Competition clues by Jeffery Robinson
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Jeffery Robinson has 17 clues
Comp | Clue word | Clue | Explanation | Pos | Points | Merits | 2024 Annual Competition | 29 | 0.5 |
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July 2024 | SPLASH | Special tree houses left for display | SP<L>ASH | 6 | 18.5 | 1 | |
2021 Annual Competition | 41 | 0.5 | |||||
July 2021 | MACARONI | Dandy French leader pinching a rabbi's bottom | MAC<A>RON/I | 10 | 23.5 | 1 | 2 |
2020 Annual Competition | 10 | 6.5 | |||||
Christmas Special 2020 | A Christmas List (Anagram) | BEER, GIN, MINTS, SHIRT, SOCKS, TORCH, RADIO, NETS, JAZZ LP | Drinks, something to eat, apparel + some other goodies (the nets are for fishing) | 5 | 37 | 2 | 2 |
October 2020 | GLORIA | Fashionable cut from original woven fabric | ORIG(in)AL* [Chambers 2.3. for fabric] | 1 | 65.5 | 1 | 4 |
January 2020 | TWO-FACED | Insincere act few do mistakenly | ACTFEWDO* &lit. For 'two-faced act' see http://www.ft.lk/top-story/a-two-faced-act/26-72787 | 7 | 24.5 | 1 | 3 |
2019 Annual Competition | 36 | 0.5 | |||||
May 2019 | MERCURY | Copper taken in by cheerful courier | MER<CU>RY [Mercury is a courier service as well as a messenger god] | 8 | 20.5 | 0 | 1 |
2018 Annual Competition | 13 | 7 | |||||
November 2018 | HUMMINGBIRD | Hmm, during short bit working one is seen buzzing around | HMMDURINGBI(t)* | 8 | 17.5 | 2 | 1 |
October 2018 | OPAL (Printer’s Devilry) | Dramatist celebrity has died | Drama! Top A-list celebrity has died | 7 | 24.5 | 0 | 1 |
September 2018 | JOANNA LUMLEY | Fabulous star is an upper-class drunk with jolly name | Semi-&lit – (Absolutely) Fabulous star; ANUJOLLYNAME*; Patsy is jolly name for JL in AbFab, and she is upper-class and often drunk | 4 | 28 | 1 | |
July 2018 | VINDALOO | Diverting via London briefly for hot meal | VIALONDO(n)* | 7 | 24.5 | 1 | 2 |
February 2018 | DRUNKENNESS | Doctor fumbling nuns' knees as a result of serious boozing | DR/NUNSKNEES* | 3 | 35.5 | 2 | 2 |
January 2018 | ARGENT | Silver surfer's terminal seized by spook | [A<R>GENT] | 7 | 26.5 | 0 | |
2017 Annual Competition | 28 | 1.5 | |||||
September 2017 | MAIDEN | Miss chaps coming round to help | M<AID>EN | 5 | 23.5 | 3 | 1 |
May 2017 | MICKEY | Mouse in cartoons keeps entertaining young faces | Acrostic &lit | 6 | 21.5 | 1 | 3 |
2016 Annual Competition | 30 | 0.5 | |||||
April 2016 | LEONARDO DICAPRIO | Actor playing cop in old radio era | &lit [COPINOLDRADIOERA*; Dicaprio played 'top cop' FBI boss, J. Edgar Hoover] | 6 | 28 | 1 | 6 |
2015 Annual Competition | 39 | 0.5 | |||||
September 2015 | SOUNDER | Appallingly rude son's a pig | (RUDE SON)* | 8 | 21 | 4 | 2 |
2014 Annual Competition | 43 | 0.5 | |||||
May 2014 | BINGLE | Bob's a smash in Australia! | dd. First definition of bingle from Merriam-Webster (which may be more accurate than that in Chambers): 'a woman's short bob partly shingled at the back.' Second as Chambers 1. | 9 | 16 | 1 | 3 |