Cup Winning Clues in 2001
◀ 2000 | 2002 ▶ | Other years
◀ 2000 | 2002 ▶ | Other years
| Date | Clue word | Winner | Clue | Explanation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ | 1494 | Jan | MARATHON | J. R. Beresford | Licking for Persians is a prolonged exercise | 2 mngs.; ref. cats and battle |
| AZ | 1500 | Feb | GIT (on board ship) (Ship of Fools) | P. F. Henderson | Reason running short aboard hoy! | SLOGITOP; logi(c) in stop! |
| AZ | 1502 | Mar | RAPPEL | C. R. Gumbrell | What’s given by drum if end of truce is approved? | app. for e in reel, & lit. |
| AZ | 1506 | Apr | BARE(-)BONES | N. G. Shippobotham | Obese? Bran flakes for the slimmest outline! | anag. |
| AZ | 1511 | May | DEEP-SEATED | R. K. Lumsdon | Old fencing épées, boxed set | anag. in dated; box = mix |
| AZ | 1515 | Jun | SNIDE | C. G. Millin | Nasty innuendos could be this – also noun | comp. anag. & lit. |
| AZ | 1519 | Jul | CARRY-ON | C. J. Morse | Wild love affair like this could give you coronary | anag. incl. 0, & lit. |
| AZ | 1524 | Aug | INGRATITUDE | G. H. Willett | Guttering laid badly, leads missing – sin of omission of roofer? | anag. less first letters; roofer = thank-you letter |
| AZ | 1528 | Sep | STROP (Spoonerisms) | R. J. Heald | Top performer starved of acting work would make Caine bleed | keen blade; st(a)r op; ref. Michael C. |
| AZ | 1533 | Oct | MASTER-MARINER | Dr J. Burscough | Capsizing trawler’s last tar remains – me? | anag. incl r, & lit.; ref. captain going down with his ship |
| AZ | 1537 | Nov | CAFTAN | N. C. Dexter | Dress with not much leg showing – in fact possibly just a pair of ankles | anag. + an, & lit. |
| AZ | 1541 | Dec | CHUPRASSY | P. W. Marlow | Page, say? Such works acquiring rupees | r in anag. incl. p, & lit. |
| AZ | 1544 | Xmas | PATROL (with jumble of RAPTORES) (Christmas Devilry) | R. J. Hooper | Castro perhaps in troop making entrance after complete internal revolution | portal with inside letters reversed |