Ximenes Competition No. 174 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 173 | 175 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 174 | Sep 1951 | ANACREONTICS | normal | 25 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | J. H. Dingwall | Car so ancient, it needs reconditioning. Try Cowley works | anag.; ref. Abraham C., English poet, and Cowley car plant |
| Second | A. Robins | “The Poetry of Clubs”—a tract on physical jerks | an acre on tics; ref. The Anacreontic Society, a gentlemen’s club; Indian club exercises |
| Third | T. E. Sanders | Lines offering free passages for transoceanic crossing | anag.; cross = mix |
| HC | E. S. Ainley | Free compositions of transoceanic provenance | anag. |
| HC | A. H. Ashcroft | It is these festive songs, which, accompanying the dance, can make the can-can tire so | anag. |
| HC | C. A. Baker | Though we may praise the pleasures of wine, our reactions can vary considerably! | anag. |
| HC | J. A. Blair | We have much pleasure going by foot, but not since a car is ordered for us | anag. |
| HC | Maj H. L. Carter | Odes with cancerations perverse! | anag. |
| HC | G. N. Coulter | Stanzas written in a small field on some skylarks round about | acre on in antics |
| HC | E. C. Double | Verse of transoceanic origin | anag. |
| HC | J. A. Fincken | Form of Grecian cantos eschewing gravity | anag. less g, & lit. |
| HC | Rev J. G. Graham | Some of the things Robbie Burns put on paper would have shocked a cannier Scot! | anag. |
| HC | R. J. Hall | Festival measures, which take care no antics become unruly | anag. |
| HC | D. Hawson | “Can-can,” “Eros,” “It,”—the Greeks had a word for them all | anag. |
| HC | Mrs L. Jarman | Not exactly the naicer cantos! | anag. & lit. |
| HC | C. Koop | Lyrics on Love, Wine—possibly on Circe, Satan | anag. |
| HC | Mrs F. Laing | Poems which might have earned an ancient “Oscar?” | anag. & lit; earn2 = curdle |
| HC | T. W. Melluish | If the King supported one of these efforts of Cowley, someone would be credited with a plot | an acre on tic(K); indic. of singular; ref. Abraham C., English poet and Royalist |
| HC | C. J. Morse | Verses made by a Greek who was a prince among jesters | a Creon in antics, & lit.; ref. mythological ruler of Thebes |
| HC | D. A. Nicholls | Such free verse could be made the subject of a transoceanic exchange long before 1941! | anag.; ref. transatlantic calls between Churchill & Roosevelt |
| HC | Mrs M. G. Porter | Results of making a frolicsome creation scan | anag. & lit. |
| HC | G. W. Pugh | Gay love lyrics of transoceanic origin | anag. |
| HC | E. J. Rackham | What is the content of these poems? “Erotic” can answer in brief | anag. incl. ans., & lit. |
| HC | A. R. Read | Rough transoceanic passages which are free on certain specified Greek lines | anag. |
| HC | A. Rivlin | What crude reactions can these wanton verses cause! | anag. |
Runners-Up in competition 174: