Cup Winning clues by Mrs B. Lewis
All clues by Mrs B. Lewis
All clues by Mrs B. Lewis
| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs B. Lewis | 69 | 6 | 9 | 54 | 45 | 84 | Oct 1964 | Jun 1970 |
| No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ximenes competitions | |||
| 1115 | FLESH-POTTERY | Product of the Tory’s pelf, snarls the prosy left | 2 anags. & lit.; snarl2 |
| 1032 | TENONER (Printer’s Devilry) | Fleeing from an amorous début, An/-an? Faster than the confirmed bachelor! | ref. London Zoo’s panda |
| 997 | TREACLE | Material for a black confection that might become Electra | anag.; t. toffee; ref. O’Neill, ‘Mourning Becomes E.’ |
| 971 | MAGOTPIE / ANECDOTE (Right and Left) | Turns up at school with tuck, chatters in “Macbeth”—cane judiciously applied au fond, I’m told | to + gam (all rev.) + pie; anag. + dote; fond, (vb.) = dote; Macbeth 3. iv. |
| 860 | CORSAGE | Graces bust—cache for love-letter | O in anag., & lit. |
| 821 | SOMERSET | Hardy girl’s up to an intake of half a gallon, when dry: a tumbler will do me | omer in Tess (rev.); ref. Tess of the d’Urbervilles |