Ximenes Competition No. 151 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 150 | 152 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | Oct 1950 | OPEN-SESAME | normal | 20 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Mrs N. Fisher | To spread goes against the grain? Just have this, to go in and out at the right places! | open sesame; couture |
| Second | Cdr H. H. L. Dickson | The only way to defeat the slam when there is no means of entry in the hand | cryptic def.; bridge |
| Third | J. Thompson | Patent oil-producer may cause unemployment in key industry | open sesame |
| HC | E. S. Ainley | They make a charming entrée, plain sausage skins do | open + s, e + same; do3 = ditto |
| HC | C. A. Baker | Not the sort of bidding likely to result, in a grand slam | cryptic def.; bridge |
| HC | S. B. Green | ’Ee, some snap! Frame it in passe-partout! | anag.; frame = adopt |
| HC | Mrs L. Jarman | Opening speech disclosed assets: company bemoaned oil-shares going to pot | cryptic def.; ref. Ali Baba, thieves in oil jars |
| HC | G. G. Lawrance | Love, the French think, has such a charming way of laughing at locksmiths! | 0 + pense (Fr.) + same; such, same = of like kind (C.); ref. proverb “love laughs at l.” |
| HC | T. W. Melluish | This Key to the Golden Treasury by literal analysis gives a poem sense | anag.; ref. Ali Baba, Palgrave |
| HC | D. P. M. Michael | Translates into sense a poem once said to entrance! | anag. |
| HC | C. J. Morse | Passepartout, perhaps, but this one went round the world in 1,001 nights | cryptic def.; ref. valet in ‘Around the World in 80 Days’, and Arabian Nights |
| HC | F. E. Newlove | There’s nothing, the French think, like charm: it gets you anywhere! | 0 + pense (Fr.) + same |
| HC | A. P. O’Leary | Might one see spam en ragoût make an entrée for the Forty? | anag.; ref. Ali Baba, F. thieves, and F. Club |
| HC | Rev E. B. Peel | Recipe for entrée:—Take half a chop: add yolk of hen’s egg: continue as before | (ch)op + (h)en’s e(gg) + same |
| HC | E. J. Rackham | A poem with sense obscured, but gained admission to Golden Treasury | anag.; ref. Ali Baba, Palgrave |
| HC | H. Ingram Rees | The Foreword to A Golden Treasury is, in a sense, a poem review | anag., i.e. re-view; ref. Ali Baba, Palgrave |
| HC | E. O. Seymour | Opening bid which might have been followed by a take-out in Diamonds | cryptic def.; ref. Ali Baba, bridge |
| HC | W. K. M. Slimmings | Scheherazade’s charm, passée with a thousand and one blemishes! | anag. incl. M; ref. Arabian Nights; blemish vb. |
| HC | J. F. N. Wedge | Generous oil-plant combine gave free passages to travellers in oil-containers | open sesame; ref. Ali Baba, thieves in oil jars |
| HC | J. S. Young | Use this opening call if you want Diamonds and be on the look-out for a slam | cryptic def.; ref. Ali Baba, bridge |
Runners-Up in competition 151: