Clue contest No 23
Fri 1 Nov 2024, set byCigogne
Introduction
The harvest for this fruit (or the fruit of this tree) typically starts in November, when it has started to decay. The word for this month's contest is MEDLAR. Good luck!"
Submit your best cryptic clue for
MEDLAR
Results
# | Setter | Clue | Pts | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liberal Democrats' comeback bears fruit (6) (libe)RAL DEM(ocrats) < | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 26 | ||
| 2 | Caught someone sticking their nose in monkey’s bottom? (6) Hom of meddler = slang for medlar. Come on, someone had to.. | 6 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 21 | ||
| 3 | Fruit salad of plums and pears, oddly cut (6) Def: Fruit. Anagram (salad) of pLuMs AnD pEaRs without odd letters (oddly cut) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 15 | ||
| 4 | Fruit machine emptied by hash dealer shifting drugs (6) Fruit (def); M(achin)E [emptied] +[by] (D(e)AL(e)R)* [hash = anagrind; shifting drugs = delete Es] | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | ||
| 5 | Not wanting all of it, trimmed large tree (6) Hidden | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | ||
| 6 | Sort of marmalade a mum’s forgotten? (6) MARMALADE* - (A MA) & lit (who makes it these days?) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8 | ||
| 7 | Tree climbing portion of arboricultural demonstration (6) Reverse hidden (down clue) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | ||
| 8 | Ultimately suffer after curious male eats God's fruit (6) last letter of (suffe)R after MALE* contains D (God) = def. | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | ||
| 9 | Something fruity cheeky lad put in neighbour's drink (6) LAD* (cheeky) in MER | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | ||
| 10 | Weird dream about large fruit (6) Def ‘fruit’, DREAM* about L | 0 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 5 | ||
| 11 | Interloper heard in the shrubbery (6) Homonym | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | ||
| 12 | Packing heat, cycling around large tree (6) ARMED cycling around L; def: tree | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | ||
| 13 | Pressure from seller to accept marks on surface of fruit (6) P ('Pressure') removed from PEDLAR ('seller') then add M at front ('to accept marks on surface of') = MEDLAR ('fruit') | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | ||
| 14 | Report of someone tampering with tree (6) Hom of meddler = tree | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 15 | Fruit's rotten marbled core removed (6) Fruit (def) [i]s MAR(b)LED* (rotten … core removed) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | ||
| 16 | Malformed larvae sample fruit (6) Def: fruit. malforMED LARvae sample (hidden) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 17 | Halves of medium larger fruit (6) MEDium LARger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 18 | Mister Ed left a filling fruit (6) M (ED + L + A) R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 19 | Spooner's drawn Mark's open-arse (6) Def = open-arse. Spoonerism of LED (drawn) MAR(Mark) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 20 | Led astray bathed in butter - twisted old fruit (6) led* astray(anagram)>EDL bathed in(insertion) butter>ram twisted(reversal)>MAR m{edl}ar def old fruit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 21 | Fruit of the dog's bottom (6) Cryptic definition. Synonym for the medlar tree according to google | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 22 | Sounds like an interfering fruit! (6) A homophone a “meddler”. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 23 | March stuffed with English hooligans, open-arse! (6) EDL in Mar. Open-arse as the definition can trace its pedigree back to Shakespeare and Chaucer, no less! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 24 | Fruit I tamper with, say (6) homophone of MEDDLER (I tamper with) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 25 | Amen! Idle Marx content reveals Monkey's Bottom! (6) Take the content from amen, idle and Marx, (ie - remove the 1st & last letters of each) - One of Medlar's nicknames is 'monkey's bottom'! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 26 | Furiously lead in male rook to fruit? (6) Def:Fruit M[Lead*]R=MEDLAR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 27 | Fruit, or claimed larynx's part. (6) Hidden, surface suggests apple, as in Adam's apple | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |