Azed Competition No. 114 Azed Slip | ◀ 110 | 118 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 114 | May 1974 | PANIC | normal | 23 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Mrs E. Allen | This grass will do for a picnic – there’s no one about | anag. less I c. |
| Second | C. G. Millin | There’s confusion around – one gets caught in it | an in pi c.; see pie2 |
| Third | T. A. J. Spencer | Grass – one source of information retained by a policeman | an i in PC |
| VHC | E. Akenhead | Heads of police ask narks ‘Identify criminals – grass’ | first letters |
| VHC | T. Anderson | Shown by one in confused state, caught without anything on? | an in pi + c(aught); see pie2 |
| VHC | G. Aspin | Excruciating pain about the appendix gives alarm | anag. + c. |
| VHC | Rev C. M. Broun | Not what you’d expect from the playing-fields of Eton! | double mng. |
| VHC | C. O. Butcher | Bit of consternation 1 down’s brought about? | c I nap (rev.), & lit.; 1 down = ossifrage |
| VHC | R. S. Caffyn | What passengers on a sinking ship show – no thanks to drunken captain! | anag. less ta |
| VHC | T. Clement | Initially precipitates a nervousness in capitalists | first letters & lit. |
| VHC | D. M. Duckworth | It’s quiet, with one in charge? Quite the opposite | p an i/c |
| VHC | P. S. Elliott | 100-1 certainty comprehensively backed – bookie’s reaction? | C I nap (all rev.) |
| VHC | A. L. Freeman | What may precede a bolt or a rush? | double mng.; panic-bolt, -grass |
| VHC | M. A. Furman | First signs of perturbation and nervousness in crowds lead to this | first letters & lit. |
| VHC | N. Gambier | The fear of god | 2 mngs.; i.e. Pan-ic |
| VHC | Dr G. B. Greer | If criterion for manhood is avoiding this, a lot of blades make it | 2 mngs.; ref. Kipling poem ‘If’; blades of grass |
| VHC | Mrs E. J. Holmes | Cold sweat, pain, sick – the onset of colic | anag. + c |
| VHC | R. Jones | The fear of god | 2 mngs.; i.e. Pan-ic |
| VHC | J. R. Kirby | I can erupt with the onset of pressure | anag. incl. p, & lit. |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Source of hay fever? | 2 mngs. |
| VHC | L. W. G. Oxley | Not having had handicap, perhaps? Don’t broadcast it on the greens! | anag. less had |
| VHC | F. B. Stubbs | An inglorious outcome of operations having mug in charge | pan i/c |
| VHC | R. H. Tillcock | Get the wind up – do in a cop, and lose one’s head | anag. less o |
HCs in competition 114 awarded to: