Cup Winning Clues in 1953

Cup Winning Clues in 1953
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		Date	Clue word	Winner	Clue	Explanation
X	213	Jan	LEMONADE	R. Postill	Article in French paper shows what people will swallow from the yellow press!	a in Le Monde; see y.p. in C.
X	215	Jan	BUCKFASTLEIGH	T. W. Melluish	An order of black hue, given gifts, here reconstructed	anag. & lit.; B. Abbey (reconstructed post 1882), Benedictines “black monks”
X	217	Feb	DEPOSIT	J. A. Fincken	One means of making a dope refrain from standing	anag. + sit, & lit.; i.e. candidate’s election d.
X	219	Feb	SOCIALIST	Mrs N. Jarman	Disliking “blue” performances, I give monologues from Winnie the Pooh	cryptic def.; i.e. I pooh-pooh Churchill’s speeches
X	221	Mar	BUNTHORNE	P. A. Drillien	Pooh Bah expressed his sentiments—“Come here, little girls”	i.e. expressing disappointment; ‘So go to him’ and ‘When I go out of door’, and Mikado
X	223	Mar	MELODRAME	F. E. Newlove	Popular play with surprise ending—the lost earldom comes to ME!	anag. + me, & lit.; i.e. not melodraMA
X	225	Mar	TOUCHSTONES	C. J. Morse	Basanites: a tribe of fools, said to use their bulls as stalking-horses!	2 mngs; AYLI V:4:112, T. “uses his folly as a s.-h.”; cf. Psalm 22.12 “bulls of Bas(h)an” [see comments]
X	227	Apr	CATEGORIES	J. S. Young	Chancellor is eager to content all classes	C + anag.; content, noun
X	229	Apr	MASCOT	C. Allen Baker	Up in the morning with the sun and early bed is said to bring good fortune	a.m. (rev.) + S + cot
X	231	May	PREAMBLE	J. A. Fincken	Page after page after page before the blessed start!	p + ream + ble(ssed), & lit.
X	233	May	SAWDUST	C. Allen Baker	Spotted duff—that‘s the stuff for stuffing!	saw dust; duff¹ = coal dust
X	235	Jun	ASPHETERISM	C. J. Morse	In which the State’s end is to reorganise all mastership around itself	e in anag., & lit.
X	237	Jun	BASTINADE	H. S. Tribe	Lashings of toddlers? Well, you could have abstained from it	anag.; toddler = foot
X	239	Jul	GENISTA (Printer’s Devilry)	J. A. Maxtone Graham	“How démodé,” reflected I: “Mo/le, a garment out of fashion”	Imogen; ref. Cymbeline III.4, “Poor I am, stale, a garment …”
X	241	Jul	MANDOLINE	G. H. Willett	It rouses a song and dance, this race swindle with a telephone-cable	man do line; Bath racecourse swindle of 16 July 1953 involved cutting of cable
X	243	Aug	LODESTAR	C. E. Gates	Leader of the Magi, subtly portrayed by del Sarto	anag.; ref. Andrea d. S., Renaissance painter
X	245	Aug	GLAMOUR / SOPRANO (Right and Left)	J. Hardie Keir	Top-line artiste uses “no soap” recipe for make-up—it entails only a very short time in a mud-pack	anag. incl. r; mo in glaur
X	247	Aug	VAMPIRE	F. L. Usher	Stoker’s nightmare: having to improvise a fire—and nothing to start it with!	vamp (f)ire; ref. Bram S., Dracula
X	249	Sep	BALM	E. L. Mellersh	Old console—for a hand-blown organ	cryptic def.; balm (vb.) = soothe; i.e. for the nose
X	251	Sep	UNMETHODICAL	Cdr H. H. L. Dickson	All over the place, though not like a doctor doing the rounds	tho’ in unmedical, & lit.
X	253	Oct	DERATION	D. A. Nicholls	Abandon the cut-aways and cross-overs of standard pattern books—try a neat Dior creation!	anag.; ref. ration books and coupons
X	255	Oct	SCUTTLE	W. K. M. Slimmings	Where you may see All Blacks do in ebullient Celts. (Wales will be sunk if you do!)	ut in anag., 2 defs.; do² = ut¹; wales = ship’s planks; ref. coal and NZ rugby tour 1953
X	257	Nov	PYROTECHNICS (Straight Clue)	V. F. Dixon	Very light and flash display, out of place on the Third	Very light = flare; BBC Third Programme; 3rd Nov
X	259	Nov	AGANIPPE	D. P. M. Michael	What eases the strain and restores pep again? Spring	anag., 2 defs.; strain¹ = flow of language
X	261	Dec	DECANTER	C. Allen Baker	The cause of somewhat unintelligible talk in a stag-party?	cant¹ in deer, & lit.
X	263	Xmas	We think so then and we thought so still! (Anagram)	Brig W. E. Duncan	That Owl, winking, hoots: “He! He! Ted L.’s nuts!”	Ted L. = Edward Lear