworked when capturing features of local cast | coast; îles in anag. |
2014-2015 | ||||
2230 | GATES OF DEATH | VHC | At these, do those kicking off finally attain glorious repose? | anag. incl. f, a, g, & lit.; re-pose |
2220 | A twelve-letter ‘Christmas cracker’ (Christmas Cracker) | VHC | Having rump and most of those Scotch bottles after hot stews, I’m stuffed on Christmas Eve and warble around crib and little King | HARICOTS/STOCKING; HARISCOTKING; H + aris + cot(c); cot K in sing |
2209 | (O)CT(O)BER (Letters Latent) | First | When insurgent left-wingers in Russia (explicitly Bolsheviks) took control? | first letters rev., & lit.; ref. October Revolution |
2200 | BRINDISI | VHC | Health resort starts to ban indiscreet individuals screwing around outside! | rind in anag. of first letters |
2013-2014 | ||||
2178 | PARISON | Second | Whence can bottles start to appear? | a in prison, & lit. |
2012-2013 | ||||
2126 | DESPERATE | VHC | Dying sun sinks into deep shimmering river at mouth of Euphrates | S in anag. + R at E |
2105 | TITANIC / ICEBERG (Overlaps) | Second | Whale carrying one ton monster calf maybe starts to give birth, experiencing rather excruciating spasm | I t in tan; anag. of first letters |
2100 | A STITCH IN TIME | VHC | Sit with machine tacking clothes promptly … thereby effecting this? | tit5 in anag. |
2011-2012 | ||||
2087 | ROCKET | VHC | Shoot up coke mixed in crack (if dissipated) | anag. in r(if)t |
2062 | APPLE-KNOCKER | VHC | Broiling boar with Kentucky people? You bet this rube could go for that (and elk and pork and pecan nuts, too!) | comp. anag., anag. |
2010-2011 | ||||
2036 | AL CONTO | First | Count on meal being ‘non-fixed’? This menu might fit the bill | comp. anag. & lit. |
2019 | OVERAWE / HENOTIC (Right and Left) | VHC | Obscured by cover a weak-kneed buffalo uniting with female is twitching after passionate cry | hidden; hen + O! + tic |
2014 | HACKETTE | VHC | Done with what’s left of creases, take the skirt from the press | anag. incl. c; skirt = woman |
2009-2010 | ||||
1979 | FAR-OUT | VHC | Avant-garde work of art you finally comprehended | u in anag. |
1960 | NGANA (3 defs + letter mixture) (Parcels) | VHC | Recalling newborn in a manger, ass proclaimed affection that his kind and oxen share | RANG ANAMNESIS; affection = disease |
1945 | PRISON | VHC | For taking lives, one’s inside…here? | is in pro + (o)n(e), & lit. |
2008-2009 | ||||
1914 | VE(S)TAL (Letters Latent) | VHC | Who renounced what love arouses? | anag. less who, & lit. |
1901 | SANITISE | VHC | Remove undesirable elements from a contingent of the sit-in ASLEF backed | hidden rev. |
1893 | EARTHY | VHC | Inclining towards the blue, yachter steered clear of Cape | anag. less C |
2007-2008 | ||||
1862 | UNALIKE (Spoonerisms) | Second | Knit a con a bit of underwear – mostly plain, to curb overtures from lustful inmates | not akin; u + l i in nake(d) |
2006-2007 | ||||
1814 | HIPSTER | VHC | Chap’s trite playing might ‘get’ this cat? | comp. anag. & lit. |
1797 | HEART | VHC | This failure, tragically, might create a tearful heir | comp. anag. & lit. |
2005-2006 | ||||
1758 | BIMBETTE | VHC | One encapsulated by B. M. (Ms Midler)? Yes and no | I in BM + Bette; ref. smart US comedienne |
2003-2004 | ||||
1663 | ARMAMENTARIA | VHC | Old lady’s broken arm, torn retina start to absorb doctor’s entire resources | ma in arm + anag. + a |
1641 | GADGETEER | VHC | Nut for widgets is ragged, loosely securing pin | tee in anag. |
2002-2003 | ||||
1606 | TEOSINTE / INTELSAT (Overlaps) | VHC | ET television might be broadcast live with this global communications system | comp. anag. |
2001-2002 | ||||
1554 | PEARL | VHC | Model of excellence, brilliant, sat around doing nothing? Not AZED! | pear + l(azed) |
1546 | TRANSPARENT | VHC | Pants designed to hold toddler’s poop aren’t (we hope!) | r in anag. + aren’t; poop1,5 |
1537 | CAFTAN | VHC | This robe’s commodious behind conceals the same! | aft in can |
1519 | CARRY-ON | VHC | Rip-off involving Rowling ’ero? | ’Arry in con; ref. J. K. R. |
2000-2001 | ||||
1511 | DEEP-SEATED | VHC | Intimate act takes place in gym | seat in PE in deed |
1494 | MARATHON | VHC | Mass race that only half finished? | halves of first 4 words, & lit. |
1489 | FRONT-BENCHER | VHC | It’s strange for T. Benn and Thatcher to reject that minister of Blair’s? | anag. + (That)cher |
1998-1999 | ||||
1398 | PERMETHRIN | VHC | He (Mr Pinter) gets involved in rewrite – it helps the plot dramatically? | anag.; garden plot |
1372 | MASTERSTROKE | VHC | Original hit for Lulu? | master stroke |
1367 | SANBENITOS | VHC | More than one heretic’s scapular bone is found mingled with saints’ | anag. |
1997-1998 | ||||
1334 | CATACHRESTIC | VHC | Re: ‘I learn them the artic’s geography’ – it’s ‘teach’ and ‘Arctic’s’, dopy | anag. |
1322 | CARPET | VHC | 3-1 favourite trails colt (Arabian) | c Ar. + pet |
1996-1997 | ||||
1303 | PONIARD | VHC | Have a stab at translating Pindaric ode. No dice! | anag. less dice |
2021-2022
2586 BALDERDASH
2020-2021
2564 CLEARING
2560 BOMBAST
2556 TOERAG
2547 FILATORY
2534 BOTTLE-WASHER
2532 POTLA(TSUGA)TCH (Presents Round the Tree)
2517 LITERATIM
2019-2020
2512 OSCITATE
2508 CHARACTER (Misprints)
2500 ESPAGN(OLETTE STRENG)THENER (Half and Half)
2495 BUNG
2018-2019
2443 ERATHEM (Printer’s Devilry)
2434 STONKERED
2421 SPASMODICAL
2017-2018
2408 LUNCHEONETTE
2369 FACETIAE
2360 VIDENDA
2016-2017
2356 PUBLIC SERVANT
2338 TRUMP
2330 BRAZEN / MOPISH (Right and Left)
2322 VENTRICOSE
2015-2016
2305 AGREE def. PATCH (Wrong Number)
2287 VALET
2274 SIMPATICO
2272 SNOWMOBILE
2265 ESPRIT FORT
2014-2015
2244 AVANT-GARDISTE
2235 CHOCK-A-BLOCK
2226 DOUBLE-PARKING
2222 OBJECT LESSON
2205 CUMBERSOME
2013-2014
2196 SEMANTRA / TRABEATE (Overlaps)
2191 PLUG
2174 CHARET (Printer’s Devilry)
2170 SAYONARA
2168 CENTURY (with missing C) (Missing Letter)
2165 OUT OF ORDER
2157 MELODRAMATIC
2152 STUFFED SHIRT
2148 ZOLLVEREIN
2012-2013
2139 DE RIGUEUR
2135 LOB
2131 DIVES / MALIK (Right and Left)
2118 BLOKEISH
2109 THICKETY
2011-2012
2083 BEWITCH
2078 RÉCOLLET
2074 BENNET
2070 MISTREATMENT
2065 DERMESTIDAE
2064 COLD TURKEY
2058 ROBUST
2045 CATENATE
2010-2011
2027 THRENETICAL
2023 CHAMBRANLE
2000 TWO THOUSAND
1997 FADO
2009-2010
1975 SEPTENTRIONAL
1971 WATERMANSHIP
1962 ANADEM
1953 TRAUMA (misprint of T) (Misprints)
1940 SCANT def. SNEAP (Wrong Number)
2008-2009
1910 BARPERSON
1906 MORSE
2007-2008
1879 LITTER BASKET
1858 HUMONGOUS
2006-2007
1823 KISS
1818 POISSO(N) D’AVRIL (Letters Latent)
1810 HARE / POSEUR / SERINETTE (DLM)
1806 INEBRIANT
1804 CLOTHES SENSE (Spoonerisms)
2005-2006
1775 ROUGH-AND-READY
1753 DIAGONAL
2003-2004
1659 SCAREDY-CAT
1637 AMNESIC
2002-2003
1593 MANSUETE
1576 FACADE
2001-2002
1550 MEMORITER
2000-2001
1506 BARE(-)BONES
1502 RAPPEL
1485 BOURSE / TIFOSO (Right and Left)
1476 LIGNIPERDOUS
1467 CANAPÉ
1999-2000
1454 GET-UP
1450 PRETENDANT
1446 NEWSPAPERDOM
1439 JOHN CANOE
1437 MISTLETOE
1433 NEANDERTHAL
1428 CRICETID
1419 SPLODGE
1998-1999
1394 BERGAMOT
1387 Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Anagram)
1385 PANTRIES
1380 RAPPORT (Misprints)
1997-1998
1360 BOG-ASPHODEL
1342 ALIENS / RAPINE (Right and Left)
1338 SMART ALEC
1996-1997
1290 NITERIE
1286 CHALET
1277 NOVE(M)BER (Letters Latent)
1268 ARGIE-BARGIE
1993-1994
1126 CHEATERY
1988-1989
857 REDCAP / NICETY (Right and Left)
849 VISITE
1987-1988
818 EMBUSQUÉ
Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
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2020-2021 | 0 | 3 | 7 | – |
2019-2020 | 0 | 2 | 4 | – |
2018-2019 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
2017-2018 | 2 (0, 2, 0) | 1 | 3 | 27 |
2016-2017 | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
2015-2016 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 23 |
2014-2015 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 3 | 5 | 19 |
2013-2014 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 0 | 9 | – |
2012-2013 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 2 | 5 | 26 |
2011-2012 | 0 | 2 | 8 | – |
2010-2011 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 2 | 4 | 29 |
2009-2010 | 0 | 3 | 5 | – |
2008-2009 | 0 | 3 | 2 | – |
2007-2008 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 0 | 2 | – |
2006-2007 | 0 | 2 | 5 | – |
2005-2006 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
2003-2004 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
2002-2003 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
2001-2002 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 22 |
2000-2001 | 0 | 3 | 5 | – |
1999-2000 | 0 | 0 | 8 | – |
1998-1999 | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
1997-1998 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
1996-1997 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
1993-1994 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1988-1989 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1987-1988 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |