Ximenes Competition No. 738 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 734 | 743 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 738 | Mar 1963 | ANAESTHETIC | normal | 24 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Mrs E. M. Simmonds | I can see that, mistakenly, a number of people like snow! | anag.; that which numbs; cocaine |
| Second | P. R. Clemow | I and my local types can be deduced from “caine” at the end of names | anag. incl. s, & lit.; cocaine, novocaine, etc. |
| Third | Mrs L. Jarman | A case ’neath it gets choppped up | anag. & lit. |
| HC | Dr G. B. Arrowsmith | A scene that I play with stunning theatrical effect | anag.; play = move about irregularly |
| HC | F. D. H. Atkinson | Theatre’s sensational number: frenzied scene a hit | anag. |
| HC | C. Allen Baker | Storm in a tea-chest! (That would really put one out!) | anag.; storm vb. tr. |
| HC | K. Blewett | The aces ain’t shuffled: that’ll preserve us from the dole! | anag.; dole = pain |
| HC | A. R. Chandler | Facilitates repair of bone china tea-set following breakage | anag. |
| HC | Mrs M. P. Craine | Theatre-goes are needled because of one scene that I murdered | a + anag. |
| HC | W. Darby | A scene that I altered should prevent feeling creeping in the theatre | anag. |
| HC | Mrs N. Dean | I can see that being disorderly is a way of getting oneself put out | anag. |
| HC | N. C. Dexter | This causes distraught patient’s ache quietly to melt away | anag. less p, & lit. |
| HC | J. Flood | What deadens decayed teeth as I can see | anag. & lit. |
| HC | C. P. Grant | Number one—it’s the ace: reshuffle necessary | an + anag. |
| HC | S. B. Green | Snow perhaps responsible for one main being up—it must certainly be given most of the credit | an + sea (rev.) + the tic(k); cocaine |
| HC | E. J. Griew | After this there should be nothing for the patient to feel upset at in the case | anag. & lit. |
| HC | F. G. Illingworth | A peculiar scene that I insipred in the theatre | anag. |
| HC | D. Izzard | Sin θ fully permuted denotes a number between 1 and 100 | anag. of sine theta in a, C |
| HC | F. P. N. Lake | What can soothe bad teeth as I can? | anag. |
| HC | E. O. Seymour | It is arranged that I can see a number of patients in surgery | anag. |
| HC | T. L. Strange | “I can see that needs drilling” … It’s guaranteed to unnerve you at the dentist’s! | anag. |
| HC | J. W. Taylor | I can see that, recast, it could be a knock-out in the theatre | anag. |
| HC | D. A. Tingley | I can see that getting intoxicated produces a number of sensations | anag. |
| HC | C. E. Williams | Given by operators etc. in haste—a wrong number | anag., 2 defs. |
Runners-Up in competition 738: