Clues written by L. E. Eyres
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L. E. Eyres4336346852Oct 1945Oct 196520y 0m
 
 Clue wordAwardClueExplanation
Ximenes competitions
1965-1966
873VETERANSVHCOld soldiers, or perhaps airmen, or possibly even tarsanag.
1964-1965
843PRISTINEFirst“Enspirit” is wrongly spelt: that’s archaicanag.; ref. OED, latest example 1658
1962-1963
708HEARTSThirdThey’re more valuable than diamonds: one kind is worth more than a whole tiara2 mngs.; suit rank; i.e. one that is kind; ref. Tennyson, “K. h. are more than coronets”
1961-1962
669DRUMThirdMelodious at a distance, O.K.—a feature of well-fed ruminantshidden; ref. Omar Khayyam, XIII, “rumble of a distant d.”
1960-1961
626WOMAN-TIREDVHCCut up and truly blue, like poor Dr. Proudiemow (rev.) + anti-red; ref. Barchester Chronicles
1959-1960
573SCAPEGALLOWSVHCFamily severs connection with ne’er-do-well—sends remittance instead: thus he becomes an utter criminalscapeg(race) allows
1956-1957
400Word with 400 theme (Quatercentenary)VHCMother’s up against x: she’s got an ’orrible temper too—all too ready to “lay on” (7)Macduff; ma + CD + (h)uff; ref. Macbeth V.8
386CLEITHRALVHCEven poor men would dislike a home that was not so, and to nearly all the rich it would be shatteringanag. less h
1955-1956
334CHEROOTVHCChurchill, for instance, in a small bed: he’d prefer a longer one!hero in cot, & lit.
1954 (2)
306CHICANE / RAMPART (Right and Left)VHCX must get the stick for this piece of duplicity, fraud and guile: that sort of thing is no longer defensiblechi cane; ramp art
291APAGOGEVHCThis should lead to a conviction, and you’ll find one of the servants has to go insidego in a page2
289CISTERNVHCThis ought to hold water: if A = 1, B = 2, etc., presumably ——!i.e. C is tern2
1954 (1)
261DECANTERVHCFlagon calling (not in vain!) for a Horatian Odedecanter (L.) = let me be sung, & lit.
1953 (1)
223MELODRAMESecondOne could easily be made out of a Romance about Rommelanag. of a de Rommel, & lit.; de = about in Romance (= Fr.)
1952 (1)
192WATSONVHCD’you hear what play’s running? What a chorus! Quite Boeotian—M.D., in fact!‘what’s on’; for W. as chorus see R. A. Knox ‘Essays in Satire,’ pp. 163-4
187GROWLERVHC“Your pint-stowp,” Mr. Jarndyce. Does that convey anything? It used to!3 mngs.; i.e. US pron. of ‘stoup’; one found in growlery; ref. John J. in ‘Bleak House’, ch. 8
185STOUTVHCDo I stand that?, said Caesar. Yes, it was the opposite sort he couldn’t stand!sto ut, Latin; ref. JC I.2.194, “Let me have men around me that are fat”
1951 (2)
176SPIGOTSecondChildless at first, in the end my wife presented me with Pegsp, I got
1951 (1)
160RASCAL (Printer’s Devilry)VHCThere’s nought so dea/f, love, to a neat mammaneat = bovine
158RATINGVHCFault-finding, wherein a fastidious girl takes delight2 defs.; ref. song “Ship Ahoy”; “All the nice girls love a sailor”
1950 (2)
154RABBITVHCMaster at tennis? No, indeed, he’s not got beyond the initial stageRabbi + t(ennis), & lit.
143LAMPREYVHCSet light to King of Spain; finally extinguished King of Englandlamp rey (= king, Sp.); ref. death of Henry I
139HECATOMBSecondWhen a couple of toms come to grips, and biting begins, there’s bloodshed galorehe-cat/tom overlapping + b [see comments]
1950 (1)
130MODERNVHCThis kind of German is absorbed in die Wacht am Oder nowadayshidden; R. Oder, post-war German border [strictly, ‘an der Oder’]; cf. song ‘Die Wacht am Rhein’
1949 (2)
111PLEASANTVHCExcuses aren’t acceptablepleas an’t
108HACKNEYVHCIt’s sometimes wicked to use too much2 mngs.; H. Wick
1949 (1)
104STARE (Printer’s Devilry)VHCMu/d in your eye, Mr. Stalin! Always be a hero! 
1948 (2)
81CHARADEFirstMeans employed to indicate that Mr. Elton would house Miss Woodhousecryptic def.; ref. ‘Emma’, Ch. IX, courtship charade
1948 (1)
66CHRISTMAS PIE or TURKEY CARPETVHCVarious types of feast provide rich fare and equally rich pastimesi.e. Christmas pie (= mixed types of); anag.
1947 (2)
61CREASYFirstHistorian describing the rout of the Armada gives the credit to a midshipmancr. Easy; ref. Sir Edward Shepherd C., and fictional character Midshipman Easy
60HEELVHCWhere does gin catch the wicked? In the elbowJob 18:9 and hidden
1947 (1)
52RATIONThirdTo exceed this allowance by a bare fraction is a sinaberration is anag. of bare ration
47GLOCKENSPIELVHCInstrument which always has a lock, but not always a keycryptic def.; lock hidden
1946 (2)
39GNATHICVHCLittle Gaius, hating being chewed up, coins an uncomplimentary epithet for Orbiliusanag. incl. C; ref. O. Pupillus, strict teacher of G. Catullus
35RIFE (DLM)VHCMy old friend, and too ample of girth.” 
32TEMERAIREVHCH.M.S. Three RiversTeme R Aire
29RATANVHCCane used by headmaster at an “execution”hidden
1945 (2)
26HAWSER (Misprints)VHCVictory was once secured by this warning cablewarping; cryptic def.; HMS Victory
25WERGILDVHCWhat price the life of a working unit in the Desert?erg in wild
15ARRANGESVHCOrders rang out: Behold the god of war!rang in Ares
1945 (1)
13IPOMAEAVHCSell the fruit of this plant for a penny? The idea!poma (L.) for d in idea
11IMMANACLEVHCHow to confine Cpl. Rind to barracks?cryptic def.; ref. Milton, ‘Comus’: “this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled”
10ACROSSVHCclue missing

 
HCs awarded to L. E. Eyres
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Ximenes competitions
 
1964-1965
  856 RODOMONTADE
  851 Sire & Dam (Sire & Dam)
  812 ABRUPT / TISANE (Right and Left)
 
1963-1964
  800 Charlemagne, Emperor of the West (Anagram)
  782 SWELL
  773 FIT-OUT
  769 PENNY
 
1962-1963
  743 CHEMIST
  728 ALDERMA(N) (N’s missing in def.) (Letters Latent)
  725 SILENUS
  717 STAR-MAN (Misprints)
 
1961-1962
  682 PARAMOUR / CHIN (Right and Left)
 
1960-1961
  604 APOSTROPHISE
 
1959-1960
  582 MARRY
  571 PESTER
  569 PROPOSAL
  551 PITCHER
 
1958-1959
  521 SOUP
  519 RIDICULE (DLM)
  500 MOTHERS-IN-LAW
 
1957-1958
  486 BARACAN
  467 A humorous definition (Humorous definition)
  460 ASTONISHMENT (Misprints)
 
1956-1957
  430 GAMIN (Printer’s Devilry)
  412 SERVIETTE
  408 BILLET
 
1955-1956
  377 MALISON
 
1954 (2)
  325 MARRYING
  302 MARTIN
 
1954 (1)
  283 SOBER
  271 TRIPLET
  269 ASCENT
  259 AGANIPPE
 
1953 (2)
  257 PYROTECHNICS (Straight Clue)
  251 UNMETHODICAL
  237 BASTINADE
 
1953 (1)
  231 PREAMBLE
  227 CATEGORIES
  211 CAROL-SINGERS or HOLLY-BERRIES
  209 ELAPSION def. IMPERIAL (Wrong Number)
 
1952 (2)
  205 CANTANKEROUS
  200 ACCOUNT
  198 THIRD
  196 SHAMAN / SERIAN (Right and Left)
 
1952 (1)
  191 DENIGRATE
  190 CHEQUERS
  181 HANGABLE
 
1951 (2)
  175 HAIR-LINE
  169 HOUSE
 
1951 (1)
  165 CABBAGE
  164 NEWTON
  163 LORICATE
 
1950 (2)
  153 SAMISENS
  152 SEA-LION
  146 BELDAME
 
1950 (1)
  128 AMMETER (Printer’s Devilry)
 
1949 (2)
  115 MISNOMER
  106 HELIOTROPE
 
1949 (1)
  95 SPOONER
  92 PARTRIDGE
 
1948 (2)
  88 BRISTOL
  87 SISKIN
  86 ODOMETER
  85 SERGEANT
  84 SHINGLE / THIRSTY (Right and Left)
 
1948 (1)
  67 SURFEIT (DLM)
 
1947 (2)
  65 PIVOT
  59 TAME
 


Annual Honours record of L. E. Eyres
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YearPrizes
(1, 2, 3)
VHCsHCsPosition
Ximenes competitions
1965-19660 1 0
1964-19651 (1, 0, 0) 0 3
1963-19640 0 4
1962-19631 (0, 0, 1) 0 4
1961-19621 (0, 0, 1) 0 1
1960-19610 1 1
1959-19600 1 4
1958-19590 0 3
1957-19580 0 3
1956-19570 2 3
1955-19560 1 1
1954 (2)0 3 2
1954 (1)0 1 4
1953 (2)0 0 3
1953 (1)1 (0, 1, 0) 0 4
1952 (2)0 0 4
1952 (1)0 3 3
1951 (2)1 (0, 1, 0) 0 2
1951 (1)0 2 3
1950 (2)1 (0, 1, 0) 2 3 18
1950 (1)0 1 1
1949 (2)0 2 2
1949 (1)0 1 2
1948 (2)1 (1, 0, 0) 0 5
1948 (1)0 1 1
1947 (2)1 (1, 0, 0) 1 2
1947 (1)1 (0, 0, 1) 1 0
1946 (2)0 4 0 11
1945 (2)0 3 0
1945 (1)0 3 0