Cup Winning Clues in 1975
◀ 1974 | 1976 ▶ | Other years
◀ 1974 | 1976 ▶ | Other years
| Date | Clue word | Winner | Clue | Explanation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ | 148 | Jan | BALLYHOO | R. J. Palmer | Bouncer? Brute unleashing one produces a storm of publicity | ball y(a)hoo |
| AZ | 152 | Feb | ENAMORADO / ESCLANDRE (Right and Left) | R. J. Palmer | He’s flighty and a Romeo – this ill-repute getting read about could give a bird’s family great worry | anag. & lit.; (re)e’s clan dre(ad) |
| AZ | 156 | Mar | OMBROPHOBOUS | J. R. Kirby | A wayfarer going into a desolate moor pub’s unlikely to want water! | hobo in anag. |
| AZ | 161 | Apr | ANCON | C. G. Millin | I’ve got four short legs: one must get caught that side | an c on; on = leg side |
| AZ | 165 | May | Lance, pompano, bonito, porbeagle, thornback, menhaden, albacore, huso (Anagram) | B. Greer | People can catch ‘em, hook ‘em, one and all, using a net, bob, barb, or harpoon | |
| AZ | 169 | Jun | THUGGEE | W. L. Miron | What the strangling mugger, recognising no limits, might demonstrate | (m)ugge(r) in the, & lit. |
| AZ | 174 | Jul | EPEOLATRY | M. Woolf | With parole yet to be arranged, could this mean serving whole sentences? | anag.; serve = worship |
| AZ | 178 | Aug | A(U)G(U)ST (Letters Latent) | A. J. Crow | ‘In ——’ (Cuckoo sang it) ‘go I must’ | comp anag., & lit.; ref. old rhyme |
| AZ | 183 | Sep | PICKLE | N. C. Goddard | Pinch and scrape | 2 mngs. |
| AZ | 187 | Oct | POWDERING-TUB | D. V. Harry | ‘God, I burn!’ wept rakes in this | anag. & lit.; rake4 |
| AZ | 190 | Nov | CASSANDRA | C. O. Butcher | One having prior dope and held in little credit | ass and in cr. + a, & lit. |
| AZ | 195 | Dec | SHILLY-SHALLY | F. D. Gardiner | Scanty clothing producing evil gibe about every wobble! | ill in shy1 + all in shy2, & lit. |
| AZ | 197 | Xmas | CAMERA (Printer’s Devilry) | J. B. Sweeting | I translated: ‘The gall i/s bitter’ | ‘amer’ |