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| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
Also listed as | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. S. Everest | 19 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 60 | 20 | Apr 1963 | Feb 2022 | 58y 10m | A. Everest |
| Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-2022 | ||||
| 2584 | GIFT-WRAPPED (Cut & Paste) | VHC | Splendidly clad figure set out westward bearing the crowns of weary potentates | TWRAPPEDGIF; fig depart (rev.) incl. w, p |
| 2020-2021 | ||||
| 2539 | TORSE (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | Was rec/ent open letter to parish mag about tithes? | |
| 2018-2019 | ||||
| 2434 | STONKERED | VHC | Tiddly Kent score (out for a hundred). Middle of order hammered | anag. less c + d |
| 2016-2017 | ||||
| 2309 | GLOBETROTTER | VHC | One moving all over the place in world football, right half, then left | i.e. ball foot/football |
| 2014-2015 | ||||
| 2220 | A twelve-letter ‘Christmas cracker’ (Christmas Cracker) | VHC | Deliverer in sheltered yard suddenly appearing in need of gentle Christmas delivery helper to hold back ungulates from the East | REINDEER/REDEEMER; REINREEDEMER; reed3 + emer(gent2); rein + deer (rev.) |
| 2008-2009 | ||||
| 1932 | NINE-TO-FIVE | VHC | What’s found briefly in appendix to volume of tedious work | i.e. hidden as ix to v |
| 1914 | VE(S)TAL (Letters Latent) | VHC | Dancing a valeta twice, not a beguine | anag. less a a |
| 1908 | WE THREE KINGS | VHC | Itinerant regents hie West to welcome another ruler. That’s us! | K in anag., & lit. |
| 1901 | SANITISE | VHC | ‘There’s not a pagoda in A Passage to India,’ exploded censor | anag. less sequential letters |
| 2007-2008 | ||||
| 1856 | LITAS (Printer’s Devilry) | VHC | The ‘brawn’, when found badly pickled in the local, de/test art | |
| 2006-2007 | ||||
| 1823 | KISS | VHC | Dick’s last is Shilpa’s first | k is S, & lit.; ref. R. Gere and S. Shetty kissing publicly in India |
| 2005-2006 | ||||
| 1779 | NEWIE (misprint of U) (Misprints) | VHC | Informal label for a bottle of most wine that ferments about middle of September? | must; e in anag.; must2 |
| 2004-2005 | ||||
| 1700 | FIVE-O’CLOCK SHADOW | VHC | Countenance blackening of lovesick cad who is dissembling | anag. |
| 2000-2001 | ||||
| 1500 | GIT (on board ship) (Ship of Fools) | VHC | Scapa exactly astern of the ‘Snooty Sheila’ | GALLEGITON; gal + leg it on |
| 1476 | LIGNIPERDOUS | VHC | For a description of Dutch elm disease remit postal order in guilders | anag. incl. PO |
| 1999-2000 | ||||
| 1454 | GET-UP | VHC | Clobber: (colloq) to strike with increasing vigour | get up |
| 1450 | PRETENDANT | VHC | Ken’s now one in two minds about time to enter | re t in pendant; ref. K. Livingstone, London mayoral election |
| 1446 | NEWSPAPERDOM | VHC | Press home in on warped MEPs. Corrupt, more like! | anag. |
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1970-1971 | ||||
| 1135 | HILAIRE BELLOC | Third | Do I cheer Balliol? He did | anag. & lit.; do = set in order; “B. made me …” |
2021-2022
2591 GHAT
2578 VARIORU(M) (Letters Latent)
2019-2020
2482 VOX POP
2018-2019
2456 TRACTOR / TORMINAL (Overlaps)
2017-2018
2399 CHARMEUSE
2395 PURITANISM
2015-2016
2265 ESPRIT FORT
2257 BUST-UP / PIT-PAT (Right and Left)
2014-2015
2222 OBJECT LESSON
2013-2014
2152 STUFFED SHIRT
2012-2013
2100 A STITCH IN TIME
2011-2012
2065 DERMESTIDAE
2010-2011
1997 FADO
2009-2010
1979 FAR-OUT
1971 WATERMANSHIP
1967 SUBORDINATELY
1960 NGANA (3 defs + letter mixture) (Parcels)
1958 HANGDOG
1949 PALFRENIER
1940 SCANT def. SNEAP (Wrong Number)
2008-2009
1906 MORSE
2007-2008
1836 POSTHASTE
2006-2007
1831 MARGINALIA
1801 RUSE DE GUERRE
1792 APPALOOSA / ESTAMINET (Right and Left)
1788 ETHEREAL OILS
1784 TEARAWAY
2005-2006
1766 GEST (Printer’s Devilry)
1737 ANIMUS
2004-2005
1724 MONEYBAGS
1715 RELEASE / RASPING (Right and Left)
1685 MINO (Printer’s Devilry)
2003-2004
1672 IMPASTOS (Spoonerisms)
1663 ARMAMENTARIA
1646 BLACK
2002-2003
1611 LEISLER
2000-2001
1506 BARE(-)BONES
1502 RAPPEL
1999-2000
1459 GREATEST (Spoonerisms)
1998-1999
1387 Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Anagram)
1380 RAPPORT (Misprints)
1997-1998
1336 STOCKING
1987-1988
816 POTLACH (with extra O in word) (Extra letter)
1986-1987
764 CHILDERMAS
Ximenes competitions
1970-1971
1131 CAROUSER (Misprints)
1127 TRAYBIT
1969-1970
1097 PANTOPHAGIST
1093 MARTINET
1089 ENCLOISTER
1968-1969
1041 TEA-LEAD
1967-1968
971 MAGOTPIE / ANECDOTE (Right and Left)
967 CREMOSIN
1966-1967
949 BROWSING
936 MINI SKIRTS
933 COTTABUS
929 AMPHITHEATRE
920 ARISTATE (Printer’s Devilry)
1965-1966
900 PARAMECIA or PAREOEANS
1964-1965
847 FRENETICAL
1962-1963
746 INTERMIT (Printer’s Devilry)
| Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| 2019-2020 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2018-2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 2017-2018 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2016-2017 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| 2015-2016 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2014-2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 2013-2014 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2012-2013 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2011-2012 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2010-2011 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2009-2010 | 0 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 2008-2009 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 24 |
| 2007-2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 2006-2007 | 0 | 1 | 5 | – |
| 2005-2006 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – |
| 2004-2005 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – |
| 2003-2004 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2002-2003 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2000-2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – |
| 1999-2000 | 0 | 3 | 1 | – |
| 1998-1999 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 1997-1998 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1987-1988 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1986-1987 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Ximenes competitions | ||||
| 1970-1971 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 0 | 2 | – |
| 1969-1970 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 1968-1969 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1967-1968 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 1966-1967 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 1965-1966 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1964-1965 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 1962-1963 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |