Ximenes Competition No. 642 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 638 | 647 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 642 | Apr 1961 | SEETHER | Printer’s Devilry | 28 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | F. D. Gardiner | “What’s in Africa?” s/es Rab (bit cut up and white). “Sauce! We’ll stick to S.A., lad!” | |
| Second | F. G. Illingworth | Can the beef, or e/at her? Painful effect o’ fasting! | |
| Third | J. D. H. Mackintosh | If ever I think of marrying Alice, N/ell begins to intoxicate me | |
| HC | J. K. Anderson | Forth isle: s/eal trouble. Is that the land? Lord knows! The property is valuable | |
| HC | P. Best | Aren’t bills always mine, as ale s/ates? On the house! The landlord pays! | |
| HC | J. A. Bulley | Next April, if there’s O’Neill at Oxford! Will/ow in Grace tradition sustained! | ref. rower taken ill in 1961 Boat Race |
| HC | C. O. Butcher | When’s a turn sin?—Viewing lasses—observer swill/ing—sex tending round it | Saturn’s |
| HC | O. B. Chedzoy | Ado, ’tis said, mor/e present. Edit by a dash! | Morse code |
| HC | Mrs M. P. Craine | Do you want ale s/ent up here? Shandy? When you can’t pay your debts! | |
| HC | Mrs D. M. D’Eath | O glory! O fun! I’ve r/eally starred. (Shelley?) | universe; ref. Shelley’s “Epipsychidion”; and S. Winters, film star |
| HC | J. Flood | In Africa s/aw constituent sought to be chopped up! | |
| HC | B. T. Gilmore | Mazda is to a Hindu as to a par/ishioner (ejected) | parsee the rishi |
| HC | R. R. Greenfield | My mate’s too drunk to stand, but I can t/otter home | |
| HC | W. Hough | “John do/es enough for three in the house,” said his loving wife when the Vicar was calling | |
| HC | A. H. Jones | You don’t know how, through a rump, a r/hinoceros got his skin then. (Re-adjust, so) | rum parsee; ‘Just So Stories’ |
| HC | M. J. Lanchester | No respectable citizen could! Fore/igner (O!) would run before the burning of Rome | the rig Nero |
| HC | A. F. Lerrigo | “And that’s the school. You can/e the boys?” “Like anything!” “Not too hard, I hope.” “Of course, it improves some.” “What?” | |
| HC | S. L. Paton | One, for a lark, began “Ave, r/eal minstrel, Hail to thee!” The other started! | ref. ‘Ode to a Skylark’ |
| HC | A. M. Shorkend | He defended well in the early rounds, but didn’t for e/ighth, and knock-out | |
| HC | W. K. M. Slimmings | I just can/ed Davis on the bottom. Cushion badly needs down! | ref. snooker champion Fred Davis |
| HC | L. H. Stewart | Tell the public en/ough customers are a nuisance | |
| HC | L. T. Stokes | Should the Aussies throw the spectators will/ow? | ref. cricket bowlers |
| HC | P. H. Taylor | To prepare, Africa s/aw me. A tough tide, ally to be beaten first | |
| HC | H. S. Tribe | Drinking with Alice n/ever ends; Iris ’as ’ad sight too many gins | Reverend, sir |
| HC | P. J. Wagstaffe | One can/e is no real deterrent for crimes of violence | |
| HC | J. Walters | I think Ruby may resist—oop!—a s/ag! Eat one time! | passée, the rage; Ruby M. Ayres, novelist |
| HC | G. H. Willett | Puritans would never allow Alice. N/ight—too penal ways | |
| HC | C. E. Williams | You need a Sepoy too, ver/y ’ot work men! | ryot = peasant |
Runners-Up in competition 642: