Ximenes Competition No. 185 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 184 | 186 ▶ | Other competitions
No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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185 | Jan 1952 | STOUT | normal | 21 |
Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
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First | R. Postill | When I have no head, the discriminating customer tends to sniff at me | i.e. s + tout2 or 4, & lit. |
Second | D. M. Buxton | With a big trunk it’s difficult to change. Better get a strong porter | 3 defs. |
Third | E. S. Ainley | Butler can make me a charge for glasses, but a bob to get a tonic—that’s rather thick! | s to ut1 (see tonic), 2 defs.; ref. Wm. Butler & Co.’s stout, and spectacle prescription charges, continued under R.A. Butler’s Chancellorship |
HC | P. M. Coombs | Having much to carry around in big bags, you need a strong porter | 2 mngs.; bags = trousers |
HC | L. E. Eyres | Do I stand that?, said Caesar. Yes, it was the opposite sort he couldn’t stand! | sto ut, Latin; ref. JC I.2.194, “Let me have men around me that are fat” |
HC | Mrs N. Fisher | The porter’s a chap who is after tips | ’s tout1 |
HC | J. A. Flood | The porter is astute, carrying nothing without tips | 0 in (a)stut(e) |
HC | Rev J. G. Graham | If you don’t give the porter a bob, he’ll hang about in hopes of a tip | i.e. s + tout1 |
HC | S. B. Green | This kind of porter has to do with a shilling tip | s + to + ut1, or s + tout1; do4 |
HC | C. T. Hatten | Porter wanted: should have a good head and mix well with natives | cryptic def.; ref. stout and oysters, see native (n.) |
HC | H. C. Hills | Stand out and out for strong drink—plump for it in fact! | st(and) out, 2 defs. |
HC | R. M. Mizel | The porter’s determined, but the tip giver won’t part with his shilling | i.e. s + tout1, 2 defs. |
HC | C. J. Morse | You have to give a shilling in advance to every French porter | s + tout (Fr.) |
HC | M. G. Powell-Davies | A shilling tip will have to do for the porter | s tout1 (vb.), or s to ut1; do4 |
HC | H. Rainger | A licence is needed to sell this game | 2 mngs. |
HC | T. E. Sanders | Racing spy after latest bit of news from best outsider’s stable | (new)s + tout1, hidden |
HC | W. K. M. Slimmings | The best kind of man to have round, as Caesar would say | St. + O + ut2, & lit.; ref. JC I.2.194, “Let me have men around me that are fat” |
HC | F. B. Stubbs | When Pussy was well-soaked, this porter took her in hand | cryptic def.; ref. nursery rhyme, “Ding, dong, bell, Pussy’s in the well …who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout |
HC | L. E. Thomas | A shilling tip has to do for this porter, and quite likely the mug’s content! | s tout1, or s to ut1, 2 defs.; do4 |
HC | M. Woolf | It looks black. Butler brings it home to the rich with reduced sterling allowance abroad | St. + out; ref. Wm. Butler & Co.’s stout, and R. A. Butler’s Jan 1952 proposal to reduce the travel allowance from £50 to £25 |
HC | J. T. Young | In first, out last! Good for you! | hidden; ref. slogan, “Guinness is good for you.” |
Runners-Up in competition 185: