Competition clues by Pete Milne
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Pete Milne has 32 clues
Comp | Clue word | Clue | Explanation | Pos | Points | Merits | 2024 Annual Competition | 6 | 0.5 |
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January 2024 | AMAZON | A puzzle almost completed on website | A+MAZ(E)+ON | 6 | 25.5 | 3 | 3 |
2023 Annual Competition | 14 | 5 | |||||
September 2023 | MUNGO | Chewed on gum and felt wasted? | Anagram of ONGUM. The wasted wool that could have become part of the felted cloth. | 1 | 37.5 | 1 | 2 |
2022 Annual Competition | 39 | 0.5 | |||||
April 2022 | REMOTE CONTROL | A commanding set piece | Cryptic definition. Set = TV etc. | 8 | 24 | 5 | 3 |
2021 Annual Competition | 8 | 8 | |||||
May 2021 | TOERAG | Love great wobbly bum | Anagram of O(love)+GREAT | 1 | 62 | 2 | 6 |
February 2021 | WETLANDS | Digested stew and left to find a bog | Anagram of STEW+AND+L | 3 | 39.5 | 2 | 1 |
2020 Annual Competition | 39 | 0.5 | |||||
March 2020 | WARTIME | Growth primarily in military expenditure now? | WART(growth)+I(n)+M(ilitary)+E(xpenditure). Semi-&lit. | 8 | 22 | 1 | 3 |
2019 Annual Competition | 5 | 10 | |||||
June 2019 | FLUTTER | Bat chewed butterfly, discarding the wings | Anagram of b(UTTERFL)y. Bat = flutter, as in eyelids. | 1 | 55.5 | 3 | 1 |
March 2019 | NARCISSUS | Graciousness without ego possibly represented by him? No! | Anagram of GRACIOUSNESS minus (anagram of) EGO. Semi-&lit. According to myth, Narcissus was neither gracious nor without ego. | 2 | 33 | 2 | 5 |
January 2019 | PINK | Knock back a little drink, getting drunk at last | NIP reversed (back) + K (drunk at last). Def = knock (as in an engine pinking). | 5 | 28.5 | 0 | 2 |
2018 Annual Competition | 3 | 13.5 | |||||
Christmas Special 2018 | TURKEY (STONES) (Wrong Number) | At leaving, UK treaty rocks country | Anagram of UK+TREATY minus AT. Anagram indicator = rocks. Rocks = stones. Def = country. Ref Brexit. | 2 | 37.5 | 1 | 2 |
November 2018 | HUMMINGBIRD | High time to become a hermit? | HUMMING (high = smelly) + BIRD (time, as in prison sentence). A hermit is a sort of hummingbird (Chambers). Ref our troubled times. | 3 | 31 | 3 | 2 |
May 2018 | IRELAND | Idiotic hardliner wants borders here | Anag of (h)ARDLINE(r). Wants can mean lacks. Ref Brexit. &lit | 1 | 76 | 1 | 4 |
March 2018 | SEAWATER | A plastic waste area, mostly? | Anag of WASTE+ARE(a). &lit | 5 | 28 | 3 | 3 |
January 2018 | ARGENT | Silver in Great North Run | Anag of GREAT+N. RUN as adjective. | 8 | 24 | 0 | |
2017 Annual Competition | 8 | 7 | |||||
September 2017 | MAIDEN | Virgin Media connection finally working. | Anag of MEDIA+N (Virgin Media are an Internet etc provider) | 1 | 86.5 | 3 | 6 |
July 2017 | FIDDLER | It's more difficult when one's missing a player. | FIDDLIER minus I (one). Def = a player. | 4 | 30.5 | 1 | 2 |
2016 Annual Competition | 30 | 0.5 | |||||
January 2016 | PLAIN-JANE | Quake in Nepal? Jain observed no great shakes! | Anagram of NEPAL+JAIN. Jains are religious people originally from India, next to Nepal. No great shakes = definition. | 8 | 20.5 | 2 | 5 |
2015 Annual Competition | 12 | 5 | |||||
July 2015 | POUNCE | Set upon with tips of claws extended | Anagram of UPON plus C plus E. &lit | 1 | 44.5 | 2 | 3 |
2014 Annual Competition | 43 | 0.5 | |||||
April 2014 | MESMERISE (Letters Latent) | One's introduced to the company of two women (one might be single!), so turn on the charm | E. I in MS+MRS | 8 | 18 | 0 | 3 |
2013 Annual Competition | 11 | 6 | |||||
November 2013 | PROLIX | Going on for fifty, one has sex at last | PRO(for)+L+I+X | 1 | 75.5 | 2 | 3 |
October 2013 | DOLMADES | What's cook prepared in casings of leaves? | DO(cook)+(MADE in LS) &lit | 6 | 30 | 2 | 4 |
March 2013 | EASTER (Misprints) | Base on which swivel seat runs? | Caster. E(base)+SEAT*+R(runs). &lit | 6 | 22 | 2 | 7 |
2012 Annual Competition | 7 | 9 | |||||
October 2012 | POSTICHE | False echo tips bats | ECHOTIPS*, ai = bats | 1 | 56 | 2 | 3 |
September 2012 | GUESTIMATE | Use it to work out large number in crowd? | USEIT* + M (large number) in GATE (crowd) | 2 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 |
2011 Annual Competition | 24 | 2.5 | |||||
October 2011 | MOCKTAIL (New Chambers Word) | It's certainly not included in this copy of Collins! | It = Italian vermouth (alcoholic). Collins is a cocktail | 5 | 29 | 2 | 4 |
February 2011 | SHERLOCK | Foremost among sleuths; that person with what it may take to close the case | S+HER(that person)+LOCK. &lit | 5 | 34.5 | 2 | 2 |
January 2011 | DUVET DAY | Downtime? | 6 | 24.5 | 3 | 6 | |
2010 Annual Competition | 26 | 1.5 | |||||
Christmas Special 2010 | NATIVITY (Letters Latent) | A representation of antiquity, without question | V. (ANTIQUITY minus QU)*. QU = question. &lit | 6 | 21.5 | 0 | 2 |
August 2010 | SPELUNKER | He probes cavities, leaving one with the runs, like prunes | LIKEPRUNES* minus I | 5 | 26.5 | 0 | 5 |
2009 Annual Competition | 19 | 4.5 | |||||
May 2009 | POWERHOUSE | So who's bursting with pure energy? | (SO+WHO+PUREE)*. E = energy | 2 | 51.5 | 0 | 4 |
March 2009 | FIRST AID | Recipe if injured and stiff? | anag of R+if, + STAID (stiff). &lit. (R = recipe. In Chambers) | 10 | 21 | 0 | 4 |
2008 Annual Competition | 23 | 2 | |||||
March 2008 | DINNER-TIME | Out to lunch, then? No, entire mind's active! | ENTIREMIND* | 4 | 27 | 0 | 1 |