Ximenes Competition No. 163 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 162 | 164 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 163 | Apr 1951 | LORICATE | normal | 15 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Mrs L. Jarman | The White Knight was making Alice giddy with burbled rot! | anag.; ref. “Through the Looking-Glass” |
| Second | M. Woolf | “It’s safer this way” said the Knight. “Rot!” Alice retorted | anag.; retorted (heraldic). = interlaced; ref. “Through the Looking-Glass” |
| Third | T. Dwyer | Recoil at being disturbed, like a tortoise | anag. |
| HC | J. W. Bates | See to protection of old lace or it gets spoilt | anag. of lace or it |
| HC | R. W. H. Brunswick | In case I attack shelter in erudition | I cat in lore; cat = penthouse = attack-shelter; loricate, adj. [see comments] |
| HC | H. H. Elliott | Tailor (E.C.) can arrange to supply hard-wearing overcoat | anag. |
| HC | D. S. Johnson | I’m armed cap-à-pie: rivets beginning to be hammered into place | ri(vets) in locate |
| HC | R. D. Jones | Unreasonable toil and care will make you crusty | anag. |
| HC | G. G. Lawrance | There’s a sloppy article about love appearing in the Mail | O in anag. of article |
| HC | R. O’Donoghue | Lot I care if letters go astray in mail! | anag. |
| HC | J. D. P. O’Leary | Blimey! that cat is thick-skinned! | Lor’ + cat in i.e. (that is) [see comments] |
| HC | R. Postill | Following the famous Annie, Coliseum’s new heroine sounds like having a hard test! | ‘Laurie, Kate’; ref. A. Laurie; musicals at London Coliseum “A. Get Your Gun” followed by “Kiss me K.”; test2 = shell [see comments] |
| HC | E. R. Prentice | Supply a loose coat with equal amounts of iron and lead worked in for protection | anag. of coat, ir(on),le(ad), & lit. [see comments] |
| HC | E. J. Rackham | As at crocodile’s head and tail, hard to penetrate | anag. of at cro(cod)ile & lit. [see comments] |
| HC | W. O. Robertson | Protected from the ravages of care and toil | anag. |
Runners-Up in competition 163: