Competition clues by Toby Robertson
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Toby Robertson has 21 clues
| Comp | Clue word | Clue | Explanation | Pos | Points | Merits | 2018 Annual Competition | 7 | 10.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | VINDALOO | Indian food lover shows constitution of iron, fed this? | comp. anag. &lit (indianfoodlover*=ironfedvindaloo, constitution=composition) | 3 | 31 | 2 | 4 |
| April 2018 | SOLITAIRE | Diamond ring I lost jogging by river | ILOST* + AIRE (a major UK river) | 3 | 37 | 1 | 1 |
| March 2018 | SEAWATER | Our ocean environs are swimming with waste | (are,waste) anag. | 6 | 27.5 | 3 | 2 |
| January 2018 | ARGENT | White pawn checks king | R in AGENT (checks=contains), def. white (Chambers) | 2 | 34 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 Annual Competition | 3 | 18 | |||||
| Christmas Special 2017 | ARCHER (Printer’s Devilry) | 'Stoic', read the headline describing one side's performance in the Ashes | 'Starc heroic', read the headline describing one side's performance in the Ashes [ref. Eng (devilled) / Aus (undevilled). Mitchell Starc is Aus top wicket-taker.] | 6 | 25 | 5 | 4 |
| October 2017 | EQUIPOISE | Weight's a joke? I see nothing funny about it | (I SEE O)* about QUIP, def. weight | 7 | 24.5 | 2 | 1 |
| July 2017 | FIDDLER | Musical man keeping daughters in line, on top of roof? | D,D in FILE + R (down clue); ref. plot of the musical Fiddler on the Roof | 5 | 27 | 3 | 1 |
| June 2017 | COLLOP / SURTAX (Right & Left) | 'Brexit values' oddly abandoned in disarray as economic burden leads to long lines in supermarket for a bit of meat | even letters anag. / L,L (leads to=initials of) in CO-OP | 1 | 51 | 2 | 5 |
| May 2017 | MICKEY | King among rodents – Disney’s ultimate character? | K in MICE + Y, & lit. | 1 | 70 | 1 | 2 |
| February 2017 | FURPHY | Rumour raging round outskirts of Perth? | FURY around P[ert]H. Raging as noun e.g. the raging of the storm/sea. Perth ref. Australianism. | 1 | 47 | 2 | 3 |
| January 2017 | CASHMERE | To keep me loose 50% of cereal has to be fibre | ME in CER[eal]HAS* ('loose'=anag.) [Cashmere is a natural (animal) fibre] | 5 | 26 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 Annual Competition | 2 | 24 | |||||
| Christmas Special 2016 | TWELVEMONTH / A thematic word of your choice (Right & Left) | Let me vow to find form – yet another year I end beaten with bad clue that's impossible to resolve | letmevow* + nth (yet another) TWELVEMONTH; iendbadclue* (beaten/whisked) UNDECIDABLE | 1 | 40.5 | 0 | 5 |
| November 2016 | TURNOVER | Ballot box stuffed in vote rigged by Republican business figure | URN (Chambers: 'a ballot box') in VOTE anag. (rigged) + R; def. business figure. [Oxford: stuff the ballot box (US) = place bogus votes] | 2 | 37.5 | 1 | 5 |
| October 2016 | CHOCTAW | Burying the hatchet with cow rustling Native American | (HA[t]C[he]T COW)*, ref. Native American peace ritual | 4 | 20.5 | 0 | 2 |
| September 2016 | GREASEPAINT | Lay it on thick when playing part as genie? | PART AS GENIE anag; semi-&lit, ref. hammy panto makeup | 6 | 23.5 | 2 | 2 |
| August 2016 | LAUGHTER | Result of line succeeding for audience? | L (line) + homophone of "AFTER" (succeeding), &lit | 5 | 32 | 2 | 2 |
| July 2016 | BANJULELE | Blue jeans comically large for small vaudeville music-maker? | anag. with L for S | 8 | 25 | 1 | |
| June 2016 | TECHNOJUNKIE | He's used every device to rid the Union Jack of a crumbling Europe | (THEUNIONJACK –A)* + E[urope] | 2 | 48.5 | 2 | 6 |
| March 2016 | IMARI (Printer’s Devilry) | Defeat in Europe caused Wenger many a crisis | Defeat in Europe caused Weimar in Germany a crisis [ref. Arsenal manager / Weimar Republic] | 1 | 66.5 | 1 | 5 |
| February 2016 | LIFEBOAT | Orange inflatable saving an angler in distress? | (ORANGE INFLATABLE -AN ANGLER)*, &lit. RNLI inshore lifeboats are of this type and colour. | 4 | 36 | 1 | 8 |
| 2013 Annual Competition | 37 | 0.5 | |||||
| May 2013 | MORGUE | Street murders brought to public attention – rogue monkey's lead suspect | Reference to Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", in which the culprit is an escaped orang-utan. Mildly cryptic def ("Street [which] murders brought to public attention") + anagram. | 9 | 29 | 0 | 5 |