Ximenes Competition No. 356 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 351 | 360 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 356 | Oct 1955 | METOPOSCOPY | normal | 20 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | E. G. Phillips | For a facial study of character, in caricature, Poy comes top | anag.; ref. cartoonist Percy Fearon |
| Second | W. K. M. Slimmings | This puts me first—nothing more than seconds over the record, too, judging by what the dials show | me top 0 s. copy |
| Third | J. B. Sykes | You’ll need me to work back to characters from a look round the company | me to + op (rev.) + Co. in spy, & lit. |
| HC | P. B. Chapman | The art of interpreting looks best in some unusually exact rendering | top in anag. + copy |
| HC | R. N. Chignell | An arrangement of poems to reproduce the interpretation of lines on mug | anag. + copy |
| HC | P. M. Coombs | Stop ’ome, silly, do like me, seeing what o’clock the character usually shows up! | anag. + copy; clock = face |
| HC | M. S. Y. Fowler | Here you can see an engineer, with head appearing above a large blue-print, reading dials | ME top OS copy |
| HC | R. N. Haygarth | Here’s a strange tome: “The Young Pilot’s Crib—or The Art of Reading from Dials” | anag. + PO’s copy |
| HC | D. Henderson | Caesar’s judgment of Cassius by his “lean and hungry look” found nothing positive to like according to Shakespeare | met 0 pos. copy |
| HC | M. A. Lassman | An investigation of figures in France might make one oppose M. Coty | anag.; ref. fashion designer; figure = face |
| HC | T. W. Melluish | “Phiz” quiz; oddly enough, “Poy” comes top! | anag.; ref. cartoonists H. K. Browne and Percy Fearon; phiz = face |
| HC | C. J. Morse | With me you find a trace of disposition in the surface likeness | me + (disp)os(ition) in top copy, & lit. |
| HC | T. J. Pimbley | I object to positive imitation—this character study is taken straght out of “Phiz”! | me to pos. copy; me = I as object; ref. cartoonist H. K. Browne; phiz = face |
| HC | E. R. Prentice | With the tempo so rubato follow closely the interpretation of expression marks | anag. + copy; rubato = distorted |
| HC | Maj J. N. Purdon | A mongrel, cosmopolitan type (though with no Latin elements) judging by the face | anag. less anag. |
| HC | T. E. Sanders | I know all about kissers. Write me for “Better Love” (shilling edition) | me top 0 s. copy |
| HC | P. H. Taylor | Study from “Façade” (symphonic overture, tempo poco rubato) | anag. incl. sy(mphonic); rubato = distorted |
| HC | J. F. N. Wedge | Judging by the looks of my outside toe distortion, there’s also a definite flat foot there | anag. + pos. + cop, all in my; see flat-foot in C. |
| HC | C. E. Williams | The study of the human face reveals imperfectly an empty shell—inside nothing positive, in brief just about nothing | 0 pos. c. 0 in anag. |
| HC | J. S. Young | Stomach upset in some unnatural way—proof may he obtained from an analysis of the contents of the mug | pot in anag. + copy |
Runners-Up in competition 356: