Clues by T. W. Melluish in 1947 (1)
Ximenes competitions from 40 to 52    All clues by T. W. Melluish  |   1947 (1) Honours list
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T. W. Melluish100603
 
No.Clue wordAwardClueExplanation
40Suitable Present (Suitable Present)VHCVermouth for Orsino“Excess of it” Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1
44PARISVHCTown with about 101 bally letters couldn’t be longer in any casei.e. parisyllabic less CI bally (rev.); case = inflection
45RATTENEDVHCHow the scab was treated, the person in attendance being dissipatedanag. of attender
46LYSANDERVHCOrdered “Proceed moon,” Darnley’s ’plane crashed in Athens 404 B.C.ref. MND V.1.262; anag.; aircraft; Spartan admiral
47GLOCKENSPIELFirstSounds like Bellman’s or Ringwood’s instrument—especially after clog-danceanag. of clog + ‘kens Peel’; ref. song ‘John Peel’, “Ranter and Ringwood and Bellman and True”
51LLANELLYVHCWelsh town shows what English king’s last words were all aboutall (rev.) + Nelly; ref. Charles II, “let not poor Nelly starve”
52RATIONVHCA bit drawn out, but a speech is nothing without itcryptic def.; oration less 0

No HCs awarded in the 1947 (1) competition