XIMENES CROSSWORD No. 40

Suitable Present

1.  M. Anderson (Bletchley): Plum pudding for Banquo (“Duff I prithee” Macbeth Act 2, Scene 3).

2.  E. G. Phillips (Bangor): Whisky for Scarus (“Six scotches more” Anthony & Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 7).

3.  R. C. Reeves (NW6): Whisky for Scarus (“Six scotches more” Anthony & Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 7).

H.C.

K. Bower (Epsom): Demijohn for Scarus (“Six scotches more” Anthony & Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 7).

H. Ward Boys (Wormley): Gasmask for Casca (“Bad air” Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2).

T. A. L. Cairns (Totton): Tie for Volumnius (“School together” Julius Caesar, Act 5, Scene 5).

Miss M. D. Callinan (Durham): Cricket-bag for Viola (“Willow cabin” Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 5).

C. T. Chandler (Birmingham): Tappit hen for Scarus (“Six scotches more” Anthony & Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 7).

Miss Fiddes (Manchester): Rolls Royce for Falstaff (“Ford enough” M.W.of Windsor, Act 3, Scene 5).

P. A. Hall (Harpenden): Trouser-press for Brabantio (“Look to … your bags” Othello, Act 1, Scene 1).

C. Herzig (Enfield): Sombrero for Hamlet (“Too much i’ th’ sun” Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2).

Capt G. A. Highley (Edinburgh): Lighter for Shylock (“Another bad match” M. of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1).

G. A. Hornsby (Guisborough): Log-table for Capulet (“Drier logs” R. & Juliet, Act 4, Scene 4).

P. Irving (Edinburgh): Gulliver’s Travels for Troilus (“Swift transportance” T. & Cressida, Act 3, Sc.2).

Mrs D. M. Kissen (Lanark): Toothbrush for Lysander (“Out, tawny Tartar” M.N. Dream Act 3, Scene 2).

W. T. Meade-King (Gt. Malvern): Prefab, for Lear (“Come, your hovel” King Lear, Act 3, Scene 2).

T. W. Melluish (SE24): Vermouth for Orsino (“Excess of it” Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1).

Maj Michael (Newport): Nylons for Hermia (“Legs … desires” M.N. Dream, Act 3, Scene 2).

D. S. Milford (Marlborough): Minimax for Hotspur (“I am on fire” Henry. IV. Pt. I, Act 4, Scene 1).

H. I. T. Rees (Dorking): Mae West for Orsino (“Excess of it” Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1).

T. E. Sanders (Walsall): Rocking-horse for Hamlet (“Hobby-horse is forgot” Hamlet Act 2, Scene 3).

O. Carlton Smith (Potters Bar): Battery for Volumnia (“Power well on” Coriolanus Act3, Scene 2).

P. H. Taylor (Bromley): Periscope for Sicinius or Brutus (“eyes toward the napes” Cor. Act 2, Scene 1).

L. D. Wakely (SW19): Lighter for Shylock (“Another bad match” M. of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1).

Comments:—Solvers found this a difficult puzzle—only 139 correct solutions. “Stock,” favoured by several, cannot be accepted for 28 dn.; not even with a shove will it fit both parts of the clue. (Actually none of its advocates would in any case have threatened the prize-winners.). Several others failed over “baffy” and “bap.” Two of the H.C.s used the same passage as Mr. Phillips and Mr. Reeves, but their presents, though elaborate, lacked the simple appropriateness of the whisky; after all, the stuff, not the receptacle, is the thing! X. thanks the rather select entry for some good laughs and reciprocates many expressions of good wishes for 1947.