Ximenes Competition No. 161 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 160 | 162 ▶ | Other competitions
No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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161 | Mar 1951 | TILLER | normal | 13 |
Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
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First | D. A. Nicholls | Keep your head, cox, or I’ll show you who’s master | i.e. (c)ox, & lit.; t. of boat and t. = master of ox |
Second | S. B. Green | Director (crafty?) manipulates shares | 2 mngs.; tiller1, share2 |
Third | F. H. W. Hawes | This share-pusher should be taken in hand by a director | 2 mngs.; share2, tiller1 |
HC | G. Bowness | With tafferel lit up, he comes into view | hidden rev., & lit. |
HC | Mrs N. Fisher | He cultivates the girls with a handle to their name | 2 mngs.; ref. Tiller Girls dance troupe |
HC | S. Goldie | Director pushing shares? He might come a cropper here | 2 mngs.; tiller1, share2; come = become |
HC | J. P. Lloyd | A handy guide to Piers Plowman! | 2 mngs.; piers, i.e. moorings |
HC | Mrs A. M. Osmond | He who cultivates John Haig, for example gets an infernal head in excess! | (Dis)tiller; ref. John Haig & Co. Ltd. |
HC | H. Rainger | There’s a row about fair shares, but Attlee sticks to it! | LL in tier; i.e. 50-50; “hand on the tiller” = in control politically; ref. Clement A., PM, 1945-51; post war demand “fair shares for all” |
HC | T. E. Sanders | Comes a cropper at the finish after clearing the field | cryptic def. |
HC | O. Carlton Smith | What some “Pretty maids all in a row” were called—yet not quite all in a row | (a)ll in tier; ref. T. Girls |
HC | A. J. Souter | He digs, with Pluto in the spirit world | (Dis)tiller |
HC | J. S. Young | You could see what he produced at the Windmill | double mng.; ref. John T. and T. Girls, W. Theatre, grain in mill |
Runners-Up in competition 161: