Ximenes Competition No. 1115 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 1110 | 1119 ▶ | Other competitions
No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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1115 | Jun 1970 | FLESH-POTTERY | normal | 20 |
Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
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First | Mrs B. Lewis | Product of the Tory’s pelf, snarls the prosy left | 2 anags. & lit.; snarl2 |
Second | Rev C. D. Westbrook | Dives enjoyed it while alive: he slept to fry in torment | anag.; Luke 16.19-25 |
Third | R. F. Pardoe | My devotees could be left with trophesy—so could I | anag. & lit. |
VHC | C. Allen Baker | Body’s a crock—and a tyre’s faulty; it’s one blow-out after another | flesh pot + anag. |
VHC | Mrs J. M. Bates | La Dolce Vita? Feelthy sport is involved | anag. & lit. |
VHC | J. W. Bates | Living-it-upmanship, by redistribution of the Tory’s pelf? | anag. & lit.; cf. S. Potter, ‘One-Upmanship’ |
VHC | E. Chalkley | What could make the toper’s wretched inside burst? | anag. in fly, & lit.; fly = burst |
VHC | J. Crowther | One who takes delight in his cups gets involved in gross —— | potter in fleshy, & lit.; in one’s cups = drunk |
VHC | F. D. Gardiner | Knowing about protest he spoiled life for the rich | anag. in fly (adj.) |
VHC | E. M. Hornby | He slept, forty winks; it often has that effect | anag. & lit.; wink = flicker |
VHC | A. H. Jones | Jag series specially designed for the L types | anag.; jag2 |
VHC | Sir S. Kaye | The ropy Left’s mucked up high standard of living | anag. |
VHC | J. R. Kirby | Soft living in style for the extravagant | p in anag., & lit. |
VHC | J. Langton | Trophesy felt as a possible result of this | anag. & lit. |
VHC | A. Lawrie | This’ll give you fat round belly shape—soak up | pot ret (rev.) all in fleshy, & lit. |
VHC | L. F. Leason | The pelf story, in a dissipated form | anag. & lit. |
VHC | L. May | People throwing orgies | flesh pottery; throwing = forming pottery |
VHC | D. P. M. Michael | The soft reply surprisingly associated by Israelites with Egypt | anag.; ref. Exodus 16. 3/4 |
VHC | C. J. Morse | The ultimate in luxury, with bodily appetites and dalliance put first | flesh potter2 + (luxur)y, & lit. |
VHC | M. E. Ventham | Having a ball makes Pelé try shot—a foot over the top | f + anag. |
HCs in competition 1115 awarded to: