Paul's Clue Competition Archive

Results W/E 10/05/09    Back to archive >>

Some fine clues adorn this week's selection.

This week's high-quality commended, as always in no particular order:

Stuart Fletcher, Crewkerne: Long drink contains bits of peach and passion fruit (9) PINEAPPLE

Keiron Dineen, Newport: Is Ronaldo playing in America? (7) ORLANDO

Duncan Robertson, London: Friend you text in with devious mind (4) PAUL

Neil Walker, Barrow on Furness: The Beatles' hit - cryptic message to Ringo to lose ring? (3,3,4,2,4) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

Paul Kilbey, Malvern: Actions turn us, I'd suspect, into bloody tragedy
(5,10) TITUS ANDRONICUS

Sil van den Hoek, Cambridge: The way pork, reportedly, is served in
restaurants (5,4) HOUSE WINE

Tom Mahoney, Bexleyheath: 'Beset Tom: hack to pieces' - king's knights take
bishop (6,6) THOMAS BECKET

Kieron Dineen, Newport: The ideal time for handyman to work with oak and bodily fluid (4,7,6) BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY

And the winners:

BRONZE: A creative clue which doesn't resort to south-east Crete (!) from Mark Penney, Chicago: Release through an animal's skin, perhaps, or hide (7) SECRETE

SILVER: Concise work from Duncan Robertson, with a neat definition: Tell principal queen (6) ARCHER

AND THE WINNER!

GOLD: James Glassonbury, Stonehouse, Glos, for the delightful clue: The Highland Fling? (7,3,5) TOSSING THE CABER

Thank you all for your great clues. I'm off to Brazil to work in an orphanage (and to learn samba!) until June 11, so wish me luck. I'll still be in touch, so do say hi - and do tell friends about Cryptica...

Best wishes,

John (Paul)