Cup Winning Clues in 2000
◀ 1999 | 2001 ▶ | Other years
◀ 1999 | 2001 ▶ | Other years
| Date | Clue word | Winner | Clue | Explanation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ | 1441 | Jan | Word containing MM displaced by a bug (Millennium Bug) | J. R. Tozer | Puzzle consisted of one bug after another | flummox / wasp; flu + was pox |
| AZ | 1446 | Feb | NEWSPAPERDOM | Mrs E. M. Phair | Sweep, mop, darn, set to rights – that’s the province of dailies | anag. |
| AZ | 1450 | Mar | PRETENDANT | N. C. Dexter | He’s hanging round on true-love’s threshold, perhaps | re t in pendant, & lit. |
| AZ | 1454 | Apr | GET-UP | R. Haddock | Rig: half-gelt ram? | ge(lt) + tup.; rig5 |
| AZ | 1459 | May | GREATEST (Spoonerisms) | G. Perry | Top tip nobbled at St Leger – length short | tip-top: anag. less l |
| AZ | 1463 | Jun | REVERSIONAL | A. J. Dorn | Leo arrives and Tony could be ——, playing with toy? | comp. anag. & lit: ref. Blairs |
| AZ | 1467 | Jul | CANAPÉ | D. F. Manley | First thing Cowper has paean about? | C + anag. & lit.; ref. ‘I sing the sofa’ at start of ‘The Task’ by William C. |
| AZ | 1472 | Aug | TORAN (Printer’s Devilry) | P. L. Stone | We hear Catholic call ‘Stop reven/ge, order marching through!’ | |
| AZ | 1476 | Sep | LIGNIPERDOUS | R. J. Heald | Devastating Woods – with fantastic round, Tiger slips clear of the leaders | anag. less first letters; ref. US golfer |
| AZ | 1480 | Oct | SAMARITAN | V. Dixon | A Saint Martin, cutting coat with foil or such, possibly? | anag. less tin, & lit.; ref. St M. of Tours, usually portrayed cutting his coat with a sword to give part to a man in need |
| AZ | 1485 | Nov | BOURSE / TIFOSO (Right and Left) | D. F. Manley | What we have in financial paper is an institution for business enthusiast, so I love FT inordinately | ours in be (= bill of exchange); anag. incl. 0 |
| AZ | 1489 | Dec | FRONT-BENCHER | J. R. Tozer | I’m highly political – that’s form for one involved in marches | bench for I in frontier |
| AZ | 1492 | Xmas | The year that Columbus discovered America (Anagram) | Rev Canon C. M. Broun | My caravel touched Carib shores at due time. |