Ximenes Competition No. 37 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 36 | 38 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | Nov 1946 | MISLABEL | normal | 18 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Mrs W. J. Couper | Der tag—Sunday, Nov. 11, 1946 | tag = label / day (Ger.); date of puzzle Sun 10 Nov 1946 |
| Second | Mrs A. L. Stevenson | Put on the wrong tab and you may get slim and able to be seen in it | anag.; tab = flap joining sides of coat |
| Third | Rev C. Trevor | Were the chemist to treat his bottles so, there would be confusion for miles around his workshop | lab in anag. |
| HC | C. Allen Baker | “Lamb’s ‘Eli’ Miscellany.” To call the essays so would be to do this | anag.; ref. Charles L., ‘Elia’ |
| HC | K. Bower | Mark wrong? Same with Bill, confound it! | anag. |
| HC | F. A. Clark | Lamb’s lie has toned down to diffuse terminological inexactitude | anag.; ref. Churchill speech 1906 |
| HC | W. E. Green | You may give a false address, but you’ll get the same bill | anag. |
| HC | V. H. M. Gunyon | Basil seems to have got potted again—in the honey this time. Don’t do this to the pot! | anag. of basil in mel (L.); ref. Keats’ ‘Isabella’ buried her lover’s head in a pot of basil |
| HC | C. H. Hudson | Put mud in Monsieur’s honey and describe it as pure! | slab (= mud) in miel (Fr.), & lit. |
| HC | Mrs M. Kidner | Describe inaccurately the distance the crooked man travelled to get round the mud | slab (= mud) in anag. of mile; ‘crooked mile’ |
| HC | C. Koop | Put a wrong construction on and you may find ulterior aims’ll be used in evidence | anag. |
| HC | R. H. Lemon | Disguise Bill as me, and give him a false name | anag. |
| HC | J. I. Logan | I’d go for miles to a bal masqué to give a false impression | anag. of miles, bal |
| HC | D. S. Milford | Careless manuscript liable to direct coals to Newcastle | anag. incl. MS |
| HC | W. B. O’Hanlon | No wonder the mails went astray, only half way to Belsen! | anag. + Bel(sen), & lit. |
| HC | H. T. R. Twyford | Even if you this your luggage, you can still make the L.M.S. liable (London excepted, of course) | anag. less L; London, Midland and Scottish railway |
| HC | W. Watts | In Keats’ poem is La Belle Dame put in the wrong category? | hidden; ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ |
| HC | W. H. J. Wheeler | I’m back with Bella’s mixture; you have put the wrong directions on | I’m (rev.) + anag.; ref. Bell’s cough mixture |
No Runners-Up in competition 37