Cup Winning clues by T. W. Melluish
All clues by T. W. Melluish
All clues by T. W. Melluish
| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. W. Melluish | 105 | 5 | 14 | 86 | 112 | 124 | Jun 1946 | Jul 1958 |
| No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ximenes competitions | |||
| 495 | PARTISAN | Among ardent Rightists and Leftists a crab is included | is in partan |
| 215 | BUCKFASTLEIGH | An order of black hue, given gifts, here reconstructed | anag. & lit.; B. Abbey (reconstructed post 1882), Benedictines “black monks” |
| 80 | GONERIL | Ignore fifty being disbanded? Father couldn’t; she was | anag. incl. L; Lear I.4.291 “fifty of my followers at a clap” |
| 47 | GLOCKENSPIEL | Sounds like Bellman’s or Ringwood’s instrument—especially after clog-dance | anag. of clog + ‘kens Peel’; ref. song ‘John Peel’, “Ranter and Ringwood and Bellman and True” |
| 26 | HAWSER (Misprints) | ’Twixt tower and moat | boat; cryptic def., i.e. tow-er |