Ximenes Competition No. 11 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 10 | 12 ▶ | Other competitions
No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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11 | Nov 1945 | IMMANACLE | normal | 16 |
Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
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First | H. J. Cape | “Put away the leaven of malice and wickedness,” says the Collect, and surely man is wickedness | anag. of malice, man; put away = confine |
Second | C. Koop | “Put on Bill Bowes!” That’s a sound suggestion | i.e. sound of ‘bilboes’; cricketer |
Third | F. Luther | To ruffle a calm mien apply the handcuffs | anag. |
HC | D. J. Allen | What Clem may do to you when he has mania | anag. of Clem mania; Clement Attlee |
HC | P. J. Chubb | Milton’s chaputins? Ciel maman! | anag.; i.e. put in chains |
HC | Maj A. J. Douch | Put de bracelets on dat melanic ma ob mine | anag. |
HC | Maj H. B. Drake | Close as a decomposed clam in a thoroughly ruffled state, that’s me | anag. of clam Maine (Me); close vb. |
HC | L. E. Eyres | How to confine Cpl. Rind to barracks? | cryptic def.; ref. Milton, ‘Comus’: “this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled” |
HC | S. B. Green | Mean claim to crib used by Milton | anag.; crib = confine |
HC | Maj J. J. Hilary | Claim the last word, would you? Shut up! | anag. of claim amen |
HC | E. H. Morris | Milton’s gyve can be twisted to maim ancle | anag. |
HC | A. P. O’Leary | Give both hands to hold a catch | cryptic def.; give = gyve, vb. |
HC | W. O. Robertson | Give? It may sound all right to you, but remember I’m a McLean | anag. of I’m a McLean; give = gyve, vb. |
HC | I. W. Seaton | Close up like an oyster? Well, possible I mean clam | anag. |
HC | J. C. Seddon | Preserve a calm mien, though put in fetters | anag. |
HC | B. K. N. Wyllie | Uncommonly huge envelope for a hundred and fifty letters | a C L in immane |
No Runners-Up in competition 11