Cup Winning clues by Mrs N. Jarman
All clues by Mrs N. Jarman
All clues by Mrs N. Jarman
| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs N. Jarman | 110 | 17 | 20 | 73 | 115 | 147 | Dec 1945 | Apr 1973 |
| No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | MINARET (Printer’s Devilry) | Bunter-whine starts with ja/w open: “Cease – condone – Wharton, please!” | tarts, jam, twopence |
| Ximenes competitions | |||
| 1140 | CALLOUS | Alien to Ruth, like the corn | 2 mngs.; ruth = pity; Keats, “Nightingale” |
| 817 | WYLIE-COATS | Slips over Scottish briefs? The Law Society’s shattered! | anag. |
| 743 | CHEMIST | I provide something you can rattle up and down in a box | M1 in chest, & lit. |
| 686 | FEMALE | Like Eve—(“Me with only one ragged leaf to wiggle about in!”) | anag. incl. me |
| 490 | CLEAR def. WEIGH (Wrong Number) | After a hundred real jerks, no portion of me is thick | portion; C + anag.; soup |
| 417 | SINECURE | What could be nicer, with a good screw, and less use? | i.e. anag. incl. use, & lit.; screw = wages |
| 351 | LUSTRE | Suspender of pretty Victorian drops—that’s quite in order in a Toulouse-Lautrec! | (Tou)l(ou)us(e Lau)tre(c) |
| 219 | SOCIALIST | Disliking “blue” performances, I give monologues from Winnie the Pooh | cryptic def.; i.e. I pooh-pooh Churchill’s speeches |
| 202 | SPALPEEN | Naughty type of Limerick | cryptic def. |
| 167 | PARMESAN | Rasp me freely, right up to an end | anag. + an, & lit. |
| 163 | LORICATE | The White Knight was making Alice giddy with burbled rot! | anag.; ref. “Through the Looking-Glass” |
| 145 | STEWART | I need checking about skirts, Mr. Gladstone admitted to the Canon | St. Ewart (i.e. W. E. Gladstone canonized); tartan skirts; ref. G.’s interest in ‘fallen women’ |
| 68 | ANTIGROPELOS | Made to go round the Calf of Man! That got the P. and O. liner’s goat | anag. |
| 29 | RATAN | A limited company might be floated, with this reliable staff | cryptic def.; i.e. ratans could make a flimsy raft |
| 15 | ARRANGES | Disposes of the angels of Mons finally, after a bishop’s letters | a RR anges |
| 13 | IPOMAEA | I’m in the trailer with half a gun, anti-aircraft, in the middle east | I + pom(-pom) + E in AA; trailing plant |