Cup Winning clues by N. C. Dexter
All clues by N. C. Dexter
All clues by N. C. Dexter
| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. C. Dexter | 308 | 40 | 31 | 237 | 198 | 379 | Dec 1963 | Jul 2010 |
| No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | PERIQUE | Partly a pauper, I queued for possible refill of bowl. (Twist, maybe) | hidden; ref. Oliver T. |
| 1766 | GEST (Printer’s Devilry) | Panel of jud/o OK decision and settle ‘dan’ award | |
| 1711 | MINUS | This degree makes nudism shivery | comp. anag. incl. d, & lit. |
| 1680 | PILLOW-CUP | What’s maybe downed before one’s about to get aloft? | pillow c up, & lit; downed = filled with down |
| 1667 | CLARINI | Some brass monkey about with air nil C! | anag.; C = Celsius |
| 1648 | MAGIC LANTERN | Item gran arranged family slides in? | clan in anag., & lit. |
| 1537 | CAFTAN | Dress with not much leg showing – in fact possibly just a pair of ankles | anag. + an, & lit. |
| 1450 | PRETENDANT | He’s hanging round on true-love’s threshold, perhaps | re t in pendant, & lit. |
| 1437 | MISTLETOE | Attachment to branches – uncommonly to ilex stem – yielding a kiss | anag. less x, & lit. |
| 1316 | FINGERLICKIN’ | Taste of grub in nick lifer’s found quite otherwise! | anag. incl. g, & lit. |
| 1255 | CATAFALCO | Coach covering the last fatal trip | anag. less h, & lit. |
| 1229 | GRUPPETTO | A turn from note F, say? E up to G and rpt start | anag.; start vb |
| 1207 | EPOCH-MARKING | Chap at odds with Rome – one named Martin Luther – signalling new era | anag. + King |
| 1200 | Nine letter word (C and T latent) (Letters Latent) | Hutton-follower in Oval’s delirious! | VOL(C)ANIS(T); anag.; see Vulcanist in C.; ref. L. Hutton’s record-breaking innings of 364 at the Oval in 1938 |
| 1181 | SLADE | Semi paludal’s the term for comparable ground | anag. of (palu)dal’s e, & lit. |
| 965 | EARBASH def. NECKLET (Wrong Number) | Go on an endless time after managing to collar Australian | collar; A in er(a) + bash, & lit. |
| 900 | (C)HARLATANIS(M) (Letters Latent) | Quack medicine? Crooked liar has bottles to flog | tan in anag. |
| 827 | MICKEY-TAKING | (M)urine-extraction? | 2 mngs.; ref. Mickey Mouse |
| 727 | WELL-TO-DO | It’s this Littlewoods could make you | comp. anag. & lit. |
| 705 | MUSICOTHERAPY | What psychiater could effect with a trio of Moussorgsky’s? | anag. incl. Mou, & lit. |
| 683 | BANISH | Make inhabit abroad – it being the end of Alcibiades | anag. with s for it, & lit.; ref. exiled Athenian statesman |
| 660 | Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse (Anagram) | East’s trio encounter new saviour at manger | |
| 610 | DOUBLETHINK | By it ‘truth’ and ‘lie’ looked alternately interchangeable | anag. of alternate letters, & lit. |
| 552 | NOURICE-FEE | Tip for effective cure if one’s ill | anag. incl. e, & lit. |
| 443 | STEEPLECROWN | Enter low space carelessly – and you’ll knock one off! | anag. less a, & lit. |
| 410 | CUL-DE-SAC | What use a 550 c.c. model here? | anag. incl. DL, & lit. |
| 379 | SCYTHEMAN | The doddery can’t shy me! | anag. & lit.; ref. Old Father Time |
| 375 | SPREATHE | To chap ’ee wi’ t’ sharp wind | anag.; wind = twist |
| 358 | UPSTART def. NON-TERM (Wrong Number) | One outshining the rest, newly put in orbit | rest; star in anag., & lit. |
| 14 | Terrapin, hermit, elephant, armadillo, rhesus (Anagram) | Rain-storm plashed; all animals, put hither, keep drier | |
| Ximenes competitions | |||
| 1162 | BEAM-ENDS | You may see ’em rise vertically and send A.B. reeling around | ’em (rev.) in anag., & lit. |
| 1131 | CAROUSER (Misprints) | Causing stir in a mini perhaps, I ought to go home in a maxi | taxi; rouse in car |
| 1123 | MAXIMIST | I must take endless time with Xmas crackers | anag. less e, & lit. |
| 1110 | IMPERSONATE | It’s tricky to do this, says Danny, without me bra or me panties—very tricky | anag. & lit.; D. la Rue |
| 967 | CREMOSIN | Colour of the skie, perhaps, with Morne (sic) breaking | anag. & lit.; F. Q. 11, 3 “Early before the Morne with cremosin ray” |
| 945 | OBLITERATE | (Biol.) Treat defective end of a tube | anag. + e, & lit. |
| 924 | MIMESTER / PECULATE (Right and Left) | See me take items off—take items one shouldn’t—high class in exotic “peel” act! | anag. of me, r., items & lit.; U3 in anag. |
| 900 | PARAMECIA or PAREOEANS | Wild apes are no relations of Peking Man | Pareoeans; anag. |
| 890 | DEBENTURE | Without one, rebate due with conclusion of re-exportation is lost | anag. incl. n less a, & lit. |
| 777 | TAILOR-BIRD | Fantastic warblers do it—sew leaves! Here’s one among them | I in anag. less sew, & lit. |