Paul's Clue Competition Archive

Results W/E 15/11/09    Back to archive >>

Hello to all clue setters - thanks for all your inventions, as ever.

This week's commended clues are, in no particular order:

Dave Roberts, Robin Hood's Bay: Not in good condition when knocked over (3,4) RUN DOWN

Robert Brown, Sheffield: Tense? Break wind (5) T/REND

Kieron Dineen, Newport: Cheers mum! A burst pipe! (10) MEERSCHAUM

Philip Kerridge, Bodmin: Area that's carefree (4) ACRE

John Ridge, Clitheroe: Inside also a Pope ran TV show! (4,5) SOAP OPERA

Duncan Robertson, London: Australia occupies newspaper staff (7) CROZIER

Sil van den Hoek, Cambridge: Sex and The City, when eating Indian bread, is close to yum-yum (9) EROTICISM

Robert Brown, Sheffield: No d-doughnuts for target of Presley's vitriol? (5,3) HOUND DOG

And this week's fine winners?

BRONZE: Sil van den Hoek, Cambridge - took me ages to see that one should delete 'delete' from decollete: Lynn in low-cut ... (delete delete) showing bottom, like Pin Ups in 1973 (5,5) COVER ALBUM

SILVER: Neat clueing of an old chestnut from Tom Latter, London: It's madness to say there's water on the moon (6) LUNACY

AND THE WINNER!

GOLD: Sil van den Hoek, Cambridge for a novel type of clue in: "Container" to come after "Cider" in the dictionary? (9) STRONGBOX

Thanks once again for all your entries, and do keep them coming!

All the best,

John (Paul)