Clues by V. Dixon in 2000-2001
Azed competitions from 1467 to 1515 All clues by V. Dixon | 2000-2001 Honours list
Azed competitions from 1467 to 1515 All clues by V. Dixon | 2000-2001 Honours list
First Prizes | Second Prizes | Third Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Honours Position | |
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V. Dixon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 8 |
No. | Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation |
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1476 | LIGNIPERDOUS | VHC | Confused doping rule is damaging Oaks, etc | anag.; ref. horseracing |
1480 | SAMARITAN | First | A Saint Martin, cutting coat with foil or such, possibly? | anag. less tin, & lit.; ref. St M. of Tours, usually portrayed cutting his coat with a sword to give part to a man in need |
1485 | BOURSE / TIFOSO (Right and Left) | VHC | Freak realignment of almost all Footsie 100 emerges from obscure upset in stock market | anag. less e; anag. less C |
1494 | MARATHON | VHC | In this one quick earlier on gets miles ahead (like you, doing the fifteen hundred?) | m + a + rath + on, & lit.; ref. AZ series |
1500 | GIT (on board ship) (Ship of Fools) | VHC | Crazy person near heart of ‘vessel’ encapsulates the perfect answer | BUGITSS; it in bug (ve)ss(el) |
1502 | RAPPEL | VHC | Call to fight crime exercises Left; hanging most wouldn’t consider | rap PE l, 2 defs. |
1506 | BARE(-)BONES | VHC | Black, little? Drunken, as on beer? They often remain articulate after dissolution | b + anag.; Black, Little, Drunken, all names of parliaments |
1515 | SNIDE | VHC | Dishonest, deviously venting a good deal of hostility | anag. less host, & lit. |
HCs awarded in competitions:
1467 CANAPÉ
1472 TORAN (Printer’s Devilry)
1489 FRONT-BENCHER
1492 The year that Columbus discovered America (Anagram)
1511 DEEP-SEATED