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| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs J. Mackie | 46 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 88 | 51 | Nov 1965 | Jun 2006 | 40y 7m |
| Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-2006 | ||||
| 1733 | PALESTRA | VHC | Place for jerks of old school recycling ARP tales? | anag. |
| 2003-2004 | ||||
| 1646 | BLACK | VHC | Conrad, e.g., essential feature of thumb lacking | hidden; ref. Conrad B. and C. who sucked his thumbs and had them cut off in ‘Struwwelpeter’ |
| 2002-2003 | ||||
| 1619 | GISMO (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | ‘A sna/re’ said King Henry speaking of marriage | ref. Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More |
| 1602 | FENESTRA | VHC | Craft seen disintegrating with first to go being spot on wing? | anag. less C; ref. loss of Columbia spacecraft |
| 2001-2002 | ||||
| 1563 | SLYBOOTS | VHC | Walrus, for instance: great in tears a-bolting oysters | comp. anag.; ref. ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ |
| 1559 | THEOLOGASTER | First | One appearing in God slot, there lacking depth and confused? | a in anag. less d, & lit. |
| 1544 | PATROL (with jumble of RAPTORES) (Christmas Devilry) | Third | What’s essential to pimp – a trapes or trollop to go the rounds | hidden |
| 1541 | CHUPRASSY | VHC | —— that’s out with me could be loaded with my purchases | comp. anag. & lit.; loaded = drunk |
| 1519 | CARRY-ON | VHC | Bond that’s neither original or fine, following racy recipe in pastiche | anag. incl. r + (B)on(d), & lit.; ref. James Bond novels written by Raymond Benson; fine = end |
| 2000-2001 | ||||
| 1485 | BOURSE / TIFOSO (Right and Left) | VHC | Exchange neighbour’s eager embraces, being addicted to sport and playing footsie endlessly | hidden; anag. less e |
| 1999-2000 | ||||
| 1450 | PRETENDANT | VHC | Biking twerp wanting wife with half tandem free to encompass aim? | end in anag. less w + anag.; ref. ‘Daisy’; bike2 = swarm |
| 1424 | HEIST | VHC | Given toothache is treatable, find the filling that’s appropriate | hidden; appropriate vb |
| 1419 | SPLODGE | VHC | Mark that pedants plod, genius bounds | hidden |
| 1998-1999 | ||||
| 1411 | LOOK-SEE | VHC | For this they resort to keyholes close to eye | comp. anag. incl. e, & lit. |
| 1398 | PERMETHRIN | VHC | This will do for endless Hemiptera with borders to ruin | anag. incl. r, n, & lit. |
| 1385 | PANTRIES | Second | What a Spartan diet could make a tad superfluous | anag. less a tad, & lit. |
| 1997-1998 | ||||
| 1346 | PHARISEE | First | He praised not God, being blind | anag. less D, & lit.; blind = drunk; ref. Matthew 15,14 |
| 1325 | UPROOTAL | VHC | The banished Latin author (poet) makes one sad reading of it: an —— | comp. anag. less the, & lit.; ref. Ovid’s exile |
| 1996-1997 | ||||
| 1303 | PONIARD | VHC | Dudgeon that could become paranoid, turning out close to dementia | anag. less a |
| 1300 | OXFORD (extra O) (Extra Letter) | VHC | Enter fox with door unhinged – it’s come of banging at last | dor; anag.; shoe |
| 1286 | CHALET | VHC | Villa that could become, e.g., ‘The Laurels’ with a bit of planting in central position | cha(p)let |
| 1281 | ABLUTOMANE | VHC | It’s a waste giving shelter to tramp if one never stops soaking and sponging | a + tom an2 in blue2 |
| 1268 | ARGIE-BARGIE | VHC | E.g. what Iliad starts with, rabid umbrage being unloosed, not silent | anag. less dumb, & lit. |
| 1995-1996 | ||||
| 1255 | CATAFALCO | VHC | Work at coalface stopping short: this can move VIP on board who’s stiff | anag. less e |
| 1220 | CASSANDRA | VHC | One telling truths that were yet to be treated as canards | anag. |
| 1212 | HILDING | VHC | Rosinante, for example, with eccentric hidalgo going about in bits of armour others abandoned | in in anag. less o, a; ref. ‘Don Quixote’ |
| 1207 | EPOCH-MARKING | VHC | Like original ‘Marathon’? (Greek champion’s run passing extreme of endurance previously) | anag. less e; ref. Pheidippides |
| 1994-1995 | ||||
| 1152 | PARACETAMOL | VHC | This will do to placate molar, but for a short time – nothing long | anag. less t 0 l, & lit. |
| 1993-1994 | ||||
| 1130 | AGRESTAL | VHC | Idle, flaunting gala clothing – like Lily of the verses | rest in anag.; ref. Matt. 6:28-29 |
| 1126 | CHEATERY | First | What could be promising Rachel yet delivering Leah initially? | anag. less L, & lit.; ref. Gen. 29:16-25 |
| 1113 | EMPLASTRUM | VHC | It’s most unlikely to be included in fixed premium, given one’s wanting protective cover | last in anag. less I |
| 1108 | GREEN | VHC | So’s developing fruit deviant gene’s right inside it? | r in anag.; ref. ‘homosexual’ gene |
| 1992-1993 | ||||
| 1078 | KIRBEH | VHC | You can see Arabs hike with this as a must | comp anag. & lit.; must4 adj. |
| 1076 | PARLOUR GAMES | VHC | What a sumo grappler isn’t playing, but might turn to on turning out soft | anag. less p, & lit. |
| 1074 | DEMIREP | VHC | Piece to be kept by ‘uncle’ failing redemption short of a little time in advance? | anag. less t on |
| 1065 | TANDOORI | VHC | Grub that’s spread to West and gets inside one | and in root (rev.) + I, & lit. |
| 1991-1992 | ||||
| 1030 | PASTILLE | VHC | Jumbly composition, lines written for child, is acknowledged thing for tickling palates | ll for ch in pastiche |
| 1021 | BEARD | VHC | For instance, imperial loon turning up without a bit of enwrapment | e in drab (rev. ); loon = harlot; ref. ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ |
| 1004 | OIL PAINTINGS | VHC | Constables perhaps, dressed in plain togs to catch one | I in anag.; ref. John C. |
| 995 | STASIMA (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Jokes about knickers make me smile at ‘be/g elastic’ | agelastic |
| 1987-1988 | ||||
| 818 | EMBUSQUÉ | VHC | Cuthbert must mostly be rendered by that in French | que in anag. incl. mus(t); ref. ‘C. the shirker’ |
| 1972-1973 | ||||
| 23 | SCLERODERMIC | VHC | Namely, having a milder core disguised within? | anag. in sc., & lit. |
| 18 | EPIGONE | VHC | Latter member of line with vigour in decline | e + go in pine, & lit. |
| 1 | ORGIAST | VHC | I’m a bit of a Borgia: strychnine’s mysteries fascinate me | hidden; ref. Eleusinian Mysteries |
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1970-1971 | ||||
| 1140 | CALLOUS | VHC | With a lower—ultimately degraded—cast of soul | cal(f) + anag., & lit. |
| 1966-1967 | ||||
| 929 | AMPHITHEATRE | VHC | Ah, the Primate palters where earlier Christians stood by their faith | anag. |
2005-2006
1775 ROUGH-AND-READY
1762 DUDDERY
1750 PLOUGHMAN
1737 ANIMUS
2004-2005
1724 MONEYBAGS
1702 WORDSMITHERY
1698 CROSSTIE
1689 SYNOD
2003-2004
1659 SCAREDY-CAT
1650 SAPHENA
1648 MAGIC LANTERN
1637 AMNESIC
1633 EMPATRON / WINTERLY (Right and Left)
1628 ENCOMION
1624 BELAY
2002-2003
1615 RUGATE
1606 TEOSINTE / INTELSAT (Overlaps)
1589 JOKESMITH
1580 MARGENT def. BEETLES (Wrong Number)
1576 FACADE
2001-2002
1567 QUEEN
1546 TRANSPARENT
1537 CAFTAN
1528 STROP (Spoonerisms)
1524 INGRATITUDE
2000-2001
1515 SNIDE
1511 DEEP-SEATED
1502 RAPPEL
1494 MARATHON
1489 FRONT-BENCHER
1480 SAMARITAN
1472 TORAN (Printer’s Devilry)
1467 CANAPÉ
1999-2000
1441 Word containing MM displaced by a bug (Millennium Bug)
1437 MISTLETOE
1433 NEANDERTHAL
1428 CRICETID
1998-1999
1402 PENTOSE (Definition of Anagram)
1380 RAPPORT (Misprints)
1376 LOGO
1367 SANBENITOS
1363 MAVIN def. THONG (Wrong Number)
1997-1998
1355 DIACATHOLICON
1336 STOCKING
1334 CATACHRESTIC
1329 PITHOS
1322 CARPET
1312 REST-CURE
1996-1997
1284 STALE (3 defs. + sub. ind. of wrapping) (Parcels)
1273 SIPOREX
1995-1996
1250 SONEOCARDIA (STENOCARDIA) (Ten to One)
1247 PREDICANT
1238 ELASTIN (Printer’s Devilry)
1234 AVANT-PROPOS
1232 The world is too much with us; late and soon (Anagram)
1229 GRUPPETTO
1216 CHAPERON
1994-1995
1186 GRISELDA
1174 DINGLE-DANGLE
1169 BLITHE / URSINE (Right and Left)
1161 ADIAPHORON
1156 TERPSICHOREAN
1993-1994
1147 MAYDAY
1143 DEATH (Printer’s Devilry)
1134 TOVARICH
1128 CHRISTMAS PRESENT
1122 BASILIAN
1992-1993
1095 STINK
1084 PIERCEABLE / SALESGIRL (DLM)
1069 (P)OSTICHE (Headpieces)
1061 MAGIC
1056 ENTRAIN def. ASTHORE (Wrong Number)
1991-1992
1039 TOLERABLE
1026 LET-OFF
1013 ALVEARY
1008 SPORTSCASTER (Misprints)
1987-1988
831 COOLABAH (Spoonerisms)
827 MICKEY-TAKING
Ximenes competitions
1970-1971
1143 MORGIANA
1123 MAXIMIST
1110 IMPERSONATE
1969-1970
1097 PANTOPHAGIST
1089 ENCLOISTER
1968-1969
1032 TENONER (Printer’s Devilry)
1966-1967
949 BROWSING
933 COTTABUS
911 DRAGON
1965-1966
878 ENTOMOSTRACA
| Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-2006 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
| 2004-2005 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 2003-2004 | 0 | 1 | 7 | – |
| 2002-2003 | 0 | 2 | 5 | – |
| 2001-2002 | 2 (1, 0, 1) | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 2000-2001 | 0 | 1 | 8 | – |
| 1999-2000 | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
| 1998-1999 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 2 | 5 | 18 |
| 1997-1998 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 1 | 6 | – |
| 1996-1997 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 17 |
| 1995-1996 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 23 |
| 1994-1995 | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
| 1993-1994 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 3 | 5 | 19 |
| 1992-1993 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 20 |
| 1991-1992 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 29 |
| 1987-1988 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
| 1972-1973 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – |
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1970-1971 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
| 1969-1970 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 1968-1969 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1966-1967 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
| 1965-1966 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |