Cup Winning clues by L. E. Eyres
All clues by L. E. Eyres
All clues by L. E. Eyres
Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
L. E. Eyres | 43 | 3 | 6 | 34 | 68 | 52 | Oct 1947 | Mar 1965 |
No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
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Ximenes competitions | |||
843 | PRISTINE | “Enspirit” is wrongly spelt: that’s archaic | anag.; ref. OED, latest example 1658 |
81 | CHARADE | Means employed to indicate that Mr. Elton would house Miss Woodhouse | cryptic def.; ref. ‘Emma’, Ch. IX, courtship charade |
61 | CREASY | Historian describing the rout of the Armada gives the credit to a midshipman | cr. Easy; ref. Sir Edward Shepherd C., and fictional character Midshipman Easy |