Ximenes Competition No. 504 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 500 | 508 ▶ | Other competitions
No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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504 | Sep 1958 | LEAD-LINE | normal | 23 |
Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
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First | C. J. Morse | Here’s this ice-bound water system—and the plumber has to let me down! | lead line; lead = channel among ice, line = system |
Second | W. K. M. Slimmings | It’s a feature of the pencil styling of skirts. etc., useful for coping with the more obtrusive bottoms! | lead line; line = styling, etc. |
Third | Mrs E. McFee | The first curler needs to be wound up by a fraction of an inch—it’ll give depth under the waves | lead line; lead in curling; line = twelfth of an inch; wind up = bring to conclusion |
HC | E. S. Ainley | Following precedent, I leave stuff behind: I sound like a plumber! | lead line2 (vb.= stuff); sound3 |
HC | C. Allen Baker | I can’t resist earthy attractions: all I need is to be vamped, and I’m sunk | anag., 2 defs. |
HC | C. O. Butcher | Something for the plumber to leave behind—which has to be left of course! | lead line; i.e. line (= course) to the left of lead (= leave behind) |
HC | R. N. Chignell | I get hauled in from the deep to reinforce the covers after hard shot | lead2 + line2; ref. cricket |
HC | F. E. Dixon | It sounds a marine term—and is | double mng.; sound3; m.t. = sea’s limit |
HC | Mrs J. O. Fuller | Played out I plump for bed: all I need is to curl up | anag.; plump2 |
HC | A. B. Gardner | Surely a primitive sounding apparatus for go ahead shipping firm to make | lead line, & lit.; sound3 |
HC | P. Graystone | I’m a star performer with a gimmick; I make lots of sound-recordings—my version of “How deep is the Ocean?” is the most! | lead line, 2 defs.; sound3; ref. I. Berlin song |
HC | V. Jennings | See that there’s a limit to what you put on a dog, and if it goes down then you won’t be completely sunk | lead + line |
HC | Dr T. J. R. Maguire | Ocean Accident Insurance, fully paid and unencumbered guarantees security: all I need is to have an accident! | anag.; paid = allowed to run out (naut) |
HC | F. E. Newlove | Oddly (for I’m a plumber) I’ve all I need to go ahead with the job! | anag.; lead line |
HC | M. Newman | Sailor in deep water may swing one end and shoot the other, hoping it sounds right | i.e. swing the lead, shoot a line, & lit.; sound3 |
HC | D. A. Nicholls | Government policy is made up to sound all right—but it flops! | lead line, 2 defs.; sound3 |
HC | R. Postill | All I need at sea … one heave—and I’m off to bed! | anag. & lit.; ref. seasickness |
HC | E. R. Prentice | For protection when compassing land at sea, I should be cast in | I in anag. of land, all in lee1, & lit. |
HC | B. G. Quin | Put play first, business afterwards: that doesn’t sound right—but it ought to! | lead line; sound3 |
HC | A. Robins | Put a bob on it and it’ll go down the straight and win by a length | lead line; plumbing bob; straight3 |
HC | L. T. Stokes | I slack at the bottom: all I need is to be transferred to another form | anag. |
HC | J. B. Widdowson | I’m heading for a low dive—all I need is my make-up! | anag. |
HC | M. Woolf | I give guidance to the route—all I need is to be cast | lead line, anag., & lit. |
Runners-Up in competition 504: