Ximenes Competition No. 712 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 708 | 717 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 712 | Sep 1962 | RHEUMATICKY | normal | 23 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Mrs J. Thomas | Shifting mucky earth I get painfully stiff | anag. |
| Second | W. K. M. Slimmings | Far from athletic, yet makes a mark in running | a tick in rheumy |
| Third | J. D. H. Mackintosh | Externally free from cramp, we hear, but internally there’s a throbbing. Muscle-bound, perhaps? | a tick in ‘roomy’ |
| HC | F. D. H. Atkinson | Characteristic of most second-rate joints—getting snotty about a deferred payment | a tick in rheumy |
| HC | C. O. Butcher | Semi-humans will get with it and do the twist with creaky and painfully stiff results | anag. of hum(ans) it creaky |
| HC | Dr J. W. Crowther | Sounds spacious in the top room? On the contrary, it’s painfully cramped | i.e. ‘attic’ in ‘roomy’ |
| HC | Brig W. E. Duncan | A never-ending cold with a moment in my suffering when every limb aches | rheu(m) + a tick in my |
| HC | J. H. Eyre | It’s the booze, what! back inside a second year and in trouble with the screws | eh! (rev.) in rum + a tick y; screw = broken-winded horse |
| HC | K. Gibson | Liable to suffer from the cold and dampness swirling in the mucky air | anag. |
| HC | S. Goldie | Stiff hiker may cut rambling | anag. |
| HC | E. Gomersall | With joints that ache and creak with humidity, I’d cut out swimming | anag. less I’d |
| HC | S. B. Green | Attic room sounds preposterous—a year on end of it could make you this! | ‘room attic’ + y, & lit. |
| HC | A. J. Hughes | With catarrh the throb inside certainly is painful | rheum + tick in ay |
| HC | F. G. Illingworth | Rhubarb, a second year? That’s not what the keen gardener wants to grow! | Rheum a tick y |
| HC | A. H. Jones | Be I once free of thicky uremia, dang it, then I be stiff in the joints! | anag. less one I |
| HC | A. Lawrie | Hiker may cut rambling—wanting easy movement in a motor? | anag.; motor = muscle |
| HC | Mrs E. McFee | Having stiffness in limbs? Achy? Um—trike could provide the answer | anag. |
| HC | T. W. Melluish | Having a stiff peg to disperse the mucky air? | anag.; peg = leg |
| HC | C. J. Morse | What’s uncomfortable about the joint? It sounds positively spacious with the top storey included | ‘attic’ in ‘roomy’ |
| HC | A. Robins | What makes the air mucky? The sort of weather we so often get! | anag. |
| HC | R. J. Steel | Having painfully affected articulation—class symbol in word-forming—swanky too; but doesn’t get the bird | U in rhematic + (swan)ky |
| HC | J. W. Taylor | This kind of joint isn’t healthy—the mucky air needs changing | anag. |
| HC | L. E. Thomas | It’s true I’m achy, out of sorts. Knee’s beginning to get involved too! | k in anag |
Runners-Up in competition 712: