Paul's Clue Competition Archive

Results W/E 30/08/09    Back to archive >>

This week's judging was particularly tough - lots of good stuff.

Commended:

Jeanette Cross, Windhoek, Namibia: Boring sex? (3) RUT

Beth Bebbington, Cambridge: Run share index as romantic investors may do? (4,7) PLAY FOOTSIE

Beth Bebbington, Cambridge: Top man for the post, we hear? (5-5,4) FIRST CLASS MAIL (though I feel the indicator for the 'sounds like' should be at the start of the clue)

Beth again: Turnover in, say, two seasons? (10) SOMERSAULT

Ewen Maclean, Edinburgh: Roughly trivialise Noel, yet make awful modern shows (7,10) REALITY TELEVISION

Kieron Dineen, Newport: DI Rebus having left building, because of this? (9,8) EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

Robert Brown, Sheffield: Man's man? (7) DOUGLAS

Sil van den Hoek, Cambridge: Middle-aged, single and a killer (5-4) FORTY-FIVE

And this week's winners? I've gone for a couple of snappy ones - solvers seem to enjoy them more, I've found:

BRONZE: A neat effort from Jeanette Cross, Windhoek: Bread head (4) LOAF

SILVER: I had to look this one up, and have since watched jaw-dropping clips from Brass Eye. Anyway, the fun comes from Mark Longair, Edinburgh: Ailing baroness has no sweet, having lost small part of the brain affected by cake (8,7) SHATNER'S BASSOON

GOLD: Neil Walker, Barrow in Furness: jams, almost hit , and for icon (7,7) MICHAEL JACKSON

Please keep up the fabulous standard. That was lots of fun.

All the best,

John (Paul)