Ximenes Competition No. 360 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 356 | 364 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 360 | Nov 1955 | WRINKLE / EGG-BIRD | Right and Left | 14 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | J. H. Grummitt | Jet flyer crashes bridge: G.W.R. link with east disorganized: single line remains—verb. sap. | anag. incl. G.; W.R. + anag. incl. E, 2 defs. |
| Second | G. Perry | Roughly wrenlike apart from tail tip set on feathered body; this is roughly gull-like | anag. less e; egg2 bird |
| Third | P. B. Chapman | Oval barracking: I have black looks flying round the ground for bowling wide—begin to leave the crease | egg bird; rink in w le(ave) |
| HC | Miss R. L. Benn | German leader involved in bridge disaster. The Flyer Line, link between East and West region, blown up | anag. incl. G; anag. incl. E, WR |
| HC | Mrs G. Bonsall | This suggests a variety of wrenlike tailless tern with an oval body, commonly female | anag. less e; egg bird |
| HC | C. O. Butcher | One connected with the sea swallows nutriment in shell form—its source, a king among shellfish, is the cockle | egg bird; R in winkle (see cockle3) |
| HC | Rev B. Chapman | No. 4 in the Kremlin appears to have gone over to the West, completely disguised! It’s hinted he’s been seen flying (this ought to prove it) to the German capital with a woman! | anag. of Kremlin with W for m; e.g. G bird |
| HC | C. E. Gates | As for the crease, when Wednesday comes round you’ll find the bowling area a lake: it’s often partly under water according to a bloke attached to the Oval | rink + L in We (abbrev.); egg bird |
| HC | C. J. Morse | A depression is forecast: also a ridge, a stormy ridge encircling Great Britain—a rare phenomenon around our shores | 3 mngs.; GB in anag. |
| HC | F. E. Newlove | A whelk’s slightly meatier than a winkle: bigger, and not half bad for a change, says the wideawake bird! | w(r)inkle, meatier = with more substance, whelk2; anag. incl. (ba)d; Sooty Tern colloquially known as the “wideawake bird” |
| HC | Maj J. N. Purdon | To have “Sea Swallow,” a bigger variety, in form by the 1st of December, prune exhibits all over regardless of age—a useful tip | anag. + D; 2 mngs.; ref. racehorse S.S. (sired by Seabiscuit) and song, “No matter how young a prune may be it’s always full of wrinkles” |
| HC | E. J. Rackham | Work, nothing less, and a different line are involved. “Know-how” needed. American flying expert to urge British industries on the road | anag. of w(o)rk line; egg BI rd. |
| HC | E. O. Seymour | A G.I. left a girl I knew in trouble. That’s a tip to encourage a girl to be a flighty thing at the seaside! | anag. of (GI)rl I knew; egg bird |
| HC | Mrs E. Shackleton | Headline—In West latitude English find ice-berg and dig about for something Scott may have marked | rink in W l. E; anag., ref. Peter S., naturalist, and Captain S. |
Runners-Up in competition 360: