Ximenes Competition No. 408 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 404 | 412 ▶ | Other competitions
No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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408 | Nov 1956 | BILLET | normal | 20 |
Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
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First | R. N. Chignell | I got into a performance of the Bolshoi without a ticket | I in b(a)llet |
Second | R. Postill | Wanted: beak to take Latin and/or elementary woodwork. Accommodation provided | bill + et, 2 defs. |
Third | H. R. Sanders | Note from Britain’s leader: Cross Egypt’s borders! | B + ill + E(gyp)t; ref. Suez crisis |
HC | F. D. H. Atkinson | Is there any harm in a flutter? Yes, when it’s for the soldier’s leisure occupation | ill in bet |
HC | C. Allen Baker | British, left to separate Israel and Egypt sides, find occupation the answer | B + l in I(srae)l, E(gyp)t |
HC | A. J. Barnard | This paper says there’s evil in a gamble. Throw it on the fire! | ill in bet, 2 defs. |
HC | E. A. Beaulah | To dispose of a private message put it on the fire! | 3 mngs.; private soldier |
HC | C. M. Broun | Satellite (Budapest’s capital) looks towards West—no more use for blasted East. Result:—Occupation—Soldiers dig in there | satellite + B less anag. (all rev.); ref. Soviet invasion of Hungary |
HC | C. E. Gates | U.S. bid goodbye in revulsion after British start to intervene. That’ll add fuel so the flames! | B + i + tell (rev.); ref. Suez crisis |
HC | S. Goldie | Quarter is what you ask for when you’ve had enough—with the extremes of entreatment! | bill + e,t |
HC | F. H. W. Hawes | Guided missile target of wood? It’lI be blown to pieces! | anag.; “Every bullet has its b.” |
HC | C. J. Morse | An old-fashioned design, these cylinders—but still firing! | 2 mngs. |
HC | F. E. Newlove | Where to find Tommy with a chit in dishabille to-night! | hidden, & lit.?; chit = billeting order |
HC | G. W. Pugh | An upright bearing may be dangerous under rifle fire | 2 mngs. |
HC | S. E. Quincey | House, divided, the Opposition being led by a renegade Liberal | Lib (rev.) + let |
HC | T. E. Sanders | In a go on the pools, perhaps, I may get pounds for just a few lines | I LL in bet |
HC | E. O. Seymour | You’d find such a chit looking in the park for soldiers | 2 mngs. |
HC | G. M. Start | U.S. note to Egypt—Cut out the double-cross! It may mean occupation | bill + E(gyp)t; ref. Suez crisis |
HC | Miss D. W. Taylor | Waiting for flame in the wood shed—that’s where to find the landlady’s daughter, the chit! | 3 mngs. |
HC | M. Woolf | The situation is—the Britsh, to keep extreme elements of Israel and Egypt apart, take a little latitude | B + l in I(srae)l, E(gyp)t; l = latitude; ref. Suez crisis |
Runners-Up in competition 408: