Cup Winning clues by R. Postill
All clues by R. Postill
All clues by R. Postill
| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points |
First win | Latest win | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. Postill | 198 | 18 | 31 | 149 | 113 | 247 | Aug 1946 | Apr 1969 |
| No. | Clue word | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
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| 1054 | PINACOTHECA | This might be an apt choice for those interested in abstractions | anag. & lit. |
| 1041 | TEA-LEAD | Conservative film about what we brew; Heath admits beer unsuitable for children | ale A in Ted; ref. Edward H.; A, film classification |
| 1036 | CORONETED | See what Marlborough’s become, without one male voice raised? Are such heads a little uneasy? | tenor (rev.) in co-ed; M. College; “Uneasy lies the head…” |
| 941 | HYPODERMIC | Despondency, Reichenbach’s effect, unsolved crime … could have led Holmes to this. | hyp od1 + anag., & lit., ref. R. Falls, H.’s supposed death; hyp = hypochondria |
| 935 | MALAPROP | Matrimony: a little aversion initially has a supporter in her | M,a,l,a + prop, & lit. |
| 878 | ENTOMOSTRACA | Not a rat comes off! Obviously some of them stick to sinking ships | anag.; off = out of condition; barnacles |
| 750 | SEVEN-FIFTY / CROSSWORDS (Right and Left) | It’s near to dinner time when X should get a big hand! Mark our great interest as X speaks! | 7.45 dinner, X numeral on clock; cross words (vb) |
| 728 | ALDERMA(N) (N’s missing in def.) (Letters Latent) | M.C.C., probably well advised to ba-t, dissipated alarm about Dexter’s openers | De(xter) in anag.; MCC = Member of County Council; bant = diet, aldermanly = pompous & portly; ref. Ted D., England batsman |
| 560 | CONGENITALLY | Ab ovo … leave the egg and all your original character is latent thus | congé nit all y(our), & lit. |
| 551 | PITCHER | Hell! Monmartre’s expensive. Well … I mustn’t go there too often or I’ll be broke! | pit + cher (Fr.); ref. proverb, “The p. that goes too often to the well is broken at last” |
| 400 | Word with 400 theme (Quatercentenary) | A result of stirring up s-e-x in one (13) | concupiscence; anag. & lit.; x = CCCC |
| 213 | LEMONADE | Article in French paper shows what people will swallow from the yellow press! | a in Le Monde; see y.p. in C. |
| 185 | STOUT | When I have no head, the discriminating customer tends to sniff at me | i.e. s + tout2 or 4, & lit. |
| 112 | SHEET (DLM) | Undergraduates Heckle Attlee—Senior Proctor Acts—Ten Sent Down | ref. Acts 10:11 |
| 95 | SPOONER | The Doctor might have described Reggie as a bit fat to play for England | cryptic def.; a fit bat; ref. Reggie Spooner, Lancashire and England batsman, and Rev Dr W. A. S. |
| 64 | GLASTONBURY | Not “The Stolen Bacillus,” but another sort of “lost bug” yarn by Wells | anag.; ref. short story by H. G. Wells; Wells, Somerset |
| 53 | SHIN | Tramp, well fitted for conversion into light cutter | Shin(well); ref. Emanuel S., Min. of Fuel and Power, and power cuts of winter 1946-7; tramp vb. and n. (cargo boat) |
| 31 | APRIORIST | Wanted. Reasonable performer for Paris Trio. Experience not essential | anag. |