Paul's Clue Competition Archive
Results W/E 25/01/09 Back to archive >>
You clue writers really are keeping me busy – this was a bumper week. That’s great – keep them coming. A stunning bunch of entries too…
Anna Pye, Skipton, for: Directing hot movie, setting gags, it can’t go on like this! (10,5,4) SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE
Sil van Hoek, Cambridge, for: New job for Harry Redknapp, perhaps, at Portsmouth then? (9,7) TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Barnaby Page, Harwich, for: All-points bulletin (4) NEWS
Adrian Beard, Newcastle, for: Group sex (5) UNION
Jacq, Liverpool, for: Werd? (3,3,3) ODD ONE OUT
Geoff Evans, Bury, for: WHY SANDAL WEIGHT IS CRITICAL FOR A LONG WALK (4,8,3) WEST HIGHLAND WAY
Stephen Clarke, Sydney, for: Rider gets degree? (13) QUALIFICATION
Kieron Dineen, Newport, for: El Dorado Lane becomes address of banker? (4,2,2,4) DEAL OR NO DEAL,
David K, Whitstable, for: Teddy splashed out on white iPhone (6,3,4) WINNIE THE POOH
Adrian, London, for: Tabloid recipe: just mix the ingredients, it’s elementary! (8,5) PERIODIC TABLE
Ian Stark, Yateley, Hants (to whom I apologise for temporarily misplacing this clue, written a while back), for: Above all, topless, floppy and cuddly (7) LOVABLE
Neil Walker, Barrow-in-Furness, for: Son is in perfectly good health! (5) TOAST
Geoff Evans, Bury, for the impenetrably difficult to clue: Paul’s convenience – hard anagram’s first and second in clue for noun (4,7) JOHN HALPERN
This week’s winners:
BRONZE Barnaby Page, Harwich, for the very neat: All-points bulletin (4) NEWS
SILVER: Brian Harris, Cambridge, for the nice wordplay for a word I often find hard to clue: Bodies in line for sunblock? (7) ECLIPSE
AND THE WINNER!
GOLD: Dave Ellison, Newport on Tay, for a clue I’d like to have written myself: Poinpoipop? (9,5) VANISHING POINT
Keep those clues rolling in!
All the best,
John (Paul)