XIMENES CROSSWORD No. 347

TELEVISOR

1.  P. W. W. Leach: Without me a brilliant atmospheric phenomenon lies outside the range of your various lives (anag. in (me)teor, & lit.).

2.  J. S. Young: There’s evil in store if it’s abused! (anag. & lit.).

3.  Miss N. F. Wallis: If you want a receiver of pictures, look for an old Jew in a derelict store (Levi in anag.).

H.C.

Dr S. H. Atkins: Nearly discern English peak in America? You might, on this! (tel(l) E visor, & lit.).

C. Allen Baker: I divert the lot I serve (anag. & lit.).

C. O. Butcher: It isn’t half elevating to sit back without—or with it (all depending on how you look at it) (elev(ating) in sit (rev.) + or, & lit.).

Mrs D. M. D’Eath: Seeing there are so many people, the Tube’s necessary—yet it’s lit ever so badly! (anag.).

M. S. Y. Fowler: Strange love rites can he observed in quite respectable suburban villas (anag.).

J. G. Hull: You must get this set or live unfashionably (anag. & lit.).

E. G. Illingworth: With this one may see a headless Panel on the screen! ((s)tele + visor, & lit.).

F. G. Illingworth: It helps lame hostess over stile, possibly (anag. & lit.; T.V. hostess; stile³).

Lt Cdr E. S. Irvine: Ancient Jew who left the country—found in dubious store—undoubtedly a receiver! (Levi in anag.; Exodus I.1).

G. G. Lawrance: I produce abbreviated tableaux vivants—or else I break down! (anag. incl. t.v., & lit.; see “tableau” in C.).

D. P. M. Michael: Here far-fetched lights appear and tie solver in knots! (anag.).

J. J. Moore: Where we watched the downfall of Revie’s lot (anag. & lit.; ref. 1955 FA cup final, Don Revie’s Man. City losing 3-1 to Newcastle).

P. H. Morgan: It’s bringing home to people the widespread view: disturbingly servile to this one can become (anag. & lit.).

C. J. Morse: Live set—or showing movement, anyway (anag. & lit.).

E. J. Rackham: Brings the politician to the home, and confuses the voter with lies (anag. & lit.).

Rev E. G. Riley: Fluttering veils, nothing on, three times round—must have a screen (anag. of veils + O in ter).

T. E. Sanders: Console in case there’s a shower—or this may (3 defs. & lit.).

F. B. Stubbs: Independent vote riles modern Home Ruler (anag.).

M. Winterbottom: You’d better get a —— adapted if you want I.T.A. revels about the beginning of October! (O in anag. + a & lit.; ref. launch of ITA 22 Sept. 1955).

I. Young: With a wire snapped in half, a false picture is received by it (tele(gram),visor, & lit.; visor = means of disguise).

RUNNERS-UP

D. B. J. Ambler, F. D. H. Atkinson, Maj P. S. Baines, A. G. Barton, E. A. Beaulah, M. H. Benoliel, Mrs G. Bonsall, J. Brock, V. E. Brooke, R. S. Caffyn, M. Cassel, P. M. Coombs, Cdr H. H. L. Dickson, F. E. Dixon, Mrs W. Fearon, Mrs N. Fisher, Mrs J. O. Fuller, A. B. Gardner, C. E. Gates, L. R. Huxtable, Sir R. Ivelaw-Chapman, L. Johnson, Very Rev N. M. Kennaby, M. A. Lassman, A. D. Legge, A. F. Lerrigo, J. D. Lockett, C. J. Lowe, R. C. Macfarlane, J. I. Mason, B. J. McCann, J. G. Milner, D. A. Nicholls, E. G. Phillips, E. R. Prentice, J. H. Quincey, G. H. Ravenor, A. Robins, C. Rosebourne, P. H. Rowley, Mrs Sainsbury, O. Carlton Smith, Mrs A. L. Stevenson, L. T. Stokes, Brig R. F. E. Stoney, J. A. L. Sturrock, Miss D. W. Taylor, D. G. Thomas, F. L. Usher, R. A. Walker, T. G. Wellman.
 

COMMENTS—312 entries, 289 correct—an accurate entry with a wide variety of good clues, the “anag. & lit.” type predominating. In view of its predominance in the list above, it may be well to warn competitors against trying this sort every time; it doesn’t suit every word as well as it happens to suit this one.
 
I will again quote a few unsuccessful clues in the hope of being helpful. The obvious indirect anagram still turns up, presumably sent by competitors who did not send for last month’s slip. “Trouble in the district” (leet) and “various clergy” (Levites) are almost certainly useless to a solver as part of a subsidiary clue: they offer far too many alternatives. A subsidiary clue is a waste of words unless it is likely to help a solver: in both these cases the solver would be most unlikely to use it, though he might understand it after he had got the answer. Inaccurate syntax, or putting it another way, not saying what you mean, is also still fairly common. “When you resolve it into parts” does not indicate an anagram of “resolve it”: the words “when you” are superfluous or else one must read it as “when you resolve resolve it,” which one cannot do unless one is clearly told to do so! “The clue will tie solver into knots” is another example of the same thing. Extreme obscurity is not now very common, but this was a real champion:—“Cabbalistic? No doubt, but no Scottish broadcast will appear here in England!” “Notes:—literal and anagram—B.B.C., I.T.A., scail (Scot = disperse, scatter).” To put it mildly, it would take a good solver to get “televisor” out of that! But the general standard continues to rise, I think: at any rate this … [final lines of slip missing].