Ximenes Competition No. 83 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 82 | 84 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | Aug 1948 | BUDAPEST | normal | 18 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | J. D. P. O’Leary | City partners, using different banks, begin to grow a nuisance | bud a pest; ref. Buda and Pest on Danube |
| Second | Mrs L. Jarman | Shares close at varying levels in the city—B.A.T.s up, E. Rand extremely irregular | anag. incl. (Ran)d; ref. Buda (hilly) and Pest (flat); ref. Brit. Am. Tobacco, E. Rand mining co. |
| Third | D. C. Shute | Presidential intervention in U.S.A. debt agitation provides capital for Europe | P in anag.; ref. Marshall Plan, etc. |
| HC | Mrs F. Begg | It is quite in order to shoot an undesirable with base designs on the banks | bud a pest; banks of Danube |
| HC | A. E. Brookes | Is big this? Yes, but the current on which it appears is not, we think, exclusively red | cryptic def.; ref. big-bud, a pest of currants; Blue Danube; communist rule in Hungary |
| HC | F. L. Constable | City youngster gets copy for The Street | bud ape St; Fleet St. |
| HC | P. M. Coombs | I should make the spade but my bridge, Elizabeth, is not the sort you play in Hungary | anag.; ref. Elisabeth (Erzsébet) bridge in B. |
| HC | C. Higham | It’s capital on a river to shoot the mingled flood-rapids! | bud + anag. of spate |
| HC | J. P. Lloyd | Where people are familiar with hammer and sickle, but apt to mishandle a spade | anag. in but; ref. communist rule in Hungary |
| HC | R. C. Macfarlane | Capital spot, but colonised by hundreds of monkeys | D apes in but |
| HC | A. R. McInroy | You might make it by finessing a spade but guard against the Vienna Coup: East is well protected! | anag.; ref. tactic in bridge; Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| HC | B. Murray | Badly damaged in the war, but spade-work may restore it | anag. |
| HC | P. M. Newey | Document lately obsolete, ends a da—— nuisance, but altogether leaves one in a more than hungry state | BU (bread unit coupon) da pest; a in hungry = Hungary; ref. end of bread rationing, July 1948 |
| HC | Rev E. B. Peel | A plague on the Budget! Get going! Capital seized by Communists! | bud(get) + a pest; ref. communist rule in Hungary and socialist Govt. in UK |
| HC | G. H. Podmore | Hungry? If you can get a fill, capital! | cryptic def.; a in hungry = Hungary |
| HC | R. Postill | City connected with blue flower. You may find flower to be a nuisance! | bud (flower-to-be) + a pest; ref. Blue Danube; flow-er |
| HC | P. H. Taylor | Capital ingredients can make a superlatively good “pud”! | anag. of a best pud |
| HC | J. Walton | On the Danube, drop the bait gently in the bluest part. Out comes a pound but not necessarily of fish! | dap1 in bluest less L |
Runners-Up in competition 83: