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| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
Also listed as | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rev C. D. Westbrook | 34 | 1 | 5 | 28 | 43 | 40 | Oct 1965 | Nov 1985 | 20y 1m | D. Westbrook |
| Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-1985 | ||||
| 660 | Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse (Anagram) | VHC | At rest in a manger, our wee Saviour’s content | |
| 1978-1979 | ||||
| 352 | FAIRY LIGHTS | VHC | What might dress fir, say – there’s a clue in that | light in anag., & lit. |
| 323 | (C)U(C)KOO (Letters Latent) | VHC | Bird ejecting a different one’s eggs | (a)uk + 0 0, & lit.; i.e. duck’s eggs |
| 1977-1978 | ||||
| 301 | TROLLOPISH | VHC | Having left polish undone and refuse mounting up? | ort (rev.) + anag. incl. l, & lit. |
| 298 | NOSER | VHC | Inquisitor – torturing senor | anag. |
| 267 | MORRIS-DANCE | VHC | Seen in Oxford, for example, ushering in spring | Morris + dance, & lit.; Morris Oxford car |
| 259 | TRANSIRE | VHC | Running is errant – one should get this instead | anag. & lit. |
| 1976-1977 | ||||
| 243 | OLYMPIC | VHC | Out of bounds sacred mountain-top best described thus? | (h)oly m pic(k), & lit.; out of = without |
| 234 | HOROSCOPIST | VHC | Man whose business is houses with signs, in which Scorpio’s involved, for one | anag. in host, & lit. |
| 216 | SCANTITY | Second | May tap before end of July show this? If sun goes on, yes | S + can tit2 + y, & lit. |
| 1975-1976 | ||||
| 187 | POWDERING-TUB | VHC | Put down rib e.g. to season here | anag. & lit. |
| 183 | PICKLE | VHC | Cull long before beginning to eat this | pick + l + e, & lit. |
| 1974-1975 | ||||
| 152 | ENAMORADO / ESCLANDRE (Right and Left) | VHC | Lover, one like Catullus in poem, aspirant to wit learned carelessly about notoriety | a Roman in ode (all rev.); sc. in anag.; aspirant = mounting up |
| 146 | CHARADES | VHC | After tea one has some in the salon, perhaps, about the end of December | r in cha a des (Fr.), & lit. |
| 135 | GABIONADE | VHC | One would shelter in one with a big shot coming over perhaps | anag. + a ’d in one, & lit. |
| 127 | FRITHSOKEN | VHC | Underwood’s got most from unusually drenched Lord’s ground – covering wanted | frith3 so(a)ken; covering vb.; ref. Derek U. |
| 118 | OPERETTIST (Misprints) | VHC | I set to with copper boiling, after putting in to soak. Pinafore’s whiter, maybe | writer; ret in anag. incl. p; ref. ‘HMS Pinafore’ |
| 1973-1974 | ||||
| 92 | BRAINWASH | Second | Torture in war, perhaps – without a blow | anag. in bash, & lit. |
| 79 | SLAPSTICK | VHC | Kind of film, perhaps, in which a lot of pastry’s thrown | anag. of past(ry) in slick, & lit. |
| 75 | GROCETERIA | Second | I cater, ergo get in order here | anag. & lit. |
| 57 | MINARET (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Soldiers with drums used to beat the/reat | |
| 1972-1973 | ||||
| 50 | CORPULE(N)T (Letters Latent) | VHC | Having ‘trop de cul’, heartlessly, translated? | anag. less d, & lit. |
| 31 | KITCHENDOM | VHC | Constant seat of King cook before meal begins | k Itchen do + m; Itchen = seat of Horace K., MP |
| 23 | SCLERODERMIC | First | Little sign of red after almost merciless thrashing with rod – if one’s this | anag. of merciles(s) rod + c, & lit.; c = cent |
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1970-1971 | ||||
| 1162 | BEAM-ENDS | VHC | Fleet would be sure after a smash to contain some on these | double mng.; ref. debtors’ prison |
| 1154 | CLARIONET | VHC | Wind recital including on programme—this? | on in anag. + lit. |
| 1140 | CALLOUS | VHC | Designates without love that anyone can see | 0 U in calls, & lit. |
| 1131 | CAROUSER (Misprints) | VHC | Leveller—one producing alarm in King Charles? | reveller; arouse in CR; ref. political movement of English Civil War |
| 1115 | FLESH-POTTERY | Second | Dives enjoyed it while alive: he slept to fry in torment | anag.; Luke 16.19-25 |
| 1969-1970 | ||||
| 1097 | PANTOPHAGIST | VHC | Put crudely, a pig at nosh needing to get in some gym? | anag. in PT, & lit. |
| 1968-1969 | ||||
| 1049 | SLANGWHANGER | Third | Be suspended, getting caught in disorderly wrangles—as he might be? | hang in anag. |
| 1036 | CORONETED | VHC | Having a heart about somebody, Tennyson’s tip, is more than being this | one T in cored, & lit.; Tennyson: “Kind hearts are more than coronets” |
| 1966-1967 | ||||
| 954 | CERATE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | In the Test, pollocks, lings, aboun/d—rich sports report 1965! | Edrich |
| 1965-1966 | ||||
| 873 | VETERANS | VHC | Old men-of-war making even tars out of sorts! | anag. |
1985-1986
705 MUSICOTHERAPY
1984-1985
679 ESTOVER (Printer’s Devilry)
1979-1980
406 BOIL
404 CANDLE-HOLDER (Spoonerisms)
1978-1979
319 PODESTA
314 MERIL (Spoonerisms)
1977-1978
310 STERNFAST
1976-1977
247 FLIVVER
229 METRICATE
225 VALETA
1975-1976
200 The Extra Guest (minus CC) (Letters Latent)
197 CAMERA (Printer’s Devilry)
195 SHILLY-SHALLY
190 CASSANDRA
1974-1975
148 BALLYHOO
143 Jingle for BALTHAZAR, MELCHIOR, CASPAR (A jingle)
130 EADISH (Printer’s Devilry)
1973-1974
100 CENTENARIAN
62 SOLITAIRES
1972-1973
18 EPIGONE
14 Terrapin, hermit, elephant, armadillo, rhesus (Anagram)
1 ORGIAST
Ximenes competitions
1970-1971
1145 GENIPAP
1135 HILAIRE BELLOC
1119 RONDE (Printer’s Devilry)
1969-1970
1106 LEXICOGRAPHY
1089 ENCLOISTER
1084 ANGEL-FOOD
1080 ANDROMEDA
1076 NEFAST (Misprints)
1066 RAVE / PAIR (DLM)
1968-1969
1054 PINACOTHECA
1045 SPLIT / MOUTH (Right and Left)
1028 SATIRE
1023 CONSOLE
1019 DISCORD (Misprints)
1006 CHROME-PLATING
1967-1968
993 JONATHAN
967 CREMOSIN
1966-1967
929 AMPHITHEATRE
1965-1966
902 WINCOPIPE
894 WITENAGEMOT
885 GALIMATIAS
| Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-1986 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1984-1985 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 1979-1980 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 1978-1979 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
| 1977-1978 | 0 | 3 | 1 | – |
| 1976-1977 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 2 | 3 | 25 |
| 1975-1976 | 0 | 2 | 4 | – |
| 1974-1975 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| 1973-1974 | 2 (0, 2, 0) | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 1972-1973 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 2 | 3 | 17 |
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1970-1971 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| 1969-1970 | 0 | 1 | 6 | – |
| 1968-1969 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 1 | 6 | – |
| 1967-1968 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 1966-1967 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 1965-1966 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |