Cup Winning Clues in 1945
1946 ▶ | Other years
1946 ▶ | Other years
| Date | Clue word | Winner | Clue | Explanation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | 1 | Jun | CAT-LAP | J. R. Tilley | Once round the tiles for a drink | i.e. a lap for a cat |
| X | 2 | Jul | UNSPEAK | R. R. Greenfield | Take back breathless Gerry’s Derby mount | (H)un’s peak; Peak District |
| X | 3 | Jul | STOVEPIPE | D. A. Nicholls | Burst open two hogsheads to get a draught? My hat! | stove + pipe (cask size) |
| X | 4 | Aug | CARCAKE | A. McIntyre | J’ai coupé un gâteau pour Mardi-Gras | (type of) car + cake |
| X | 5 | Aug | EDDYSTONE | S. B. Green | Jack Warner, lacking capital, is on the rocks | cryptic def.; Jack = sailor; ref. Smeaton’s partly demolished lighthouse |
| X | 6 | Sep | EGLANTINE | Mrs G. H. Garrow | Wild with prickles? Get a linen mixture! | anag. |
| X | 7 | Sep | PINCHBECK | F. G. Montgomery | Alloy, made by squeezing hard water, perhaps? | pinch beck |
| X | 8 | Sep | KINCHINMORT | H. G. Butters | An unusual child makes relations gossip a lot | kin chin mort2 |
| X | 9 | Oct | DELETE (DLM) | A. P. O’Leary | L’automne de l’ennui efface l’été de l’amour | |
| X | 10 | Oct | ACROSS | C. Allen Baker | The game is over when the French wing-halves drop out | (l)across(e) |
| X | 11 | Nov | IMMANACLE | 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 |
| X | 12 | Nov | ACERBATE | G. W. Shepherd | When a cat hops it hops to what’s left (after brewing) | anag. of a cat, beer [see comments]; hops acerbate beer |
| X | 13 | Dec | IPOMAEA | Mrs N. Jarman | I’m in the trailer with half a gun, anti-aircraft, in the middle east | I + pom(-pom) + E in AA; trailing plant |
| X | 14 | Xmas | Punning name (Punning name) | J. Blakey | Ivan Toby A. Lorne | ‘I want to be alone’, Greta Garbo |