Competition clues by Ian Harper
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Ian Harper has 13 clues
| Comp | Clue word | Clue | Explanation | Pos | Points | 2010 Annual Competition | 23 | 2.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Any “Double” Word (6 or more letters) (A Game of Two Halves) | Skilful players from overseas have hosts losing heart | HOTSHOTS (C has "mainly US" = from overseas): have: HO(s)TS ref SA's failings | 9 | 19 | 3 |
| March 2010 | MONEY (CLASS) (Wrong Number) | Characters in form one? Young angels, perhaps | Hidden, angels/coins; form | 4 | 22.5 | 3 |
| 2009 Annual Competition | 3 | 11.5 | ||||
| November 2009 | Any Firework | Fifth of November on calendar? Prepare to see this (11, two words) | Roman candle: (M + ON + CALENDAR)* &lit | 1 | 81.5 | 6 |
| September 2009 | BONES | Remains on good terms in amicable disagreements | On BON, ends = terms in AMICABLE, DISAGREEMENTS | 5 | 29.5 | 1 |
| July 2009 | MENO (Printer’s Devilry) | Hasten slaughter, send cows to pit | Hastens laughter's end – come now, stop it | 9 | 26.5 | 2 |
| June 2009 | OSCAR | Flying across southern deserts? Change once, in Alice Springs | (ACROSS – S)* def Chambers (3) change = cash | 2 | 46 | 3 |
| May 2009 | POWERHOUSE | Where rotors pump alternating supply? | (WHERE + alternate letters of ROTORSPUMP)* "in a supple manner" &lit | 6 | 27 | 3 |
| February 2009 | MCJOB | Opening for menial pursued by patiently long-suffering individual after college? | M(enial) followed by (biblical) Job after C=college: &lit | 6 | 34.5 | 2 |
| 2008 Annual Competition | 3 | 15 | ||||
| Christmas Special 2008 | CRACKER / VINTAGE (Right & Left) | Negative batting? Boycott the last old-fashioned, safe opener, and one of the best of the type | NEGATIVE* with its final E "boycotted" (batting = fluttering – see Chambers): double def of cracker (1st ref safebreaking) | 1 | 52.5 | 4 |
| November 2008 | WILD MARE | Whereon child wanting companion to push hard from the other end goes in opposite directions? | CHILD (wanting = lacking) CH to RAM (rev = from other end) in W and E = opp dir: ref to seesaw | 4 | 27.5 | 2 |
| August 2008 | RELAUNCH | Revival of "Charley's Aunt" being broadcast? Stay away! | (CHARLEYSAUNT – STAY)* | 3 | 56.5 | 1 |
| April 2008 | PHAT | Rap's term for what's foremost? | Term = end: P for W in WHAT: &lit | 3 | 26.5 | 5 |
| January 2008 | MIRACLE | What a martyr's original relic might generate? | (A, M, RELIC)* + &lit | 4 | 34.5 | 7 |