Clues written by C. Short
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C. Short1301122314Nov 2013Dec 20218y 1m
 
 Clue wordAwardClueExplanation
2021-2022
2584GIFT-WRAPPED (Cut & Paste)VHCAppropriately covered for the present, provided they wear rubber aprons for starters, and maybe masks – doctoring at its limitsIFTWRAPPEDG; if + first letters + PPE + d, g
2020-2021
2530STUDENTYVHCEpithet nailing those youngsters tackling university degrees – some taking firsts, somehowanag. of first letters, & lit.
2019-2020
2500ESPAGN(OLETTE STRENG)THENER (Half and Half)VHCWhat doesn’t kill you proverbially is this vacuous Eeyorish anger spent furiously locking and unlocking baranag. incl. E, h; ref. ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’
2482VOX POPSecondResult of work by getting point of view out and about?op x in POV (all rev.), & lit.
2477SPRAT-WEATHERVHCMidwinter hustings at end, clown to come safely through?s prat weather; ref. election
2469GUDDLE (Spoonerisms)VHCGnu decimated and landscape emptied – result of whopping slaughter in the Lowlands?slopping water; first and last letters; ref. Scottish/African lowlands
2018-2019
2460TWEETVHCLeaders of the world employ e-communications to issue a terse messagefirst letters
2016-2017
2330BRAZEN / MOPISH (Right and Left)VHC Penny brought up to date in fashionable blue, flaunting underwear – and contemplating what’s withinmodish with p for d; bra Zen
2325MASONVHCJackie comic has very penetrating pieceso in man; ref. Jackie M., US comedian, Jackie, girls’ comic
2015-2016
2300MISHMASHVHCMelange – i.e. salmagundi, hotchpotch, miscellany and scrambled hash, a little bit of eachfirst letters & lit.
2291AVESTA (Printer’s Devilry)VHCPensioner stripping up a mountain, Pat holds her pash/mina 
2272SNOWMOBILEVHCBoth poles below zero? I’m doubtful this could get me to eitherS, N + anag. incl. 0
2014-2015
2209(O)CT(O)BER (Letters Latent)VHCComing up, openings for retailers – expect busy trading conditions for days leading up to Hallowe’enfirst letters (rev.)

 
HCs awarded to C. Short
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2020-2021
  2547 FILATORY
  2543 CABRETTA
 
2019-2020
  2495 BUNG
  2480 STOCKING FILLERS
  2473 INTERPLAY
  2464 BRAINPOWER
 
2018-2019
  2447 CONGENER
  2430 CLERIHEW
 
2017-2018
  2386 PENNY-A-LINER
  2378 PROPOSAL
 
2016-2017
  2351 RHAGADES
  2309 GLOBETROTTER
 
2015-2016
  2287 VALET
  2274 SIMPATICO
  2270 FENESTRA
  2265 ESPRIT FORT
  2257 BUST-UP / PIT-PAT (Right and Left)
 
2014-2015
  2226 DOUBLE-PARKING
  2220 A twelve-letter ‘Christmas cracker’ (Christmas Cracker)
 
2013-2014
  2170 SAYONARA
  2168 CENTURY (with missing C) (Missing Letter)
  2165 OUT OF ORDER
  2161 FARRAGO
 


Annual Honours record of C. Short
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YearPrizes
(1, 2, 3)
VHCsHCsPosition
2020-20210 1 2
2019-20201 (0, 1, 0) 3 4 19
2018-20190 1 2
2017-20180 0 2
2016-20170 2 2
2015-20160 3 4
2014-20150 1 2
2013-20140 0 4