Azed Competition No. 1281 Azed Slip | ◀ 1277 | 1284 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1281 | Dec 1996 | ABLUTOMANE | normal | 25 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | D. F. Manley | One unbedded in ambulation when perturbed by last vestige of gore? | anag. less I + e; ref. Lady Macbeth |
| Second | Dr E. Young | One heard crying ‘Out!’ is nearing: our Lady Macbeth? | comp. anag. & lit. |
| Third | J. R. Tozer | Fellow ‘in’ amongst dressed-up lot: Beau, a frequenter of Bath | man in anag.; ref. Beau Nash |
| VHC | D. Appleton | This word could spell a troubled woman in play | comp. anag. & lit.; ref. Lady Macbeth |
| VHC | Mrs F. A. Blanchard | A man to blue unrestrainedly | anag. & lit.; ref. laundry blue |
| VHC | R. E. Boot | Washer stuck in ‘Auto’ is reset to be ‘Manual’ | anag. |
| VHC | E. J. Burge | BL name auto failing – an eccentric washer! | anag.; ref. carmaker |
| VHC | C. A. Clarke | I’m mental about endless lathering | anag. less t, & lit. |
| VHC | D. J. Dare-Plumpton | Being programmed with regular wash cycle, manual will need to be reread | anag. |
| VHC | E. Dawid | Howard Hughes was one skilled at acquiring staggering amount | anag. in able; ref. eccentric American multi-millionaire |
| VHC | D. A. Ginger | Compulsive scrubber, crazy about males with name for bit of skylarking | anag. with n for s |
| VHC | N. C. Goddard | An extraordinary amount sucked in by powerful automatic cleaner | anag. in able |
| VHC | R. R. Greenfield | What Lady Macbeth became? One depressed with 10,000 invading | a + toman in blue |
| VHC | C. R. Gumbrell | One drawn to balneum? | a + anag., & lit. |
| VHC | P. F. Henderson | You’ll find me resorting to a balneum | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | R. Hesketh | I’m mental about failing to appear completely fresh | anag. less t’, & lit. |
| VHC | M. D. Laws | Zealot finally going mental about scrubbing | anag. less t, & lit. |
| VHC | J. C. Leyland | ‘I want all spotless!’ – a tip from Basil to Manuel, getting clobbered | anag. incl. B; ref ‘Fawlty Towers’ |
| VHC | M. A. Macdonald-Cooper | Washer possibly needing shrink to make fit – manual to be revised? | anag.; washer, shrink, fit 2 mngs. |
| VHC | Mrs J. Mackie | It’s a waste giving shelter to tramp if one never stops soaking and sponging | a + tom an2 in blue2 |
| VHC | C. G. Millin | Cat, one with a greyish exterior, an obsessive washer | tom an in a blue |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | I wash all the time by hand in a laundering liquid | to man in a blue |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | Soap freak, one of many almost completely captivated by Sky? | a + to man(y) in blue |
| VHC | D. R. Robinson | I’m curiously mental about scrubbing remotest bit of dirt | anag. less t, & lit. |
| VHC | P. L. Stone | I’m mental about shifting the last trace of dirt away | anag. less t, & lit. |
HCs in competition 1281 awarded to: