Cup Winning Clues in 2014
◀ 2013 | 2015 ▶ | Other years
◀ 2013 | 2015 ▶ | Other years
| Date | Clue word | Winner | Clue | Explanation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ | 2170 | Jan | SAYONARA | T. C. Borland | Utter it leaving terminal in Tokyo Narita? | say + o Nar(it)a, & lit. |
| AZ | 2174 | Feb | CHARET (Printer’s Devilry) | K. Milan | Some ornaments in ba/r I’ll soften, piano | |
| AZ | 2178 | Mar | PARISON | T. Rudd | Botched, this must turn up in Murano’s tips | comp. anag. & lit.; ref. Murano glass |
| AZ | 2183 | Apr | SANGRAIL | G. P. Conway | Bet you it may be discovered in Glastonbury, i.e. a fabled treasure | comp. anag. |
| AZ | 2187 | May | WEST | R. J. Heald | How one usually leaves Bath to go round centre of Bristol? | adv.; s in wet, & lit. |
| AZ | 2191 | Jun | PLUG | R. J. Heald | Quid tucked inside jowl? | L in pug2, & lit.; see jowl2 |
| AZ | 2196 | Jul | SEMANTRA / TRABEATE (Overlaps) | M. Barley | National team run ragged in South America – when they play, bars reverberate with cross supporters endlessly frustrated | anag. incl. N, r in SA; beate(n) |
| AZ | 2200 | Aug | BRINDISI | D. F. Manley | Give possible rendition of this with Greene King – i.e. sing, drinking beer? | comp. anag. & lit. |
| AZ | 2205 | Sep | CUMBERSOME | T. C. Borland | Unmanageable canine harassed Burmese tom, slipping its lead | c + anag. less t |
| AZ | 2209 | Oct | (O)CT(O)BER (Letters Latent) | L. Ward | When insurgent left-wingers in Russia (explicitly Bolsheviks) took control? | first letters rev., & lit.; ref. October Revolution |
| AZ | 2213 | Nov | SOLECISM | M. Barley | Grammatical error, this, or a lapse in social mores | comp. anag. |
| AZ | 2218 | Dec | FOREIGNER | C. M. Edmunds | Wanting a faringee or migrant? That’s me | anag. less a & lit. |
| AZ | 2220 | Xmas | A twelve-letter ‘Christmas cracker’ (Christmas Cracker) | D. K. Arnott | Solitary Christmas – a little snooze, a little canned Mosel (free from M&S), a little cake | NAPOLEON/LONESOME; NAPONOELSOME; Noel some; nap on (M)o(s)el |