XIMENES CROSSWORD No. 107

STRAMASH

1.  E. A. G. Junks (Dollar): What a shindy when one section of the band is a bar ahead of the other! (tram³ in sash; i.e. separates sections s and ash).

2.  E. J. Rackham (Totton): Riot in Dundee. Strachey seen with concealed hams for his better half? (Stra(chey) + anag. of hams; ref. Evelyn S., Min. of Food 1946-50, MP for Dundee West; meat rationing).

3.  T. Wilson (Kendal): The “Hampden roar” rises from a sea of waving arms and flying hats (anag. of arms, hats; ref. Hampden Park football ground).

H.C.

E. S. Ainley (S. Harrow): What’s Scotch to do with mother’s interrupting the stag party being taken the wrong way? (ma’s in harts (rev.)).

Maj P. S. Baines (W11): Trim in a sense may involve mortality—vide a digression in the middle volume of Tristram Shandy! ((Tri)stram Sha(ndy) with ‘a’ relocated; trim = thrash; ref. Cpl. Trim’s speech on subject of death, T.S. Vol. 5).

E. A. C. Bennett (SE21): Rabble-aisian (?) uproar fra’ Tristram Shandy wi’ a spacial insairtion ((Tri)stram Sha(ndy) with ‘a’ relocated; pun on ‘Rabelaisian’).

D. L. L. Clarke (Oxford): Scots beat Sassenach, with no means of hitting back, outside town (tram[?] in Sassenach less canes (rev.)).

J. H. Dingwall (N12): Unrest on the Clyde shows what harm Tass may cause by distortion (anag.; ‘Red Clydeside’).

A. Fenton (Oxford): Edinburgh (i.e. a din in Scottish city).

A. R. Fraser (Cambridge): Disturbance caused by gunmen in a street mix-up (RA in St mash).

P. A. Hall (Salisbury): To get to your beat from Princes St. take a tram in case (tram in sash; P. St. in Edinburgh).

P. A. Harrow (N12): Disturbance over the Border shows what harm Tass Agency can cause (anag.).

Mrs L. Jarman (Brough): Summer-time starts and the butter has melted, giving trouble to the thrifty (S-t + ram + anag. of has; ref. Scots reputation for thriftiness).

W. L. Miron (Nottingham): Is the cordon round the market place back? Yes, but there’s still a disturbance (mart (rev.), in sash).

D. G. C. Mockridge (NW3): You can see the skill required in an overhead shot facing the wrong way—perhaps MacPhail’s racket is the answer (art (rev.) in smash; ref. Donald M., Scots lawn tennis player).

A. C. Norfolk (Ely): Commotion in Aberdeen: pound given to street artist! (St RA mash).

R. Postill (Jersey): Pandemonium in Scottish train smash when coupling breaks (i.e. tra in smash).

T. E. Sanders (Walsall): What a racket there is in Scotch!—but it’s back in the window now not black market (i.e. mart (rev.) in sash; end of rationing).

P. H. Taylor (Stratford-on-Avon): Take a conveyance, just in case (N.B. Bustle!) (tram in sash; N.B. = North British).

D. L. Tuckett (N4): Street artist taken to court for creating a disturbance (St RA mash²).

J. F. N. Wedge (Sutton): “Shams!! … Art? A travesty of it!” said McMunnings. (Uproar) (anag.; ref. notorious 1949 radio broadcast by Alfred Munnings PRA, attacking modern art).

COMMENTS.—244 correct in a very accurate but not very large entry. I have nothing of interest to add this week except the list of Runners-up:—M. Anderson, A. H. Ashcroft, G. W. Bain, C. Allen Baker, Rev L. Blackburn, Rev B. Chapman, F. L. Constable, F. S. Danks, Cdr H. H. L. Dickson, Mrs Evans, P. G. W. Glare, S. B. Green, D. Hawson, R. P. Irving, C. B. Joyner, G. G. Lawrance, R. Leslie, J. P. Lloyd, Mrs B. A. Mallett, T. W. Melluish, R. Mills, C. J. Morse, C. J. Myers, J. D. P. O’Leary, Rev E. B. Peel, H. Rainger, W. O. Robertson, A. Robins, P. Roland, E. O. Seymour, E. B. Stevens, R. G. Tate, J. Thompson, H. T. R. Twyford, H. D. Wakely, E. Ward, J. E. Ward, L. C. Wright.