Clues by T. W. Melluish in 1947 (1)
Ximenes competitions from 40 to 52 All clues by T. W. Melluish | 1947 (1) Honours list
Ximenes competitions from 40 to 52 All clues by T. W. Melluish | 1947 (1) Honours list
First Prizes | Second Prizes | Third Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Honours Position | |
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T. W. Melluish | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
No. | Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation |
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40 | Suitable Present (Suitable Present) | VHC | Vermouth for Orsino | “Excess of it” Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1 |
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 |
45 | RATTENED | VHC | How the scab was treated, the person in attendance being dissipated | anag. of attender |
46 | LYSANDER | VHC | Ordered “Proceed moon,” Darnley’s ’plane crashed in Athens 404 B.C. | ref. MND V.1.262; anag.; aircraft; Spartan admiral |
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” |
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” |
52 | RATION | VHC | A bit drawn out, but a speech is nothing without it | cryptic def.; oration less 0 |
No HCs awarded in the 1947 (1) competition