Ximenes Competition No. 178 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 177 | 179 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 178 | Oct 1951 | HIDEOUS | normal | 23 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | E. W. Richart | All too plain! Composition of House changed, but divided about as before | id. in anag.; ref. 1951 Gen. Election |
| Second | C. E. Gates | The little I had has been sunk in a jerry-built house. It’s simply shocking! | I’d in anag. |
| Third | G. T. Herring | It’s frightful what a tanner buys us—next to nothing | hide2 (n.) + 0 + us; tanner = sixpence |
| HC | Mrs F. Begg | How ghastly if the reassembled House should have the same brief occupancy | id. in anag.; ref. 1951 Gen. Election, 20 months after previous one |
| HC | H. Bernard | It’s pretty grim: but if you’d remove I’d see you’d get a house somehow | i.e. hideous less I’d is anag. of house |
| HC | J. A. Blair | Slovenly housemaid can be simply frightful when Mother’s away | anag. of house(ma)id |
| HC | M. L. Booker | What a ghastly result! With so little change the House is about the same | id. in anag.; ref. 1951 Gen. Election |
| HC | F. L. Constable | Unattractive? That’s putting it mildly! It’s just the same inside the blasted house! | id. in anag. |
| HC | T. Dwyer | The house is a wreck: it’s the same inside—ghastly! | id. in anag. |
| HC | M. G. Ellis | It’s ghastly, having the house in a mess outside, and the same inside | id. in anag. |
| HC | Maj A. H. Giles | I had contracted to occupy a house which was jerry-built—now not fit to be seen | I’d in anag. |
| HC | C. P. Grant | House reconstituted, but just about the same; a ghastly result! | id. in anag.; ref. 1951 Gen. Election |
| HC | R. J. Hall | Having monster cast, yet finally presenting us next to nothing on screen | hide1 (vb.) + 0 us; cast = quality |
| HC | N. McMillan | The Parliament nearly ending has only one undeveloped idea in it—and even that’s not pretty | ide(a) in Hous(e); ref. 1951 Gen. Election |
| HC | T. W. Melluish | Wouldn’t it be ghastly if the House on reassembling were about the same? | id. in anag.; ref. 1951 Gen. Election |
| HC | D. A. Nicholls | Only a slight change in the House; the result is about the same. It’s ghastly! | id. in anag.; ref. 1951 Gen. Election |
| HC | E. G. Phillips | If we get just the same as before in the reconstituted House—that’s horrible! | id. in anag.; ref. 1951 Gen. Election |
| HC | N. J. Reed | The sort of house I’d not like one of the fair sex to look at | anag. |
| HC | D. W. Reeds | House’s new set-up contains shortcoming same as before—outcome is greatly feared! | id. in anag.; ref. 1951 Gen. Election |
| HC | T. E. Sanders | It’s most unfair to thrash us for nothing | hide2 (vb.) + 0 us; i.e. nothing getting us |
| HC | Mrs E. S. G. Sheehan | I had contracted to go into a house in bad order that is very ugly | I’d in anag. |
| HC | W. K. M. Slimmings | Fell, nothing on, in front of bus—head knocked off—horrible, very! | hide + 0 + (b)us; fell4, fell = slain |
| HC | Miss R. E. Speight | It’s dreadful to have a jerry-built house with nearly all the roof fallen in! | (l)id in anag. |
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