Clue contest No 30
Sun 1 Jun 2025, set byALP
Introduction
After last month's heatwave, it's high time for a refreshing SHANDY. Good luck all!
Submit your best cryptic clue for
SHANDY
Results
# | Setter | Clue | Pts | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Third piece in Joseph Haydn medley is a bittersweet confection (6) (Jo)S(eph) + HAYDN* | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 18 | ||
| 2 | Drink with retiring guards (6) AND in SHY | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 14 | ||
| 3 | Lyle maybe undone by his initial choice of driver? (6) Def: choice of driver?; SANDY (Lyle) with H inside | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 13 | ||
| 4 | Perhaps Tristram's available? (6) Def = Perhaps Tristram (novel by Laurence Sterne); S; available = HANDY | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | ||
| 5 | Ignoring old sex worker finishing off Bombay mix in pub? (6) S(-EX) + HAND + (bomba)Y / "mix in pub?" | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | ||
| 6 | Be quiet, Andrew! Drink! (6) Be quiet (SH), Andrew (ANDY) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | ||
| 7 | Hesitant to swallow and drink (6) SHY (hesitant) swallowing AND | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | ||
| 8 | Drink shot, bottles too (6) SHY (a throw = a shot) around AND (too) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | ||
| 9 | Gosh! Lean lady’s half-cut drinking this? (6) puSH meAN laDY | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | ||
| 10 | Sean Connery describing a beach drink? (6) A beach is SANDY, but Connery would have said SHANDY due to his lisp. Def. = drink | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | ||
| 11 | It's hard bathing in ginger beer and lemonade (6) H (hard) in SANDY (ginger). Def.: beer and lemonade | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6 | ||
| 12 | Go outside with a refreshing drink (6) Def: A refreshing drink. SHY (Go) containing (outside) AND (with) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | ||
| 13 | Mixed drink available after the first of September (6) S (first letter of September) + HANDY (available) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | ||
| 14 | Drink case of scotch as well as rye, without limits (6) Def = Drink, SH (case of scotch) + AND ( as well as) + Y (rye, without limits) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | ||
| 15 | Son joining country dance secures no date, gets bitter with pop? (6) S + HAY (a type of country dance) securing ND; bitter with pop (ginger beer) definition. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | ||
| 16 | Bob Murray perhaps sipping hot beverage (6) S (shilling, ‘bob’) + ANDY (dbe) sipping H … def=beverage | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | ||
| 17 | Deliver sixty empty bottles, a mixture of two drinks (6) HAND bottled by S[ixt]Y | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | ||
| 18 | End of brewery after second worker adulterated beer (6) Def: adulterated beer. S(econd) + HAND + (brewer)Y | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | ||
| 19 | Refreshment for hot beach surroundings (6) S (H) ANDY | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | ||
| 20 | Drink is, in the end, useful (6) S (is in the end) + HANDY (useful) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | ||
| 21 | Josh and Yvonne have a drink (6) A lurker. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | ||
| 22 | Pick apart sexpert’s drink (6) Lift and separate = S + HANDY (expert) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 23 | Selection of Polish and Yugoslavian refreshment (6) Hidden | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 2 | ||
| 24 | Can it make anybody but boy drunk? (6) SH! + ANYboDy* | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 25 | Drink with lemon squash and yeast inside (6) Hidden; &lit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 26 | Rash and young, concealing mixture (6) Containment: raSH AND Young | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 27 | Fresh and you’re swallowing it? (6) Hidden in freSH AND You're; swallowing as container/hidden indicator | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 28 | On vacation, stay around hotel, get a drink (6) S AND Y (on vacation, stay) around H | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 29 | Slice of nectarine put in rapper's slim cocktail? (6) rapper's slim/SHADY contains N/slice of nectarine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 30 | Hedging and lacking punch (6) SHY hedging AND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 31 | Refreshing drink in brownish and yellow. (6) browniSH AND Yellow | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 32 | Name inspires rapper to become bitter? (6) SHA(N)DY (Eminem/Slim Shady); "bitter" shandy is one variety | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 33 | Alcoholic drink sober scoundrel substituted for non-alcoholic drink (6) Def: alcoholic drink. STEADY (sober) with HAN (Han Solo = scoundrel) instead of TEA (non-alcoholic drink) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 34 | Drunk unashamedly pulls posh male out of drink (6) Anagram ('drunk') of UNASHAMEDLY minus ('pulls') U ('posh') + anagram of MALE* ('out') = Defn. ('drink') | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 35 | Sexy worker replaces old drink (6) HAND (worker) replaces EX (old) in SEXY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 36 | Drink "Pussycat" essentially has lead! (6) Def=drink// pusSYcat (essentially) Around (has) HAND (lead)=Shandy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 37 | Soda can poured over quarter-to-half neat drink starts going to your head if you sup enough of it (6) SodA (can) container for (poured over) H (quarter to Half) + ND (Neat Drink starts) + (going to) Y (Your head) … ‘if you sup enough of it’ (to complete cryptic def/&lit) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 38 | Drink makes Su 'n' Di, both half cut, suppress a giggle and start to yatter (6) S N D (Su N Di half cut) with HA (a giggle) inside + Y (start to yatter) Def: drink | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 39 | Some honey in beachy cocktail (6) H (first letter of "honey") inside SANDY ("beachy") | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 40 | Han Solo's at first promoted to front vacuous duty, leading to drink (6) Han Solo's at first>S promoted to front>>S+HAN +vacuous duty>D[ut]Y def drink | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 41 | Drink mixed with panaché in Paris (6) Double definition | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |