Ximenes Competition No. 21 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 20 | 22 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Mar 1946 | BODEGA | normal | 16 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | W. Rennie | Good pull-up for Carmen | cryptic def.; i.e. car men, roadside tavern |
| Second | C. R. Malcolm | Old Obadiah gets the Hispano saloon into reverse | aged Ob (rev.); make of car |
| Third | T. E. Sanders | When the temperature’s zero in Buenos Aires it’s a draughty place | 0 deg in BA; draught = drink |
| HC | R. R. Broome | Here you may find Bacchus and be a god | anag. |
| HC | Mrs M. B. Caithness | The seaman feeling an inward chill turns back into the pub | 0 deg in AB (rev.) |
| HC | Mrs L. Jarman | Shall we close up the port end of the wine-shop? Let’s put it to the General Assembly | bode GA |
| HC | R. C. Macfarlane | Confused swine hop it from abode Gadarene | hidden; i.e. wine-shop |
| HC | Mrs Magruder | Begad! Nothing’s to be found here, as the customer said, surveying his wine-merchant’s blitzed premises | anag. incl. 0 |
| HC | D. S. Milford | When it’s vintry, aged bodies are out of sorts (dies non!) | anag. less dies; pun on ‘wintry’ |
| HC | F. E. Newlove | Half the bodies that start a wine-shop finish penniless, egad! | bod(ies) ega(d) |
| HC | F. H. Oliver | Where’s George? Gone to the bad! You’ll find him in the wine-shop, very sozzled! | anag. of Geo. bad |
| HC | W. O. Robertson | An old Old Boy comes back, but the Tuck Shop is not the same | aged OB (rev.) |
| HC | C. Hammond Smith | It sounds like an attempt to frighten a French painter out of a pub | ‘bo! Degas’ |
| HC | J. C. W. Springbett | A vintry perhaps that sounds as though the bounce has been taken out of Franco’s bodyguard | i.e. ‘bodygua’(R/D); bounce = dud cheque |
| HC | R. W. E. Stickings | Where would you find the old, old Blue on Boat Race Night? Back in the wine-shop, of course | aged OB (rev.) |
| HC | Lt Col N. H. L. Watts | Mr. Agate’s reminiscences get badly mixed in the wine-shop | anag. of Ego bad; ref. J. E. Agate’s “Ego” |
No Runners-Up in competition 21