Ximenes Competition No. 289 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 287 | 291 ▶ | Other competitions
No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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289 | Jun 1954 | CISTERN | normal | 14 |
Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
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First | B. J. McCann | We can get a good many inches of rain here. Over a hundred before August! | CI + stern |
Second | C. Koop | My room admits so much wet—it’s nicer shuffling about the street! | St in anag. |
Third | J. S. Young | It’s somewhere between Wells and Bath | cryptic def. |
HC | C. Allen Baker | A hole in one? It just won’t hold water—you take about ten, sir, in the rough! | c. + anag. |
HC | C. O. Butcher | In the Civil Service one is not enough—a triplicate form is required. It must be properly filled up to be of use | I in CS + tern2 |
HC | W. J. Duffin | I gurgle when flushed with success, but I’m grim after the slightest bit of a trouncing | (troun)ci(ng) + stern |
HC | L. E. Eyres | This ought to hold water: if A = 1, B = 2, etc., presumably ——! | i.e. C is tern2 |
HC | E. Gomersall | 101, and hard as nails, in spite of being a constant pipe-filler | CI stern |
HC | D. A. Nicholls | My dribbling finishes with proper ball control, my tap supplies Dixie—so back gets the bird! | sic (rev.) + tern; ball-valve; D. Dean, footballer |
HC | E. R. Prentice | A Yank always makes me flush! | cryptic def. |
HC | J. S. Pyett | So backward with the beastly rent it’s holding up the water supply! | sic (rev.) + anag. |
HC | R. Settle | Sounds as if ’e’s next for the bath! | ‘’s ’is turn’ |
HC | W. K. M. Slimmings | I may go bump in the night, causing disturbed rest, and panic if Father’s away | anag. incl. (Pa)nic |
HC | Miss D. W. Taylor | One of the things that go bump in the night, disturbing a restin’ chap. | anag. incl c. (= chap., chapter) |
Runners-Up in competition 289: