Cup Winning clues by W. K. M. Slimmings
All clues by W. K. M. Slimmings
All clues by W. K. M. Slimmings
| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W. K. M. Slimmings | 186 | 15 | 20 | 151 | 279 | 221 | Jun 1946 | Feb 1988 |
| No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 823 | SARBACANE | Reactionary supports a switch whose blow can mark one’s end | bras (rev.) + a cane |
| 750 | SALMAGUNDY (THLMAGUY/OULMAGUY) (750 themed clue) | A spicy jumble this type of square with happy laugh about thousand by X’s successor | T + M in anag. + Y; X = Ximenes |
| 590 | MINEVER | One gone white, does fear game is up for good | nim rev. + ever; does = rabbits |
| 354 | SHEER-HULK | Ark Royal, now? Gloom surrounds her being docked, and broken up | he(r) + anag. of her, all in sulk; gloom verb |
| 212 | SURCINGLES | They may have Lester, slipping half off, cursing freely | anag. incl. Les(ter), & lit.; ref. L. Piggott, jockey |
| 123 | SCATTERGOOD | Namely, one never tight – therefore in the red? | sc. a TT ergo o/d, & lit. |
| Ximenes competitions | |||
| 868 | DANDER / TOUPEE (Right and Left) | It’s shown by blasting and then turning crimson where you drive, smothering ball completely: to avoid it, keep your head down! | anag. + red (rev.) & lit.; O up in tee, down = hair |
| 255 | SCUTTLE | Where you may see All Blacks do in ebullient Celts. (Wales will be sunk if you do!) | ut in anag., 2 defs.; do2 = ut1; wales = ship’s planks; ref. coal and NZ rugby tour 1953 |
| 196 | SHAMAN / SERIAN (Right and Left) | Keep Mum! A bloke has to be a wizard—wants all I earns, roughly, would describe the old China! | sh! a man; anag. |
| 165 | CABBAGE | One of two joint accompanists picked for a performance of Madame Butterfly! | cryptic def.; meat & two veg.; cabbage-butterfly |
| 146 | BELDAME | No wonder the old lady’s furious: she’s nothing to show but the B.E.M., and that’s tarnished | anag. of BE Medal [see comments] |
| 119 | UMBLE-PIE | If the bird’s off, you’ll be having the doctor in most of Christmas! You certainly won’t like eating it | MB in (y)ule + pie3 |
| 56 | SHEEP-RUN | It might suggest a Bach chorale, or a baa corral! (Puns here are out of place!) | 2 defs., anag.; ref. “Sheep may safely graze” |
| 49 | ESPERANTO | The tongue that Shakespeare spake? Only when you analyse him literally, and not otherwise! | anag. of speare not; i.e. shake speare |
| 27 | MEANDRIAN | Not the course a bull takes, to the discomfiture of a man in red! | anag. |