Cup Winning clues by C. R. Gumbrell
All clues by C. R. Gumbrell
All clues by C. R. Gumbrell
| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. R. Gumbrell | 119 | 8 | 14 | 97 | 41 | 141 | Nov 1993 | Jul 2003 |
| No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1624 | BELAY | Hearts of sailors applauded in the old book Westward Ho! | l, a in ye b (rev.); ref. Charles Kingsley novel |
| 1611 | LEISLER | It’ll need sonar to get about, fluttering and not going astray | anag. less anag., & lit. |
| 1502 | RAPPEL | What’s given by drum if end of truce is approved? | app. for e in reel, & lit. |
| 1387 | Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Anagram) | It has charm, this Swansea man’s cold idyll | |
| 1334 | CATACHRESTIC | In which fashion see the cold as ‘artic’ | anag. incl. c, c, & lit.; cf. arctic |
| 1268 | ARGIE-BARGIE | Clay with left wiped out energy Joe put into raw set-to | argi(l) E + GI in bare; ref. Cassius C., J. Frazier |
| 1234 | AVANT-PROPOS | Thus is French scholar expressing Schwarz’s opening piece for Chambers? | (s)avant pro pos, & lit.; ref. Chambers page vi |
| 1122 | BASILIAN | Tuck among outlaw film’s central characters, is a round, monkish type | (f)il(m) is a (rev.) in ban; ref. Friar T. |