Azed Competition No. 1428 Azed Slip | ◀ 1424 | 1433 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1428 | Oct 1999 | CRICETID | normal | 20 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | D. Price Jones | Mention this rodent and you’ll hear scream on chair | ‘cry seated’, & lit.? |
| Second | D. F. Manley | Comedian’s original food – one revealed in vacuous tabloid! | c + rice + I in t(abloi)d, & lit.; ref. ‘Sun’ headline, ‘Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster’ |
| Third | C. R. Gumbrell | You’ll find this one’s done in once rodenticide’s worked | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | M. Barley | Sprinkle rodenticide about to have done with this? | comp. anag. incl. c, & lit. |
| VHC | C. J. Brougham | Colt on cereal three times a day – a small animal needing loads to stuff its face? | c rice tid |
| VHC | C. A. Clarke | Conservative right in charge – upset veteran saying, ‘It’s lemming-like’ | C r i/c + dite (rev.) |
| VHC | V. Dixon | Pet you might think to call ‘Baggy’? That’d be sound | ‘cry seated’; see seat vb |
| VHC | H. Freeman | Object of Freddie Starr headline maybe is help to expedite circulation going up | hidden rev.; ref. ‘F. S. Ate My Hamster’ |
| VHC | G. I. L. Grafton | I ride with Cyclists’ Touring Club, worrying that my cheeks will carry big load | anag. incl. CTC |
| VHC | R. Heald | I’ll have scurried round putting away odd morsels, pouching nuts etc? | I in alternate letters round anag., & lit. |
| VHC | J. C. Leyland | Busy, endlessly busy I run inside wheel | tec I r in dic(k) (all rev.), & lit. |
| VHC | R. K. Lumsdon | I’m being ratty – paddy got into about three times a day | rice in c tid; being noun |
| VHC | T. J. Moorey | Knight off his game told to forget South Africa – rotten perhaps | cric(k)et + (SA)id; ref. Nick K.; rotten2 |
| VHC | R. A. Norton | Hamster perhaps leads to creative reportage involving comic’s atrocious diet | first letters + anag.; ref. ‘Sun’ headline, ‘Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster’ |
| VHC | R. J. Palmer | One’s partial to expedite circles, given a wheel | hidden rev., & lit. |
| VHC | J. Pearce | Rodent desperate bosses of TV channel introduced, eventually revived declining consumer interest | anag. of first letters; ref. Roland Rat |
| VHC | R. Stocks | Hamster? It’d circle crazily having lost end of treadmill | anag. less l |
| VHC | A. Streatfield | Work criticised is taken off; some call it ‘Hammy’ | anag. less is; ref. H. the Hamster |
| VHC | J. R. Tozer | Scatter rodenticide about and have done with me? | comp. anag. incl. c, & lit. |
| VHC | R. J. Whale | I’m largely content to expedite circular wheeling | hidden rev., & lit. |
HCs in competition 1428 awarded to: