Clues from Ximenes Competition 817

Ximenes Competition No. 817 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 812 | 821 ▶ | Other competitions

No.	Date	Clue word	Clue type	Clues
817	Sep 1964	WYLIE-COATS	normal	22

Award	Clue writer	Clue	Explanation
First	Mrs L. Jarman	Slips over Scottish briefs? The Law Society’s shattered!	anag.
Second	Mrs B. Lewis	In these, will twa lie cosy? Will, that!	anag. & lit.: will³ = astray, Scot.
Third	Miss M. J. Patrick	Canny sounding layers of rails on Scottish sleepers	‘wily’ coats; rail⁵
VHC	A. J. Barnard	What Jock and Jenny need to make twa lie cosy	anag. & lit.
VHC	A. J. Bisset	Turn up wi’ set o’ lacy nightwear at Gretna	anag.; turn up = disturb
VHC	J. Brock	Ye’ll find twa lie cosy in these. Och aye!	anag. & lit.
VHC	J. Crowther	Wherefore play upon the pipes? (by ear). Such habits are basic to the Scots	i.e. why lick oats
VHC	Mrs Dennison	Cosily twae skeigh lassies smuggle into them	anag.; smuggle²
VHC	J. Flood	Law Society in trouble—slips up in Scotland	anag.
VHC	R. R. Greenfield	The Law Society’s disturbed by things that gae on in robing-rooms	anag.
VHC	K. J. Harding	Both law and society are disturbed by lassie’s nocturnal habits	anag.
VHC	A. J. Hughes	Nightdresses that make cosy twa lie in	anag. & lit.
VHC	A. Lawrie	Nae less than twa cosy shifts to pass the night in!	lie in anag., & lit.
VHC	J. Leece	Where Rabbie “wadna be surprised to spy,” say, two lice sprawling and sprattling	anag. & lit.; Burns, “To a Louse”
VHC	C. J. Morse	Clever sounding Shakespearean quotes: one of them comes in the sleep-walking scene from “Macbeth”	i.e. wily coats; coat²
VHC	R. A. Mostyn	Garments for Scotch lassies in bed; twa lie cosy, entwined	anag.
VHC	L. Parris	Garments wild young lassies in Edinburgh cast off at the sun’s first signs	first letters & lit.
VHC	R. Postill	What young ladies in Edinburgh cast off as they sleep? Only the forward ones!	first letters & lit.
VHC	F. B. Ramsey	I scowl at ye stravaiging in yon nighties	anag.
VHC	D. J. Short	Tae mak twa lie cosy, use these	anag. & lit.
VHC	J. R. Whitelegg	They can mak twa cosy when about to sleep!	lie in anag., & lit.
VHC	C. E. Williams	Brawly nocturnal habits of female cat—i.e. yowls horribly	anag.; brawly, Scots. adj. & adv.

HCs in competition 817 awarded to:

D. B. J. Ambler	A. E. Crow	W. Langstaff	A. R. Read
C. Allen Baker	N. C. Dexter	L. E. Lodge	Mrs R. M. Sefton
S. Barnett	F. E. Dixon	Mrs W. J. Mahood	J. A. Sever
R. T. Baxter	I. D. Doak	A. A. Malcolm	N. E. Sharp
Mrs A. L. Boorman	J. E. Dorrington	Mrs E. McFee	W. K. M. Slimmings
J. C. Brash	J. Fielding	T. W. Melluish	T. L. Strange
C. O. Butcher	Mrs N. Fisher	F. E. Newlove	P. H. Taylor
A. R. Chandler	S. Goldie	D. A. Nicholls	W. H. Thornton
R. N. Chignell	E. Gomersall	M. O’Hanlon	H. S. Tribe
A. N. Clark	C. H. Hudson	W. H. Pegram	G. R. Webb
G. H. Clarke	F. G. Illingworth	Mrs N. Perry	S. A. Wetherfield
J. Coleby	L. W. Jenkinson	D. R. Pownall	Dr R. L. Wynne