Paul's Clue Competition Archive

Results W/E 22/03/09    Back to archive >>

Thanks once again for all your clues this week, and many apologies for the delay.

Fewer clues than usual, so do keep them coming – I really enjoy hearing from all of you. .

Commended clues are as follows:

Anax imperator: free from legendary pro (7,9) EMPEROR DRAGONFLY, Boaz, Paulton

Hoof sets (4-4-7) SOFT-SHOE SHUFFLE, Duncan Robertson, London

It can be hairy being involved in Botox terror? (5) OXTER, Kieron Dineen, Newport

Smith has something to eat, this? (5,4) WHITE MEAT, Sil Van den Hoek

This week’s winners as follows:

BRONZE: Heard charge of wrongdoing – it results in appropriate sentence (6), SYNTAX Geoff Evans, Bury, for the criminal link to a sentence.

SILVER: Covering people in butter’s bad form (7,5) TRIBUTE BANDS, Nick Lancaster, Witham, Essex, for his sly definition.

AND THE WINNER!

GOLD: Thieves empty bank? (4) ROBS, Neil Walker, Barrow In Furness, for brilliant surface reading, for spotting the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the structural idea, and pulling it all off beautifully.

And please, no letters about whether it’s ‘one small step for man’ or ‘one small step for a man’! Thank you!!

Fantastic stuff – enjoy your week!

John (Paul)