Clues from Ximenes Competition 35

Ximenes Competition No. 35 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 34 | 36 ▶ | Other competitions

No.	Date	Clue word	Clue type	Clues
35	Oct 1946	RIFE	DLM	26

Award	Clue writer	Clue
First	K. J. Harding	“Common sense,” he fired back, “has no girth!”
Second	T. W. Melluish	Friend Withershins!” (manifest mirth!)
Third	R. Postill	And, qua rotifer, ample in girth.”
HC	C. Allen Baker	He sighed “No. friends—too wide-spread in girth!”
HC	Miss Comyn	And, dear friend, too abundant in girth”
HC	L. P. Cook	And too plentiful, friend, in your girth.”
HC	P. M. Coombs	And showed manifest grief at his girth
HC	A. B. Dale	And too wide-spread if reckoned in girth.”
HC	E. Dulac	And, my friend, too abundant in girth.”
HC	E. F. Edwards	Try abundant fried eels for its girth!”
HC	L. E. Eyres	My old friend, and too ample of girth.”
HC	I. W. Headry	So a well-supplied friend got his berth
HC	Lt Col C. Hordern	Then merged grief in the prevalent mirth
HC	Miss G. M. E. Jolly	And too plentiful, friend, in your girth.”
HC	L. A. Jones	Too wide-spread, dear friend, in your girth.”
HC	J. E. C. Jukes	And, friend, too abounding in girth.”
HC	R. Macleod	Then laughed, “No, friends; too ample in girth.”
HC	H. B. McCaskie	Try refining its manifest girth.”
HC	F. E. Newlove	Fie! Reduce your abundant top-girth!”
HC	H. Rainger	Reduce, friend, its plentiful girth.”
HC	H. I. T. Rees	And too widespread, my friend, in your girth.”
HC	J. R. E. Saunders	And too well-supplied, friend, with girth.”
HC	G. O. Smith	Refine, sir, its plentiful girth.”
HC	Capt A. K. Trower	Pray refine its too plentiful girth.”
HC	Miss I. M. I. Twells	Eat abundant fried eels and halve girth.”
HC	W. H. J. Wheeler	And too plentiful, friend, in the girth!”

No Runners-Up in competition 35