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Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
Also listed as | |
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Mrs E. M. Simmonds | 65 | 3 | 8 | 54 | 80 | 76 | Apr 1947 | May 1971 | 24y 1m | Mrs Simmonds |
Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
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1972-1973 | ||||
5 | SCEUOPHYLAX | VHC | One involved with holy eastern cross and cups | anag. incl. E, X, & lit. |
Ximenes competitions | ||||
1970-1971 | ||||
1131 | CAROUSER (Misprints) | VHC | Commonly butter is dear to an Italian consumer | buster: caro (It.) + user |
1127 | TRAYBIT | VHC | Waiter’s somewhat meagre tip? | tray bit; bit = somewhat |
1969-1970 | ||||
1106 | LEXICOGRAPHY | VHC | Occupation making one excel verbally—involving endless hack work and semi-drudgery | anag. of I ‘XL’ hac(k) op. (drud)gery; ref. S. Johnson’s def. of ‘lexicographer’ |
1968-1969 | ||||
1049 | SLANGWHANGER | VHC | Ham for lunch in anglers’ mess | whang in anag.; lunch= thick slice |
1967-1968 | ||||
1002 | PILLAGE | VHC | Drop a fag-end in the nuclear plant and you’ll get the sack | lag in pile |
987 | THING (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | The usual ba/r and pastime was the hip variety | |
1966-1967 | ||||
935 | MALAPROP | Second | Matrimonially a little aversion initially gets support from me | M,a,l,a + prop, & lit. |
933 | COTTABUS | VHC | Tots were cast in this Greek play, but act so atrociously | anag. |
920 | ARISTATE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Pay that to Pi/nner for the bird. She’s nipped into my box | box hedge |
1965-1966 | ||||
902 | WINCOPIPE | VHC | The Baroness’s title was locally a success but the County has muscled in! | Co. in win pipe; but = butt, pipe; ref. ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ by Baroness Orczy |
878 | ENTOMOSTRACA | Second | Some of the lower classes subsisting in the main on cat’s meat or nuts | anag. |
1964-1965 | ||||
843 | PRISTINE | VHC | Prime Minister loses head and explodes under instruction to perform quietly | p + anag. less M |
829 | FAREWELL | VHC | Travel in comfort? We’re made to hang about so long! | fare well, anag. in fall; made = shuffled |
1963-1964 | ||||
804 | DETRUNCATE | VHC | Prune fudge recipe with date and nut | anag. incl. rec.; fudge2, vb. imper. |
796 | STRAKE (or STRAIK) (Misprints) | Second | No modern band presents “Skater’s Waltz”—that’s very old hat! | hit; anag., 2 defs. |
773 | FIT-OUT | Second | Some paraphernalia to put into stuck-up Mac’s gin and tonic! | to in if (rev.) + ut1 ; see gin7; tonic = first note of a scale |
764 | SHIMMY-SHAKE | VHC | His Highness may kiss me? That’s enough to produce shudders from a slip of a girl! | anag. incl. HH, shimmy2 + shake |
750 | SEVEN-FIFTY / CROSSWORDS (Right and Left) | VHC | Hybrid controversy puzzles Devon Cattle Club Laboratory leaders—makes the old vet sniff! | cross words; DCCL, anag. incl. ye (the old) |
1962-1963 | ||||
746 | INTERMIT (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Wise Counsel in w/ig ate ices. Now wind discomforts with gas | |
738 | ANAESTHETIC | First | I can see that, mistakenly, a number of people like snow! | anag.; that which numbs; cocaine |
728 | ALDERMA(N) (N’s missing in def.) (Letters Latent) | VHC | I’d want Mother to make marmalade—a big pot for the old pri-ce | i.e. anag. of (Ma)rmalade; 2 defs. |
1960-1961 | ||||
626 | WOMAN-TIRED | VHC | Caudle was extraordinarily warm—no diet for a wife feeling the effects of labour! | anag.; ref. ‘Mrs C.’s Curtain Lectures’ by D. Jerrold |
624 | PSYCHIATER (DLM) | VHC | Dog-lovers! I treat offensive mites, bugs, etc. Stop itchy ears with Luggolene! | |
621 | CHASE | VHC | clue not given [see comments] | |
1959-1960 | ||||
586 | HEBDOMADARY | VHC | Ingeniously hard, maybe—absorbing to work at—like X’s puzzles! | do (= work at) in anag. |
582 | MARRY | VHC | What your grandmother may not do with you when your monkey is up! | yr. ram (rev.) |
555 | JURYWOMAN | VHC | The lady panellist has won my high-class jar in a raffle | anag. incl. U; raffle2 = jumble |
1958-1959 | ||||
529 | BUTTY-COLLIER | VHC | A fellow hand in mine may give a coy little rub | anag. |
525 | MORALE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | One simply must lick the gu/tter: can’t be stuck-up! | |
519 | RIDICULE (DLM) | VHC | “What makes a maid cruel?” I cry. “A crude male” is the mocking reply | |
1957-1958 | ||||
482 | LEASING-MAKER | VHC | Who may provoke a riot? Mother, in a green silk negligé | ma in anag. |
456 | PLAFOND | VHC | High up in the French Chamber—plastered with decorations—reshuffle and flop! | anag. |
451 | MEGAPODE | VHC | I give the undeveloped egg a parking-place in a queerly-constructed dome | eg(g) a P in anag., & lit. |
443 | HALF-SEAS-OVER | VHC | I’m somewhat top-heavy—others (reduced to a skeleton) have false busts | anag. of o(the)rs have false; top-heavy = tipsy |
1956-1957 | ||||
390 | HESITATE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Should Father shoot a March Hare, Mother? Dis/aster! | |
386 | CLEITHRAL | VHC | Quite unlike the Open Air Theatre—taking their call disgracefully | anag. |
1955-1956 | ||||
382 | ABSTAIN | Second | Don’t use your ballot-paper as a book-mark | a b stain |
377 | MALISON | VHC | A bit of Billingsgate salmon I dissected | anag.; B. = foul language |
351 | LUSTRE | VHC | A splendid film on China—there’s something magnetic about the star-part | st(ar) in lure |
338 | SHE-ASS | VHC | Dicky’s dam cheek—embracing something devastating! | HE in sass; dicky2 |
1954 (2) | ||||
316 | BATHROOM | VHC | clue not given | |
304 | ORLEANS | VHC | My maid had a number of charges to answer—so have I | orle ans.; ref. trial of Joan of Arc, Maid of O. |
300 | COCCO | First | An assortment of 300! Love-a-duck! Dished up on Sunday and, maybe, dispatched by Friday! | anag. of CCC 0 0; Sunday Island, Man Friday; ref. puzzle; 16 breedest, 23 cocco, 30 pucer, 33 stots |
287 | MANCHESTER | VHC | You’ll see an infinite number in wet macs there! | anag. incl. n; wet = crazy |
285 | PARALYSES | First | Acts like a number of members: gets especially agitated about salary revision! | anag. in anag. of esp.; numb-er |
1954 (1) | ||||
283 | SOBER | VHC | Judges are proverbially frightful bores! | anag.; sober as a J. |
271 | TRIPLET | VHC | Stumble over half the Great Dane’s leash | trip + (Ham)let; leash = set of 3 |
269 | ASCENT | VHC | When the penny drops you should get a rise! | as cent |
1953 (2) | ||||
253 | DERATION | VHC | Neat, Dior fashions—what they did to our clothes! | anag.; ref. end of clothes rationing, 1949 |
249 | BALM | VHC | The comfort that comes in retiring from labour | hidden rev. |
243 | LODESTAR | VHC | Heavenly guidance for a Saint in a terrible ordeal | St. in anag. |
241 | MANDOLINE | VHC | It was perhaps to me that the gallant Chevalier sang “Madelon” in variety | anag.; ref. Maurice C. and song “La Madelon De La Victoire” |
1953 (1) | ||||
229 | MASCOT | Second | Endless stomach disorder may be the outcome of Christmas pudding! | anag. less h; gifts hidden in C. p. |
221 | BUNTHORNE | Third | “A cursed thing”: often pursued by a crocodile | dialogue after ‘If you’re anxious for to shine,’ and “two and two”; crocodile = line (of maidens) |
215 | BUCKFASTLEIGH | VHC | Here one might get worsted by a famous Moor, shaking huge black fist! | anag.; B., edge of Dartmoor Associated with wool trade; Othello IV. i, striking of Desdemona |
213 | LEMONADE | VHC | Final half of Sale! One mad hectic squash! | (sa)le + anag. |
1952 (2) | ||||
206 | PIEPOWDER | VHC | Old rustic bench, where disorderly types might confront the copper in authority | pie2 + d. in power |
195 | WALLABAS | VHC | We have reddish colouring and abound in S.A.—just what all the nice girls love in fellows | AB in wallas; “all the nice girls love a sailor” |
1952 (1) | ||||
189 | SALTIRE | VHC | An ordinary, plain X, but art lies in its construction | anag.; heraldic mng. of ordinary (n.) |
187 | GROWLER | VHC | Angler without line misses an intending biter! | row in (an)gler |
184 | MEREST / WYOMING (DLM) | Third | Showing my age? laughs Fifi Donc, Star of “Old Glory,”—not me! Strenuous living plus Peptona Purest Parsnip-Juice keeps me youthful! | |
1949 (1) | ||||
101 | BARRACKS | VHC | Where ardent spirits are brought to book—and confined | b + arracks, bar racks, & lit. |
1948 (1) | ||||
71 | MITRAILLEUSE | VHC | Delivered a deadly sort of grape. Gunners ill after it in French division | it RA ill in Meuse (Départment of France); grapeshot |
1947 (1) | ||||
48 | ADONIS (Knock-knock) | VHC | —— ’utch ’d be worth two bucks to ’im | a doe in his |
Ximenes competitions
1970-1971
1162 BEAM-ENDS
1145 GENIPAP
1140 CALLOUS
1119 RONDE (Printer’s Devilry)
1115 FLESH-POTTERY
1969-1970
1091 WENCESLAS
1089 ENCLOISTER
1084 ANGEL-FOOD
1076 NEFAST (Misprints)
1062 CALLING-CRAB
1968-1969
1054 PINACOTHECA
1045 SPLIT / MOUTH (Right and Left)
1010 MOTORIST
1967-1968
1000 THOUSAND
984 Word containing a first name (Anonymous)
958 DRY MEASURE
1966-1967
949 BROWSING
936 MINI SKIRTS
929 AMPHITHEATRE
911 DRAGON
907 SORITES (Misprints)
1965-1966
900 PARAMECIA or PAREOEANS
894 WITENAGEMOT
873 VETERANS
868 DANDER / TOUPEE (Right and Left)
864 PATERNAL
1964-1965
856 RODOMONTADE
851 Sire & Dam (Sire & Dam)
847 FRENETICAL
839 GINGER (Printer’s Devilry)
1963-1964
800 Charlemagne, Emperor of the West (Anagram)
786 METAMERES (Printer’s Devilry)
780 NOBLEST (and Eximenamination)
769 PENNY
760 METAMORPHOSE
1962-1963
725 SILENUS
1960-1961
600 The Light Brigade, noble Six Hundred (Anagram)
1959-1960
551 PITCHER
547 STORMY
543 NUTRIA / ERMINE (Right and Left)
1958-1959
538 BANISHING
534 RAIL-SPLITTER
521 SOUP
512 NAYLOR (Libel)
504 LEAD-LINE
500 MOTHERS-IN-LAW
1957-1958
477 SEDATENESS
473 LISSOME (Printer’s Devilry)
464 STRAWED
1956-1957
430 GAMIN (Printer’s Devilry)
421 DOVETAIL
412 SERVIETTE
1955-1956
373 PRESTONPANS
364 HELLEBORE
356 METOPOSCOPY
329 HAMADRYAD
1954 (2)
306 CHICANE / RAMPART (Right and Left)
297 CONTRAPUNTAL
295 SENSE-ORGANS
293 CAB
289 CISTERN
1954 (1)
281 SCRAPS def. LOCALS (Wrong Number)
263 We think so then and we thought so still! (Anagram)
1953 (2)
251 UNMETHODICAL
239 GENISTA (Printer’s Devilry)
237 BASTINADE
235 ASPHETERISM
1953 (1)
231 PREAMBLE
227 CATEGORIES
211 CAROL-SINGERS or HOLLY-BERRIES
1952 (2)
204 ROSTER (Printer’s Devilry)
200 ACCOUNT
1952 (1)
191 DENIGRATE
1951 (2)
180 HESPER (Printer’s Devilry)
168 PIPS (Misprints)
1949 (1)
104 STARE (Printer’s Devilry)
100 Word containing ADDING
97 NESTOR
95 SPOONER
1948 (1)
75 PETROLEUSES
Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
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1972-1973 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
Ximenes competitions | ||||
1970-1971 | 0 | 2 | 5 | – |
1969-1970 | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
1968-1969 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
1967-1968 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
1966-1967 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 2 | 5 | 12 |
1965-1966 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 1 | 5 | – |
1964-1965 | 0 | 2 | 4 | – |
1963-1964 | 2 (0, 2, 0) | 3 | 5 | 4 |
1962-1963 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 2 | 1 | 19 |
1960-1961 | 0 | 3 | 1 | – |
1959-1960 | 0 | 3 | 3 | – |
1958-1959 | 0 | 3 | 6 | – |
1957-1958 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
1956-1957 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
1955-1956 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 3 | 4 | 10 |
1954 (2) | 2 (2, 0, 0) | 3 | 5 | 5 |
1954 (1) | 0 | 3 | 2 | – |
1953 (2) | 0 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
1953 (1) | 2 (0, 1, 1) | 2 | 3 | 6 |
1952 (2) | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
1952 (1) | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 2 | 1 | 14 |
1951 (2) | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
1949 (1) | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
1948 (1) | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
1947 (1) | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |