Clues written by T. W. Melluish
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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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. W. Melluish | 105 | 5 | 14 | 86 | 112 | 124 | Sep 1945 | Jun 1973 | 27y 9m |
| Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972-1973 | ||||
| 10 | LINGERIE | VHC | Heath upsetting Ireland touches, perhaps, Miss Devlin closely | ling + Eire (rev.); ref. Edward H., Bernadette D. |
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1970-1971 | ||||
| 1135 | HILAIRE BELLOC | VHC | Historian, evoked from Clio “Hail rebel” | anag.; C., muse of history |
| 1969-1970 | ||||
| 1097 | PANTOPHAGIST | VHC | A Gargantuan pie for him is a thin stopgap | anag. & lit.; pie2 |
| 1968-1969 | ||||
| 1015 | HOAR-HEADED | Second | Gray, like his swain, his end to be missing | hoar(y)-headed, & lit., ref. G’s Elegy lines 97, 109 |
| 1967-1968 | ||||
| 997 | TREACLE | VHC | Electra complex left by a mother’s smears? | anag.; mother = moth-hunter |
| 980 | OMNIBUSES | VHC | They’re bound to include one man’s opera to stir me—Busoni’s | anag. |
| 962 | PALING | VHC | Boarder, one with about nothing inside, becoming wan | a + nil (rev.) all in PG |
| 1966-1967 | ||||
| 954 | CERATE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | I thought at Customs, “I’ll be in Car/diff—risked hell-spot, everything!” | |
| 949 | BROWSING | VHC | With brigs now being re-adapted, what’s the skipper doing? | anag. |
| 1965-1966 | ||||
| 878 | ENTOMOSTRACA | VHC | Shake to test macaroon: some may stick to the bottom of the vessel | anag. |
| 873 | VETERANS | VHC | Those who never die incredibly never sat in a mess | anag.; “incredibly” working in two ways; “Old soldiers never die...” |
| 1964-1965 | ||||
| 856 | RODOMONTADE | VHC | Gas? A little more deodorant must be sprayed about. | mo (= more) in anag. |
| 847 | FRENETICAL | VHC | Badly left in race round the bend | anag. |
| 829 | FAREWELL | VHC | Remote place near Epsom, causing brief hold-up of the Derby | far Ewell; D. = bowler hat |
| 1963-1964 | ||||
| 804 | DETRUNCATE | Third | Rent Act due to be reformed? A topping suggestion? Trash! | anag.; 2 defs.; trash1, vb. |
| 769 | PENNY | VHC | Webster, dear perhaps to classics lovers, but in this shorter form very cheap | 2 mngs.; ref. Penelope, wife of Odysseus; webster (obs.) = weaver |
| 1962-1963 | ||||
| 743 | CHEMIST | VHC | Boyle, for instance, giving odd mites to a small section of teachers | (tea)ch(ers) + anag.; ref. Edward B., Min. of Education, and Robert B. |
| 712 | RHEUMATICKY | VHC | Having a stiff peg to disperse the mucky air? | anag.; peg = leg |
| 703 | SCAPEMENT | VHC | The seconds require this arrangement, Monsieur, ten paces each way (Both considerably shaken!) | anag. + anag. incl. M |
| 1961-1962 | ||||
| 694 | OSIRIS (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | May/hem, I grant, is often seen at work upon our roads | Mayo |
| 664 | MANIPULATE | VHC | How the hands would work, given tea with a lump in—stirred! | anag. |
| 656 | FIDDLESTICKS | VHC | Musical staves demanding clefs. Kits did also | anag. & lit. |
| 1960-1961 | ||||
| 638 | BUREAUCRAT | VHC | A truer Cuba would upset the dictator in office | anag.; ref. Castro |
| 634 | BEDSTEAD | Third | Theological graduate, seated drunk within, will have a ticking off, if discovered | anag. in BD; ticking = mattress |
| 617 | COLOPHONY | VHC | Behead a titled personage? I’m shy about it resulting in “something lingering—in boiling oil” | lop Hon in coy: ref. “Mikado” |
| 1959-1960 | ||||
| 582 | MARRY | VHC | Give the maid a ring when my boxes arrive | arr. in my |
| 1958-1959 | ||||
| 538 | BANISHING | VHC | Included in strike, I kick. But it means expulsion | I shin in bang |
| 495 | PARTISAN | First | Among ardent Rightists and Leftists a crab is included | is in partan |
| 1957-1958 | ||||
| 486 | BARACAN | VHC | Once past the church, get out the stuff in a heap at the back of the charabanc—it’s stout! | anag. less Ch. |
| 477 | SEDATENESS | VHC | Gravity—due to a fruit interrupting wandering senses | date in anag.; ref. I. Newton |
| 469 | DAISY | Second | It’s a bloomer to be seen walking on the College lawn, but a fresher is almost impossible! | cryptic def.; fresh as a d. |
| 1956-1957 | ||||
| 417 | SINECURE | VHC | Sounds like the man waiting in the one-and-nines—an unexacting task | ‘ciné queuer’ |
| 386 | CLEITHRAL | VHC | “Quite over-canopied …” With luscious woodbine? No! You spoil it all—With half cheroots! | anag. incl. cher(oots); ref. M.N.D. II.1.251; w. cigarette brand |
| 1955-1956 | ||||
| 382 | ABSTAIN | VHC | Jack Spot’s spare counsel? | AB stain; ref. Jack ‘Spot’ Comer, East End gangster cleared of stabbing charge |
| 373 | PRESTONPANS | VHC | Triumph of person with kilt, upsetting to person with pants | anag. |
| 369 | BERET | VHC | That which plunges into obscurity the French crown tortures the heart of Debrett | anag. of (D)ebret(t); crown = head; ref. ‘Debretts Peerage’ |
| 356 | METOPOSCOPY | VHC | “Phiz” quiz; oddly enough, “Poy” comes top! | anag.; ref. cartoonists H. K. Browne and Percy Fearon; phiz = face |
| 1954 (2) | ||||
| 297 | CONTRAPUNTAL | VHC | Nocturnal tap dancing might give you a music qualification | anag. |
| 287 | MANCHESTER | VHC | You’d better give a new order for macs there—an indefinite number | anag. incl. n, & lit. |
| 1954 (1) | ||||
| 263 | We think so then and we thought so still! (Anagram) | VHC | “Look,” I told Hunt, “shews the Tensing, what?” | Holman Hunt, friend of E. Lear, and Everest |
| 1953 (2) | ||||
| 241 | MANDOLINE | VHC | For wielders of the quill one’s lot in life goes on being the same | man + do. (ditto) + line (= lot in life, rare) |
| 1953 (1) | ||||
| 225 | TOUCHSTONES | Third | Give the fool two testrils—or testers | Touchstone + s (= shilling); tester, testril = sixpence; ref. AYLI |
| 215 | BUCKFASTLEIGH | First | An order of black hue, given gifts, here reconstructed | anag. & lit.; B. Abbey (reconstructed post 1882), Benedictines “black monks” |
| 213 | LEMONADE | VHC | One feels after this squash the fresher might be accepted in the world of the ‘beaux esprits’ | a in Le Monde (Fr.); fresher = refreshed/University student |
| 211 | CAROL-SINGERS or HOLLY-BERRIES | VHC | Waits near the mistletoe but scares no girl improperly | anag.; wait1 (n.) |
| 207 | PAGEANT | VHC | Exhibition secured by worker’s application to a quantity of reading matter | page ant |
| 1952 (2) | ||||
| 204 | ROSTER (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | I find no rime for the prophet of autumn, Alf/red | frost erred; ref. A. Tennyson |
| 197 | SCALES | VHC | Mixed class in French for graduates | anag. of classe (Fr.) |
| 194 | KNOWLEDGE BOX | VHC | Chump, you must observe the 50 limit in the middle of Ken Wood | L edge in know box3 |
| 1952 (1) | ||||
| 191 | DENIGRATE | VHC | Run down? Diet range should be altered | anag. |
| 189 | SALTIRE | VHC | One of the Herald’s charges in spreading ridicule about the Left | L in satire; ref. Daily H. newspaper; heraldic mng. of charge |
| 186 | ASHMOLEAN | VHC | Alan’s Home for Disorderly Constituents should be visited at Oxford | anag.; ref. A. P. Herbert, MP for Oxford University, and ‘Misleading Cases’ |
| 182 | MISTLETOE | VHC | Miss Buss could hardly have understood? | cryptic def., understood = stood under; ref. anon. rhyme,“Miss B. and Miss Beale,” see ODQ. |
| 1951 (2) | ||||
| 178 | HIDEOUS | VHC | Wouldn’t it be ghastly if the House on reassembling were about the same? | id. in anag.; ref. 1951 Gen. Election |
| 177 | DESOLATE | Third | Such people often assume weeds seed a lot, all over the place | anag.; widow’s weeds; weed2 |
| 174 | ANACREONTICS | VHC | If the King supported one of these efforts of Cowley, someone would be credited with a plot | an acre on tic(K); indic. of singular; ref. Abraham C., English poet and Royalist |
| 173 | HATCHING | VHC | Long sitting required to get a new bill through | 2 mngs.; hatch2,3 |
| 171 | SERINGAS | VHC | Original producers of elastic shows reassign the characters in a different order | anag. |
| 170 | GUINEA | Third | There’d be some change from this if you had gin and a splash in France | anag. incl. eau (Fr.) |
| 168 | PIPS (Misprints) | VHC | Fig leaves theme on the wrong side of grandpa’s plate | these; cryptic def. |
| 1951 (1) | ||||
| 167 | PARMESAN | VHC | A carefully disposed man pares cheese | anag. |
| 166 | RACHIDES | VHC | The artist finds fault with these supporting columns. They shouldn’t be with fillets | RA chides; fillets, archit. and fish |
| 1950 (2) | ||||
| 151 | OPEN-SESAME | VHC | This Key to the Golden Treasury by literal analysis gives a poem sense | anag.; ref. Ali Baba, Palgrave |
| 139 | HECATOMB | Third | Macbeth nothing moved by numerous victims? | anag. incl. 0 |
| 135 | STRIPPED | VHC | Mamma’s state after a juicy expression the holy man gave vent to | St ripped; ref. breast-feeding; sv. mammalia |
| 1950 (1) | ||||
| 119 | UMBLE-PIE | VHC | Bible digested by cassowary now returned—eaten with regrets. (N.B. Not Timbuctoo—between Caius and Rugby) | anag. of Pible in emu (rev.); ref. M.W.W. II.3.7, and nonsense verse ‘If I were a cassowary’ [see comments] |
| 1949 (2) | ||||
| 115 | MISNOMER | VHC | False denomination deriving from immersion without the head being worried about? | anag. less i; baptism |
| 114 | TAPPIT-HEN | VHC | Hexa-pint pot with hepta-pint capacity! | anag. |
| 113 | CRICKETER | VHC | Fender was mainly on the hearth | 2 mngs,; ref. Dickens, ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’, and Percy F., captain of Surrey 1921-31 |
| 112 | SHEET (DLM) | VHC | M.O. Lashes The Run Down Patient—Corpses Only Need Winding? | |
| 110 | LEVIGATE | VHC | Polish ambassador’s trapped opening letters from Vilna | Vi in legate; ref. Vilna ghetto library |
| 106 | HELIOTROPE | VHC | Hue and cry after Persephone of the North, if you get the figure of speech | io following Hel + trope |
| 1949 (1) | ||||
| 104 | STARE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Never tru/e—Dunstable straws or woman’s promises! | |
| 98 | HUMERI | Third | Nought would make him rue? These arms might | anag.; ref. King John, V.7, closing lines |
| 96 | INTERLOCK | VHC | I’ll be put in a grave fix if you break the engagement | i.e. gives inter + lock when split |
| 95 | SPOONER | VHC | Shover who might have attributed his pre-eminent position to queue knowledge | 2 mngs.; spoon = shove; New College |
| 94 | SARDELLE | Second | French Chamber split by diversion of red herring | anag. in salle (Fr.) |
| 93 | BUMBLE-PUPPY | VHC | If baby’s bread and butter sandwiches be plum jam, I suggest only half a round | anag. of be plum inside ‘buppy’; game of 9 holes |
| 92 | PARTRIDGE | VHC | A number of golfing strokes. Earth goes up. Earth comes down. That’s a kind of game! | par + dirt (rev.) + Ge |
| 1948 (2) | ||||
| 86 | ODOMETER | VHC | O for a change in moderate reform to make this revolution totter! | anag. of moderate with o for a |
| 81 | CHARADE | VHC | Like a rebus, ‘concerning’ (Lat.) on ‘conveyance’ (abbrev.) | chara. + de; i.e. re ’bus; charabanc |
| 80 | GONERIL | First | Ignore fifty being disbanded? Father couldn’t; she was | anag. incl. L; Lear I.4.291 “fifty of my followers at a clap” |
| 79 | SALOME | VHC | Her pa was decidedly not anti-her pas | cryptic def.; i.e. Herod Antipas; pas = dance steps |
| 1948 (1) | ||||
| 73 | RHODESIA | VHC | Power monkeys around with a British territory | od in rhesi + a |
| 71 | MITRAILLEUSE | VHC | You can have the piece in twelve pieces: I’ll measure it | anag.; i.e. 12 letters |
| 70 | GARBAGE | VHC | Refuse to put on period costume | garb + age |
| 69 | MISANTHROPE | Second | Puts no more trust in man than in a promise broken | anag. in anag. |
| 66 | CHRISTMAS PIE or TURKEY CARPET | VHC | “Pretty flattening to the poor,” observed Dr. Spooner, who kept a first as second, preferring to see the WAACs eat with a bottle or two about | i.e. ‘patterning to the floor’; ‘back-seat with a wattle’, i.e. kept a turkey as car pet; turkeys have wattles |
| 1947 (2) | ||||
| 61 | CREASY | VHC | Should your bags be thus corrugated iron! | cryptic def.; corr. = wrinkled; iron, vb. imper. |
| 56 | SHEEP-RUN | VHC | Once you get the range, the Hun on the Spree will be in pieces | anag.; ref. R. Spree, Berlin |
| 53 | SHIN | Third | Tramp getting on well may become a Cabinet Minister | Shin(well); ref. Emanuel S., Min. of Fuel and Power; tramp, vb. |
| 1947 (1) | ||||
| 52 | RATION | VHC | A bit drawn out, but a speech is nothing without it | cryptic def.; oration less 0 |
| 51 | LLANELLY | VHC | Welsh town shows what English king’s last words were all about | all (rev.) + Nelly; ref. Charles II, “let not poor Nelly starve” |
| 47 | GLOCKENSPIEL | First | Sounds like Bellman’s or Ringwood’s instrument—especially after clog-dance | anag. of clog + ‘kens Peel’; ref. song ‘John Peel’, “Ranter and Ringwood and Bellman and True” |
| 46 | LYSANDER | VHC | Ordered “Proceed moon,” Darnley’s ’plane crashed in Athens 404 B.C. | ref. MND V.1.262; anag.; aircraft; Spartan admiral |
| 45 | RATTENED | VHC | How the scab was treated, the person in attendance being dissipated | anag. of attender |
| 44 | PARIS | VHC | Town with about 101 bally letters couldn’t be longer in any case | i.e. parisyllabic less CI bally (rev.); case = inflection |
| 40 | Suitable Present (Suitable Present) | VHC | Vermouth for Orsino | “Excess of it” Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1 |
| 1946 (2) | ||||
| 38 | WIND-HOVER | VHC | Bird who goes round India and back upside-down | Ind in who + rev. (rev.) |
| 35 | RIFE (DLM) | Second | Friend Withershins!” (manifest mirth!) | |
| 34 | STAROSTA | VHC | “Women in uniform? O nonsense!” returned the Red leader | ATS O rats! (all rev.) |
| 28 | HELCOSIS | VHC | Plain, flat, square member rising in his inflammatory state | socle (rev.) in his |
| 1945 (2) | ||||
| 26 | HAWSER (Misprints) | First | ’Twixt tower and moat | boat; cryptic def., i.e. tow-er |
| 25 | WERGILD | VHC | Eric’s girl upset inside about being married | anag. in wed; eric = blood-fine |
| 1945 (1) | ||||
| 6 | EGLANTINE | Third | clue missing | |
1973-1974
66 NONSENSE
Ximenes competitions
1970-1971
1127 TRAYBIT
1119 RONDE (Printer’s Devilry)
1969-1970
1100 BEAU(C)LER(C) (Letters Latent)
1089 ENCLOISTER
1071 ORACLE (Printer’s Devilry)
1066 RAVE / PAIR (DLM)
1062 CALLING-CRAB
1968-1969
1041 TEA-LEAD
1023 CONSOLE
1019 DISCORD (Misprints)
1967-1968
1000 THOUSAND
975 HALE
971 MAGOTPIE / ANECDOTE (Right and Left)
958 DRY MEASURE
1966-1967
945 OBLITERATE
935 MALAPROP
929 AMPHITHEATRE
924 MIMESTER / PECULATE (Right and Left)
920 ARISTATE (Printer’s Devilry)
916 DIAPASON
1965-1966
902 WINCOPIPE
868 DANDER / TOUPEE (Right and Left)
1964-1965
851 Sire & Dam (Sire & Dam)
839 GINGER (Printer’s Devilry)
834 CARRIED
832 PENNY-WISE (Misprints)
817 WYLIE-COATS
1963-1964
790 PETER-SEE-ME (Sire and Dam)
777 TAILOR-BIRD
760 METAMORPHOSE
1962-1963
746 INTERMIT (Printer’s Devilry)
730 ARCH-PIRATE
725 SILENUS
700 SOLOMON
1961-1962
678 TESSELLATED
676 TRELLIS (DLM)
669 DRUM
651 NIPCHEESE
1960-1961
642 SEETHER (Printer’s Devilry)
1959-1960
590 STATANT (Printer’s Devilry)
573 SCAPEGALLOWS
555 JURYWOMAN
547 STORMY
1958-1959
525 MORALE (Printer’s Devilry)
521 SOUP
519 RIDICULE (DLM)
517 CAROTID
508 CUMBERGROUND
504 LEAD-LINE
1956-1957
434 CARTON
421 DOVETAIL
415 When the snow lay round about (Anagram)
408 BILLET
404 POLENTA
395 SCALE-ARMOUR
390 HESITATE (Printer’s Devilry)
1955-1956
377 MALISON
351 LUSTRE
334 CHEROOT
1954 (2)
304 ORLEANS
302 MARTIN
285 PARALYSES
1954 (1)
273 COUSIN
271 TRIPLET
265 THERMAE
1953 (2)
255 SCUTTLE
251 UNMETHODICAL
247 VAMPIRE
239 GENISTA (Printer’s Devilry)
237 BASTINADE
235 ASPHETERISM
1953 (1)
231 PREAMBLE
229 MASCOT
227 CATEGORIES
221 BUNTHORNE
217 DEPOSIT
209 ELAPSION def. IMPERIAL (Wrong Number)
1952 (2)
203 WEATHERS
201 AMETHYST
200 ACCOUNT
196 SHAMAN / SERIAN (Right and Left)
195 WALLABAS
1952 (1)
193 TRADUCER
192 WATSON
187 GROWLER
185 STOUT
184 MEREST / WYOMING (DLM)
181 HANGABLE
1951 (2)
180 HESPER (Printer’s Devilry)
176 SPIGOT
175 HAIR-LINE
169 HOUSE
1951 (1)
165 CABBAGE
1950 (2)
154 RABBIT
153 SAMISENS
149 DOMESTIC
143 LAMPREY
1950 (1)
121 SNAPSHOT
1949 (2)
117 LION
116 WATERLOO
107 STRAMASH
105 SMITHEREENS
1949 (1)
102 ARCHIMEDES
100 Word containing ADDING
99 SCARABEE
1948 (2)
90 ROTHER
88 BRISTOL
87 SISKIN
82 CURARE
1948 (1)
76 VALEDICTORY
1947 (2)
58 ECLIPSE
| Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-1974 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1972-1973 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1970-1971 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
| 1969-1970 | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
| 1968-1969 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 0 | 3 | – |
| 1967-1968 | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
| 1966-1967 | 0 | 2 | 6 | – |
| 1965-1966 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
| 1964-1965 | 0 | 3 | 5 | – |
| 1963-1964 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 1 | 3 | – |
| 1962-1963 | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
| 1961-1962 | 0 | 3 | 4 | – |
| 1960-1961 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 2 | 1 | 17 |
| 1959-1960 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – |
| 1958-1959 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 1 | 6 | – |
| 1957-1958 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 2 | 0 | 15 |
| 1956-1957 | 0 | 2 | 7 | – |
| 1955-1956 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| 1954 (2) | 0 | 2 | 3 | – |
| 1954 (1) | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
| 1953 (2) | 0 | 1 | 6 | – |
| 1953 (1) | 2 (1, 0, 1) | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| 1952 (2) | 0 | 3 | 5 | – |
| 1952 (1) | 0 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| 1951 (2) | 2 (0, 0, 2) | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 1951 (1) | 0 | 2 | 1 | – |
| 1950 (2) | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 2 | 4 | 18 |
| 1950 (1) | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 1949 (2) | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| 1949 (1) | 2 (0, 1, 1) | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 1948 (2) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 1948 (1) | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 1947 (2) | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| 1947 (1) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| 1946 (2) | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945 (2) | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 1 | 0 | – |
| 1945 (1) | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 0 | 0 | – |