AZED CROSSWORD 301

TROLLOPISH

1.  Rear Adm W. T. C. Ridley: This is slapdash about hair and or making up (poll or (rev.) in anag., & lit.).

2.  R. J. Hooper: Posh? Rot! – ill groomed (anag. & lit.).

3.  E. J. Burge: Disorderly characters seen in Soho trip’ll fit this description (anag. & lit.).

VHC

C. Allen Baker: Being slack in stays reduces roll to ship on the turn (anag. + anag.).

P. R. Best: What was Flanders like? Troops ill prepared … horrific! (anag. + H; old film certificate; ref. Moll F.).

Mrs F. Blanchard: Polish? Right lot needed for reforming slammerkin (anag. incl. r).

C. O. Butcher: Moving round, wiggling hips with nothing on – that’s not ladylike (troll² + 0 + anag.).

M. A. Cooper: As a pert schoolgirl, lacking elements of grace, could unfortunately become (comp. anag. & lit.).

D. M. Duckworth: Mixed up with posh lot, girl loses head… and possibly becomes this? (anag. less g, & lit.).

A. L. Freeman: What loose topless girls loth about work may be (op. in anag. less g, & lit.).

C. P. Grant: Entice, with nothing above sinuous hips – like a Jezebel, perhaps (troll + 0 + anag.).

A. A. J. Griffiths: All change in till, or shop becomes slovenly (anag.).

E. M. Hornby: Untidy roll-top is hard on pencils; push up new lead from around the middle (i.e. t to start of roll-top is H).

Mrs N. Jarman: Like any loose baggage moving round and round a tossing ship (troll² O + anag.).

A. H. Jones: Oh I’ll sport wantonly, being thus (anag.).

D. F. Manley: To saunter toplessly round with wiggling hips would surely be this ((s)troll + O + anag.).

H. W. Massingham: Fish shop busy about one – as chippies usually are (troll² + I in anag.; see chippy).

W. L. Miron: Porthos ill becomes one, being promiscuous (anag.; p. = breviary).

C. J. and R. S. Morse: The type that might make short love – not without pill (anag. incl. 0, & lit.).

F. R. Palmer: Like a pro, when Hill’s involved with sport, nothing interferes (0 in anag.; pro = prostitute; ref. Jimmy H.).

W. H. Pegram: The type a Soho trip’ll rouse? (anag. & lit.).

W. Rodgers: Hair standing on end, nothing on it, and in a ragged shirt – how like a slut (0 + poll (rev.), all in anag.).

T. E. Sanders: I have fish and chip shop to open about one. Like a bag? (troll² + I in anag.; chip = chop up).

W. J. M. Scotland: Of worn-down pro? This’ll fit (anag. incl. o’, & lit.; fit² vi).

Mrs B. Simmonds: Making up to allure the eye of customers with swaying hips (troll + o + anag., & lit.; eye = central spot).

J. G. Stubbs: The crummy bit turns up with hair on end, the liberty of going out like a slattern! (ort (rev.) + poll (rev.) + ish).

Rev C. D. Westbrook: Having left polish undone and refuse mounting up? (ort (rev.) + anag. incl. l, & lit.).

D. B. Williams: Slovenly liberal joins left in division against Scottish issue (L l in troop + ish).

M. Woolf: Posh? Rot! I’ll be damned if I am! (anag. & lit.).

HC

F. D. H. Atkinson, O. D. Barker, L. A. Best, Mrs K. Bissett, Dr J. G. Booth, R. Brain, J. C. Brash, Dr G. C. Brill, R. S. Caffyn, E. Chalkley, C. A. Clarke, G. Clyde, R. M. S. Cork, J. McI. Cruickshank, A. L. Dennis, Cdr H. H. L. Dickson, J. H. Dingwall, H. F. Dixon, P. Drummond, G. M. Emberson, J. A. Fincken, Dr I. S. Fletcher, J. D. Foster, B. Franco, P. D. Gaffey, F. D. Gardiner, Dr R. E. Gillson, N. C. Goddard, S. Goldie, A. Gould, J. J. Goulstone, J. Grainge, J. E. Green, B. Greer, J. F. Grimshaw, I. Hall, H. Hancock, A. H. Harker, D. V. Harry, E. M. Holroyd, P. Hurst, R. H. F. Isham, W. Jackson, C. L. Jones, J. R. Kirby, Dr J. F. Knott, J. H. C. Leach, D. Lewis, C. J. Lowe, P. Machin, Miss G. M. May, L. May, D. P. M. Michael, J. D. Moore, D. S. Nagle, F. E. Newlove, D. A. Nicholls, Mrs S. M. Odber, J. D. Parrish, T. L. Price, Mrs G. Rajkowska, H. L. Rhodes, M. C. C. Rich, A. Rivlin, N. Roles, G. C. Rosser, L. G. D. Sanders, Mrs E. J. Shields, W. K. M. Slimmings, M. D. Speigel, T. A. J. Spencer, F. B. Stubbs, Dr P. W. Thompson, Mrs B. Thornley, Mrs J. Townsend, L. D. Triggs, J. F. N. Wedge, R. J. Whale, G. H. Wilkins, P. J. Woods, S. E. Woods, Dr E. Young.
 

COMMENTS
Another excellent entry, exactly 500, and only a smattering of mistakes, mainly through failure to find NICHER. The cross-referencing in Chambers is by no means as thorough as it might be (as exhausted hunters for LEME at Christmas will testify!) so it’s worth looking for a word that ought to be right but doesn’t seem to be there under an entry which sounds the same or similar but is spelt differently. I confess to occasional attacks of impishness in this general area but try to be fair when entries are impossible to trace without extra help. Sometimes, of course, I genuinely need these out-of-the-way spellings.
 
I’m sorry I was slow to judge this competition. Two large batches in one week is more than I can handle (or my wife tolerate!) and I ought to have foreseen the situation in time to postpone the competition itself for a week. I enjoyed your efforts, however, and was hard put to produce a shortlist, let alone pick the winners. There was, predictably, much rolling of hips and consequently a bumper crop of ‘& lit.’ clues. I think I’ve said before that a good ‘& lit.’ is probably the neatest clue of all and I certainly notice that many of you strive hard for one almost every time. Fine – nothing wrong in that. Just remember that if the effort is very great the resulting effect is probably overstrained and less acceptable.
 
Finally (for I must be brief this month) I notice that a few of you are submitting more than one entry. I admit that the line about submitting one entry only no longer appears in the shortened ‘Rules and requests’ preamble, but I don’t really approve of the practice and shall probably reinstate it. I can imagine how multiple entries come about: a competitor thinks up two clues, likes both and can’t decide which he likes better (or which he thinks I’ll like better!) so he submits both. But what if I gave one first prize and the other second prize – imagine the protests! I know it’s perfectly possible to submit two clues and remain undetected if you really want to – friends and neighbours will always oblige – but I do prefer the competitions to be on the basis of one person, one entry. Enough said.