ordStats| Clues in archive | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Hons points | First mention | Latest mention | Career span |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D. K. Arnott | 44 | 3 | 8 | 33 | 44 | 55 | Dec 1987 | May 2022 | 34y 5m |
| Clue word | Award | Clue | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-2022 | ||||
| 2603 | TERAS def. PRATT (Wrong Number) | VHC | Monster bum terminal to chair seat | bum; anag. incl. r |
| 2020-2021 | ||||
| 2551 | SPAVIN (Spoonerisms) | VHC | Whore meant to tax immorality, netting a little profit on average | torment to hacks; p av in sin |
| 2018-2019 | ||||
| 2443 | ERATHEM (Printer’s Devilry) | Second | In Paris I was introduced to Gertrude Stein and her lov/ing ways | Hemingway’s |
| 2017-2018 | ||||
| 2376 | SOW(PIASTRE)ENS (Christmas Pudding) | VHC | Implant like mine nurses snigger about | sow + as in pit + sneer (rev.) |
| 2016-2017 | ||||
| 2334 | ALLELUIAH | VHC | Repetitive song entirely acceptable in recurrent bid to come first in Eurovision | all + U in hail + E (rev.) |
| 2330 | BRAZEN / MOPISH (Right and Left) | Third | Entering Wipers hospital, I limp forward, overwhelmed by battalion’s ruin | I in mops H; raze in bn; ref. WW1 |
| 2324 | CELEBRATIONS | VHC | Term for festive plays with cribs at Noel? | anag. incl. e, & lit. |
| 2318 | TIMENOPENNY (TIMENOGUY) (Penny for the Guy) | VHC | Hands-free is cracking little gadget | men-open in tiny |
| 2309 | GLOBETROTTER | VHC | Dud left with e.g. Bo Derek? Cook sent him packing | anag. incl. l + (D. ‘Del Boy’) Trotter; D. Moore & P. Cook |
| 2015-2016 | ||||
| 2296 | IMPROPERLY | VHC | Suggest vices or perversion, wanting variety so? | anag. less version in imply, & lit.; vice = grip; version = variety |
| 2287 | VALET | VHC | Are this man’s labours becoming a male servant? | comp. anag. & lit. |
| 2279 | CLEMENTINE | VHC | Anagram of ‘in Crete’ lemon? Or this, possibly | comp. anag.; ref. AZ’s faulty anagram of NERITIC |
| 2274 | SIMPATICO | VHC | In Scoop, needing work I’m ready and heading for Ishmaelia as foreign correspondent | I’m pat + I all in Sco(op); ref. William Boot in Evelyn Waugh novel |
| 2272 | SNOWMOBILE | Second | Wombles’ No. 1 hit is perfect vehicle for Tomsk? | anag.; ref. Wombles character, Siberian town |
| 2265 | ESPRIT FORT | VHC | Libertine’s très sportif, cavorting with no end of sportives | anag. less s; see libertine |
| 2014-2015 | ||||
| 2248 | WAISTLINE | VHC | Fancy it’s expanding with beer drinking at home | anag. in w ale containing in, & lit. |
| 2239 | ERADIATE (Spoonerisms) | VHC | Beginnings of awareness Adam and Eve tried desperately to purge from souls | surge from poles; anag. incl. a, A, E |
| 2230 | GATES OF DEATH | VHC | Where the fate God’s ordained takes one? | a in anag., & lit. |
| 2226 | DOUBLE-PARKING | VHC | Loading up kerb inordinately? | anag. & lit. |
| 2220 | A twelve-letter ‘Christmas cracker’ (Christmas Cracker) | First | 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 |
| 2209 | (O)CT(O)BER (Letters Latent) | VHC | Suspect this ale (not cloudy) could be a belter | comp. anag. incl. c, & lit. |
| 2013-2014 | ||||
| 2196 | SEMANTRA / TRABEATE (Overlaps) | VHC | At centre, gymnasts master spinning round bars, producing sound floor exercises, initially using horizontal beams, but not vaulting | anag. incl. na; beat + e |
| 2152 | STUFFED SHIRT | VHC | If member’s this, constituents could become most annoyed | i.e. tie’s stuffing shirt = shirtiest; & lit. |
| 2012-2013 | ||||
| 2144 | INFERNO (Spoonerisms) | VHC | Many said dinners cooked here could be no finer | dead sinners; anag. |
| 2139 | DE RIGUEUR | Third | Buffalo innards for budget curries required by the ton | anag. less first & last letters; buffalo = bewilder |
| 2135 | LOB | VHC | Bartoli’s art encapsulated by this one shot? | anag. less art I, & lit.; ref. Marion B., French tennis player, predominantly from the baseline |
| 2131 | DIVES / MALIK (Right and Left) | Second | Goes down, ends round five heading for knockout after C. Clay’s big shot | V in dies; M. Ali + k |
| 2118 | BLOKEISH | VHC | Rather coarse, certainly not suitable for everyone | bluish with oke for U, & lit. |
| 2011-2012 | ||||
| 2091 | SNIFTER | Third | Force six making centre of E. Grinstead windy? | anag. of F rinste, & lit.; ref. Beaufort scale |
| 2070 | MISTREATMENT | VHC | In SM tarts mete out no end of this | anag. less s, & lit. |
| 2064 | COLD TURKEY | First | Boxing Day depression, annual excitement over, essential problem being crackers with no crack? | d in col + rut (rev.) + key |
| 2049 | PARTY-POOPER | VHC | Devil at pro-Pope rally, shunning everybody? | anag. less all, & lit. |
| 2010-2011 | ||||
| 2027 | THRENETICAL | VHC | Arrangement for the clarinet redolent of Jeremiah Clarke’s last piece and rich talent wasted | double anag.; ref. Jeremiah’s lamentations; JC took his own life at an early age |
| 2014 | HACKETTE | VHC | Coat not opening – secured by the careless squeeze of a press stud, perhaps | (j)acket in anag. |
| 2010 | A COMING OF AGE | VHC | One freshman’s term spent cavorting with Monica Fagg? | anag. incl. one less n, & lit. |
| 2006 | GROAN (Spoonerisms) | VHC | Broken-down nag or sound type produced by training stables? | straining tables; anag. |
| 1992 | FOULARD | Second | Clothing terminal to Isadora, entangled with rear of car and dancer’s head | a in foul r, d, & lit.; ref. I. Duncan |
| 2009-2010 | ||||
| 1967 | SUBORDINATELY | Third | How sous-chef serves pie Bourdain style | anag.; pie2 vt; ref. Anthony B., celebrity chef |
| 1962 | ANADEM | First | Nut topping – amande hachée | anag. |
| 1958 | HANGDOG | VHC | Gough and Hoggard not playing, missing fantastic tour, could become two such miserable specimens | double anag. less anag. of tour; ref. cricketers |
| 2008-2009 | ||||
| 1936 | LITMUS TEST | VHC | Colourful trial is result of Lawrence’s first and smuttiest novel | L + anag.; ref. D. H. L. |
| 1918 | PALAMPORE | VHC | Using my rag, I applied mordant in complex pattern – this grand dimity might result | comp. anag. & lit. |
| 1914 | VE(S)TAL (Letters Latent) | VHC | Like a Virgin and Eternal Flame use sample from Jive Talkin’ | hidden; ref. pop songs |
| 1908 | WE THREE KINGS | VHC | Carol Reed was knighted for directing (but not dad) | anag. less dad; ref. Sir C. R., film director son of Sir H. Beerbohm Tree (knighted for services to theatre) |
2021-2022
2595 FIFTY YEARS
2020-2021
2539 TORSE (Printer’s Devilry)
2016-2017
2356 PUBLIC SERVANT
2351 RHAGADES
2347 ASLEEP
2343 RESTORE (Printer’s Devilry)
2322 VENTRICOSE
2015-2016
2305 AGREE def. PATCH (Wrong Number)
2300 MISHMASH
2270 FENESTRA
2250 MILESTONE (with missing O) (Missing Letter)
2014-2015
2235 CHOCK-A-BLOCK
2218 FOREIGNER
2213 SOLECISM
2200 BRINDISI
2013-2014
2187 WEST
2183 SANGRAIL
2178 PARISON
2170 SAYONARA
2168 CENTURY (with missing C) (Missing Letter)
2165 OUT OF ORDER
2157 MELODRAMATIC
2012-2013
2122 NICETY
2116 YULETIDE (with jumble of COMEDO) (Christmas Devilry)
2011-2012
2074 BENNET
2065 DERMESTIDAE
2062 APPLE-KNOCKER
2058 ROBUST
2053 PERISHER def. ESTIMATE (Wrong Number)
2045 CATENATE
2010-2011
2023 CHAMBRANLE
2019 OVERAWE / HENOTIC (Right and Left)
1997 FADO
2009-2010
1988 PERIQUE
1984 ORWEL(L)IAN (Doublethink)
1979 FAR-OUT
1971 WATERMANSHIP
1960 NGANA (3 defs + letter mixture) (Parcels)
1945 PRISON
1940 SCANT def. SNEAP (Wrong Number)
2008-2009
1932 NINE-TO-FIVE
1927 TONSURE (Spoonerisms)
1906 MORSE
1987-1988
816 POTLACH (with extra O in word) (Extra letter)
| Year | Prizes (1, 2, 3) | VHCs | HCs | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 2018-2019 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2017-2018 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| 2016-2017 | 1 (0, 0, 1) | 4 | 5 | 15 |
| 2015-2016 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| 2014-2015 | 1 (1, 0, 0) | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 2013-2014 | 0 | 2 | 7 | – |
| 2012-2013 | 2 (0, 1, 1) | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| 2011-2012 | 2 (1, 0, 1) | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 2010-2011 | 1 (0, 1, 0) | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| 2009-2010 | 2 (1, 0, 1) | 1 | 7 | 18 |
| 2008-2009 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 24 |
| 1987-1988 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |