Cup Winning Clues in 2009
◀ 2008 | 2010 ▶ | Other years
◀ 2008 | 2010 ▶ | Other years
| Date | Clue word | Winner | Clue | Explanation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ | 1910 | Jan | BARPERSON | R. C. Teuton | This one may serve beers with apron on | comp. anag. & lit. |
| AZ | 1914 | Feb | VE(S)TAL (Letters Latent) | R. C. Teuton | —— chose career in chaste love | comp. anag. & lit. |
| AZ | 1918 | Mar | PALAMPORE | D. F. Manley | Spread – array of two pages or a meal? | anag. incl. p, p |
| AZ | 1923 | Apr | ELLIPTIC | R. J. Heald | Describing a two-dimensional shape explicitly involved axes x and y | anag. less x, y |
| AZ | 1927 | May | TONSURE (Spoonerisms) | J. C. Leyland | Yield from our nets hit by erratic harbour’s trade? | hieratic barber’s; anag. |
| AZ | 1932 | Jun | NINE-TO-FIVE | R. J. Heald | Occupying such positions you’ll see memos from tiresome managers! | i.e. hidden rev. at positions 9 to 5, & lit. |
| AZ | 1936 | Jul | LITMUS TEST | R. C. Teuton | A ——’s blue? It must tell us base is dissolved | comp. anag. & lit. |
| AZ | 1940 | Aug | SCANT def. SNEAP (Wrong Number) | P. F. Henderson | Reduce boob in first stages of cosmetic surgery (nip and tuck) | nip; anag. of first letters; boob vt. |
| AZ | 1945 | Sep | PRISON | I. Simpson | Centre for keeping crooked characters in irons? | p + anag., & lit. |
| AZ | 1949 | Oct | PALFRENIER | C. J. Brougham | I might have curried trotter (plainer English cooking frequently bores) | fr. in anag. incl. E; curry2 |
| AZ | 1953 | Nov | TRAUMA (misprint of T) (Misprints) | M. A. Macdonald-Cooper | Hears of distraught mother’s emotional shock | heart; (dis)trau(ght) + ma |
| AZ | 1958 | Dec | HANGDOG | R. J. Hooper | It’s looking like a wet weekend with chill to follow | hang + dog |
| AZ | 1960 | Xmas | NGANA (3 defs + letter mixture) (Parcels) | R. J. Whale | Getting mad cow disease, broken down Jersey in gaga-land! | RAGING ANALYSED |