Ximenes Competition No. 425 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 421 | 430 ▶ | Other competitions
No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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425 | Mar 1957 | TRAVERSE | normal | 17 |
Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
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First | R. N. Chignell | How gunners get a line on either end of the target | t RA verse, & lit. |
Second | R. Postill | Sidestep—that’s how the fly-half can take in the chap who rushes wildly! | raver in tse(tse) |
Third | D. A. Nicholls | What do television scanners do? Disturb rest with an intrusion of utter drivel! | rave (vb.) in anag.; surveying |
HC | J. W. Bates | Such a cross is rare—vet’s puzzled | anag. |
HC | C. O. Butcher | Made by half the voyagers—accompanied by the other half of course | trave(llers) (cou)rse, & lit. |
HC | W. J. Duffin | In TV language, an artist answers to “What’s your line” by “A straight one among zigzags” | RA in TV Erse; ref. TV panel game ‘What’s My Line’ |
HC | P. J. Dyer | This gallery means to make trouble for the star, ever at the mercy of changing whims | anag., 2 defs. |
HC | J. A. Fincken | Gallery calls for the author you’d expect to see at the end of a farce | Travers + e; ref. Ben T., writer, farceur |
HC | S. Goldie | It’s half-crazy to have uneven skirts short—shows one leg of course | rav(ing) in terse |
HC | Mrs L. Jarman | What a rate the revs must build up to go through the barrier! | anag. of rate revs, 2 defs. |
HC | J. A. Moncrieff | Will forward skill do against the Irish?—just the opposite! Try a passing movement | art (rev.) + Erse; ref. 5 Nations Rugby 1957 |
HC | P. H. Morgan | I’m cross! I could almost burst into tears over getting stumped for a duck | anag. less 0 |
HC | Mrs H. Morrison | Crossing gives you, in short, a backward, stunted variety | var. (rev.) in terse |
HC | C. J. Morse | Just one curtain—the gallery’s cross! | 3 defs.; ref. theatre |
HC | E. J. Rackham | Ingenuity seems to be misapplied against Irish partition | art (rev.) v. Erse |
HC | A. Robins | Oblique, endless tram-lines are moving over the screen—it does make one cross! | tra(m) verse, 4 defs.; TV lines |
HC | J. F. N. Wedge | Within Tommy Steele’s limits, fans expect to see a “Rock” passage that may reach the heights! | ravers in T(ommy Steel)e; ref. singer |
Runners-Up in competition 425: