Tiverton Rotary Club have unveiled their new cryptic quiz in aid of CLIC Sargent.

The quiz will help CLIC Sargent who help children and young people diagnosed with cancer, the charity provides immediate professional support, a Home from Home scheme, help in obtaining financial support, and bereavement care for the family.  It also raises awareness by campaigning and fundraising.

All the answers contain a part of the body with some being repeated. One mark is given for each correct answer with half marks at the judge's discretion for near misses or bad spelling.  The judge's decision is final.

First prize is £50, second prize £25 and third prize is £15.

A further consolation prize of £10 will be drawn at random from all entrants to encourage entries even if you cannot solve all the clues. In the event of a tie for any or all of the three top prizes, a draw will be made to determine the winner(s).

A minimum donation is requested of £1. The closing date is September 30. Send completed papers to Les Rendell at 11 Aubyn’s Wood Rise, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 5DG with a cheque payable to “TLR Charity Quiz Account,” and include your name, email address, home address and contact number. 


1. A top beginning is an advantage (1,4,5)                                              

2..Blue? Well almost (4,3,7)        

3. Regimental March requirement (6)                                                                       

4. Stomach fastener (5,6)                                                                                     

5. Cricket’s four-sided member (6,3)                                                       

6. Easter Day minus 7 (4,6)                                                                       

7. Main spur to an angry state (2,2,4)                                                      

8. Adler’s reed player (5,5)                                                                                       

9. Sounds like you telephone your helpers in despair (5,4,5)  

10. Hemingway’s goodbye novel (1,8,2,4)                                     

11. Kermit is more than down in the mouth (1,4,2,3,6)

12. Elation at ground level (7)                                   

13. Barnum’s General --------(3,5)                                                                                 

14. ----whose deckhands could be torture! (10)                                         

15. As rare as some farmyard molars (4,5)                                                           

16. Rich and strong of foot  (4,6)               

17. Drum, wig or plug could follow (3)                                                                         

18. Initially to only rest something on (5)                                                                     

19. Bowel agrees with hard work (5,6)                                                   

20. Killer in a beach community (4)                                                                                   

21. Heavy double limb cost (2,3,3,1,3)                                            

22. Cobbler has digit inserted (6,2,3,3)                                        

23. Not much in wage packet? Take something and chat it over (7)                 

24. One tug is a good example (hyphenated) (6 -7)                            

25. Hurry to do the Hokey Cokey (5,1.3)                                                        

26. Bun rather oddly caused discomfort (9)                                                         

27. Boss of stilettos aiming for a fall (4,4.5)

28. What the Beatles (or one of them) said they would like to do (1,4,2.4.4,4)      

29. Took needless entry at this junction (4)                                                                          

30. Personal resting place for a sad occasion (1,8,2,3,2)     

31.Cannibal drove madly for this dish (5,3,5)                                     

32.Courage and impudence combine to make jam (10)                                  

33. Smug admission it’s the wrong way to go (4)                                                                

34. Servant girl’s joint problem (10,4)                                                 

35. Needing roadside progress? A possible answer (5,1,4)                         

36. Members almost gone (2,4,4,4)                                                  

37. Sprite chopper buyer (5,5)                                                                      

38. Flipping way to choose (5,2,5)                                                                        

39. Lassie’s hirsute remedy for the morning after (4,2.3.3)                 

40. Tennis tie for the tube (9)                                                                                    

41. Daniel Day-Lewis’ sinister portrayal (2,4,4)                                               

42. Result of eating painted ladies? (11,2,4,7)

43. Aristocratic plasma (4,5)                                                                              

44. Looks attractive enough to eat (3,5)                                                            

45. Rock musical leaving nothing to the imagination (4)                                                     

46. Lower yours truly to second-hand gear (hyphenated) (4-2-4)               

47. Clint’s clutch of money (                                         

48. Unsophisticated pointers? Not culturally (5,7)                                   

49. The row underneath (3,6,4)                                                               

50. It’s the end – so add this? (8)