Ximenes Competition No. 74 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 73 | 75 ▶ | Other competitions
No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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74 | Apr 1948 | DEODAR | normal | 17 |
Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
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First | C. Allen Baker | Dreadnought, going into a storm, raises cones | anag. of dread, 0: cone = weather signal, in contemporary ed. of C. |
Second | T. E. S. Jobson | Got sight of a bustle in a scarlet wrapper and reversed into a tree! | ado in red (all rev.) |
Third | Maj H. L. Carter | Spare a copper for a distressed mountain nymph seeking a shady tree! | d. + anag. of oread |
HC | W. K. Angus | One didn’t sing over the dead or decayed | anag.; ref. song ‘Under the Deodar’ |
HC | M. Cassel | After I hid in the tree I called back to Sparks | i.e. I in deodar (rev.) = radioed; Sparks = radio operator |
HC | H. Chown | Divine growth which can materialise dead or otherwise! | anag. |
HC | F. L. Constable | Dreadnought torpedoed! Radioed back one missing! A native of Coney Island? | anag. of dread 0, rad(I)oed (rev.); grows cones |
HC | W. J. Couper | Rodeo daredevil’s “lonesome pine?”—Starlit | hidden; ref. song, ‘Under the deodar, lit by the evening star’ |
HC | E. C. Double | A branch establishment for refitting a dreadnought | anag. of dread 0 |
HC | S. B. Green | An ordinary seaman, if in earnest, will not be deprived of leaves | OD in dear |
HC | W. E. Green | Genealogical table of the Gods? Spenser read the dictionary backwards for it | rad1 OED (rev.); i.e. tree of the Gods |
HC | D. Hawson | One of many branches of rodeo daring? | hidden |
HC | S. Holgate | I crashed into a tree and radioed back for assistance | i.e. I in deodar (rev.) = radioed |
HC | J. McIntosh | A dreadnought made of wood? Quite the reverse! | anag. of dread 0 |
HC | R. Postill | Dreadnought sabotaged leaving Indian ’arbour, so I ’ear | anag. of dread 0; ‘arbor’ |
HC | Miss A. C. Tatham | Disintegrated or dead, it’s still evergreen | anag. |
HC | L. E. Thomas | Fuel provider who might give a twopenny dam! | anag. of a dd roe (f. red deer) |
Runners-Up in competition 74: