Ximenes Competition No. 760 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 756 | 764 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 760 | Aug 1963 | METAMORPHOSE | normal | 26 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | P. M. Coombs | Change, by Medusa’s head, perhaps, to shape more rocky? | M + anag. |
| Second | W. L. Miron | Otherwise “to reshape”: “commute” lacks the necessary discriminating element | anag. incl. (c)omm(ute), & lit. |
| Third | F. B. Stubbs | Let me have a variable phase motor and we’ll see what the transformer can do | me + anag. |
| HC | C. Allen Baker | To reshape hammer-toes a minor operation is involved | anag. incl. op |
| HC | A. J. Barnard | To effect a transformation, change to a home perm and include a short bob | s (shilling) in anag. |
| HC | A. J. Bisset | Change P.M.? Some are hot on having a switch-over | anag. |
| HC | Mrs K. Bissett | The Classics Master’s after a butterfly! Sexy? Not half! Has to make a pass! | meta (Gr.) Morpho se(xy) |
| HC | J. C. Chavasse | Plunge from the sublime to the ridiculous, interworbing “mome raths” with effortless whimsensical poetry! | anag. incl. poe(try); cf. ‘Jabberwocky’, interweave, absorb, etc. |
| HC | Cdr H. H. L. Dickson | What transformers do, to ampere-ohms, perhaps | anag. |
| HC | J. H. Dingwall | To achieve “New Look”: a little time at opening of Moscow talks, occurring in complete change of atmosphere | anag. incl. Mo(scow) |
| HC | I. D. Doak | Mechanical engineers change P.M. to a horse. Like this? | ME + anag. |
| HC | L. A. J. Duthie | Among many species embryotic initially, homoptera undergo change, transform | anag. in m,s,e |
| HC | J. Fielding | Transform hammertoes with an op., to change the shape | anag. |
| HC | J. A. Fincken | What one must do before displaying some other map! | anag. & lit. |
| HC | P. Garston-Jones | Change the shape of Rome so the map looks different | anag. |
| HC | E. Gomersall | Change experienced before some large butterflies appear over Camberwell way? | met a (= ante) Morpho SE |
| HC | Miss J. S. Lumsden | Stocks at bottom for time being, rising about the forenoon; you’ll have to make a radical change. | a.m. in pro tem (all rev.) + hose; stocks = stockings |
| HC | Mrs E. McFee | Work at Homer’s poem to find what Circe tried to do to Odysseus | anag.; ref. Odyssey |
| HC | C. J. Morse | In a dissolute atmosphere introduction to models appears to turn men into animals! | anag. incl. m,a |
| HC | T. N. Nesbitt | Transform amperes to ohm? | anag. & lit. |
| HC | Mrs N. Perry | Debauched hep room-mates reform | anag. |
| HC | Mrs J. Robertson | Get set with a “Prom” home perm. | anag.; get = baffle; perm., vb. |
| HC | A. Robins | A dreadful term struggling with “amo”: hopes, oddly enough, to develop in new form | anag. |
| HC | H. S. Tribe | Switch to home perms, a means to give one a new look | anag.; means, vb. |
| HC | D. J. Williams | Reshape reshape reshape M to OM | anag. |
| HC | R. G. Wilson | Transform—as emperor-moth does (but it lacks tail of caterpillar) | anag. less r |
Runners-Up in competition 760: