Cup Winning clues by T. E. Sanders
All clues by T. E. Sanders
All clues by T. E. Sanders
Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
T. E. Sanders | 195 | 15 | 16 | 164 | 244 | 226 | Mar 1946 | Jun 1984 |
No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
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631 | INTERLOCK | Engrave ringlet for couple getting engaged | inter lock; engrave2 |
414 | UNBOSOMER | Bust-reducing agent? Rub some on bust – gets a lot off the chest | anag., 2 defs. |
221 | PADDY-WHACK | Ire-lander? | paddy whack, & lit.; lander = heavy blow |
62 | SOLITAIRES | No Double Diamonds? In the sun one gets weary without one | sol I + a in tires; without = outside; ref. beer |
Ximenes competitions | |||
708 | HEARTS | The Rear Admiral’s on the quarter-deck and gives encouragement | anag. incl. RA’s, 2 defs.; on = getting drunk; deck of cards; heart, vb. |
325 | MARRYING | What’s the mater doing? She’s done that once, we hope! | cryptic def.; mate vb. |
186 | ASHMOLEAN | A wood-pile if old is just the place to harbour the ant. | ash mole an2; ant. = antiquities; mole5, pile2 = pier |
154 | RABBIT | Saving up a little does multiply it quickly | bar (= except) (rev.) + bit; does = females |
135 | STRIPPED | Lost the thread and dropped every stitch | 2 mngs. |
130 | MODERN | Current’s just right for the fleet to get under way | mode RN |
123 | LEECHES | One Minister of Health in an Attlee-Churchill coalition would not be enough! | sing. hidden in Attlee-Churchill; M. of H. = doctor; ref. impending Gen. Election, Feb 1950 |
106 | HELIOTROPE | I laid into the slave with a rope end for making a bloomer | I in helot + rope |
57 | THEORBOS | Got the ball on the bony part of the nose, but pluckily played on | the orb (n)os(e); os = bone |
55 | NAUSEANT | The reappearance of the sun before the first of April will bring back the swallows | anag. of sun ante A |
19 | SCREENINGS | Refuse showings of films as they have not been passed | 3 mngs. |