Cup Winning clues by J. R. Tozer
All clues by J. R. Tozer
All clues by J. R. Tozer
| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. R. Tozer | 212 | 15 | 18 | 179 | 137 | 245 | Aug 1995 | Nov 2019 |
| No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2473 | INTERPLAY | Exchanges per litany? | anag. & lit.; i.e. call-and-response |
| 2250 | MILESTONE (with missing O) (Missing Letter) | Azed’s celebrated reaching it with bean very much sound | beano; miles tone |
| 2222 | OBJECT LESSON | The coalition’s been a good one for all parties except for the one in opposition | objection with less for I |
| 2049 | PARTY-POOPER | Pater’s poor potty training results in this tot’s wet blanket | comp. anag. |
| 1771 | PARTERRE | Driving off in F1 race inept Ferrari stalls in the pit | anag. less in FI, race vt; ref. Formula One |
| 1694 | MISINTERPRET | In test primer discoloured gloss badly | anag. |
| 1646 | BLACK | Void is at Bible’s beginning | B + lack, & lit. |
| 1615 | RUGATE | Dramaturge wanting a stiff drink, struggling with lines | anag. less dram |
| 1589 | JOKESMITH | Front of kazi covered with rude items by nameless toilet humorist, long gone | k + anag. in joh(n) |
| 1489 | FRONT-BENCHER | I’m highly political – that’s form for one involved in marches | bench for I in frontier |
| 1441 | Word containing MM displaced by a bug (Millennium Bug) | Puzzle consisted of one bug after another | flummox / wasp; flu + was pox |
| 1342 | ALIENS / RAPINE (Right and Left) | Spoiling drap, in Edinburgh house a piece of ice put in glass reveals Sassenachs to Scots? | hidden; a + i in lens; house vb |
| 1286 | CHALET | What you might find in Lechtal overlooking lake? | anag. less L, & lit.; ref. area of Tyrol |
| 1264 | TREDRILLE / FERVOROUS (Right and Left) | A good game when you’re three, wooden blocks bore energetic over-fours at play | drill in tree; anag. |
| 1212 | HILDING | Bottling out vintage Mouton-Rothschild in grand bottles | hidden |