Clues written by E. S. Ainley
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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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| E. S. Ainley | 69 | 2 | 10 | 57 | 62 | 81 | Aug 1947 | Jul 1978 | 30y 11m | E. S. AinIey |
| Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-1979 | ||||
| 327 | HEMLOCK | VHC | Marge with jam on: a deadly diet | hem + lock; marge = margin |
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1969-1970 | ||||
| 1076 | NEFAST (Misprints) | VHC | In recurrent riots, a Fenian’s hideout | hideous; hidden rev.; ref. Irish troubles 1969 |
| 1967-1968 | ||||
| 1000 | THOUSAND | VHC | M. & S. full-length shift, revealing the figure of today | thou + S shifted before and |
| 1958-1959 | ||||
| 504 | LEAD-LINE | VHC | Following precedent, I leave stuff behind: I sound like a plumber! | lead line2 (vb.= stuff); sound3 |
| 1954 (2) | ||||
| 316 | BATHROOM | VHC | clue not given | |
| 302 | MARTIN | VHC | Swallow a cocktail? Not I! Gin and lime can be my ruin! | Martin(i); ref. Mediterranean practice of trapping songbirds with lime traps |
| 300 | COCCO | Third | Fare at Christmas or Easter—two codsheads: I’m mildly surprised about that | c,c in coo!; C. and E. Islands; same, 30 pacer |
| 297 | CONTRAPUNTAL | VHC | Contralto wanting to set about a lay, and getting the tones mixed up | a punt3 in contral(to); lay1,4 = bet, song |
| 287 | MANCHESTER | VHC | You need macs there badly (place in the north). | N in anag., & lit. |
| 285 | PARALYSES | Third | Wilts is a sparsely populated (old-world) antithesis of Bucks | anag., 2 defs.; populated (obs) = devastated |
| 1954 (1) | ||||
| 281 | SCRAPS def. LOCALS (Wrong Number) | VHC | Scenes in which even seconds aren’t needed, but smart blows are | scenes; sc(ene s) + raps, & lit.; boxing seconds |
| 279 | CRYPTOGRAM | VHC | Dark affair that you need a key to: proceed the wrong way and—mess-up | crypt + go mar (each rev.), & lit. |
| 265 | THERMAE | VHC | Plurality of warm spring suits, obtainable from the Shop before the end of the Sale | the + RMA + e; Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst), known as ‘the Shop’ |
| 1953 (2) | ||||
| 257 | PYROTECHNICS (Straight Clue) | VHC | Very light construction is but one feature of this craft | Very light = flare |
| 253 | DERATION | VHC | “I dare not” be damned—to —— absolutely! That’s resolution, by George! | anag. & lit.; ref. Gwilym Lloyd George, Food Minister, and end of e.g. sweet rationing in 1953 |
| 247 | VAMPIRE | VHC | Without hot blood of some sort, I just have to make do | vamp + ire, & lit. |
| 245 | GLAMOUR / SOPRANO (Right and Left) | VHC | What entrances Miss Connolly makes, wearing white! Her air is lofty and so quiet—a divinity—a neat little number! | Mo in glaur: so p Ra no.; ref. Maureen ‘Little Mo’ C., tennis player; glaur = glair in contemporary ed. of C. |
| 243 | LODESTAR | VHC | Makes bearings comprehensible by rough old mariner | anag. + E, S + tar, & lit. |
| 241 | MANDOLINE | VHC | Not the woman to play the chit in Balalaika—not quite! Too stringy and round-backed! | man, do (= act), line (= short letter, chit); B., play and film |
| 235 | ASPHETERISM | VHC | A doctrine, in the Times phrase, quite repugnant to propriety | anag. & lit.; p. = ownership |
| 233 | SAWDUST | Second | Child’s fretting may lead to this—spotted, dispirited condition—on the carpet—and mother having to beat it | saw dust; i.e. fretwork |
| 1953 (1) | ||||
| 231 | PREAMBLE | VHC | Curried lamb, with garnishing to taste—before, a Melba, frappé—might make one | anag. in pree, pre + anag., & lit. |
| 227 | CATEGORIES | VHC | See the highest classes—thinker, monarch, writer—all absorbed in Tit-bits! | ego, R, I, in cates; popular magazine |
| 223 | MELODRAME | VHC | You may find me out of date, complicated, and strongly flavoured (very), with a comfortable ending | me + anag. of old + ram + e, & lit. [see comments] |
| 217 | DEPOSIT | VHC | Lay up or down—or one inside the other | epos in dit1, & lit. |
| 215 | BUCKFASTLEIGH | VHC | Hunt chasing stag (or dashing fellow!) may be seen about near here | fast2 (archaic) in buck1 Leigh & lit.; ref. Leigh Hunt, Eng. writer and critic, b.1784; Dartmoor Hunt |
| 213 | LEMONADE | VHC | A change from ale and the demon rum | anag. & lit.; rum, adj. |
| 1952 (2) | ||||
| 206 | PIEPOWDER | VHC | Here a miscellany of types might take the consequences of petty infractions | pie2 powder & lit.; i.e. small particles |
| 204 | ROSTER (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | I think our P./M.’s 76 (about)—not too much for a good fight! | pro’s term’s 7/6 a bout |
| 1952 (1) | ||||
| 191 | DENIGRATE | VHC | The C in C.’s retired—ordered rest—run down | anag. of (C)entigrade |
| 189 | SALTIRE | VHC | That spunky gal with the old-fashioned dress—piquancy and passion are ordinary, you’ll find, in her. | Sal + tire3; salt + ire; heraldic mng. of ordinary (n.); her. = heraldry; ref. song ‘Pollywollydoodle’ |
| 185 | STOUT | Third | Butler can make me a charge for glasses, but a bob to get a tonic—that’s rather thick! | s to ut1 (see tonic), 2 defs.; ref. Wm. Butler & Co.’s stout, and spectacle prescription charges, continued under R.A. Butler’s Chancellorship |
| 184 | MEREST / WYOMING (DLM) | VHC | Cranial expansion? My wig expands with you! State size, & if extremely bald. Easy terms. Ed. Swellyn Products, Ayr | |
| 1951 (2) | ||||
| 174 | ANACREONTICS | VHC | Free compositions of transoceanic provenance | anag. |
| 171 | SERINGAS | Second | Cut, they produce a sort of resin coagulated with (e.g.) smoke | anag. of resin + gas, & lit. |
| 1951 (1) | ||||
| 164 | NEWTON | VHC | Dealt with light subjects with force and gravity in the modern style | new ton2; N.’s theory of light, law of gravity |
| 162 | TITANESS | Second | You may consider 10 ATS is her rough equivalent | anag. of ten ATS is, & lit.; ATS = female soldiers |
| 159 | SPANIEL | VHC | A pleasin’ creature—to shootin’ types | anag., creature = something created; spaniel = fawning person/gun dog |
| 158 | RATING | VHC | One can get one through larking about … one can! | tin in rag2 & lit. |
| 156 | LAVEROCK | VHC | I’m up early so often carol singing I must have rest and quiet now | lave2, rock2, i.e. rock baby to quieten |
| 1950 (2) | ||||
| 151 | OPEN-SESAME | VHC | They make a charming entrée, plain sausage skins do | open + s, e + same; do3 = ditto |
| 149 | DOMESTIC | VHC | Semi-D.T. with company, altogether so in private | anag. incl. Co. |
| 143 | LAMPREY | Second | Fifty-one, m’sieur, impair means a sucker on the rocks! | L a M. prey; ref. roulette |
| 139 | HECATOMB | VHC | This is of cardinal importance, leading a hundred to a grave conclusion | HE C a tomb, & lit.; sacrifice of 100 cattle (Brewer) |
| 135 | STRIPPED | Third | Pinstriped 3-piece, quite unsuited for bathing, etc. | i.e. p in striped |
| 1950 (1) | ||||
| 130 | MODERN | VHC | Does custom prevent sailors getting fresh? | mode RN; prevent = precede |
| 122 | LEATHER | VHC | There’s a snag in the real material heIl for it’s excessively scorching | anag.; pause before and after m. |
| 1949 (2) | ||||
| 113 | CRICKETER | Second | Will he have muscle trouble when the net’s turn next comes? | crick + rete (rev.), & lit. |
| 109 | PERI | VHC | When a soft answer has turned away wrath, the spirit is composed | p + ire (rev.); Proverbs 15:1 |
| 108 | HACKNEY | VHC | G.P.—Gee, what a kick I get over Bevan’s discomfiture! | hack + anag. of Nye (Bevan); GP = General-Purpose |
| 107 | STRAMASH | VHC | What’s Scotch to do with mother’s interrupting the stag party being taken the wrong way? | ma’s in harts (rev.) |
| 105 | SMITHEREENS | VHC | Meddle with mines and there’s the result! | anag. & lit. |
| 1949 (1) | ||||
| 102 | ARCHIMEDES | VHC | When ill-gotten riches made up his screw the liquor flowed freely | anag.; A.’s screw; pause before “up”; screw = wages |
| 101 | BARRACKS | Third | How the public receives rabbits! | bar racks and lit.; rack8 |
| 99 | SCARABEE | VHC | A flier, in form, a real gem! (Remark about a 100 to one National horse) | c Arab in See!; scarab jewel |
| 95 | SPOONER | VHC | In his own way, a misser of busses? | cryptic def.; busser of misses |
| 1948 (2) | ||||
| 91 | CRETONNE | VHC | For Casement—Hanging and Drawing or The Chair? (Fancy printing such stuff!) | cryptic def.; ref. Roger C., Irish Republican executed 1916 |
| 90 | ROTHER | VHC | Take a second flower from a Sussex spring rose | r other; River R. |
| 89 | SEASON | VHC | Time and Tide’s no revolutionary! | sea’s + no (rev.) |
| 88 | BRISTOL | First | Here Lot’s misguided wife turned round to see | anag. of rib + Lot’s (rev.); episcopal see |
| 87 | SISKIN | VHC | Sliced? Bob’s your uncle, perhaps—with a close run-up—you’ll get a birdie | s is kin; s = shilling |
| 85 | SERGEANT | First | Sort of reagents most sensitive to inert forces | anag.; i.e. lazy soldiers |
| 81 | CHARADE | VHC | Had, if careless, a setter’s way of worrying settees! | anag. incl. care; c. used in clues |
| 1948 (1) | ||||
| 77 | MAROON | VHC | clue missing | |
| 76 | VALEDICTORY | VHC | Hail? Certainly not—though it does take place in a very cold spell | anag. of it a very cold |
| 75 | PETROLEUSES | VHC | They made illuminated public addresses (Paris, 1871; see Proust, Le —— retrouvé) | anag. of see Proust Le; ref. ‘Le temps r.’ |
| 68 | ANTIGROPELOS | VHC | Rain-leg-poots, look you? Not quite; rain-leg-boots? Yes | anag.; Welsh pronunciation |
| 1947 (2) | ||||
| 64 | GLASTONBURY | VHC | Where, traditionally, falls not hail or rain or any snow, or any gust bl—— wrong! | anag.; ref. Tennyson, ‘Morte d’Arthur’ |
| 58 | ECLIPSE | VHC | Facile princeps, or could be, with Carp Fin (like the rest) nowhere | anag. minus anag. of Carp Fin.; “E. first and the rest nowhere”; E. was an unbeaten racehorse painted by Stubbs |
1976-1977
250 Stands the church clock at ten to three? (Anagram)
Ximenes competitions
1968-1969
1010 MOTORIST
1965-1966
902 WINCOPIPE
1960-1961
612 CARGO (Misprints)
1958-1959
508 CUMBERGROUND
500 MOTHERS-IN-LAW
1954 (2)
306 CHICANE / RAMPART (Right and Left)
304 ORLEANS
295 SENSE-ORGANS
1954 (1)
283 SOBER
277 PRODIGALLY
275 ESTOVER (Printer’s Devilry)
273 COUSIN
269 ASCENT
267 TRADE
263 We think so then and we thought so still! (Anagram)
261 DECANTER
259 AGANIPPE
1953 (2)
255 SCUTTLE
251 UNMETHODICAL
249 BALM
237 BASTINADE
1953 (1)
229 MASCOT
225 TOUCHSTONES
219 SOCIALIST
211 CAROL-SINGERS or HOLLY-BERRIES
209 ELAPSION def. IMPERIAL (Wrong Number)
207 PAGEANT
1952 (2)
205 CANTANKEROUS
203 WEATHERS
202 SPALPEEN
194 KNOWLEDGE BOX
1952 (1)
188 Beware the Ides of March (Anagram)
187 GROWLER
186 ASHMOLEAN
183 SAUSAGES
181 HANGABLE
1951 (2)
180 HESPER (Printer’s Devilry)
179 CADRE
173 HATCHING
172 GARNISHER
169 HOUSE
1951 (1)
163 LORICATE
160 RASCAL (Printer’s Devilry)
1950 (2)
154 RABBIT
1950 (1)
128 AMMETER (Printer’s Devilry)
118 MARAVEDI
1949 (2)
116 WATERLOO
114 TAPPIT-HEN
112 SHEET (DLM)
110 LEVIGATE
1949 (1)
104 STARE (Printer’s Devilry)
103 MOSES
98 HUMERI
97 NESTOR
96 INTERLOCK
92 PARTRIDGE
1948 (2)
86 ODOMETER
82 CURARE
80 GONERIL
1948 (1)
67 SURFEIT (DLM)
1947 (2)
62 HERCULES
| Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-1979 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| 1976-1977 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1969-1970 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| 1968-1969 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1967-1968 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| 1965-1966 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1960-1961 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1958-1959 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
| 1954 (2) | 2 (0, 0, 2) | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 1954 (1) | 0 | 3 | 9 | – |
| 1953 (2) | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| 1953 (1) | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 1952 (2) | 0 | 2 | 4 | – |
| 1952 (1) | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 1951 (2) | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 1 | 5 | – |
| 1951 (1) | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 1950 (2) | 2 (0, 1, 1) | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1950 (1) | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
| 1949 (2) | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 1949 (1) | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 3 | 6 | 7 |
| 1948 (2) | 2 (2, 0, 0) | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 1948 (1) | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 1947 (2) | 0 | 2 | 1 | – |