Ximenes Competition No. 664 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 660 | 669 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 664 | Oct 1961 | MANIPULATE | normal | 20 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | R. B. Adcock | Not abed after midnight is to retire anything but early: do what Sir Toby did to that conclusion! | up in a.m. (all rev.) + late; ref. Twelfth Night II.3.1 |
| Second | R. W. Hawes | A peer, one of Russell’s breed, being prepared to go back inside, shows what nuclear demonstrators will do | a lupin (rev.) in mate; Russell lupin: ref. Bertrand R. |
| Third | H. Lyon | What! Do a handy-man’s job? Me put a nail straight? Never! | anag. |
| HC | F. D. H. Atkinson | Turn up in the morning about the last in the place? what is the manager to do? | up in a.m. (all rev.) + late |
| HC | C. O. Butcher | To work, content to be “up in the morning—early”? Just the reverse—just the reverse! | up in a.m. (all rev.) + late |
| HC | R. N. Chignell | You can dish up a meal with some form of tin, cook | anag. |
| HC | Sgt J. Dromey | Cook prefers a dram in the Old Soldiers’ Club to a tea-break | nip in maul + anag. |
| HC | A. Lawrie | Dislocated laminae put right by osteopathy | anag.; right, vb. |
| HC | P. W. W. Leach | Do this to a platinum blonde’s tail and you’ve had it! | anag., incl. (blond)e, & lit. |
| HC | Miss J. S. Lumsden | To give an enhanced appearance to a backward border plant holly all round | a lupin (rev.) in mate (= holly) |
| HC | Dr T. J. R. Maguire | What a mute may do perhaps to make himself plain | anag. & lit. |
| HC | Mrs W. J. Mahood | Baffled, implying, as of old, the return of the great French sleuth to handle things scientifically | A. Lupin (rev.) in mate2: imply = enfold (obs.); ref. Arsène L., character in novels of M. Leblanc |
| HC | T. W. Melluish | How the hands would work, given tea with a lump in—stirred! | anag. |
| HC | C. J. Morse | Cook gets out of bed in the morning the wrong way—and far from early! | up in a.m. (all rev.) + late |
| HC | B. G. Palmer | Wossat? I’m up late an’ drunk? Fiddle! | anag. |
| HC | Maj J. N. Purdon | Get to work behind time, after having got out of bed in the morning the wrong way | up in a.m. (all rev.) + late |
| HC | E. J. Rackham | What hands do in a factor—stir tea (with a lump in) | anag. |
| HC | H. Rainger | Manage to get up in the morning? Early? On the contrary! | up in a.m. (all rev.) + late |
| HC | J. B. Sweeting | La main peut faire ceci? Bien sûr! | anag. & lit. |
| HC | Miss D. W. Taylor | Manage to get up in the morning, early? No—just the reverse! | up in a.m. (all rev.) + late |
Runners-Up in competition 664: