Ximenes Competition No. 191 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 190 | 192 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191 | Apr 1952 | DENIGRATE | normal | 14 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | C. Allen Baker | Smut—a blight of grain with deterioration beginning on the outside | anag. in dete(rioration); smut, vb. |
| Second | E. O. Seymour | Dine with the Great informally if you want to talk scandal in the old way | anag. of dine great |
| Third | M. Winterbottom | Do what the pot did to the kettle—enraged it by character distortion | anag.; the p. calling the k. black |
| HC | E. S. Ainley | The C in C.’s retired—ordered rest—run down | anag. of (C)entigrade |
| HC | J. A. Flood | Get a red in having gone to pot black | anag.; black, vb. |
| HC | C. E. Gates | Thoroughly run down; and I mayn’t move out of the wretched garden before term begins | i.e. ‘I’ must stay in anag. of garden + te(rm) |
| HC | L. W. Jenkinson | I’m run down; I need a place to retire to and get air of exceptional quality | den + anag. of get air |
| HC | L. Johnson | It’s the dreadful diet range that makes you run down | anag.; ref. rationing |
| HC | T. W. Melluish | Run down? Diet range should be altered | anag. |
| HC | G. H. Podmore | Geraint and Enid involved in uncalled for abuse | anag. of Gera(in)t & Enid; ref. Tennyson poem, G. & E. |
| HC | E. R. Prentice | Treading carelessly onto the top of the escalator is enough to degrade any man | anag. + e |
| HC | Maj J. N. Purdon | Confounded rag, need it blacken a man’s reputation? | anag. |
| HC | W. K. M. Slimmings | To give cause for a libel action gets the editor tearing mad | anag. incl. ed. |
| HC | L. E. Thomas | Let’s have a good evening, and after one go on to where the bars are open and one may get some poker! Damn the consequence! | den2 + I + grate |
Runners-Up in competition 191: