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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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F. E. Dixon | 35 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 74 | 38 | May 1946 | Sep 1978 | 32y 4m |
Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
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1978-1979 | ||||
323 | (C)U(C)KOO (Letters Latent) | VHC | Look up, not all there; look up: not all there | hidden rev. |
Ximenes competitions | ||||
1968-1969 | ||||
1006 | CHROME-PLATING | VHC | Producing a smooth finish, as does phlegm in actor | anag. |
1967-1968 | ||||
980 | OMNIBUSES | First | Miss Bueno smashes what others drive | anag.; ref. Maria Bueno, tennis strokes |
1964-1965 | ||||
843 | PRISTINE | VHC | Isn’t ripe for development: quite unspoiled | anag. |
812 | ABRUPT / TISANE (Right and Left) | VHC | Sharp distillation of tar, but included in it is aneurin, normally a barley extract | anag.; hidden |
1963-1964 | ||||
796 | STRAKE (or STRAIK) (Misprints) | VHC | Roué canonised—part of him | rim; i.e. St. Rake |
773 | FIT-OUT | VHC | Song of the open air … in the old kit-bag | fit3 + out; ref. song ‘Pack Up your Troubles …’ |
1961-1962 | ||||
656 | FIDDLESTICKS | VHC | Regenerate sick flies with D.D.T.! Nonsense! | anag. |
1960-1961 | ||||
626 | WOMAN-TIRED | VHC | If Queen Bess had had a husband, he might have been—and so might the matron I wed | anag. |
1959-1960 | ||||
586 | HEBDOMADARY | VHC | Bedad! H. Amory has the makings of an administrator, but he should go at the end of the week | anag.; ref. Derick Heatcoat-Amory’s Budget, 1960 |
543 | NUTRIA / ERMINE (Right and Left) | VHC | Before devouring (tail first) game stoat, the Spanish otter gives it a run free | nim1 (rev.) in ere; anag.; nutria (Sp.) = otter |
1958-1959 | ||||
529 | BUTTY-COLLIER | VHC | He and his mate are liable to get silicosis; and he’s utterly riddled with B. coli! | anag. |
512 | NAYLOR (Libel) | VHC | No penniless peer for her; she’ll intrigue only with a King | nay lor(d), anag. incl. a R |
504 | LEAD-LINE | VHC | It sounds a marine term—and is | double mng.; sound3; m.t. = sea’s limit |
500 | MOTHERS-IN-LAW | VHC | They like to visit Maternity Hospitals and deal successfully with almoners | anag. & lit.; deal = distribute |
495 | PARTISAN | VHC | Each aspirant for power needs men like this, yet one may be his ruin | anag. |
1957-1958 | ||||
447 | TOUSLE | VHC | The lure of the States takes them in, with a result like “Rock and Roll” | US in tole2; them = US |
1956-1957 | ||||
412 | SERVIETTE | VHC | I’ve got involved in a street accident: this will do to collect the bits and pieces | anag. in anag. |
390 | HESITATE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Father wis/e to tale: vent now his key, please | |
1955-1956 | ||||
382 | ABSTAIN | VHC | Stay away? It can be arranged if you’ve an absit | anag. |
338 | SHE-ASS | VHC | She may be taken for a ride—and may do the bumping off! | cryptic def. |
1954 (2) | ||||
302 | MARTIN | VHC | Swallow the drink, not I, it’s Antrim blended! | Martin(i), anag.; ref. blended whiskey of NI |
1954 (1) | ||||
267 | TRADE | VHC | One of the winds, and one way of raising it | 2 mngs.; trade w., raise the w. = raise funds |
1952 (2) | ||||
200 | ACCOUNT | VHC | Sake drawn from cocoanut, distilled and deoxidised, for regular customers only | anag. minus O (oxygen), 2 defs.; sake1,2 |
1950 (1) | ||||
122 | LEATHER | VHC | The skin remaining when you’ve got out of the altogether! | anag. of altogether less anag. of got |
119 | UMBLE-PIE | Third | Could be rein-deer food, i.e. be plum pudding! | anag.; rein (rare sing.) = kidney, see reins; pudding = entrails (archaic) |
1948 (1) | ||||
76 | VALEDICTORY | VHC | You’ll find it a very cold collation at the breaking-up party | anag. |
67 | SURFEIT (DLM) | VHC | I will never visit Cheddar Gorge, if what is told of the cliff is true | gorge |
1947 (2) | ||||
59 | TAME | VHC | Flat, and what a mess it’s in! | hidden |
1947 (1) | ||||
45 | RATTENED | VHC | When treated thus even the worst worker has only himself to blame | cryptic def.; “A bad workman blames his tools”, r. = had tools taken |
42 | HALLANSHAKER | VHC | A Scots solicitor employed in composing the L.N.E.R.’s halakah | anag. |
1946 (2) | ||||
34 | STAROSTA | VHC | The Pole holds a life-interest only, so a start could be made by liquidating him | anag. |
27 | MEANDRIAN | VHC | Twist and remain twisting | anag. |
1945 (2) | ||||
25 | WERGILD | VHC | How the Teutonic murderer might atone by getting mad about work | erg in wild |
24 | SWELL-MOBSMAN | First | Thief who might even break into the almsmen’s bowl | anag. |
1978-1979
336 ELF-ARROW / CUTHBERT (Right and Left)
Ximenes competitions
1969-1970
1097 PANTOPHAGIST
1968-1969
1023 CONSOLE
1967-1968
1002 PILLAGE
1000 THOUSAND
997 TREACLE
989 GRENADINE
984 Word containing a first name (Anonymous)
975 HALE
1966-1967
920 ARISTATE (Printer’s Devilry)
916 DIAPASON
911 DRAGON
1965-1966
898 POCHARD
884 MASHER (Printer’s Devilry)
882 SNAPDRAGON
878 ENTOMOSTRACA
868 DANDER / TOUPEE (Right and Left)
864 PATERNAL
1964-1965
856 RODOMONTADE
829 FAREWELL
817 WYLIE-COATS
1963-1964
777 TAILOR-BIRD
1962-1963
746 INTERMIT (Printer’s Devilry)
730 ARCH-PIRATE
1960-1961
638 BUREAUCRAT
600 The Light Brigade, noble Six Hundred (Anagram)
1959-1960
582 MARRY
551 PITCHER
1958-1959
538 BANISHING
534 RAIL-SPLITTER
521 SOUP
519 RIDICULE (DLM)
1957-1958
482 LEASING-MAKER
477 SEDATENESS
469 DAISY
451 MEGAPODE
1956-1957
421 DOVETAIL
408 BILLET
1955-1956
377 MALISON
373 PRESTONPANS
360 WRINKLE / EGG-BIRD (Right and Left)
356 METOPOSCOPY
351 LUSTRE
347 TELEVISOR
329 HAMADRYAD
1954 (1)
283 SOBER
263 We think so then and we thought so still! (Anagram)
259 AGANIPPE
1953 (2)
257 PYROTECHNICS (Straight Clue)
243 LODESTAR
237 BASTINADE
235 ASPHETERISM
1953 (1)
231 PREAMBLE
1952 (2)
205 CANTANKEROUS
199 HONESTY
195 WALLABAS
194 KNOWLEDGE BOX
1952 (1)
188 Beware the Ides of March (Anagram)
187 GROWLER
184 MEREST / WYOMING (DLM)
1951 (2)
174 ANACREONTICS
171 SERINGAS
1951 (1)
166 RACHIDES
159 SPANIEL
1950 (2)
150 CAPILLAMENTS
146 BELDAME
1949 (2)
117 LION
115 MISNOMER
114 TAPPIT-HEN
1949 (1)
96 INTERLOCK
1948 (2)
87 SISKIN
84 SHINGLE / THIRSTY (Right and Left)
81 CHARADE
1947 (1)
41 ALTOGETHER
Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
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1978-1979 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
Ximenes competitions | ||||
1969-1970 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1968-1969 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
1967-1968 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 0 | 6 | – |
1966-1967 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1965-1966 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
1964-1965 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
1963-1964 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – |
1962-1963 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1961-1962 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
1960-1961 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
1959-1960 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
1958-1959 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
1957-1958 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
1956-1957 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
1955-1956 | 0 | 2 | 7 | – |
1954 (2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
1954 (1) | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
1953 (2) | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
1953 (1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1952 (2) | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
1952 (1) | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1951 (2) | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1951 (1) | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1950 (2) | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1950 (1) | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 1 | 0 | – |
1949 (2) | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1949 (1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
1948 (2) | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
1948 (1) | 0 | 2 | 0 | – |
1947 (2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
1947 (1) | 0 | 2 | 1 | – |
1946 (2) | 0 | 2 | 0 | – |
1945 (2) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 1 | 0 | – |