Clue contest No 27
Sat 1 Mar 2025, set byYorick
Introduction
As today is St David's Day let's go for a cheesy option. This month's word is RAREBIT. Good luck everyone!
Submit your best cryptic clue for
RAREBIT
Results
# | Setter | Clue | Pts | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bloody boring thing, cheese on toast (7) Def: cheese on toast. RARE (Bloody) + BIT (boring thing) | 6 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 29 | ||
| 2 | Are most Brits crazy for a Welsh dish? (7) Anagram of ARE + BRIT ("most Brits"). Definition: a Welsh dish. | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 17 | ||
| 3 | Sadly, their hotel lost bar snack (7) (T[h]EIR + BAR)* | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 15 | ||
| 4 | Judas eating melted Brie snack (7) RAT (Judas) eating (BRIE*)(anag - melted). Defn. snack. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 11 | ||
| 5 | Explorer finally encounters a strange tribe reputedly eaten by Welsh natives! (7) R ('Explorer finally') + A + TRIBE* = Defn. ('reputedly eaten by Welsh natives!') | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | ||
| 6 | Take a little snack (7) R (Latin, ‘recipe’ or take) + ARE (land measurement, abbreviation ‘a’) + BIT ; definition: ‘snack’ | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | ||
| 7 | Sunflower coming up a treat for Gwen (7) RA (personification of the Sun) + TIBER< (down clue). | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | ||
| 8 | Half-hearted chatter skirts over what might be for tea (7) RAB[b]IT around (skirts) RE (over); def = what might be for tea | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 9 | Spooner’s ultimate blowjob in trailer involves naked nurse, sex and scoff (7) ~R ([C]ARE[R])~B+ IT = scoff. Well, someone had to lower the tone! | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 10 | Arbiter cooks cheese snack (7) Anagram (cooks) of arbiter | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | ||
| 11 | Third nipple trick initially becoming bachelor’s speciality that’s the toast of Wales? (7) Def: speciality that’s the toast of Wales; WP: Third nipple = RARE TIT, with T becoming B [link ‘s is possessive in surface but [i]s in cryptic reading; I think this works when expanded] | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 12 | European river vessel shortly coming back bringing your tea? (7) (TIBER AR(k))< Def: your tea? | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | ||
| 13 | Up rear second-rate sex that's cheesy (7) *REAR + B + IT. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 14 | Moment after blue cheese snack (7) moment/BIT follows RARE/blue = definition: Cheese snack | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 15 | Cheesy toast from Royal Academician, essentially grey, boring piece (7) RA (Royal Academician) + RE (middle letters of grey) + BIT ('boring' piece i.e. drill bit) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 16 | Start to root about in a bit of cheese toast (7) R + RE 'in' A BIT | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 17 | Circulate spice after initially ringing Asian restaurant for cheese on toast (7) Spice (BITE) with last letter first (circulate) following 1st letters (RAR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
| 18 | Mince I barter for traditional meal (7) Anagram (mince) of I BARTER | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
| 19 | Welsh recipe : take pickled rib and mix with rum tea (7) Welsh recipe(def) take>r pickled(anagrind) rib<RBI mixed with rum(anagrind) tea>AET =R+(ArEbiT) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 20 | Weird piece of cheese (7) Weird=Rare, Piece=Bit, of cheese=definition | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 21 | “Back in the Tiber, a river!” That’s a cheesy toast. (7) Hidden, reversed: in the TIBER A River | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 22 | Bite unfinished after bloody cheese and mustard. Toast with stout beer! (7) cheese and mustard toast with stout beer = def; bite unfinished = BIT; after bloody = after RARE; RARE + BIT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 23 | Quite cheesy brit is broke around horrible era (7) BRIT* CONTAINING (around) ERA*=Rarebit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 24 | Engineers replacement for a bacterial starter in yak’s cheese savoury (7) RE replaces a B (bacterial starter) in RA[B]BIT (yak) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 25 | Can I eat this hen’s tooth? (7) Double definition | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 26 | Uncommon grain toastie - top with an egg for a dollar (7) Uncommon grain = RARE BIT; def = toastie - top with an egg for a dollar (Buck Rarebit includes a poached egg) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |