Cup Winning Clues in 2016
◀ 2015 | 2017 ▶ | Other years
◀ 2015 | 2017 ▶ | Other years
| Date | Clue word | Winner | Clue | Explanation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ | 2274 | Jan | SIMPATICO | I. Simpson | Clue at head of slip – I. Simpson? Not unless awfully, awfully pleasing | anag. incl. s less anag. |
| AZ | 2279 | Feb | CLEMENTINE | G. H. Willett | Eminent Liberal calling for reform in Church? That doesn’t describe many Popes | anag. incl. L in CE |
| AZ | 2283 | Mar | BARGAIN | M. Barley | Entries to Azed get brain working a good deal | anag. incl. A, g |
| AZ | 2287 | Apr | VALET | H. Freeman | One who’s done long service dressing Bertie? | Al(bert) in vet(eran), & lit.; ref. B. Wooster, Jeeves |
| AZ | 2291 | May | AVESTA (Printer’s Devilry) | T. J. Moorey | Sadly for the party, nutty Brown lo/st, Ed half-baked | |
| AZ | 2296 | Jun | IMPROPERLY | J. C. Leyland | How intimate embraces lead to rakish Don Giovanni maybe getting end away? | r oper(a) in imply, & lit. |
| AZ | 2300 | Jul | MISHMASH | J. Grimes | Confused mass Hamish expresses as ‘guddle’ | anag. less as, & lit. |
| AZ | 2305 | Aug | AGREE def. PATCH (Wrong Number) | W. Drever | What’s a largely dull term for ‘fadge’? | a gre(y) e, & lit.; term |
| AZ | 2309 | Sep | GLOBETROTTER | Mrs A. M. Walden | Cricketer on tour, possibly Root, unwound with treble G&T | anag.; ref. Joe R. |
| AZ | 2313 | Oct | PERFECT | A. J. Wardrop | Hints of fruit, eggs and cream in fresh parfait à l’anglaise? | first letters in pert |
| AZ | 2318 | Nov | TIMENOPENNY (TIMENOGUY) (Penny for the Guy) | N. Connaughton | Privates exposed if shielded by very small fig leaf | men open in tiny |
| AZ | 2322 | Dec | VENTRICOSE | M. Barley | Fat-bellied character starting Christmas round must squeeze into chimney shaft | C, o in vent rise |
| AZ | 2324 | Xmas | CELEBRATIONS | R. Jacks | Festivities seen in church or in stable originally | CE + anag. |