Cup Winning clues by C. G. Millin
All clues by C. G. Millin
All clues by C. G. Millin
| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. G. Millin | 214 | 13 | 12 | 189 | 327 | 239 | Dec 1965 | Dec 2010 |
| No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | A COMING OF AGE | It could spell the start of adulthood and of magic gone | anag. incl. a, & lit. |
| 1515 | SNIDE | Nasty innuendos could be this – also noun | comp. anag. & lit. |
| 1225 | CURRY | Hot dish with shapely figure, right for form of plunging neckline | r for V in curvy |
| 1043 | PESTO (Printer’s Devilry) | Vaulting above tunnel entrance appears inane, sca/ry | ref. film ‘The Wooden Horse’ |
| 866 | NECTAREOUS | Like a drop of elixir? With that inside, do not use car | e in anag. |
| 757 | ETHEROMANIAC (Misprints) | A race on the M1 is ridiculous – one is sure to get booked | hooked; anag. |
| 744 | SKIRL-IN-THE-PAN / COFFEE-DISEASE (Right and Left) | Sizzling hot skin tan peril – ghastly shade of brown – peculiar seaside affliction of the madder type | anag. incl. h; coffee + anag. |
| 473 | HERRING-BONE | Like a walk up a ski-slope – hard to take without backsliding | erring in H bone; bone = steal |
| 430 | TEGULA | What the fiddler might have played on, in the film | gu in tela, & lit.; ref. Fiddler on the Roof |
| 243 | OLYMPIC | We have such champions, nearly all on water and ice | o(n) lymp(h) ic(e), & lit. |
| 161 | ANCON | I’ve got four short legs: one must get caught that side | an c on; on = leg side |
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| 1091 | WENCESLAS | A covering on the earth, dry and unspoilt, lay round about—I saw it | sal4 sec new (all rev.), & lit. |
| 882 | SNAPDRAGON | A Christmas game in which you have to explore inside spirit, alight | drag in snap, on, & lit. |