◀  No. 586 Clue list 1 May 1960 Slip image No. 595  ▶

XIMENES CROSSWORD No. 590

STATANT (Printer’s Devilry)

1.  C. Allen Baker: Cleopatra was dazed and lo/ony, shaving. Come to! Hi! Send on a blade!

2.  H. Rotter: I was lucky to be on the fir/e-post: odd Stens (H.E.) later shot down a last of ours (ante post odds: tens … alas to fours).

3.  J. R. Scarr: In Montmartre—your aunti/e—his son—illicit union—liaison! (French vocab., ‘ta tante’, ‘son’, ‘liaison’).

H.C.

D. B. J. Ambler: There’s lemonade for abstainers, for the re/al us!

F. D. H. Atkinson: At the radiance of the bride male eyes looked sunny, but female eyes looked mo/ony (Princess Margaret’s wedding).

Capt A. S. Birt: Eve, re/alising life-long ambition to hunt, was overcome by huntsmen (Hunt’s Everest expedition).

G. H. Dickson: I bought this old Bu/ick, shopped early, and was taken for a ride (antick shoppe).

F. D. Gardiner: It’s not re/alising—even in gin her company’s hell—get you (tantalising evening).

Mrs M. Henderson: So men un/ique look in glacé, under the watchful eyes of them others—superior! (nuns tat … mothers superior).

Lt M. J. Hickman: Was Eve re/alising ambition? As her Pa might say, “Yes!” (a Sherpa; ref. Hunt’s Everest expedition).

C. H. Hudson: Pimply midshipman got before the Ma/hatma—despots much less obvious (a tan that made spots).

V. Jennings: If you want to, boa/r, eat your skin with oil—and lo! a fat, black pool!

A. H. Jones: Forgiving your Pa—leche/ry! lying!—on your back in “The Sun.”

G. G. Lawrance: The child’s full of ze/rumbet. Ray’s no need for a psychiatrist! (betrays).

Dr T. J. R. Maguire: To fights in U.S., it is a special I./R.A. should be called in (sinusitis … antra).

W. L. Miron: Dominant Eve, re/alising objective, hunts among the successful: as her Pa also! (Everest, Hunt, Sherpa).

C. J. Morse: Ximenes makes our so-called Sunday, re/alising torment solvers feel.

F. E. Newlove: Mother’s be/en at a lad—vice, naturally! (antenatal).

D. E. Newman: For years I lived there without re/alising Whistler lived next door!

R. Postill: Ahmed cried in Paradise: “Hi!/ Ali Singh! Our idea, this bliss? (hist, a tantalising Houri. Death…).

E. J. Rackham: The Princess glances occasionally at the crowds, but looks mo/ony (Princess Margaret’s wedding).

Mrs F. Shepherd: Musician welcomed fir/e-room was cold. Lyre placed later in orchestra (coldly replaced).

W. Steinberg: The State could be appropriate to a/id. Is Establishment gathering to further this cause? (toast at antidisestablishment).

Mrs J. Thomas: Though trade elsewhere has been lo/wer, palace industry still flourishes (Antwerp lace).

R. Wilson: Choirboy enjoying a rep. (a/hem), time won’t please the vicar.

RUNNERS-UP

Lt Col P. S. Baines, E. C. Bingham, R. W. Bond, Rev C. M. Broun, R. N. Chignell, P. M. Coombs, Cdr H. H. L. Dickson, J. H. Dingwall, J. H. Eyre, J. A. Fincken, Mrs N. Fisher, Rev P. J. FitzPatrick, M. S. Y. Fowler, R. McD. Graham, Miss B. Grant, J. E. Hobson, S. J. Howard, A. Lawrie, J. D. Lockett, C. J. Lowe, R. K. Lumsden, Sgt R. Lunn, J. Mann, Mrs E. McFee, T. W. Melluish, M. H. Miller, Mrs E. Morgan, N. O’Neill, A. F. Pearse, T. D. Powell-Davies, B. G. Quin, H. Rainger, G. H. Ravenor, N. Rayman, A. Rivlin, Mrs Z. Rivlin, Mrs J. Robertson, A. Robins, Mrs K. H. Ross, T. E. Sanders, E. O. Seymour, Mrs E. Shackleton, B. Darwin Smith, F. B. Stubbs, W. H. Thornton, Mrs J. E. Townsend, A. Turner, R. A. Walker, J. Walters, J. F. N. Wedge, G. C. West, C. W. Willink, M. Woolf.
 

ANNUAL HONOURS LIST FOR 13 COMPETITIONS:—1. C. J. Morse (2 prizes, 9 H.C.s) and R. Postill (3, 7). 3. C. Allen Baker (1, 7). 4. S. B. Green (2, 3). 5. G. H. Dickson (1, 4), F. D. H. Atkinson and Mrs E. McFee (0, 6). 8. P H. Morgan (1, 3), V. Jennings (0, 5). 10. D. B. J. Ambler, C. O. Butcher, J. H. Eyre, C. E. Gates, E. Gomersall, D. P. M. Michael, B. G. Quin, Mrs J. Robertson, Mrs E. Shackleton (1, 2), M. Newman and W. K. M. Slimmings (0, 4).
 
CONSOLATION PRIZES—F. D. H. Atkinson, Mrs E. McFee, V. Jennings.
 
TOTAL DIFFERENT PRIZE-WINNERS TO DATE—349.
 
TOTAL DIFFERENT PRIZE-WINNERS and/or H.C.s—1224.
 
COMMENTS:—448 entries, 418 correct, dunderpate and Wardle causing most of the mistakes. Let me say at once that the opportunity for topical clues about the wedding was, as so often happens with these things, a pure fluke: the puzzle was composed and the word chosen some time before the engagement was announced! That and Everest were the most popularly used ideas. The entry was very good and varied, but there were still some failures caused by preferring the sense of the devilled to that of the undevilled version: this, as I have so often said in slips, is contrary to the idea. I must find room for two rather glaring examples:—“Is a small car impossible for a large family?” (cast at Antrim). “The Devil was seen in fire-chamber of Hell.” (first at antechamber). The other point which some people forget, and don’t seem to notice in my clues, is that, following the inventor, Afrit, I dislike the gap to come between words. I have waived this view, to the extent of an H.C., in favour of one particularly ingenious clue, and I have included a very few other clever ones among the R.U.s; but I wouldn’t think of giving a prize to one of this sort. (I have shown the gap in this clue, and added a few hints to others which I thought might be specially elusive).
 
No room for more, except to thank you for appreciative comments, and to congratulate those in the Honours List and especially the equal champions.
 

 
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