Ximenes Competition No. 16 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 15 | 17 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Jan 1946 | UNVULGAR | normal | 16 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | P. Mallalieu | It’s not just vernacular to have vun with a gurl | anag. |
| Second | Mrs Cheyne | To torment rustic sweetheart unclothed in Paris is the reverse of refined | rag luv nu (Fr.) (all rev.) |
| Third | Gnr C. Herzig | In short, without a game, but the beginnings of game and rubber in sight. Extraordinary! | unvul(nerable) ga(me) r(ubber) |
| HC | F. Aylmer | To have a reversed guinea suspended in the uvula, right at the end, is not common | gn (rev). in uvula r |
| HC | Miss M. Behrendt | I’ve left my grin entangled in my uvula! This is far from common | anag. of gr(i)n uvula |
| HC | F. A. Clark | United Nations Vulgate arrives, though not for public use | UN Vulg. ar. |
| HC | A. B. Kingsford | It is quite genteel for a Chaldean to lug van all over the place | anag. of lug van in Ur |
| HC | Mrs Lawlor | Fractions at Miss Pinkerton’s? | 2 mngs.; ref. vulgar fractions, Vanity Fair |
| HC | R. Leslie | A Frenchman with no clothes on going backwards, seen in front of fifty long-nosed fish? That’s not common | nu (Fr.) (rev.) + vu (Fr.) + L gar |
| HC | Rev W. McEntegart | You! Envy you! Elgar? That’s literally, up to a point, uncommon! | ‘U NV U L gar’ |
| HC | W. Meade | Curious! To put in our tongue is not this, to put out our tongue is not this, to hold our tongue is this | cryptic def.; i.e. the ‘vulgar’ tongue |
| HC | J. G. Milner | Shall we reverse and slightly alter this clue? ’Course not! | cryptic def.; i.e. not coarse |
| HC | Rev E. B. Peel | Proper fraction in familiar juxtaposition for one killed in Arras | cryptic def.; vulgar fraction; ref. Polonius, Hamlet I.3 |
| HC | Miss G. Savory | It’s not common to call the United Nations mean | UN vulgar |
| HC | J. E. Smith-Wright | Hamlet’s forefathers, when they lived in the place, were just opposite | cryptic def.; ref. Gray’s Elegy, “The rude forefathers of the hamlet” |
| HC | J. Sparkes | Reverse of frolic love-letter reverse of commonly used | rag luv nu (all rev.); Greek letter |
No Runners-Up in competition 16