◀ No. 178 | 7 Sep 1975 | Clue list | No. 187 ▶ |
AZED CROSSWORD 183
PICKLE
1. N. C. Goddard: Pinch and scrape (2 mngs.).
2. D. F. Manley: Kleptomaniac: A man to —— indiscriminately? (comp. anag. & lit.).
3. Dr G. B. Greer: Apply solution to poor Jack’s plight? (2 mngs. & lit.; ref. naval punishment, Jack and Jill).
VHC
F. D. H. Atkinson: Spare rod: you’ll find me – in here (2 mngs. & lit.; spoilt child; rod in pickle (qv)).
A. G. Bogie: Could kleptomaniac be a man to ——? Yes indeed (comp. anag. & lit.).
R. S. Caffyn: Tiresome child gives outrageous lip and cheek – he’ll have to go! (anag. less he).
E. Chalkley: Copper locking one big brute up in nick (I in PC + elk (rev.)).
P. R. Clemow: Wherein a rod may be immersed prior to tinning (or tanning) (2 mngs.; rod in pickle (qv)).
R. Dean: Insufferable brat – a little prig! (2 mngs.; prig3).
A. L. Dennis: Could be a wee mite plastered – knocking out a copper (pickle(d)).
J. A. Fincken: For piquantly improving cold kitchen lunches etc., it’s the tops (initial letters & lit.).
B. Franco: See little monkey, when k’s left inside little money (k l in pice).
S. Goldie: What’s fished for with a runcible spoon, nickel-plated, and let away embarrassingly? (comp. anag.).
J. J. Goulstone: A man, to pilfer thus, could be kleptomaniac (comp. anag. & lit.).
D. V. Harry: E.g. sauerkraut (sour cabbage) (3 mngs.; sour = treat with dilute acid; cabbage2).
W. Jackson: Morsel best left on side of plate (pick l + e).
Mrs N. Jarman: A rude postcard like this shows reward of dipping in the briny – a nasty nipper (anag. incl. PC, 2 defs.).
A. Lawrie: For preserve try a wee drop of jam (3 mngs.).
D. P. M. Michael: Arrow-head hung round about back of neck to punish Ancient Mariner (c. k in pile).
A. C. Morrison: In this difficult situation save or consume sparingly what little there is (4 mngs.).
C. J. Morse: Brat in distress having to eat a little cabbage (4 mngs.; cabbage2).
E. Newlove: ‘Mousetrap’ to finish? I’d relish that. Season of Shakespeare instead? (2 mngs.; cheese and p.; season vb.).
R. J. Palmer: Liquid used for cleaning a troublesome child – hot water? (3 mngs.).
P. S. Peters: Kleptomaniac is a man needing to —— uncontrollably, perhaps (comp. anag. & lit.).
Rear Adm W. T. C. Ridley: Put down, down, about half of Hock – it’ll get you nearly sloshed ((Ho)ck in pile3, pickle(d); put down = pickle).
G. Snowden-Davies: Stew? Take a wee bit of salt to taste (4 mngs.).
F. B. Stubbs: Salt cabbage? A wee bit for the little monkey to nibble (5 mngs.; cabbage2).
J. F. N. Wedge: Initially put in chemical, keeps long enough (initial letters & lit.).
Rev C. D. Westbrook: Cull long before beginning to eat this (pick + l + e, & lit.).
HC
E. Akenhead, T. Anderson, Col P. S. Baines, Miss J. Bannerman, T. E. Bell, Mrs K. Bissett, W. Boagey, S. H. Brooke, E. J. Burge, E. W. Burton, C. O. Butcher, D. P. Chappell, M. Coates, Mrs M. P. Craine, D. M. Duckworth, G. Farrington, Rev S. W. Floyd, S. A. Fortey, F. D. Gardiner, R. B. Harling, E. J. Holmes, J. G. Hull, G. Johnstone, J. R. Kirby, Mrs E. P. Lawrence, J. H. C. Leach, P. W. W. Leach, J. S. Leishman, J. I. Mason, L. May, Dr E. J. Miller, C. G. Millin, W. L. Miron, D. S. Nagle, D. B. Oaten, L. W. G. Oxley, F. R. Palmer, T. E. Sanders, W. Scotland, W. K. M. Slimmings, T. A. J. Spencer, J. B. Sweeting, Miss O. R. Taylor, L. E. Thomas, P. C. Thornton, G. H. Willett, C. E. Williams.
Comments
About 400 entries, a handful showing CROCK for CRUCK but otherwise all correct. Pride of place must go to my Ely blunder. How can I have thought it was in Essex? Same initial perhaps. I really thought I’d checked it, particularly after the reference to my appalling geography in an earlier slip. This was a puzzle composed when I had my knee trouble so possibly I didn’t have an atlas to hand at the time. Nevertheless as (I tremble to admit) a Cambridge graduate I should have known anyway. Those of you who ribbed me about it did so with undeserved good humour and gentleness. One fine poetic example deserves quoting in full:
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